Moon Landing Conspiracies

[NogginBoink]

This story has me thinking about these looney moon-landing conspiracy theorists.

We've left stuff on the moon: American flags, the landing stage of the LM, etc.

Are there no optical telescopes that we can use to look at the surface of the moon and see proof of the moon landings?

 

[ElFenix]

maybe if you have really good optics.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

LOS ANGELES COUNTY prosecutors declined to file a misdemeanor battery charge against the 72-year-old ex-astronaut, who said he was defending himself and his stepdaughter when he clocked 37-year-old Bart Winfield Sibrel outside a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9

Good for him. Other dude was a retard.

 

[BillGates]

I remember reading about a week ago that some crappy country was going to try to do a moon landing....maybe they'll find something that was left there.

That or the US will coerce the country into letting NASA handle all video footage, heh.

 

[microAmp]

If you do a google search for Moon Landing Hoax, you'll find all sorts of site explaining one side or another and give you better insight of either belief. Yes I believe in the landing.

 

[Adul]

No there is not optics witha good enough resolution to capture pics of the moon landing. Not even hubble is close enough for that.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Adul
No there is not optics witha good enough resolution to capture pics of the moon landing. Not even hubble is close enough for that.

i dunno... spy satellites are pretty darn good...

 

[ed21x]

we left reflectors on the moon that enables us to shine a laser directly at the spot, and you'll see a cool trail of light coming off it. There was a picture of it in Popular Science a couple years ago.

 

[Cuda1447]

I think its all a hoax that we've colonized earth yet. Where is the proof?

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Adul
No there is not optics witha good enough resolution to capture pics of the moon landing. Not even hubble is close enough for that.

i dunno... spy satellites are pretty darn good...

The moon is 384,400 kilometers away. Satellites orbit the earth at around 45,000 kilometers. I'd say that's a huge difference.

 

[HappyPuppy]

NASA could send a probe to fly by close enough to the landing sites, or possibly to take up a geosynchronous orbit. It could beam photos back to Earth, but the conspiracy theorists still wouldn't believe it. What the hell, creationists don't believe in dinosaurs even when they're standing in front of one. Ever hear of the Flat Earth Society? Yep, there are still people who believe that the Earth is flat.

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
NASA could send a probe to fly by close enough to the landing sites, or possibly to take up a geosynchronous orbit. It could beam photos back to Earth, but the conspiracy theorists still wouldn't believe it. What the hell, creationists don't believe in dinosaurs even when they're standing in front of one. Ever hear of the Flat Earth Society? Yep, there are still people who believe that the Earth is flat.

One of the goals of that private mission to the moon is to take some pictures of the original landing sites.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

All the dinosaurs moved to the moon

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
All the dinosaurs moved to the moon

I did too, we finally got broadband here on the moon.

 

[Freejack2]

But the earth is flat! There are stretches of several feet that truely are flat.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
But the earth is flat! There are stretches of several feet that truely are flat.

I've seen stretches that were actually concave!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
NASA could send a probe to fly by close enough to the landing sites, or possibly to take up a geosynchronous orbit. It could beam photos back to Earth, but the conspiracy theorists still wouldn't believe it. What the hell, creationists don't believe in dinosaurs even when they're standing in front of one. Ever hear of the Flat Earth Society? Yep, there are still people who believe that the Earth is flat.

But NASA is part of the moon hoax - of course they'd say that their own satellite could see the moon landing site.

I've seen some of the "evidence" that it was a hoax. It's mostly laughable. Someone said that the stars aren't visible in the pictures. That's not surprising. My sister was on vacation somewhere and among her photo album from the trip is a pic of her and some friends in a well-lit park. However, they were wearing light colored clothes, which reflected a lot of the bright sun. Result: solid black background. It looks like it was taken at night. Cameras do funky things sometimes, and those "experts" analyzing the photos for those hoax shows don't seem to know that.

 

[CubicZirconia]

I remember reading something that in couple of years some japanese satellite will pass close enough to the moon to view things left from the landings. Personally, I think anyone who is dumb enough to believe any of that crap claiming we didn't land on the moon won't believe it even when we have more pictures.