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Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on August 15, 2002, 05:36:17
Flag fluttering? I do not recall seeing the flag flutter in any of the footage I have seen. I am pretty sure we have landed on the moon. I would think that if we had not other nations, especially the USSR at the time, would had prooven it otherwise. I find it kind of odd that they would have a show on this as I think most people believe that we have been to the moon. Though I have heard that the footage shown on tv during the first landing was not live but recorded stuff from other missions. I do not know I was not around on then. Sounds like it was an interesting watch though.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: cainam_nazier on August 15, 2002, 06:17:32
I have seen so many different videos and such on the moon landings.  All I have to say is, it is possible.  I believe that we ahve been there since the first one at least.  The thing being that there is a small possibilty that the very first landing was faked in order to make people believe that we beet the Russians there.

But as with all conspiracies, there is no solid hold in your hand proof, either way as a matter of fact.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.
http://www.prepaidliving.com/vip/David127385
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: clandestino on August 15, 2002, 06:51:41
cheers guys  - i'm now 97.8% convinced that we landed up there.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tisha on August 15, 2002, 07:16:42
The jury is out with me.  And I just got a job offer with NASA !!!!!  If they ever knew about my doubts they'd probably withdraw the offer . . .


Tisha

"As Above, So Below"
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: clandestino on August 15, 2002, 08:16:45
well done !!! but just as you got a job offer....an hour ago i found out i didn't get a promotion, my colleague did....ah well, back to the drawing board....


you gonna take the NASA job ?


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tisha on August 15, 2002, 11:04:15
Only if I can take my daughter with me!  I have joint custody with my ex, and accepting this job would mean moving 300 miles away.  I speak with an attorney on Monday . . . NASA is even kicking around the idea of a $$$bonus$$$ for me to offset my legal costs.  THAT's flattering.  I'd turned down the job a few weeks ago (I didn't think I could pull it off) but they called me yesterday to up the ante.

If it doesn't work out, at least I get warm fuzzies that they wanted me.  Sigh!


Tisha

"As Above, So Below"
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: rodentmouse on August 15, 2002, 12:44:53
hey ive seen that documentary,   it got me to ponder because some things are so obviously *wrong*  e.g.  the shadow of a piece of equipment facing the sun??  - apprently a floodlight in a hollywood basement?? who knows.

someone told me whos read Neil Armstrongs biography is that whilst on the moon, they recieved a transmission from an unknown source telling them to "go away and never come back"

I hate the fact that America  placed there flag up there as if to "claim"  it. Like its some sort of race/competition,  despite  "one small step for MAN"  

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on August 15, 2002, 13:10:48
quote:
Originally posted by rodentmouse:

I hate the fact that America  placed there flag up there as if to "claim"  it. Like its some sort of race/competition,  despite  "one small step for MAN"  





This was a race. This was brought on mostly out of competition because of the cold war. The Russians were the first into space so the US wanted to be the first at some other greatness in space travel. What is greater than reaching out and touching the moon. I am sure it does not seem like something great to us today, but at the time I bet it was quiet an accomplishment. I cannot imagine what it was like living in a world that man had not been to the moon. By the way, when is the last time that anyone has been to the moon?

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tisha on August 15, 2002, 14:25:12
That's kind of why I think it never happened.  If we'd really gone to the moon, wouldn't we still be going there?  The rationalization is that "we've gone there and there is nothing else to see; anyway it's too expensive."  Well THAT excuse doesn't hold water at all.   NASA spends BILLIONS of dollars NOT going to the moon, so why not just go?  

Don't tell me there is nothing left to study up there.  Scientists have been playing with the balls of fruit flies for decades and it seems they're STILL learning things about reproduction, and spending millions in grant money on them to boot.  So there must be TONS of things to learn about on the moon.  If we'd really gone to the moon, I figure, billions of dollars of grant money would be spent per year, still, doing one gravity test after another after another.  That's just the way we do things, us humans.

Also, compare our more recent space odysseys to that one supposed 1968 trip to the moon.  What compares to it?  Nothing, my friends, even after decades of technology advances!  I think getting us humans in and out of the boundaries of our earth's outer atmosphere (without killing ourselves) has proven, in reality, to be just toooo hard.

So call me a skeptic.  I'm open minded, willing to be convinced.  Right now I'm just not.  I think the way to visit outer space is via OBE.  No muss, no fuss.


Tisha

"As Above, So Below"
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tom on August 15, 2002, 14:46:49
It would not have cost much fuel to bring some other flags also to plant on the moon. It might even have been a classy gesture to bring a flag from the (former) Soviet Union. Sure, that one might not have been placed quite as high as the other flags, but it is nice to be included.


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: A-M on August 15, 2002, 16:15:39
Something else interesting was said in another documentary on the moon. The astronauts reported bright white flashes of light behind closed eyes.
The way they described it, it sounded exactly the same as what RB calls 'strobe effect' in his book (and what I experience too before going to sleep). As you all probably know, his explanation of this phenomenon is surplus energy 'strobing' from the frontal chakra to the crown chakra.

According to the researchers it was due to cosmic radiation of dying supernova's, which penetrates everything, including your head/eyeballs (!)
(and they showed some impressive microscope slides of damaged rocket material  to back this theory up)

Do both forms of energy (cosmic and 'extra-physical') simply cause the same effect in the eyes or is there more to this ??

A-M


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: General-Army on August 15, 2002, 18:32:37
Is it possible to buy a telescope and look for our selves? Im just wondering, or did they land on the other side of the moon?

Every man has their fear of dieing, whether it be of pain or not knowing where you are going, however, mine is the family, memories, and good times i leave behind.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: cainam_nazier on August 16, 2002, 00:33:05
Like I said.  I think the first time was a hoax to "win" the "race" with the USSR.  How ever I know that we have been there since because there is a rather silly little object that was placed up there.  Basically it is just a beacon, but it used to tell us how far away it is at all times.  Arizona State University is one of the few places that knows how to ping it.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.
http://www.prepaidliving.com/vip/David127385
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: clandestino on August 16, 2002, 05:01:56
well, there won't be any need for a powerful telescope as the Japanese are planning to send a satellite around the moon and photograph it in detail in 2004...

Tom, I like your style ! maybe sticking a mini soviet union flag just under the US one would have been a laugh for Neil Armstrong and his buddies !

Sure, it might have provoked an international incident - but it would have been a laugh none the less !

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Ashfo on August 18, 2002, 23:46:57
I'm confident we didn't.

Some basic pieces of information....

a) The flag fluttering: There was nobody near the flag, it was waving, not turning around like someone was screwing it in

b) There is no stars: There is no stars in much of the footage

c) There is no blast crater or any sign of rock movement on the moon even though a jet engine just stopped igniting right above it.

d) Footprints are made on dust which should have been blown away by the rocket

e) Double the speed and they are bouncing along and the moon buggy is acting under normal gravity conditions.

f) There is so much radiation out there its estimated you would need 6feet of concrete or 2feet of lead to just stay safe (this is why the Russians gave up - they realised it was undoable.)

g) The camera position of neil armstrong walking out of the lander is impossible - there is no way a camera could have been in that position.

h) Neil armstrong is lit up in some form of lighting even though he should be in the shade from the lander (the lander around him is black)

i) In many of the shots some rocks, people and objects have two shadows. Obviously this is from fake lighting.

j) They are seen running over the same piece of land twice in supposedly two different landings 30km apart.

k) There is a piece of desert in the Nevada that looks identical to an area on "the moon". This doesn't sound substantial, but you haven't seen the likeness.

l) Something like seven of the programs 15-odd prime astronauts were killed in suspicous circumstances because they commented before their death on speaking out and hating hiding things to their family etc.

m) I forget the name of the event, but the rocket that ignited on the ground was very suspicous. I cant remember exact details, but it took the rescue teams way too long to get there and no investigation was ever carried out (the module is in a bunker in one of the top secert air force base areas.)


That's just what I remember off the top of my head.

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Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Avix on August 19, 2002, 14:00:49
The show on Discovery was very interesting about this subject.

Even the person whom made the cameras for the suits said they cannot take such good quality pictures.   I guess only one real way to know...someone OBE up there and tell us :)

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Shayde on August 19, 2002, 14:02:36


Why is it impossible to have fake lighting on the moon? They probley took a light-all or some thing up there with them. It's obvious that the desity of light would be different on the moon since there is less/no atmoshpere for it to reflect off ot.


To many stars, not enough sky.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Shayde on August 19, 2002, 14:04:46


I was just informed that you can see the US flag on the moon with a         High-End telescope.




To many stars, not enough sky.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Rob on August 19, 2002, 14:24:27
Back again! I've been away for a while but I always like showing off conspiracy theories so here goes...
Shayde - have you ever tried using a torch in full sunlight? You cannot even see its light, and that is after the sun has gone through our atmosphere. On the moon the light of the sun would be incredibly bright, no artificial light would stand a chance. And why bother taking huge powerful torches with you when you are going somewhere it never gets dark? Further, on the lighting thing, shadows from the sun always lie parellel to eachother for obvious reasons. However, on many of the "moon landing" photos the shadows converge to a point just off screen. I mean, come on....
Umm lets see...
Oh yeah when the lander took off it went straight up and left no gas trail after it. It was powered I think by a hydrogen/oxygen mix, as most are, which combines to make water. This would then crystalise and leave a proper big vapour/ice trail but there was none. You can just imagine a little moon lander model being pulled up on strings! The acceleration looked decidedly dodgy to me too, but I can't remember that well.
The lander was tested on earth and was found to be completely useless and impossible to pilot, let alone land. I know they crashed one in tests, probably a few. By the time Mr Armstrong got to the moon he still hadn't successfully piloted one...
err....what else let me see.....something about the videos being shoulder held and yet there is no shaking of the camera, even when it was apparently moving.
And there was something else about the photos, can't remember too well now
anyway Ashfo got most the points - good work! But haven't we all had this discussion before?


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Shayde on August 19, 2002, 14:45:30





Can't remember who said it, but they said that the first launching was probley a fake. I wouldn't put it past the US government (my goverment) to do some thing like that just so they can win the space race (and look good during the cold war.) The truth is, since then we most likley have gone to the moon. The flag is there on the moon.


















To many stars, not enough sky.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tisha on August 20, 2002, 08:07:45
Just because there is a flag on the moon doesn't mean a human put it there.  We've successfully sent machines into space to do all sorts of fancy things.


Tisha

"As Above, So Below"
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: General-Army on August 20, 2002, 12:41:47
what kind of telescope can i use? How much would it cost? Where can i get one?

Every man has their fear of dieing, whether it be of pain or not knowing where you are going, however, mine is the family, memories, and good times i leave behind.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Shayde on August 20, 2002, 14:35:50


Roughly around 400$ or so.







To many stars, not enough sky.
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: muzza on August 21, 2002, 19:41:46
There was proof of tampering / fake photos too in that documentary that was on. The camera lens apparently had crosses etched in the surface for measurements or something and in some photos the crosses fall behind objects which is entirely impossible unless some tampering took place.

I'm still undecided as to whether we have or have not been to the moon...



-- Muzza
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on August 22, 2002, 04:52:51
When I said that what footage they showed on tv was not the actually landing I did not mean that the whole thing was fake. I have heard that what they showed the public at the time was footage from other missions where man did not actually set foot on the moon. Atleast some of the footage, but not all of it. I think it was my parents that told me this who were actually there to see it on tv. Maybe someone who watched it can confirm this. I do not know why the government would just say that man has been to the moon when he has not. But then again I do not know why they do a lot of things. I still believe that man has set foot on the moon, though I would like to watch this show so if anyone knows if it is coming on again let me know. As for fake footage, I think it is possible that there is footage of the astronauts practicing in a similar setting on Earth before they actually went to the moon. From everything I have learned about NASA they put them through lots of training. So maybe this show got a hold of this footage and is using it to proove their point.

Some of you sound just like the people that refuse to believe that OBEs are real.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Frank on August 23, 2002, 11:09:21



Yep, absolutely right. The whole world was watching (well, those with a telly that is). In my school, I cannot remember anyone who didn't get up at, like, 3am to see it. It was a MAJOR buzz.

Yours,
Frank




Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: seekenergyaz on August 24, 2002, 10:15:02


Hi

I used to read a lot of newsgroups and remember one guy saying that the whole we-didn't-land-on-the-moon movement was started by the same people who ran the earth-is-flat movement.  After all, a trip to the moon where a round earth was seen would be the death of flat earth ideas.  

This origin makes sense to me though, since the first time I ever heard anyone claim that the moon missions were faked was on a TV program some 20 years ago or better (called "Real People" which often featured unusual people or people with unusual ideas).  The featured guy was a believer in a flat earth who had some kind of organization going to promote this idea.  Since, in his mind, the earth being flat was a given, then also in his mind the moon missions had to be faked.

I also heard recently that somebody's website had a good set of refutations of the "fake landing points."  I think it might be Richard C. Hoagland's website but I'm not sure.  A lot of folks would consider his ideas strange too, but in my mind not nearly as strange as the idea of a flat earth.  



Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: k2sixx on August 26, 2002, 03:04:39
Numbers of celebrities and wealthy folk have booked trips to the moon.

As for the initial landing, I have no argument to prove it false or otherwise.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: liefmichael on August 27, 2002, 09:31:54
yea i recently read on a website (get back to you on where it was) about the silliness of a consipiracy theory about the moon landing.

flag: it has a piece of rigid material inserted along the top of the flag, apparently not all the way, theres no wind on the moon... how could we see it otherwise...

lighting: the most important point to remember is that the moon itself is very reflective, part of its makeup in the dust. (which is why the moon lights our earth at night..)

no stars: go outside with your camera and take a picture with a flash of the sky.  no stars... the exposure is too quick, to get the stars in the pic you need longer exposure which would cause everything else to flare out

gravity: never heard this one, but ok... say you do double the speed of footage and its normal speed, what happens if you actually had footage of low gravity movement and sped it up? it would look like our earth gravity...

the moon does look very similar up close over most of it, what else is there apart from craters, dust and rocks?  and yes, some places in the desert would come very close to looking like the moon (which means absolutely nothing, unless youre paranoid...)

you americans and your consipiracy theories.  do you not think the russians would have been tracking it on radar and would have been the first to tell the world that they didnt actually leave orbit?  what about australia being used to pick up the radio from the spacecraft, which was where they were told it was... not in some wierd orbit.

look at the facts and make an observation, or look at a theory and make up facts.

just my thoughts, as it was fresh in my mind. (and i didnt actually go so i cant say they did or didnt)
peace
lief

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Rob on August 27, 2002, 14:34:45
OK then:

"flag: it has a piece of rigid material inserted along the top of the flag, apparently not all the way, theres no wind on the moon... how could we see it otherwise..."
So? It is obvious it would need to be rigid in some way. But I am told the flag was fluttering - ie moving on its own, with no wind...Can't remember myself though.

"lighting: the most important point to remember is that the moon itself is very reflective, part of its makeup in the dust. (which is why the moon lights our earth at night..)"
Stand in the desert and you will only get one shadow. The reflections off the ground would be random and the only possible thing they could do would be to lower the contrast between the shady and light areas. The main shadow from the sun would be massively brighter than any reflections, just like on earth. This does not explain the only shadows being cast converging just off screen, or double shadows (both sets converging). Perhaps if you had a huge mirror, but otherwise forget it.

"no stars: go outside with your camera and take a picture with a flash of the sky. no stars... the exposure is too quick, to get the stars in the pic you need longer exposure which would cause everything else to flare out"
No idea, can't say, but you certainly should see stars in the video footage even if you are right. I would like to test this though.

"gravity: never heard this one, but ok... say you do double the speed of footage and its normal speed, what happens if you actually had footage of low gravity movement and sped it up? it would look like our earth gravity... "
No! Of course not! Gravity on the moon is what, 1/3rd of earth gravity - that means you would be jumping 3 times as high. Well, I would anyway! Also even if they decided not to jump so high, they would be able to jump much further forwards with each step, having much more time to glide. The video would not be the same as a slowed down one from earth.

"the moon does look very similar up close over most of it, what else is there apart from craters, dust and rocks? and yes, some places in the desert would come very close to looking like the moon (which means absolutely nothing, unless youre paranoid...)"
If you are referring to the two pictures supposedly miles apart which were of the same landscape, no they were exactly the same piece of land down to the last little lump of rock, you can superimpose them and show they are the same place (only I think one has a moon lander and the other doesn't...not sure though). Again, if you took one picture of a desert on earth I guarentee you could spend your entire life searching for another piece of land which looked exactly the same and die a very unhappy (and lonely!) man.

"you americans and your consipiracy theories. do you not think the russians would have been tracking it on radar and would have been the first to tell the world that they didnt actually leave orbit? what about australia being used to pick up the radio from the spacecraft, which was where they were told it was... not in some wierd orbit."
don't think the ruskies had that advanced radar, and if they did it would more likely be pointing at the earth. Dunno about the aussies. And I am english thanks!

Any more ideas would be welcomed though!

Really when you look at it, there is so much evidence to say we didn't go, and none of it can be seriously refuted. However if anyone would like to furnish me with a quality website which attempts to do so I would enjoy trying to tear it apart! I did see a NASA guy trying to say that of course we went, but he had no arguments to refute the conspiracy ones.
Lol the first time I saw something on the net claiming the moon landings were a hoax I just laughed and thought "yeah good one, muppit freaks...". Badly blinkered as I was, and most people are.

laters!

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on August 28, 2002, 05:18:51
Could someone please point us in the direction of these so called pictures. I have never seen an official picture or footage from NASA showing the flag whipping in the wind. With todays technology it would be easy to fake any such pictures. I could have you a picture of Robert Bruce sitting on the green Cricket couch (for those not in America it has to do with a cell phone company) with Brittney Spears on the moon in about 10 minutes, give me about an hour or two if you want it to look believable.

Inguma, anyone can pick anything apart if they wish to do so. I do not see anything contructive about that. On the other hand looking at something with an unbias opinion to find the truth is much more helpful.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Rob on August 28, 2002, 11:10:37
"Inguma, anyone can pick anything apart if they wish to do so. I do not see anything contructive about that. On the other hand looking at something with an unbias opinion to find the truth is much more helpful."

I prefer tearing into both sides of an argument. Then weighing up, and the strongest wins. I cannot pick holes in the theories which say that the moon landing is faked, and I have seen the evidence in documentrys etc. Although to be fair it is easier to say why we didn't do something than saying we did, if you catch my drift. As for faked photos and evidence etc, well this evidence has been around since before techy computers.
I'll admit that I err to the side of conspiracies naturally, but I always try and objectively look for the truth and enjoy slapping myself when my preconceptions are destroyed. Besides, I wasn't being entirely serious. Mostly it amuses me that we didn't go there, the biggest hoax ever. lol.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Cylentpanthur on August 29, 2002, 20:21:02
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm This is a website I found that, if nothing else sounds well reasearched and thought out. It actually answers several of the questions/problems looked at here. It doesn't, however mention the "speed up the film thing" but if you've studied reduced gravity at all this one is easily explained. The moon has roughly 1/6th the Earth's gravity, which means, if you wanted to, you could leap six times higher there than here using the same amount of push. But I know I wouldn't want to. This is where the difference in weight and mass comes in to play. Though you WEIGH less on the moon, your MASS stays the same. Go outside and jump as high as you can and have someone measure it for you. Now find something that is six times higher than that and jump off of it. It hurts. You wouldn't hit as hard on the moon, but it's still not pleasant. Now, step out of the pain part and just go to the fact that you can now jump six times what you're used to. I know it would freak me out. You're on a different planet, with rapidly deteriorating bone mass, the distance between you and help is now measured in the hundred THOUSAND miles, and you know that it's now that much easier to break a bone. Let's think about this. Jump high, break a bone, get screwed, or, take little bunny hops and spend the rest of your moon trip functioning. Not a hard decicion I think.


MEOW
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on August 30, 2002, 04:37:31
Cylentpanthur,
I clicked on the link here at work and it said it is blocked because of being Sexually Expliit, Drugs/Alcohol, and Gambling. Where did you send me??? LOL Our firewall is screwy.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Cylentpanthur on August 30, 2002, 11:26:48
I believe that is just your firewall being screwy. I know there are some blocking programs out there that search for certain words, things like that, and while we had one on my computer I couldn't get to the Sesame Street website. :oP I clicked on the link I posted to see if it took me somewhere funky, but it took me to the website I wanted. It's actually written by some conspiracy theorists who believe that we did land on the moon, and the cover up is what they found there, not that they never went. This website and the link at the bottom of the page refute just about all of the reasons people have to think that they never went, and presents a few reasons as to why they think NASA is covering up what they found there. Personally, I think conspiracy theorists just have too much time on their hands in general, but this website at least sounds well researched. But then again, you never know.

MEOW
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Tom on August 30, 2002, 13:29:17
Going back to the title of this thread, who is the "we" who might or might not have gone to the moon and landed there? Isn't it robbing "them" of their accomplishment to say that "we" did it? "We", who are not even sure if "we" landed on the moon?


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: liefmichael on September 01, 2002, 07:39:57
the thing is, if we asked anyone who was actually involved in the *alleged* (lol) moon landing if it actually occured and they said yes... of course they are lying because its one big conspiracy and if they said no... it proves everything.  how did scientists end up with the moon rocks?  they have been studied by thousands of people in hundreds of labs worldwide.  the makeup of the rocks is unlike anything found on earth, or are they fake too?  you can actually hire or loan them for research from whichever american institute has them.  I can't remember which one it was, which proves it doesn't exist :)
there is a difference between having blinkers on and not being a conspiracy theorist.  im open to argument but it has to be better than suppositions about physics on the moon when no one has actually been there anyway?  there is a instrument set up on the moon from which if you have a laser and the correct equipment you can bounce a laser off and measure the distance (so ive read on a astronomy website, they could be in on it too)



Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Cylentpanthur on September 01, 2002, 13:51:23
quote:
Originally posted by liefmichael:
the thing is, if we asked anyone who was actually involved in the *alleged* (lol) moon landing if it actually occured and they said yes... of course they are lying because its one big conspiracy and if they said no... it proves everything.  ...  I can't remember which one it was, which proves it doesn't exist :)



Somehow I don't follow the logic in either of these statements. What would be the point in asking if they had gone if you've already decided that they didn't. If you won't accept a "yes" answer, then you're no longer asking a question.
And the second statement! Does this mean everything you forget now no longer exists? My question is, if it works like that, does something not exist until you "remember" it, or does it just disappear after you forget?
If you could explain, that'd be nice. Thanks.


MEOW
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Oliver on September 03, 2002, 23:48:41
Hey,

Heres a website that a friend sent me that a friend sent me that pretty much knocks down everything that the fox show said that supported the landing being a fake.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

I dont actually have an opinion on weather it was faked or not. I dont actually regard it as THAT important, but im sure if the first one was faked then they have been there since. But this site is very very convincing that it was real.

Oliver


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: liefmichael on September 04, 2002, 08:12:51
"the thing is, if we asked anyone who was actually involved in the *alleged* (lol) moon landing if it actually occured and they said yes... of course they are lying because its one big conspiracy and if they said no... it proves everything"

simplified: Sarcasm.  if there is proof we went to the moon, conspiracy theorists would say it is faked, and if there is proof we didnt go to the moon, they were right.

"I can't remember which one it was, which proves it doesn't exist"

simplified: Sarcasm again.  in my experience, For people who believe in theories such as this, and even more extreme theories, the proof doesnt have to be reasonably good, it has to be absolutely watertight.  This is usually pretty hard as life doesnt take place in strictly controlled laboratory conditions.  

I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, so I am slightly biased on the subject.  I believe the website mentioned a few posts earlier was the one I read, and it was also the first mention I had ever seen of the moon landing being faked.   I must say I laughed harder than I had for a long time.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: clandestino on September 04, 2002, 08:29:57
hello again... at the beginning of this post, I was 99.9% sure that "we" have landed on the moon.

after reading
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

I'm now 100% sure that we did ! that's a relief.....
(what worries me though about conspiracy theories is how easy it is to be taken in by them....as i read through another post on this site "the truth about 9/11", I'm ashamed to say I was actually taken in by bits of that too)

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: WalkerInTheWoods on September 04, 2002, 10:01:02
Thank you for the link Oliver!

clandestino, science is one thing, politics is something else entirely. LOL

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: BDHugh on September 04, 2002, 22:52:29
I may be a little late for this but I'll say it anyways. Astronaut David Scott demonstrated a lunar free-fall experiment. He dropped a hammer and a feather simultaneously from the same height. Both experienced the same acceleration due to lunar gravity and consequently hit the ground at the same time. Had this been a televison set etc., the feather's velocity would have slowed due to air resistance. At least that is what happened according to the physics textbook I have for college.


Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: amcturbo on September 12, 2002, 06:15:15
Hi everyone,
I've started reading the dowload "A Lawyer Presents the Case For the Afterlife" (see http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/file_library.asp ... Ebooks) and found the section on Apollo 14 astronaut, Ed Miller, to be intriguing ... enough that I searched for MORE INFORMATION regarding his "experience" on the Moon.  Here's a link with some more details about it ...
http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/edmitch.html

Cheers!
Greg Taylor :)

"Whatever consciousness may be, it's not a small thing" - Ingo Swann
"Oh, I... ain't got no ... body" - David Lee Roth (Van Halen)
Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: Rob on September 12, 2002, 14:09:09
OK I eat my words and apologise if I seemed arrogant. Them sites had some fine arguments on them, time to rethink.

Title: moon landing : did we, or didn't we ?
Post by: clandestino on August 15, 2002, 04:40:15
Hi Folks. I watched a (very biased) program over the weekend on the moon landings. Basically, plenty of folks are convinced that they never happened, producing various tid-bits of evidence to back them up. NASA didn't get a word in edgeways !

I reckon :
we did land on the moon,
99.9% of conspiracy theories are very interesting, but untrue

But after watching the program, I'm only 96.5% convinced we landed :

a) the flag ...."its fluttering in the breeze, but there's no wind on the moon! ", the arguments that I have heard FOR th landing are : It was not fluttering, there was a piece of wire inserted into the top of the flag.....the movement in the flag was a result of the astronaut screwing the pole into the moons surface.

b) 2 x speed up the films of the landing (the astronauts bouding around, the moon buggies) ....and they just look like a bunch of guys wearing spacesuits out for a jog in the park !!! hmmmm.


What does everyone else think ? Am i right to be sceptical ? or is this conspiracy theory part of the 0.1% that are true ?

Mark