moon landing, a hoax? Options

[AmesBond]

The two sides are:

1. The moon landing was real: that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin actually landed on the moon in 1969.

2. The moon landing was fake: the pictures were taken from a studio on a military base and were doctored.


GO!!!

[tkproduce]

Most anti-hoax sources attribute that to the "twisting" motion used to get the flag pole into the ground. The flag was still eract though, even on the Moon it wouldn't float like that. Must've been a windy day in the desert where they shot it.

*gunbound is forced to wait

Since you're arguing pretty well on the "moon landing was a hoax" side, I guess I'll try arguing from the other side. Since I couldn't be bothered to write it myself, I'll just quote something I found talking about the flag waving thing:

This I find to be one of the more ridiculous observations. It is readily apparent that all the video showing a fluttering flag is one in which an astronaut is grasping the flagpole. He is obviously twisting or jostling the pole, which is making the flag move. In fact, in some video the motion of the flag is unlike anything we would see on Earth. In an atmosphere the motion of the flag would quickly dampen out due to air resistance. In some of the Apollo video we see the twisting motion of the pole resulting in a violent flapping motion in the flag with little dampening effect.

I've heard many hoax advocates claim that some of the Apollo photos show a fluttering flag. (How one can see a flag flutter in a still photograph is a mystery to me!) I can only guess that ripples and wrinkles in the flags are being perceived as wave motion. The flags where attached vertically at the pole and horizontally from a rod across the top. On some flights the astronauts did not fully extend the horizontal rod, so the flags had ripples in them. There is much video footage in which these rippled flags can be seen and, in all cases, they are motionless.