Did we really go to the Moon?

[Carol]

Being an engineer I tend to take the study of science more seriously than the study of urban legends.

Plus, I used to work for NASA on contract. Got to be part of the ground crew that ran a scientific payload on shuttle mission STS-95, the one that brought John Glenn back in to space. That has to be the best contract assingment I've ever had.

 

[hrlmonkey]

the return journey is the hard part to understand. if they overshot the trajectory, wouldnt they have fallen off the edge? the earth being flat as we all know

 

[Makalakumu]

The problem with the moon landing stuff is that the government hasn't been entirely truthful about certain aspects of the missions. There is a lot of evidence that indicates that the government tampered with photos and video of the events and that they altered some of the historical accounts or that they completely omitted certain things.

Does this mean that we did not land on the moon? No. It just means that the US government is engaging in the typical propaganda that every government on Earth engages in. Unfortunately, this only encourages people who really have a gross distrust of the government.

Did we land on the moon? Probably. Could it have been faked? Sure, but highly unlikely. Are we being lied to?

All of the time.

 

[Rich Parsons]

Nope never went there, we just like spending billions of dollars on a space program to pull of the biggest practical joke in the history of the planet.

Or it could be we never went there because we don’t exist.

There are am infinite number of starts in the universe and a finite number of people and mathematically if you divide a VERY small number by a VERY large number the result come out so close to zero that it is called zero therefore we do not exist so we could not have ever gone there...

And POOF I disappeared in a puff of logic.

Yep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_laser_ranging_experiment

In the NASA Tech Briefs there were lots and lots of development for our current society.

Plastics developed that ended up being used in heart pace makers

The first Modern Day Chip (* 4 Bit Processor *) but could not handle the radiation and the shielding "Cost" too much (* mass *). So they stayed with solid state technology . . . , .

The Governement spent millions and billions on the programs. It would be nice to believe those who say they were there. To read the reporst of the experiments done with equipment on the moon and the one listed above as well.

But it is not good beer drinking conversation. Any conspiracy is good for beer drinking conversation.

 

[MBuzzy]

To me is the answer is simple - do we have the capability to do it? Of course. There is no doubt that we've launched many craft into space. We have landed (unmanned) on Mars (unless that is a hoax too). There is still STUFF up there. If we can do it....why not? It seems like a waste to fake it when we can just do it for real.

 

[Xue Sheng]

In the NASA Tech Briefs there were lots and lots of development for our current society.

Plastics developed that ended up being used in heart pace makers

The first Modern Day Chip (* 4 Bit Processor *) but could not handle the radiation and the shielding "Cost" too much (* mass *). So they stayed with solid state technology . . . , .

The Governement spent millions and billions on the programs. It would be nice to believe those who say they were there. To read the reporst of the experiments done with equipment on the moon and the one listed above as well.

But it is not good beer drinking conversation. Any conspiracy is good for beer drinking conversation.

But I haev already proved we didn't go and that we are not having this conversation because we don't exist :uhyeah:

 

[Touch Of Death]

Being an engineer I tend to take the study of science more seriously than the study of urban legends.

Plus, I used to work for NASA on contract. Got to be part of the ground crew that ran a scientific payload on shuttle mission STS-95, the one that brought John Glenn back in to space. That has to be the best contract assingment I've ever had.

So, you are part of the conspiracy. LOL
Sean

 

[Carol]

So, you are part of the conspiracy. LOL
Sean

I like being in a position of power...LOL!!

 

[Rich Parsons]

But I haev already proved we didn't go and that we are not having this conversation because we don't exist :uhyeah:

I have that same discussion with religions and the existence of life.

In many cases people will take lots of data points. If all data points are the same point or on the same line then you will ignore the one point that is not on the line. That point is considered an error.

So, if there is no life on any other planets then we can ignore the one data point of "US" and say that no life exists in the universe.

 

[tradrockrat]

wWe were there, but the photos had to be retouched and several key facts about the moon landing were covered up to prevent the Russians from finding out the moon was actually made of cheese...

 

[hong kong fooey]

i myself belive that we did not. there is alot of proof that suggest it as well. like the waving flag how can a flag wave if there is no air?

 

[The Master]

I had a flag once that let you bend it into flapping shapes. It had wires in it.
Maybe that's what they used?

 

[Blotan Hunka]

While I was kid back then, the whole idea that all that video was done on a set...do any of you remember what 1960-1970 sci-fi movies looked like?

That lunar footage would be great special effects in todays movies. Somehow the idea that 1970's stage effects still look real today when Star Wars movies from the 70's look kitch now...I dont buy it.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Did we really go to the Moon?

Of course we did. The skeptics and wackos can say what they like. If we did not then there is a world-spanning conspiracy to hide the fact. The Apollo flight and the landing were all monitored through tracking stations in Australia (I actually live quite close to one of them, Honeysuckle Creek). It was the height of the Cold War and the Soviet Union has never suggested the landings were not real (they, in fact scrapped their own Lunar landing efforts shortly thereafter).

What mysterious purpose, do you suppose, has caused all these people to band together to pretend this achievement is real? Is it possibly because it is real. This should be the greatest achievement of the human race, but it has become a point of controversy as small-minded people try to attach themselves to it. If not for short-sighted politicians is the '70s in the US much more would probably have been achieved.

 

[TaiChiTJ]

this is an interesting video. about half way through they focus on an object on the surface of the moon. :ultracool