Does anyone here believe the Moon Landings were fake?

[Avro Arrow]

I always thought them putting an American flag on the moon was a rather douchey thing to do. America can't just say they own the moon.

They didn't say that. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967, of which the USA is a party, expressly forbids any single nation from claiming a celestial body, including the moon.

Think of it more as just a marker to say "we were here". The US was no more trying to claim ownership of the moon, than a climber who puts their country's flag at the top of Mount Everest is trying to claim the mountain.

I believe I read somewhere that the Apollo 11 astronauts saw the flag get knocked over when the Eagle lifted off.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I prefer not to give much credence to any conspiracy theories. One can go on all day trying to explain to someone who believes they were faked and not gain any traction. And I think it tends to discredit the risk and dangers the astronauts were under and the accomplishments that were done as a nation.

I made the mistake of watching a movie a few years ago that dramatized the idea of it being a hoax and it was worse than Capricorn 1 to the point of being insulting.

-about how no one ever jumps higher than they could on Earth, just to try it, and how sped up, it looks rather like normal terrestrial hopping around.

I think that most likely has to do with the framerate. People have to remember that back then, TV cameras were still a relatively new thing, let alone one that could take a trip to a different atmosphere and survive. I don't expect that the camera they sent there, which was likely built for that purpose, had a very high framerate and any playback as part of a broadcast would have had to be sped up to take into account the differences in framerate. If you speed up any kind of footage, they'll naturally look abnormal and everything with large movements would seem jerky in comparison to normal playback.

 

[thribs]

If Trump said they did, I'll start having doubts.

 

[urbandefault]

I always thought them putting an American flag on the moon was a rather douchey thing to do. America can't just say they own the moon.

Not that we own it, but that we've been there. Duh.

 

[thribs]

Should have been a United Earth flag.
I was juts messing around. Hence the "".

 

[STEPhon IT]

Anyway, from what I know the moon landings were real, including the pain staking effort and lives lost to accomplish the goal. To say they were faked disrespects the pioneers who risked their lives to do it.

 

[fireproof78]

Not that we own it, but that we've been there. Duh.

Apparently someone owns it lol

 

[urbandefault]

Apparently someone owns it lol

UN loophole,

 

[Avro Arrow]

@Galileo7 , I missed this one the first time around, my apologies. Your plaque image was also hotlinked, so I had to convert that one to a link too.

Don't hotlink. If you're posting a picture, host it on your own site/Photobucket, whatever. DON'T just link to another site. They hate that.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Apparently someone owns it lol

Oh my.

Maybe as a board, we can all chip in and buy Pluto!

 

[Qonundrum]

Not only do I believe that the moon landings were real but I struggle with understanding why people think they would be faked. It's completely baffling to me.

Only one reason could possibly exist and it's too laughable to contemplate. So naturally I sat here thinking it up, then started laughing over how daft an exercise it would be.

The only downer, unrelated to my previous paragraph, is that it's a rock we can't terraform that's spinning away from Earth's orbit roughly an inch per year. Mars is a far more probable choice to build up if it's ever practical.

 

[Qonundrum]

Oh my.

Maybe as a board, we can all chip in and buy Pluto!

McDonalds already got there. There's a restaurant there as well, there's a historical documentary proving it:

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[StarCruiser]

Not even when it hits your eye like a big pizza pie?

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[cooleddie74]

The Moon is flat. Wake up, Sheeple!

#DontLetYourselfBeMooned #GreenCheeseIsFlatToo #Coincidence? #IDontThinkSo

 

[Avro Arrow]

McDonalds already got there. There's a restaurant there as well, there's a historical documentary proving it:

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Oh well. It was Futurama, I'm sure it was funny.

 

[WraithDukat]

The whole 'The Moon belongs to no one' was setup by the UN. When whoever goes back and sets something up there will probably as much attention to the UN as the US & UK did on Iraq.

 

[Coyote Annabis]

90% real. We landed on the moon and did everything we say we did, but parts of the footage wasn't up to par for broadcasting so NASA slipped in some previously recorded "backup" footage to keep things looking nice for the home audience.

I had a teacher who spent a summer in the Mojave with a homebuilt telescope big enoughbthat he had to break it down for transport, he got some great pictures. You can just make out the lander.

 

[WraithDukat]

90% real. We landed on the moon and did everything we say we did, but parts of the footage wasn't up to par for broadcasting so NASA slipped in some previously recorded "backup" footage to keep things looking nice for the home audience.

I had a teacher who spent a summer in the Mojave with a homebuilt telescope big enoughbthat he had to break it down for transport, he got some great pictures. You can just make out the lander.

That's really cool.

 

[Snaploud]

I always thought them putting an American flag on the moon was a rather douchey thing to do. America can't just say they own the moon.

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[J.T.B.]

I had a teacher who spent a summer in the Mojave with a homebuilt telescope big enoughbthat he had to break it down for transport, he got some great pictures. You can just make out the lander.

There is no telescope on Earth with enough resolution to see a 20-foot wide object on the moon. Photos of the landing sites had to wait until the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-11.html

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html