Was the moon landing staged?

Was the moon landing staged?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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Jabso

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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.
 

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#52
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.
Totally agree with you brother, the US went to the Moon, those who oppose this not only haven't researched the topic, but they defy all that is adventure within us ...

Some conspiracy theories do have some merit though, like Roswell, JFK and 911, I do however think that it is accepted by the educated, that JFK was assasinated for wanting to join with the Russians to go to the moon, and the Yanks certainly had some involvement in 911. Whether that was simply knowledge that it was going to occur and the fact that they did nothing to prevent it, OR MORE than that, I doubt we will ever know.

Roswell was most likely an advanced US aircraft, but there is always the possibly that it is more, so this one will always remain the most intriuging of the lot...
 

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I am very disappointed that the majority of you think the Moon Landing was a fake, trust me you need a major shift in your thinking if truth is your purpose.

The US went to the Moon, there is NO DOUBT about that.
 

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Probably wasn't staged but I voted yes anyway.

Conspiracy theories are just too much fun - especially those done by the US govt.
 

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What a ridiculous thread. :rolleyes:
Then why answer? Seriously? Are you that insecure that bagging the OP makes you feel good?

It is a great thing to debate and discuss things like this, I bet a whole bunch of people learn't something.
 

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Yeh exactly Hadge2Franklin, Why answer if it is a stupid thread, Obvistly other people have different people opinions on the moon landing and judging by the poll there is many more people that think it is real but their are those 36 people that think the whole thing was a hoax.
Why is this a stupid thread?
 

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I voted No, but everyone loves a good conspiracy theory........it keeps idle minds busy. interesting reading conflicting points of view ;)
 
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Send your floral tributes in a sputnik.

One small step for man. And one of his last.

They never got back. Died in the sea of tranquilty on August the 8th 1969.

And the next day South Melbourne beat Stkilda.

Staged no.

Tragic yes.

They ran out of gas and it was far to far to walk.
 
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