moon landing...real or fake

**annemarie482** · 20-Jul-09, 19:18

i'm chucking the cat among the pigeons here.......

today is forty years since the first "moon landing"
did it really happen? whats your opinion?

personally i don't believe it at all!

**bettedaviseyes** · 20-Jul-09, 19:23

i think its

fake

**lister** · 20-Jul-09, 19:39

Too many theories and a blanket of alleged facts and pictures, who knows now??

**Connor.** · 20-Jul-09, 19:56

I think it was faked, look at the superiority "image" they got for being the first?

They had everything to benefit by faking it.

**Mrs Bucket** · 20-Jul-09, 19:59

Fake Fake Fake

**Kevin Milkins** · 20-Jul-09, 19:59

Not sure. I would like to think it was true and remember the event well, but you would think forty years on you would have a bus trip going there by now.

**redeyedtreefrog** · 20-Jul-09, 20:06

Originally Posted by Kevin Milkins

Not sure. I would like to think it was true and remember the event well, but you would think forty years on you would have a bus trip going there by now.

It's only forty years, and the trip cost 30 billion dollars or something, nobody predicted normal people could go there in 40 years. And generally, people who think the moon landing was faked are regarded as idiots and a bit nuts.

**Alan16** · 20-Jul-09, 20:07

I can't believe that people seriously think it was a hoax.

The Wikipedia article on the conspiracy theory is informative - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...laims_examined

Also, so is this page - http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

And if you still believe it didn't happen I think you just want to be controversial. There is no clear evidence supporting your position, yet lots of information which suggests that the landing happened.

**Mrs Bucket** · 20-Jul-09, 20:23

Originally Posted by Alan16

I can't believe that people seriously think it was a hoax.

The Wikipedia article on the conspiracy theory is informative - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...laims_examined

Also, so is this page - http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

And if you still believe it didn't happen I think you just want to be controversial. There is no clear evidence supporting your position, yet lots of information which suggests that the landing happened.

What real proof is there that it really happened.

**Pouleriscaig** · 20-Jul-09, 20:32

The current Lunar Orbiter has imaged the original landing sight only very recently and remnants of the landing can still be seen.

**Rheghead** · 20-Jul-09, 20:37

If it was fake then I would have thought Russia, least of all, would have found out about it and discredited the US.

**tonkatojo** · 20-Jul-09, 21:11

Originally Posted by Pouleriscaig

The current Lunar Orbiter has imaged the original landing sight only very recently and remnants of the landing can still be seen.

Where did you see this have you got a link I would love to see this.

**tonkatojo** · 20-Jul-09, 21:12

Originally Posted by Rheghead

If it was fake then I would have thought Russia, least of all, would have found out about it and discredited the US.

Never thought of that Rheg, good point.

**Alan16** · 20-Jul-09, 21:27

Originally Posted by Mrs Bucket

What real proof is there that it really happened.

I don't believe the burden of proof lies with me. All the evidence, as far as I can see, points to the event having happened, none of it points to it having not happened.

**David Banks** · 20-Jul-09, 21:47

I just can't see it being a fake.

How much of "reported" space exploration are we "supposed" to question?
Satelites for telephones, for direct TV.
And, the network of liars would have to be enormous and watertight.
Lastly, travelling 250,000 miles in a vacuum seems to me to be something that is do-able.

**Tristan** · 20-Jul-09, 21:54

Given the era that it happened in, if there was any hint that it was faked the USSR would have blown it all over the news.

**Serenity** · 20-Jul-09, 22:59

I do not like how the answers are phrased. I would be answering "Real as all evidence points to it". Not "of course how dare you question it!". I have questioned it and all evidence points to it happening. Therefore I am not voting in the poll as there is no option applicable to me. Typical of the polls on caithness.org. There are no fair options. All are rigged towards personal bias.

**annemarie482** · 20-Jul-09, 23:03

sorry! was trying to keep it casual, not too serious. will try harder next time!

**Connor.** · 21-Jul-09, 01:30

Originally Posted by Rheghead

If it was fake then I would have thought Russia, least of all, would have found out about it and discredited the US.

Fair point, although Russians do alot of hand shaking with the US. For example, they are the only nation that's allowed to fly over the infamous "Area 51".

**Cedric Farthsbottom III** · 21-Jul-09, 19:15

I think they did land on the moon.The problem was the cameras they had on the spacesuits,cut off their heads and didnae have dead centre on any of the photos they took.After developing the photos NASA decided that they couldn't use this for the most historical moment in mankind.So they faked the photos for the moon,which led to the conspiracy.The guys on Apollo 11 were pilots/astronauts not photographers.