Do you guys think that the lunar landing was faked?

I have to look into this for some science project, and I am somewhat disturbed at what I have found. I'm not saying that I really believe that it was faked, but there is alot of evidence pointing in that direction. I really want to believe that we did go thee, but I don't know if I can. There are alot of interestingpoints about this whole debate, such as the fact that all the pictures the astronauts took would have been impossible to accomplish with their timeframe, or that in order to survive the radiation from the sun, you would need a 2 metre thick barrier on the space capsule in order not to get fried. I haven't quite made up my opinion yet, but I wonder where other people stand on this. Thoughts?

There's a reason we've never gone back to the Moon.

sorry, just had too! :P

Not this again...

No, and the fact that they left a reflector on the moon proves it.

-Puts on tin foil hat-

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

you would think if there was any real evidence that it was fake, the soviets would have been jumping all over it.

No, and the fact that they left a reflector on the moon proves it.

Ingenemployee

Yes.

[spoiler] Actually no, I don't think it was faked. I bet they wish they faked it though, there's nothing too interesting happening there. [/spoiler]

No. Is there any reason to believe it was faked?

[QUOTE="Ingenemployee"]

No, and the fact that they left a reflector on the moon proves it.

PernicioEnigma

I haven't, but plenty of scientists have used high powered lasers pointed at the reflector to determine the distance between the moon and the earth.

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

Serraph105

Uh...did you just say that you have to do this for a school project?

This one's right up there with young-Earth creationism. There would have to be a vast conspiracy amongst the scientific community for this to have happened and be perpetuated to this day. That seems unlikely.

No, It wasn't fake as This new movies imforms us...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H8bnKdf654

We just went their thought to search the robotic ruins on the far side of the moon...

I think the photos and such prove it was fake.

proof

Myth busters say have busted this myth

[QUOTE="Serraph105"]

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

Theokhoth

Yes, and here's the video once again. The dust is kicked up much higher than it would have gone on Earth, consistent with a lesser gravitational pull, but then falls back in a perfectly parabolic trajectory, consistent with gravitational acceleration in a vacuum. Until those who wish to maintain that we didn't go to the moon can explain this, they have no case.

Yes, and here's the video once again. The dust is kicked up much higher than it would have gone on Earth, consistent with a lesser gravitational pull, but then falls back in a perfectly parabolic trajectory, consistent with gravitational acceleration in a vacuum. Until those who wish to maintain that we didn't go to the moon can explain this, they have no case.

GabuEx

While not going to the moon, the Apollo Program did produce a time machine, which we used to travel to the mid 90s, where Industrial Light and Magic prepared the moon video(s) using state of the art computer technology.

No. Sometimes when you do something so incredible, people just can't accept it. So conspiracy theories are born. Also they tend to center around poor understanding of science.

Not, I'm not a crazy Conspiracy person.

no, but i believe we found aliens on the moon :p

heck, its the basis for a science fiction story im workin on ;)

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

Serraph105

of course not. And if there was to be any real evidence the Russians and Chinese would be all over it

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="Serraph105"]

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

GabuEx

Yes, and here's the video once again. The dust is kicked up much higher than it would have gone on Earth, consistent with a lesser gravitational pull, but then falls back in a perfectly parabolic trajectory, consistent with gravitational acceleration in a vacuum. Until those who wish to maintain that we didn't go to the moon can explain this, they have no case.

[QUOTE="Serraph105"]

according to Theokhoth, who has probably gone further than any of us to prove this rumor false, for proof all you have to do is look at the dust and have a healthy knowledge of physics to know that it can't possibly have been faked.

Theokhoth

Myth busters say have busted this myth

hyrueprince11

I'm going to trust the mythbusters on this one

No. Anyone that thinks that is a major idiot.

I'm not 12 and I'm not somebody who wears a tinfoil hat around thinking the "govments" gonna get me.

so no

Which one?

They've all been proven.

If you think that the lunar landing was faked, you are clearly not educated in physics. And you sure as hell aren't skeptic about who tells you about these things *COUGH* Taxi drivers, authors and self-taught physicists*COUGH*

If you think that the lunar landing was faked, you are clearly not educated in physics. And you sure as hell aren't skeptic about who tells you about these things *COUGH* Taxi drivers, authors and self-taught physicists*COUGH*

DoomZaW

This was a school assignment? If so, no wonder why our students keep falling farther and farther behind other nations.

[QUOTE="DoomZaW"]

If you think that the lunar landing was faked, you are clearly not educated in physics. And you sure as hell aren't skeptic about who tells you about these things *COUGH* Taxi drivers, authors and self-taught physicists*COUGH*

neo_87

This was a school assignment? If so, no wonder why our students keep falling farther and farther behind other nations.

YellowOneKinobi

I guess it depends how old the person is. This could just be a research project, that is, the subject of the assignment is "How do research" and not the actual Moon landing. I suppose then you might argue that there are more informative things to research while learing how to do research.

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"]

This was a school assignment? If so, no wonder why our students keep falling farther and farther behind other nations.

Palantas

I guess it depends how old the person is. This could just be a research project, that is, the subject of the assignment is "How do research" and not the actual Moon landing. I suppose then you might argue that there are more informative things to research while learing how to do research.

The dust is kicked up much higher than it would have gone on Earth, consistent with a lesser gravitational pull, but then falls back in a perfectly parabolic trajectory, consistent with gravitational acceleration in a vacuum. Until those who wish to maintain that we didn't go to the moon can explain this, they have no case.

GabuEx

No. It was real.

Why would they have faked it? NASA had already built massive rockets capable of going into space, and they had landing craft capable of touching down on the moon. So rather than hiring a professional film crew and spending millions of dollars paying the thousands of people involved in such a huge conspiracy to keep quiet, and then expect them all to keep to their word... Why not just go to the moon?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/apollo-moon-landing-hoax-pictures/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5833633/Apollo-11-Moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/apollo-11-hoax-myths-debunked

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

The dust is kicked up much higher than it would have gone on Earth, consistent with a lesser gravitational pull, but then falls back in a perfectly parabolic trajectory, consistent with gravitational acceleration in a vacuum. Until those who wish to maintain that we didn't go to the moon can explain this, they have no case.

markop2003