The
Moon Landings
Debunking
the Hoax
You've all heard or maybe
you believe that we've never landed on the moon, that it was a staged hoax in a
desperate attempt to get there before the Russians did after the Sputnik
moment. Nearly 25% of Americans believe we've never been to the moon.
What is
so compelling about this theory?
It's
typical pseudo-history, as long as you can make a documentary that looks real,
anything is believable.
This is
what you would call irrational skepticism; let's take it claim by claim.
The
flag was waving.
No. It
wasn't. The flag was attached to a L shaped pole called the Lunar Flag
Assembly. It moved when the astronauts were assembling the flag due to their
movement, similar to a pendulum, the flag was also wrinkled and many of the
ripples are actually misinterpreted wrinkles.
The
photos contain mistakes and anomalies.
Many
claim that certain cross hairs are in the wrong place or that they see
"prop" markings on rocks. It's probably a hair that got attached to
the photo, in all of the original photos there are none of these imperfections.
The cross hairs were altered due to altering the photo to increase its
appearance.
The
cameras would have been foggy due to radiation.
The
cameras were contained in a metal box that stopped the fogging of the film's
emulsion.
They
couldn't have survived the radiation.
The
astronauts were shielded by the alumminium hulls of the craft, their trajectory
through the belts was selected because of its lower levels of radiation.
They
were using harnesses to appear to be in a low gravity environment.
This
has been debunked by demonstration repeatedly; check out myth-busters. No one
has been able to recreate the same appearance using the same technology of the
day.
Moon
rocks are identical to those found in Antarctica.
The rocks from the Moon brought back by astronauts are distinctly different from those found on Earth. Those found on Earth have been oxidized from their entry into our atmosphere. Geologists have examined this and have all agreed (due to this noticeable difference) that these rocks really have come from the Moon.
The foot prints couldn't have been preserved.
There
is no wind on the moon, their foot prints on in very fine dust that feels
a little like damp sand, that's how they were able to create footprints and
them be preserved even until now.
There
were no stars.
There
were stars, just unseen due to the fact it occurred during lunar mornings, the
sun was shining too brightly for them to be seen.
The
U.S. had motive for faking the Moon landings.
The
U.S. did have motivation to go to the Moon, to compete in the space race
against the USSR, they had launched Sputnik and we feared their technology
would advance more quickly than our own. We wanted to be first, which is why we
actually did go to the Moon. There would be reason to not try to pull off a
hoax because if found out, that would mean great failure. If the motivation for
hoaxing this, and actually going are the same, then you can't automatically
assume it was a hoax. The entire facet of NASA was created from the same
motivation, and to fake the moon landings, that would require thousands of
people behind the hoax to "keep quiet", even Nixon couldn't get away
with a handful of people stealing a few files. It is absurd to think he or
anyone else would get away with this.
We had
many rovers on the Moon before we had any manned missions. We had a lot of preparation
before we went. Similarly we put a rover on Mars and are making plans on
sending a manned spacecraft once we overcome the issues of long term space
travel. We have astronauts living on the ISS for long periods of time. It seems
absurd that we didn't have the capability of sending a man on the Moon.
How do
you know it really happened?
Besides the proof of moon rocks, the countless evidence provided by third parties and other groups outside of the government that tracked Apollo missions for fun, or
this
picture of the moon taken from a telescope to prove that we really landed,
The
most compelling evidence that we for certain... landed on the moon would be...
Lasers!
Astronauts left laser reflectors on the moon in order to measure
the rate that the Moon is receding away from Earth. We know it's moving away
from us at 3.8 centimeters per year. If you're an amateur astronomer, college
student, or you work for NASA, it's easy to prove the existence of these laser
retro-reflectors.
The only thing that conspiracy theorists can't explain away, is their
existence. They will try to claim it was from unmanned missions however it took
3 manned missions to bring up all the equipment and assemble it. If you look at
the reflectors, it requires human assembly.
We landed on the moon and that is awesome.
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