Moon landings, real on not?
Moon landings, real on not?
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tuscan_al

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4,112 posts

243 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Now I have been talking about this today and specifically the first man on the moon. Some pretty good convincers out on the net for this being a fake by NASA for the space race against russia. Have a read for yourself and let me know your thoughts. The camera film surviving massive temp extreems yet they cannot now, caspsule hatch size too small for suits, van Allen radiation belt, shadows on camera and light sources???

Trikster

931 posts

231 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Lots of articles against these claims too - classic internet (and pre-internet) conspiracy theory stuff...

My view.. we went.. although still awaiting the pictures from the recent Jap probe that orbited the moon last year that was meant to have the resolution to photograph the landers that were left behind...

Mythbusters did a good program debunking some of the theories too - esp the ones about the photographs...

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

260 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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This has been done on PH so often that any further discussion is a waste of time and will hopefully be locked! Yes they went to the moon and every conspiracy to the contrary has been oft shot down. And yes, anybody who thinks it was a fake is an absolute idiot, full stop. carry on.

Zad

13,005 posts

265 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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tuscan_al said:
Now I have been talking about this today and specifically the first man on the moon. Some pretty good convincers out on the net for this being a fake by NASA for the space race against russia. Have a read for yourself and let me know your thoughts. The camera film surviving massive temp extreems yet they cannot now, caspsule hatch size too small for suits, van Allen radiation belt, shadows on camera and light sources???
Not again...

Film cameras. The ones in the separation ring? The ones they lost several of? the ones inside thick multi-layer boxes with Pyrex windows? Not exactly rocket science.

Capsule hatch size too small? bks. Try watching some film/video of the entire Apollo missions.

Van Allen radiation belts? Travelling through them at a phenomenal speed. Yes, there is hot radiation there, no it isn't instantly lethal. "Oooh radiation, that'll kill you instantly".

What shadows on cameras and light sources? Are we talking about the photos of the back of the LM that is "mysteriously" illuminated with what is actually backscatter from the lunar surface.

Now here's some for you.

The retro-reflector they left on the moon, which even to this day, they are bouncing lasers off.

The fact that thousands of radio amateurs tracked both the capsule on-route the the moon, and on the moon itself.

The ease of which the Russians could have disproved it all should they have wanted, gaining massive political brownie points.

The fact that the REALLY difficult bit is getting a Saturn V off the ground into orbit, not getting something from orbit to the moon, down to the moon and back. That bit is comparatively trivial.

any more?

hot metal

2,019 posts

222 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Jimbeaux said:
This has been done on PH so often that any further discussion is a waste of time and will hopefully be locked! Yes they went to the moon and every conspiracy to the contrary has been oft shot down. And yes, anybody who thinks it was a fake is an absolute idiot, full stop. carry on.
Not touchy about the subject then ? smile

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Trikster said:
Lots of articles against these claims too - classic internet (and pre-internet) conspiracy theory stuff...

My view.. we went.. although still awaiting the pictures from the recent Jap probe that orbited the moon last year that was meant to have the resolution to photograph the landers that were left behind...

Mythbusters did a good program debunking some of the theories too - esp the ones about the photographs...
Yep been waiting for that too!

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

260 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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hot metal said:
Jimbeaux said:
This has been done on PH so often that any further discussion is a waste of time and will hopefully be locked! Yes they went to the moon and every conspiracy to the contrary has been oft shot down. And yes, anybody who thinks it was a fake is an absolute idiot, full stop. carry on.
Not touchy about the subject then ? smile
smile Not really, just done to death already. Running a cheese grater over my tongue might be preferable.

V8A*ndy

3,697 posts

220 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Jimbeaux said:
hot metal said:
Jimbeaux said:
This has been done on PH so often that any further discussion is a waste of time and will hopefully be locked! Yes they went to the moon and every conspiracy to the contrary has been oft shot down. And yes, anybody who thinks it was a fake is an absolute idiot, full stop. carry on.
Not touchy about the subject then ? smile
smile Not really, just done to death already. Running a cheese grater over my tongue might be preferable.
Chewing tinfoil as I type spin

hot metal

2,019 posts

222 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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To be honest can`t see how it would have been faked.




Capricorn 1 was a good film though wink

i love speed :-p

530 posts

237 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Of course they went, if the clever people in the USSR at the time didn't (and still can't) show it was faked all those years ago or even now and if they could they would have so much to gain so how can the people on the internet who do not under stand basic scientific principals claim this and that.

There is so much supporting evidence. Such as the laser reflector which they uses to measure the distance between the earth and the moon. The radio ham operators that tracked the radio signals from space. The multiple light sources but there was only one shadow from each object if go to a football stadium with multiple light sources you get lots of shadows etc

And then if you believe they did fake it how much did they fake? Could they orbit the earth at the time or was that still to much or they could get to the moon but not stop there etc

peaktorque

1,807 posts

240 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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How many times have they been back since the original landing?

youngsod

273 posts

211 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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I believe this site lays the matter to rest once and for all:

http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_la...

Chris_w666

22,655 posts

228 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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shout Can someone move this to P&P. Then file under topics that need to be banned, along with the conveyor belt on a plane thread.

MrGman

1,664 posts

235 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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IF it was fake i can't see it being kept a secret for this long, surely someone would of let slip by now....................?

Neil-Armstrong

Original Poster:

4,112 posts

243 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Well the later guys went and left the mirror there, we however just hid at a film studio waiting to get dumped in the ocean. smile

R5GTTGAZ

7,897 posts

249 months

John D.

20,930 posts

238 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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tuscan_al said:
Now I have been talking about this today and specifically the first man on the moon. Some pretty good convincers out on the net for this being a fake by NASA for the space race against russia. Have a read for yourself and let me know your thoughts. The camera film surviving massive temp extreems yet they cannot now, caspsule hatch size too small for suits, van Allen radiation belt, shadows on camera and light sources???
Thats all very well Al, but WTF has this got to do with cars? confused

wink

jmorgan

36,010 posts

313 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Jimbeaux said:
This has been done on PH so often that any further discussion is a waste of time and will hopefully be locked! Yes they went to the moon and every conspiracy to the contrary has been oft shot down. And yes, anybody who thinks it was a fake is an absolute idiot, full stop. carry on.
Ditto. Try the search.

PaulHogan

7,539 posts

307 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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peaktorque said:
How many times have they been back since the original landing?
Five times.

And if you were going to fake something why would you fake it six times over three years?

catso

16,370 posts

296 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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PaulHogan said:
And if you were going to fake something why would you fake it six times over three years?
Ask my Mrs........ hehe