Man On The Moon

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Did we really go?

Man On The Moon

Laura (guest) 14 Jun 2010 02:35

I just read a whole discussion on Facebook about whether we actually went to the moon or if it was a scam. Almost every person said it was a scam.
One person said that if we could do that 40 years ago, why can't we cure cancer and other diseases. Also, one said something about the flad wouldn't wave because there's no gravity. One also said that they wouldn't have been able to survive the van allen radiation belt. One also said that you can still see the quipment left with powerful satellites.

What is your take on this and what is the van allen radiation belt?

Did man land on the moon?

Re: Man On The Moon

Astrogeek 14 Jun 2010 02:56

It is interesting that this kind of denialism is prevalent in the 2012 doomsday community.

Yes, we most certainly went to the moon. I watched it on live TV (which is the least part of the evidence).

http://www.clavius.org/
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

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Re: Man On The Moon

TheGreatJuju 14 Jun 2010 18:51

Laura, humans landed on the moon. If nothing else convinces you, the huge number of amateur radio operators who monitored communications should. This was a very popular activity during the Apollo era and, oddly enough, those communications originated from the direction of the moon, complete with appropriate delay time.

See here and here and here and here. I also highly recommend the Clavius link Astrogeek provided. That site is maintained by a guy named JayUtah from the Bad Astronomy forum, and he's made a veritable second career of debunking conspiracy theorists in general and moon landing deniers in particular.

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Re: Man On The Moon

Laura (guest) 14 Jun 2010 02:48

I found this…..

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23feb_2/

Re: Man On The Moon

3WMElliott 14 Jun 2010 18:18

I tend to bring up the Soviet Union in Moon Hoax claims. You're in a space race with the Soviets, they know an awful lot and have achieved an awful lot. They've got unmanned rovers on the Moon, and if you don't beat them to it, they'll probably get a man there too.

Oh, and by the way, you're in a Cold War with them. The very last thing you'd want is to fake the landings and risk the Soviet Union calling you out on it, humiliating the entire nation in front of the rest of the world.

It would be more cost effective to actually go to the Moon, than to tell the Soviets to keep quiet while you fake it in a hangar somewhere in the desert. It'd probably be more cost effective to do it another 6 times as well (though one of those being the unfortunate Apollo 13).

Faking it once makes no sense. Faking it for 6 landings makes even less sense. Sometimes, we humans are just that brilliant that we manage the seemingly impossible.

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