A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

[GypsyElder]

Moon landing conspiracy theories. I want to know what you think. I watched This in a biology class a long time ago ( like sophomore year) and after I felt bamboozled, then I saw it again a few days ago, and I realized that some of their arguments sound ridiculous.

For example the waving flag. I was curious about this, so I looked up images, and the flag has a rod towards the top that keeps the flag horizontally firm (Like a penis haha okay I'm done.) It's also slightly scrunched looking , so it's similar to what the house curtains do along the rod. That's why there's a "wave".



Other than that though, I'm not a science wiz so idk about all the other shit.

BUT, I doooo however, know a little about light sources since that's pretty much all I worked with last art class. Imo, the "the fake image" thing is stupid because I'm sure that one, the contrast of the images were all farked up to begin with. "here let me just set my camera to moon setting." -_- It's like they're suggesting that NASA decided to put in cross hairs and some how messed up. Why would they go through the trouble of adding them in to begin with?

And for the non parallel shadows from a single light source, I think it's a case of perspective 101. 3D space on 2D image. That's why they don't look parallel. It depends on where the image was taken. If there was more than one light source there would need to be more than one shadow per object. There's only one shadow per each object.

But anyway, I don't really have a solid opinion because I don't care about an erect flag on the moon, but I DO care enough to hear your opinions

[Alpha]

I don't have the patience to look into this or most conspiracy theories, because they fall under the 'tinfoil hat' umbrella.

I will say that the 'two light-source' thing (correct me if I'm wrong), but the Earth would reflect light. If the Moon is at a right angle to the Earth relative to the Sun, it would have two sources of light -- the Earth (reflected) and the Sun.

The most important thing to me when thinking about any conspiracy theory is motive. Sure, there was a space race during the Cold War. But would that be enough for NASA to fake a Moon landing?

In addition, would NASA/the US Government even have the ability to keep the secret contained? What of the people in mission control; those who prepared the event; their families... would they all be able to keep such a secret?

Think about 9/11 conspiracies.
Motive? None, really. You could say 'to start a war', but war is really in no government's interest (in a democracy, at least).
Able to keep a secret? How do you pack a building full of explosives without anyone noticing?

EDIT: The flag. I heard the sides had springs in them. Springs would move in a rather unrestrained fashion on the Moon, with even the lightest touch setting them in motion for quite sometime (low resistance). Thus, 'flag waving'.

[Victoria]

This is all you need to know.

Myth: Are the Apollo moon landing photos fake? : Discovery Channel

The Mythbusters busted the whole "Der these moon landing pictures are fake!~" >_>
They're real. Lol.

[che]

I stopped reading after you said penis.

But seriously, you know what we should ****ing do to people who think the moon landing was faked? We should ****ing blast them off in a rocket on a one way trip to the moon. Then what, bitches?

[RagnaToad]

All theories about it being a hoax can easily be debunked.

Plus, they installed mirrors on the moon that reflect accurately shot laser beams from earth, e.g. to calculate the exact distance to the moon, which obviously proves people have been there.

[Clint]

Nobody has actually walked on the moon. Everybody who claims to be experts about lighting in space and how the surface of the moon is are a bunch of theorists who don't know what they're talking about. In reality, nobody has walked on the moon because man long ago made a peace treaty with the aliens who operate the moon-like space station that sustains our lives on earth. This peace treaty assures that we do not inquire about the contents of the moon, and ever since the NASA program has taken effect, that treaty has been threatened.

The moon is a strange object, which can only be described as alien, created long ago in order to sustain life on earth. If the moon was not it's exact size, mass, and distance from earth at each stage of earth's evolution, intelligent life would not be able to exist. And doesn't anybody find it odd that the moon mirrors the sun in the sense that they both appear to be the same size in the sky, and appear to rise and set at the same points on the horizon.

The moon is the closest object to the earth, yet is regarded as the strangest object in the universe. It wouldn't be regarded as strange if anybody actually set foot on the moon to study it close up. The government created a hoax to appease the people who wanted people to walk on the moon. This hoax likely saved us all by abiding by the ancient peace treaty still in place today.

[Unknown Entity]

Errrybody and their mums have been to the moon now.

So it doesn't really matter in my opinion. I don't take either side with this conspiracy theory because both sound interesting, but both too good to be true. There's a part of me that strongly vouches for the conspiracy side though, mainly because it's not what I expected the moon to look like in those images.

But then again, I've not been to the moon. So I can't say for certain.