Why do some people believe that the lunar landing was faked?

Question

Serious answers only please.

Answer 1

I think the best answer is that the flag was fluttering in the wind...

A quick google reveals: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

Answer 2

cause their retards

Answer 3

some scientists say there is too much radiation on the moon and they would literally have been disinigrated.

Answer 4

because there are no stars in some of the pictures.

the flag doesn't move at all in time elapsed videos.

no foot prints in the sand, and scientists say they cant find the landing spot.

and there is no way at all we had the technology to go to the moon then

Answer 5

Maybe because we haven't been to the moon in a really long time.

Answer 6

I don't think anyone has taken your meaning, yet. You're asking why anyone would believe such tripe.

Well, I do not know who started it or why.

Why do so many people hop on this bandwagon? For one thing, many folks are not exposed to serious issues, but they love the idea of debating an issue. This is the kind of thing that can be debated forever by some people, I guess because they think the Moon is inaccessable and so THEY will never see the footprints. Perhaps there is a strain of sour grapes to this. What do you think?

Answer 7

People believe that because of the great race America was in to be the first on the moon they faked it. The fact that the flag on the moon waves in the air as if in wind is used as evidence as that shouldn't happen in a zero gravity environment.

Answer 8

Well I guess there are some shadows that don't match up with where the sun was(or wasn't) and the fact that our flag appears to be blowing in the breeze and there's supposed to be no breeze on the moon. I guess they could have manipulated the flag and moved away from it before the slight gravity had a chance to pull it down. I've looked at the pictures and some of the shadows look suspect but if the sun were on the other side and there were no other natural light sources, there still could have been a flash on the camera or a spot-light from the craft they came in or drove on.

I just checked one sight that said the TV broadcast was delayed to everywhere except a town in Australia, the people there saw a coke bottle off to the side in one of the shots and when the program was rebroadcast later in the day the coke bottle was gone.

My biggest question is why would the USA bother to lie about something like this? Perhaps so other countries think we're more advanced than they are? Perhaps so Americans would trust that our government was advanced enough to deserve our respect and be worthy of protecting by signing up to join the military? Maybe freedom isn't enough to attract attention anymore so we need to be the biggest and the best at everything, or at least make everyone think we are.

I may have gotten a little off-topic here, but unless you're going to choose to believe that we really landed on the moon, you're probably going to have more questions... Hopefully I was thought provoking if not appropriately informative.

Good luck in your search.

Answer 9

There really is no logical reason that some people think it's fake, these are just people who have any easy time accepting that everything is a conspiracy.  Of course they have no answer to the question of how things like this can be kept secret for so long when it would have required many people to be involved in it.  It was real but those who love to cling to conspiracies will always insist it was fake, not too different from the silly theories that 9-11 was also a conspiracy involving the U.S. government.

Answer 10

1) The flag is blowing in the "wind." There is no wind in space.

2) The Russians announced they were gonna send a rocket ot the moon and the US (never allowing themselves to be outdone) suddenly had a rocket, astronauts and footage 1 month before Russia's scheduled launch.

Answer 11

There are two things to remember.  First is that this was the time when the stories of the CIA's experiments with LSD which caused at least one and probably more suicide and were certainly unethical by any standard were just coming out, and there are many such stories, both confirmed and unconfirmed, also that much of modern science is rejected by many people here in the United States who deny that they are doing it: it was respectable until the twenties to believe the Earth was flat.  It is still respectable in many circles to express "doubts" about evolution.

General resentment against the government absolutely played a role, and as I said, evidence was coming out that they were certainly capable of faking it.  There was and is a resentment against science as well.  I think that has been underestimated and understated.

Answer 12

They say its coz the video and photos were unrealistic. That NASA edited most of it or else faked it.

Answer 13

Because they saw the American flag waving.. which would be impossible if they had really landed on the moon............

Answer 14

Some people think the way they walked on the moon looked fake. I don't see how though, it looked pretty legit to me. I guess it is the "wind" though.