Was the moon landing forreal? Options

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

There was a topic like this before, but that one is dead and over two years old.. I thought that it needed a fresh start. Besides, most of the people who posted in it are inactive.
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12400

If you don't know about this, you can go to Wikipedia and research it.

I still have not made up my mind yet, but I sort of think that it was all a hoax.

So.. Do you think it was real or is it a conspiracy?

[kimmytree]

I dont think we ever landed on the moon. If we really did, why havent we been back? I think it was just so we could say we beat the Russians or something.

I've seen video clips of the flag waving, and later on clips of the flag not moving. Shouldnt the flag be still, since there is no gravity on the moon?

[timeflies51]

I've seen video clips of the flag waving, and later on clips of the flag not moving. Shouldnt the flag be still, since there is no gravity on the moon?

I think it's because there's no wind on the moon. (Which is supposedly why the astronauts' footprints are still there, so they say.)



While I find the universe to be quite interesting, I honestly DO NOT see ANY point in the "Space Race" except to fufill human curiosity. Whatever we find out isn't going to affect us in any way, and I don't understand why we have to put so much money into it. If anything, if we really went to the moon, the reason - "beating" the Russians - was completely stupid.

Anyways, that's my rant on that. As for the mission being faked, perhaps. I mean, people saw the spaceship liftoff and everything, didn't they? So you're saying that they had to plan a secret place for the spaceship to land and everything?

If this is true, then that is sad, wasting so much money only to get Americans' spirits up just a bit higher. How incredibly pathetic.

I really hope the government and NASA were not that stupid.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

While I find the universe to be quite interesting, I honestly DO NOT see ANY point in the "Space Race" except to fufill human curiosity. Whatever we find out isn't going to affect us in any way, and I don't understand why we have to put so much money into it. If anything, if we really went to the moon, the reason - "beating" the Russians - was completely stupid.

The Cold War. A war without any real fighting. Just actions. That's why. Americans wanted to "win" the Cold War.
There are several other motives for faking the moon landing too.

And it doesn't necesairly have to be a complete hoax..

1. Complete hoax—The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible.
2. Partial hoax / Unmanned landings— Bart Sibrel argues that Apollo 11 and subsequent astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography, and that they never got more than halfway to the Moon. A subset of this proposal is advocated by those who concede the existence of laser mirrors and other observable human-made objects on the Moon. Marcus Allen represented this argument when he said "I would be the first to accept what [telescope images of the landing site] find as powerful evidence that something was placed on the Moon by man." He goes on to say that photographs of the lander would not prove that America put men on the Moon. "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem—the Russians did that in 1959, the big problem is getting people there." His argument focuses around NASA sending robot missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollo 14 or 15 being the first authentic mission.[4]
3. Manned landings, with backup stagings— Dr. Brian O'Leary once suggested that, as a hypothetical situation, NASA could have falsified some portion of the video and photographs of the moon landings to replace those damaged or lost during the actual mission. Hoax proponent David Percy apparently took O'Leary's hypothetical as a sincere belief. O'Leary has since reasserted the idea as merely hypothetical..[5]
4. Manned landings, with cover-ups—William Brian and others believe that, while astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, alien artifacts, or alien encounters.[6] Phillip Lheureux, in Lumieres sur la Lune (Lights on the Moon), said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but that, in order to prevent other nations from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_L...oax_accusations