Astroengine.com: The Guardian Tackles the Moon Landing Hoax… Badly
Shaun Moss
· 5 months ago
I feel the same Ian. When "regular" people find out you're a space enthusiast, it's often one of the first questions that come up - did we really go? Each time I hear that, it hurts. Even though I don't really want to, I patiently explain that, for the moon landings to have been a hoax would have required an enormous amount of effort, requiring not only the (ongoing) collusion of hundreds of NASA staff, but the fooling of deep space telescope operators in Australia who tracked Apollo 11, the faking of huge amounts of data, the production of numerous books and videos since, plus ongoing presentations being given by Apollo astronauts about their experiences. It would have been immensely easier and cheaper to have suffered whatever the penalty would have been of not going
But anyway, I know I'm preaching to the choir. Just wanted to let you know - it bugs me too.
Jason A.
· 5 months ago
The same thing happens when global warming deniers get called skeptics. For some reason it's common to associate 'skeptic' with 'cynic'.
Aron Ranen
· 5 months ago
I made a film called DID WE GO? I was paid $65,000 from the State of Ohio to try and prove we really landed on the moon.
I traveled all over OHIO trying to get Neil to talk...he will not talk to anyone.
Here is link to my film on youtube. It opens with me on WLW-AM Radio in Ohio, trying to reach out to Neil
was a hoax dude---You really believe it wasnt a letter c written on a moon rock but a hair???Co-incidence----The fact that the astronauts took thousands of pictures (a picture evrer 15 seconds) in such a short-time with amazing quality, even though they had manual aperture controls and no viewfinder!!! Wake up dude
astroengine
· 5 months ago
Yawn. Oh yeah, I was asleep. Thanks for pointing that out dude.
gfish
· 5 months ago
Wow, you totally have us all Apollo believers there. I'm sure the fact that the engineers knew that the astronauts would have no viewfinders and only manual aperture controls and designed the cameras do take extremely high quality pictures, giving them to astronauts for practice for months on end until they knew the cameras inside out, has nothing to do with how well the pictures came out.
Also, that "a picture every 15 seconds" figure is a little suspect. Apollo 11 was on the Moon for 30 hours so if they took pictures every 15 seconds, they should have roughly 7,200 pictures. And they would've been doing nothing else but taking pictures since it would take at least a few seconds to take each one.
So really, why don't you do some basic math and oh... maybe stop making things up? Just a suggestion.
Jamerz3294
· 5 months ago
Poor old addled Granma think the Moon Landings were faked, and Big Time Wrestling is real?! You could say that I cut my teeth on the Mercury models that I glued together as a child, then on to Gemini and Apollo. NASA and I were both born in the same year, and when I was growing up, there was never any kind of doubt about the Space Program. It was as real the apple tree in your front yard. But now enter the Conspirators, and others of that ilk, that feel the louder they scream, the "righter" they are. Amazing how they can take a tiny scrap of supposed information, and twist it into some sort of grand, evil, vast conspiracy? I prefer to use Occam's Razor, and point out the obvious. Something about arguing with a fool only makes two fools arguing?
facebook-1416683469
· 5 months ago
This hoax shall be destroyed in a few days
Yesterday Apollo landing sites were shown in images sent by LRO, and the Apollo stuff, Lunar modules, equipment and astronaut tracks on the ground were exposed.
How can a narrow minded dimwit ever be referred to as a skeptic? To be a true skeptic one has to analyse all the pros and cons, while applying a good dose of logic and common sense. Supporters of the moon landing hoax therefore fall short of earning the skeptic title. The logically minded "believers" are the true skeptics.
I think the "skeptic's" conspiracy theories are an insult to the astronauts, the tens of thousands of people who made the moon landings possible and most of all, sound intelligence.
martin_english
· 5 months ago
One thing I've never heard the hoaxers explain is the Laser Ranging Retroreflectors that were left behind by all successful landings. The LRRR has been used in various experiments, such as precisely determining the distance from the Earth to the Moon (to within 15 centimeters), learning about the internal motion of the Earth and the Moon, and testing Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
The LRRRs deployed by Apollo 11, 14, and 15 are still being used in experiments today. In fact, in March 2005 a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that they confirmed Einstein’s Strong Equivalence Principle to double the previous possible precision by using laser range measurements to the LRRR.
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But anyway, I know I'm preaching to the choir. Just wanted to let you know - it bugs me too.
I was paid $65,000 from the State of Ohio to try and prove we really landed on the moon.
I traveled all over OHIO trying to get Neil to talk...he will not talk to anyone.
Here is link to my film on youtube. It opens with me on WLW-AM Radio in Ohio, trying to reach out to Neil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3Mt1Vym3g
please share this link
Also, that "a picture every 15 seconds" figure is a little suspect. Apollo 11 was on the Moon for 30 hours so if they took pictures every 15 seconds, they should have roughly 7,200 pictures. And they would've been doing nothing else but taking pictures since it would take at least a few seconds to take each one.
So really, why don't you do some basic math and oh... maybe stop making things up? Just a suggestion.
Yesterday Apollo landing sites were shown in images sent by LRO, and the Apollo stuff, Lunar modules, equipment and astronaut tracks on the ground were exposed.
LRO imaged apollo 14 landing site and showed the lunar module:
http://eternosaprendizes.com/2009/07/17/a-lro-f...
Regards,
ROCA
The logically minded "believers" are the true skeptics.
I think the "skeptic's" conspiracy theories are an insult to the astronauts, the tens of thousands of people who made the moon landings possible and most of all, sound intelligence.
The LRRRs deployed by Apollo 11, 14, and 15 are still being used in experiments today. In fact, in March 2005 a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that they confirmed Einstein’s Strong Equivalence Principle to double the previous possible precision by using laser range measurements to the LRRR.
http://www.martin-english.com/whatsup/2009/07/a...