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First of all regarding conspiracies there are two extreme groups of people.
- The sides that make them up at will because it's sexy. Those people's theories are believed because as someone has said it makes them feel superior if they are above the "truth".
- The people who get their rocks off trying to debunk everything and come up with equally crazy bits of evidence to prove the conspiracies wrong, i.e. some proffessional skeptics or wannabe skeptics. There are also those that just refuse to believe that everything that is spoonfed to them as truth, is not real.
As for the whole moon landing. It has to be real. A few points on it:
- There were at least 100s or even 1000s of people who claim to be involved in the whole moon project. These people would've been told it was a hoax. The people include the people of NASA and even Australians involved at Parkes (although I suppose it could be argued that the Australian leg of the project could be fooled by faked communication). The government telling this to employees of NASA would of upset some employees. These employees would of talked by now. To suggest so many people who should've been closely involved were kept quiet either by threats or money would be stupid.
- As people have mentioned, the experiments they conducted would of been hard to duplicate in a studio. Also I would think science would've gained a fair bit from these experiments, if the conspiracy is true, how many scientific theories that may have developed from these experiments are wrong?
- The whole flag not being still thing is crap. Has anyone ever seen stuff fly around in the space shuttles where there is no gravity? I've seen many clips of liquids (similar to yoghurt) that astronauts eat that float through the air, they don't stay still. Like someone said once something gets moving in low gravity, it just doesn't stop like it would normally. If you unfurl a flag or unfold something similar (like a towell) it ripples. Also the moon does have some gravity, the weight of the flag would cause it to move. Then there is the solar winds theory. Also I just read up on wikipedia that the footage showed that after initial moving, the flag did not move for a good 30 minutes.
- If the space race mattered so much to both countries (which I believe it did), the Russians would of had spies in America (they may of had them anyway) trying to dig up any dirt, weaknesses or information about the program.
- The economical gain from the moon landing wouldn't of been worth the potential loss of respect and the potential economic loss that may have happened if the conspiracy was at all leaked out.
- The sides that make them up at will because it's sexy. Those people's theories are believed because as someone has said it makes them feel superior if they are above the "truth".
- The people who get their rocks off trying to debunk everything and come up with equally crazy bits of evidence to prove the conspiracies wrong, i.e. some proffessional skeptics or wannabe skeptics. There are also those that just refuse to believe that everything that is spoonfed to them as truth, is not real.
As for the whole moon landing. It has to be real. A few points on it:
- There were at least 100s or even 1000s of people who claim to be involved in the whole moon project. These people would've been told it was a hoax. The people include the people of NASA and even Australians involved at Parkes (although I suppose it could be argued that the Australian leg of the project could be fooled by faked communication). The government telling this to employees of NASA would of upset some employees. These employees would of talked by now. To suggest so many people who should've been closely involved were kept quiet either by threats or money would be stupid.
- As people have mentioned, the experiments they conducted would of been hard to duplicate in a studio. Also I would think science would've gained a fair bit from these experiments, if the conspiracy is true, how many scientific theories that may have developed from these experiments are wrong?
- The whole flag not being still thing is crap. Has anyone ever seen stuff fly around in the space shuttles where there is no gravity? I've seen many clips of liquids (similar to yoghurt) that astronauts eat that float through the air, they don't stay still. Like someone said once something gets moving in low gravity, it just doesn't stop like it would normally. If you unfurl a flag or unfold something similar (like a towell) it ripples. Also the moon does have some gravity, the weight of the flag would cause it to move. Then there is the solar winds theory. Also I just read up on wikipedia that the footage showed that after initial moving, the flag did not move for a good 30 minutes.
- If the space race mattered so much to both countries (which I believe it did), the Russians would of had spies in America (they may of had them anyway) trying to dig up any dirt, weaknesses or information about the program.
- The economical gain from the moon landing wouldn't of been worth the potential loss of respect and the potential economic loss that may have happened if the conspiracy was at all leaked out.

