What do you think about these moon landing hoax replies?

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famous retorts from Nasa fan boys answered.

Why didn't the ussr expose Nasa if it was all a lie?

russia did openly discuss the conspricy moon landing hoax,and suddenly stopped. in 1972 the US struck a deal with the soviets giving them wheat at below market value,perhaps to keep them quiet. soviets never tried to land a human on the moon after that because it simply could not be done. they put up the first man in space the first space walk the first woman in space and the first sattelite surely if it could have been done they would have done it first.

You can't see stars during the day on earth so they could not see stars on the day side of the moon.

well the moon doesn't have an atmosphere so one can see stars and the earth during the day on the moon. so telling us to go outside and look for stars on earth during the day isn't proving anything guys.

They left a reflective mirror on the moon so it had to be real.

this also makes me wonder, maybe put there by a probe not a human.

Answer 1

Maybe all the lunar landing conspiracy freaks have photographic memories. Their problem is they don't have any film.

Answer 2

Actually the Soviet retroreflectors do work, although not as well as designed, and they were placed by soft-landed robotic probes.

There are, however, the hundreds of pounds of moon rocks on Earth that were carried back by the Apollo astronauts.  There is no doubt they are from the Moon, there is no doubt they have been in labs since the 1970s, and there is no way that a robotic mission built in the 1960s or 1970s could have retreived them, given the computer technology of the time.  Or do you also subscribe to the theory that all computer technology actually comes from the Roswell UFO crash?

Answer 3

Hey am I an alien

Answer 4

The notion of a hoax is silly, and not worth the slightest consideration.

Answer 5

Considering it would cost BILLIONS of dollars to pay off all the people that would have to be involved in keeping such a massive hoax 'secret', and only millions to actually just go to the moon, common sense should tell you we must have actually gone there.

Answer 6

Alright, no. If you are that stupid to think that the moon landing was fake, then you should go into the deepest cave you can find and seal the enterance. Russia would not keep quiet for some wheat? Russia didn't put a man on the moon because they were collapsing from the inside and all of the military arms and space race and had almost no money left. Plus, how advanced do you think the cameras were in the 60's? Do you think a camera that was sent to the moon is supposed to have HD quality? It is not a telescope, cameras are not ment to capture stars. If you go out at night with a regular digital camera and try to take a picture of the stars then you won't see them. Even if the moon has no atmosphere it doesn't matter. The light from the Sun reflecting off the moon would be like a giant glare and act as an atmosphere. Plus, we have landed on the moon a total of 7 times I believe, maybe 6. Plus, if we can send a delicate robot to Mars then don't you think we can send a hardier Human to the moon? Sorry, but all of your facts are just illogical and I guarantee I can disprove every one of them. E-mail me if you don't agree or want to debate. :)

Answer 7

Its difficult to say if the Moon Landing Deniers are criminally stupid or just very willfully stupid. I believe that it is both.

On the lack of stars in the photos:

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Bad: The first bit of actual evidence brought up is the lack of stars in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon. Without air, the sky is black, so where are the stars?

Good: The stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen.

This is usually the first thing HBs talk about when discussing the Hoax. That amazes me, as it's the silliest assertion they make. However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. Therefore we should see them from the Moon as well.

I'll say this here now, and return to it many times: the Moon is not the Earth. Conditions there are weird, and our common sense is likely to fail us.

The Moon's surface is airless. On Earth, our thick atmosphere scatters sunlight, spreading it out over the whole sky. That's why the sky is bright during the day. Without sunlight, the air is dark at night, allowing us to see stars.

On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day.

So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? Pretend for a moment you are an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. You want to take a picture of your fellow space traveler. The Sun is low off the horizon, since all the lunar landings were done at local morning. How do you set your camera? The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day.

So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects! In the fast exposure, they simply do not have time to register on the film. It has nothing to do with the sky being black or the lack of air, it's just a matter of exposure time. If you were to go outside here on Earth on the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used, you won't see any stars!

It's that simple. Remember, this the usually the first and strongest argument the HBs use, and it was that easy to show wrong. Their arguments get worse from here.

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Apollo 11-12, 14-17 landed on the Moon. Its a fact. Deal with it, and stop posting idiotic and factless conspiracy whackjob garbage

Answer 8

Favorite things that moon-hoax people always ignore:

1. Hundreds of pounds of recovered moon rocks that are chemically different from anything found on earth, and verified independently by labs around the world.

2. Video footage makes it clear that it was filmed in a vacuum, and a vacuum chamber big enough to allow all the movement (especially the rovers) does not exist on earth.

3. Video footage shows gravitational force to be approx. 1/6 of that on earth, which matches lunar gravity.  No technology exists to cancel out a gravitational field and allow this to be filmed on the surface of earth.

4. So where did the astronauts go?  Everyone saw them launch, and if they were just in a lower earth orbit (going to the moon is still earth orbit, just very high) then lots of people around the world would have known (radio signal triangulation, for one)

I like how the conspiracy theory guys ignore stuff like that and go after inconsequential details like 'I can't see any stars in the pictures' (it's called contrast and exposure time, it has nothing to do with atmosphere) or 'so who filmed them taking off' (ahem, remote control?)

Answer 9

Ok, so you don't want to believe that Man landed on the Moon... big deal. Why come here and cry about it? This is the best question that you could come up with for an astronomy forum??? Go troll somewhere else.

Answer 10

Well, you've got some of your science wrong.  I won't bother to try and refute it here, it's been done too many times (like, about ten times a day just on this forum) so if you're at all interested you can check past posts.  

I have yet to see any CREDIBLE evidence to prove the moon landing was a hoax.  

Therefore, all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the correct one.  And in this case, the simplest answer is that we went.  We landed men on the moon.  <shrug>  Get over it.

Answer 11

So.... which side are you on?  I'm sorry, but I can't figure out which side you're trying to make a point for.  Do you think it did happen or it didn't?  I'm assuming you didn't think it happened because I woudn't imagine someone who knows it did would care enough to post all that.

If someone doesn't believe the moon landings really occured, then they are not going to.  90% of the people who ask if it really happened have already seen the arguments of both sides and have already made up their mind.  That's why all they're doing is trying to persuade others who are also gullible - simply put, they are trolling.  I find it a waste of time to argue with these people, so as my argument, I simply point to the ever-objective, all-knowing Wikipedia:

Answer 12

Come on.  Look at shots taken from space shuttle walks.  You don't see any stars!  It's the difference in contrast that keeps the stars from showing up in photos from the moon or shuttle.

Answer 13

"Favorite things that moon-hoax people always ignore:" I would like to add to the above post--

a. The ship was tracked and communicated with all the way to the moon by large radio telescopes owned by various different countries--- as the Earth turned out of communication range-- and radio telescope would pickup the communications.... including TRANSMISSIONS from the surface of the moon.

b. Yes the moon rocks are proof--- but here is an odd occurring that shows the "primitive" calculations needed for a moon landing--- on Apollo 13 return to Earth-- NASA controllers noticed the trajectory was off -- the spacecraft was coming in too fast--- OPPS we forgot-- no moon rocks inside the command capsule-- they then corrected the trajectory to a safe reentry. Amazing what you can do with a "slide rule".

e. To make your conspiracy work--- thousands of independent and government contractors --- including foreign governments would need to be PAID OFF to keep silent..... many other countries were involved in the moon mission.

Answer 14

so russia threw away its largest chance to win the cold war...for low cost wheat?

thats not the reason you cant see starts on the moon. you cant see stars on the moon because of the light from the sun. every camera on the moon was set for a short exposure because the sun was so bright. so only the brightest objects get in, which didnt include stars.

haha i love the mirror being placed by probe argument. the russians attempted to place probes on the moon but every single on was placed incorrectly and doesnt function. so your saying that the US had better technology than the soviets? hmmm, isnt that the opposite of what you said before.

yea, were not talking about the private companies NASA contracted to build things. were talking about NASA employees. no NASA employees came out and said it was fake. you dont think someone in that mission control room would have told someone? what about their families, if it was a hoax im sure the families would have found out. did they keep the secret so well too?

the argument that we dont have the technology is ridiculous. the technology was developed by germany in the 30's. notice how we got all the german scientists after WWII, maybe that had something to do with it!

Answer 15

The silly tale about a faked Moon landing has been refuted many times. To learn the truth, you must look at both sides and think about them. If you that, you should see that the nonsense about a faked Moon landing is a hoax.

Answer 16

omg...there was no hoax, and now in time for you to shut the h**l up

Answer 17

I think you need something new to do in your free time.... ever consider abusing yourself?....

there is no moon hoax... it's all in your mind, from reading or watching conspiracy junk on tv or the 'net.....

now go outside and play... you need the fresh air.........