is it true that the 1969 moon landing is a conspiracy? did if ever happen? is our government trying to fool us?
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Yes, it's true that we really sent a man to the moon. It's NOT a conspiracy like some people might think. For more information go to http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2001/news-moonlanding.asp
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some say that the apollo missions to the moon were fake so that america could win the space race. also because their is really no interset on the moon for us except moon rocks. we can study the craters from earth. NASA and other space researchers in the world are planning missions to mars, and unmanned space explorations of other planets.
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I would think that a conspiracy theory that is more fact than theory would be the most believable one. For example; Area 51... Area 51, also called Groom Lake, is a fact, not a mere theory. Area 51 is not on any map, but Groom Lake is. You can also see it in satellite images that are commonly available in the internet. Many people theorize on what goes on at Area 51 however. I, however, have been there myself and can personally account for what goes on there. There is at least one tour company that offers tours to Area 51 where the average citizen can see the wonders that abound there and participate in many of the bases "secret" activities. See, what you do is sign up for the tour. The tour will take you to the edge of Groom Lake where you will see signs that say that deadly force is authorized if you proceed past that point. Now you have to be part of the tour to gain access beyond that point, otherwise, you will be shot.  Seriously, the guys in the black pickups don’t joke around.\n\nNow the tour takes you up the road and over the ridge into the dry lake bed. It gets a little fun because as you cross the dry lake bed, speeds can reach 120 mph or so. The lake bed itself is huge. Then you come up on some huge buildings. Inside the buildings are the alien spacecraft that they have captured over the years. There are quite a few of them. This is where the substance of the tour takes place. Now they also carry out secret military operations at the base, which nobody gets to see, they mainly happen at night and all of the tours are during the day.\n\nWhile you are in the alien spacecraft hanger you get to climb on some of the smaller craft, and they even have an alien spaceship flight simulator for those that are adventurous enough to try it. The whole tour is really cool. While I was there I actually got to meet one of the captured aliens. He or she, nobody knows for sure, is not really a prisoner, but its spacecraft crashed after skimming our atmosphere over the south pole so it has no way to get home. But they also won’t let it leave the base without a heavy escort.\n\nToward the end of the tour, before driving back across the dry lake, they take everyone into a small room, with pale green walls. On one of the walls is a large television looking screen. Once the door closes, the screen starts flashing weird colors and bright lights. Most people pass out and have to be carried back to the tour vehicle, but some are able to walk. Usually most people sort of wake up outside of the gate and they don’t remember anything after approaching the gate in the first place. It is weird, kinda like the blinky thing in MIB. I have only been there once and I don’t really remember any of the cool stuff, but that’s what they tell me happened. I was there and I can tell you - that’s the truth. If you have the opportunity to visit the Little A'Le'Inn Restaurant and Bar on the Extraterrestrial Highway in Rachel, ask them about the tours, they will tell you.\n\nI also visited the sight where JFK was shot - I am telling you, there is no way it makes sense that he was shot from the Book Depository.
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Lots of things make people say that. There are pieces of evidence pointing in both directions (yes/no). I'm not sure what to believe, myself. I'm kind of leaning toward no, simply because the claims against the moon landing make sense, and the attempts to refute those claims don't sound very credible.\n\nBut honestly, I don't really care. Maybe we did, maybe we didn't. Unless you went yourself, or helped fake the whole thing, or are given adequate proof, you really can't know for sure.
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Yes, they walked on the moon. And yes, some people insist they did not--that it was all a huge conspiracy. You seem shocked at this, but remember, there are still folks maintaining that the Earth is flat or only 6,000 years old. (In fact, the flat-Earthers are one of the groups claiming the moon landing is a hoax--after all, the astronauts took photos showing a round Earth, and they know that isn't true, so it must be a hoax!) You don't actually expect evidence to convince people like this, do you? Any piece of evidence that we could present would simply be, to them, a part of the conspiracy. A good conspiracist can incorporate any piece of information into the big conspiracy without even blinking. \n\nThere have been several books written to promote this claim, and more articles. There was even a movie with a similar plot, Capricorn One, starring O.J. Simpson, among others (1977). The difference was that in the movie, the fake landing was for Mars, not the moon. One group of flat-Earthers actually claims O.J. was framed by the government for exposing the fake moon landings through his part in this movie! As Peter Huston, the writer and skeptic who mentioned this to me, deadpanned, "Apparently, the government moves slowly on framing its enemies."\n\nBob Mulford, of the Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York, wrote a short article for the group's newsletter, The WHY-Files, discussing a recent book claiming the whole thing was a hoax. Apparently a reviewer in a technical magazine aimed at radio astronomers actually gave the book a more-or-less positive review! He noted that the reviewer bought into one of the author's arguments, saying it was obviously a hoax because the photos brought back by the astronauts showed their footprints in the moon's soil. The author claimed (and the reviewer apparently agreed) that dry sand doesn't leave footprints, and since we all know there is no water on the moon, that proves these photographs must have been faked on a movie set here on Earth. \n\nMulford points out in his article that the Moon's surface is not covered with beach sand. He notes: "On the earth, sand comes from rocks ground to small pieces by the ocean, or from rocks that were weathered by freezing water. In fact, a little thought shows we should not expect the Moon to be like an desert on the Earth. The astronauts reported that the Moon was covered by an extremely fine soil which compacted easily. They likened it to talcum powder. This soil was produced by a rain of micrometeorites that the Earth's surface is protected from by our atmosphere. It is easy to do an experiment that shows that this type of surface would leave nice footprints. I didn't have any talcum powder, but I did recently produce a large pile of fine dust from sanding spackling compound used to patch a plaster wall. It leaves nice footprints." Mulford adds: "Incidentally, if the Moon walks actually were a hoax carried out in an earthly landscape that looked like the Moon, it would have been done in a dry desert and we wouldn't see footprints in the photos." In other words, the author of that book provided evidence against himself rather than proving the moon landing was a hoax! \n\nIn 1994, the Fortean Times had an article calling the moon landing into question. The article began, "The idea that we went to the Moon--and that we were successful in our Apollo endeavours--is so firmly embedded in the cultural lives of most people on this planet, that to voice the opinion that this might be untrue smacks of paranoia." I can't argue with that! The article goes on to claim, "In actual fact, mankind has no proof at all that we ever set foot on the Moon, other than the photographs that NASA has elected to publish." Which is simply untrue. We have the photos, the video, the audio, the testimony of all the men and women who worked on the various projects, the samples brought back, e
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I completely share your beliefs about the entire government being a big conspiracy. Obviously, the REAL government is an underground "shadow government" and the one that poses as our government are members of secret societies. I think that the government conspiracy closely involves secret societies, especially Skull and Bones and the Illuminati.
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it think it is a hoax... "The astronauts have kept out of the public eye", something happend. they were on their way to the moon, but i don't believe they have been on it! if you look around, read about it, it will become more clear. the pictures they have made don't match the actual event... i think they have been made in a hollywood studio. there has been pictures with some major mistakes, like the shadowing, footprints etc. everybody got his own opinion, and this is mine: it's a hoax.
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all questions about the six apollo lunar landings being fake are non-sense.  nasa got a huge amount of evidence to prove that twelve americans have stepped onto lunar soil, and there is no evidence at all that says they didn't.\n\nthere are six american flags on the moon.  each one has a sleeve across the top.  the flagpole is hinged, and the hinged  part goes thru the sleeve at the top of the flag.  the flags did not wave.  the flags sometimes swung from these rods when the astronauts put the flags on the moon because they moved them from side to side at times and the flags lagged behind some and had to catch up with the rods.\n\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5874HR.jpg\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5875HR.jpg\n\nhere is a photograph of the flag at the apollo 11 landing site.  you can clearly see the rod in the sleeve across the top of the flag.
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If you mean was the government story about what happened a hoax? Absolutely. But the event itself was all too real ... 3000 people and several buildings are gone.\n\nFor a fantastic documentary exploring many of the questions about what happened 9-11, watch Loose Change.\nGoogle video has it here for free:\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
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There have been documented cases of stigmata, but as for the other, I don't know.\n\nThere have been several documented cases of stigmata, and many others that were unable to be determined one way or the other - they could neither prove fraud, nor authenticate it.  But as there are people who believe the moon landing was a hoax, there will always be those who believe the stigmata is too.
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Yes. President Bush recently announced the intent for NASA to land on the moon. If you listen to recent podcasts or read the stories from Science @ NASA (see the source below), you will find what goes into their planning to return to the moon.\n\nThose of you who wonder if it's a waste of time: the more we know about the moon, the more we know about Earth. The more we know about our planet, the easier it is to make life better.
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I can tell you that I worked with some people who were down in Florida for the Apollo 13 launch, and they saw a very big machine take off up into the sky a few miles away from them!  Pretty hard to fake that!\n\nPeople who defend arguments that the moon landings were faked are being silly.  But what I find outrageous is that media people encourage these folks because they simply love to air any form of controversy that can be cooked up, no matter how nonsensical.  I guess it brings in more viewers.  But it is doing great harm by making some folks believers in what should be recognized as nonsense.
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No, I don't beleive that it was a hoax, but I do beleive that there are things that our government has covered up. \n\nI beleive that planes hit the towers because I witnessed it and bodies were found, etc.\n\nI beleive that it was not a plane that hit the pentagon but one of our own missiles. Why...I'll never understand. There were no bodies of anyone on the plane and the damage to the pentagon does not coincide with any impact of a airliner of that size. \n\nI beleive that there was no crash in Pennsylvania either. There is too much evidence, or should I say lack of. There was never any wreckage found. No bodies! No anything but a few strategically placed pieces of fabric. \n\nWhat horrifies me is what happened to all of these people?\n\nI do not beleive in conspiracy theories at all, but after watching this. It has changed my life forever. I see you have a link to the 1st one. Here is the link to the 2nd edition. It's long but well worth it. Please watch!\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848\n\nI lost 2 very dear friends that day. I will never forget, it breaks my heart that things like this happened. \n\nI just wish the government would release the rest of the information and finally tell us the truth!
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My wife's father did perform fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, but I will spare you that speach. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.\n\nThe I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricon One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional movie about a fake mission to mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.\n\n12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we simply don't have the resources nor technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.\n\nThe landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you they they would have called is out if they have evidence that it was all fake?\n\nPerhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 30+ years, scientist have been beaming lasers to the moon and meansuring the return times. How are they doing this? Because the beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on in onto 1 but 3 different locations.\n\nCase closed.
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How's this for a conspiracy theory.\n\nhttp://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/
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Of course they went. In 1969 it would have been harder to fake then actually have gone.\nI'm sick of that flag waving on the moon rubbish it did not and never waved in the wind there is no atmosphere on the moon so how can there be wind,numbnuts.\nGo back to your sheep taffy.
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Yes I did.\n We have built this multi billion dollar rocket so we can crash it into the moon.\n And,yes, they are looking for the presence of water or at least evidence that water was once present.\n A big idea now in the science world,by the belief that all life here started in the seas, that if there is water there might be life. Or if there WAS water there might have been life at one time.\n This is just another way for the government to waste tax dollars. Plus it gives these scientist a paycheck. They have run out of theories on how the dinosaurs may have looked. And who built Stonehinge. So this water/life study has opened up a whole new avenue for them to collect research grants.\n But between you and me...It really is to search for underground alian spaceports that may be on/in the moon.