How many idiots in here think that man didn't land on the moon?
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I was glued to the TV for those days, I know it happened.  \n\nAs far as the flag waving thing, if you notice the flag is fixed along the top by a straight rod and loose on the bottom.  This is because there is no air on the moon to cause it to flutter around.  The astronauts couldn't get the little rod to extend fully, so it appears as if the flag is waving.  Really, it isn't.
601228
yes...the world is full of idiots...
278734
*sigh* Once again, I'll link to the Bad Astronomer page debunking the myth that the moon landings were a hoax, mostly for the benefit of mrkit99.\n\nAnd remember, as a rocket scientist I know said, "Of course the moon landings were real! Do you have any idea how much harder it would be to fake them than to actually go there?!?"
467101
Yes man landed on the moon. The flag was not waving in any kind of breeze. The flag had a wire in it so that it appeared to be standing out in a breeze. NASA thought that would look better than a flag simply lying flat against a pole. Really now, if NASA was bright enough to pull off this kind of conspiracy, don't you think they would have had enough sense to make sure a flag didn't move.
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Every bit of that "evidence" has been solidly debunked.  People with absolutely no knowledge of the science they are discussing keep repeating it, but it's wrong.\n\nForgetting all the technical details, just answer why the Russians would go along with the hoax?  Getting to the moon first was a matter of national pride for both countries, and they would certainly have been able to know if our spacecraft left Earth orbit.\n\nI also love the one about how the government framed O.J. Simpson because of his part in "Capricorn One", about a faked mission to Mars.  Seems it took them 16 years to get around to it.\n\nPeople love conspiracy theories, and if there is no reason to *suspect* a conspiracy, they'll create one out of whole cloth.  Note that many of the most vocal people pushing the moon landing theories are selling something; a book, a video.  Their websites offer all kinds of tantalizing clues, but to get the "full story", you need to shell out the bucks.\n\nOh, and before someone points out that Phil Plait of "Bad Astronomy" (2nd link) also sells stuff, yes, he does sell all kinds of BA junk.  But he doesn't require you to buy it to get the information he presents on his website.
852611
YOU ARE RIGHT.\nAmerica is making fool, they never landed on moon, it is all fake story.
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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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Actually I didn't know it but I suspect there was a reason for this.  It is the very same reason that I didn't know that the moon landing was a fake or that Elvis was still alive,,,it didn't happen and isn't true.  \n\nThis is more of the same simple minded conspiracy drivel that has been disproven time and time again but still has some foot hold on the simple minded of the world.\n\nAlmost half of these conspiracy stories have been created by college students to track the publics level of acceptance of idiocy and/or as a prank but but you poor silly chumps keep them flying right and left and go on babbling about "falling into footprint", as if you have any idea of what you are writing.  \n\nGive it a rest or find something else if you wish to be entertaining.  This has run its course.  All the retarded listeners are on board with you and the rest of us know better.  \n\nBegone!
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I admit I have been wondering the same thing myself--espicially after seeing a documentary posing doubts we landed on the moon.  The photographic evidence posed on the show did give me some thought, being I do have experience in professional photography.\n\nThe LEM photos: That thing purportedly landed on the moon, firing retro rockets with enough blast power to burn the moon surface under it to shiny black glass.....yet the area looks undistrubed!  All that violent firepower had to have raised moon dust all over the place.....yet look how shiny and dirt free the LEM landing pads looked.  Espically take note of NO moon dust collected inside the landing foot pods themselves.\n\nThe Apollo mission cameras were state of the art of their time, with perfectly etched "crosses" on the lenses to assist with picture composition.  I still see the astronaut photo where one of those crosses IS BLOCKED OUT by the guy's shoulder--where it should've been OVERLAPPED to appear onto his arm/shoulder!!\n\nThe sun light / angle theory gets complicated.....but it clearly made sense to me....and gave rise to suspicions.  \n\nThe video of a golf ball getting shot out into space was good PR, but take note how the fine moon dust stirred up by the lunar rover merely falls back to the surface....when it should fly off into the air.\n\nThen there's the Van Allen belt explanation: stuff we learned back in fifth grade: a deadly belt of radiation, stretching hundreds of miles between us and the Moon.  You'd have to travel in a ship with walls of at least five feet thick of lead to safely shoot through it....the Apollo space vehicle walls were....what....maybe two inches (if that) thick???  And our guys never cooked like chicken in a microwave???? The Van Allen belt emits enough deadly radiation to singe fry the Apollo capsule electronics in about 2 minutes and cook the astronauts in about another minute past that.  So how did our guys do it?\n\nThe Space Shuttle: purportedly capable of travel to the Moon and back....yet it's NEVER been done.  Why? The thing can carry enough fuel, food / supplies and other life support for such safe travel.  In fact, it was one of the Shuttle program objectives...that got put on the back burner....and not likely due to "budget" or "safety" concerns.\n\nHowever, all this "evidence" is of conjecture; you have to be your own judge on if we faked the Moon landings, until we get a deathbed confession by one of the surviving astronauts to confirm we DID fake the landings.  Until then, it makes for great coffee-cafe debate amongst good friends.
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The key phrase in your question is "some people."\n\nSome of these same people believe the moon landing was a hoax, 9/11 was a government sponsored event, area 51 is where we hide all of the crashed UFOs and on and on......\n\nLooks real to me, too.
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Yes i do. The Moon Landing. I dont think it happened.
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No - (let me guess all you people who think we did will give me a thumbs down !!!!)\n\n- My old pocket calculator has more power than the computers used 'to get to the moon'\n- photographic evidence\n- the camrea evidence\n- if they got there, why did they then just 'stop'\nand not sent many other missions there / set up a research station etc\n\nI do, however, think that they DID get there years later - after all what would happen if a space craft passed over and there was no moom buggy, footprints & flag.\n\nIQ ? HAH !!!! IQ does not measure important things like common sense, creative thinking, social skills etc etc\n(and YES I do know mine - its above average I just choose to dismiss it)
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Well, you are right in one thing!\n\nWE didn´t land on the moon. \nNeil Armstrong did, and the other poor astronaut that for landing second on the moon got to never be remembered.\n\nWhat´s with the WE? \n\nBut getting serious with your question, there are some conspiracy theories about it.\nThey say that the USA knew of the Soviets plans to go the moon, and since we where in the middle of the Cold War, oppinion and image WAS EVERYTHING, so the USA mounted a Fake stage of the moon, launched a rocket and claim to be the first ones in the moon.\n\nThere has never been any evidence of the moon landing not ever taking place.
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Well, if enough idiots start posting this latest conspiracy theory on Yahoo Answers, all the young people who frequent this place will eventually start to believe that World War 2 never happened.\n\nWe've seen this already with the Moon landing "hoax" theory, and 9/11 conspiracy, so I'm sure it's just around the corner for these mental midgets.
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Neil Armstrong is still alive and no, he is not a Muslim. Some wackos made up a story that he heard the Muslim call to prayer when he was on the moon, and that he converted right then and there, and moved to Lebanon when he came back to Earth. It's all fiction.
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I do not believe we have gone to the moon.. \nThe reason for this, purely is that technology back in the 60s-70s was not capable of making it to the moon. \n\nHell even today to go to the moon would be tough.. Sure we could get there, but to land, do the things that they claim they did back then (play golf, place the flag in the ground etc) and then to get back in that tiny little space capsule and make it back all the way to earth with enough air is outrageous. Not to mention all the radiation they would of encountered passing through the asteroid belt. According to NASA I think I read they are going to attempt another man mission to the moon in 2018. Why that long? Because they still have lots of kinks to work out and would not be able to fake it this time.\n\nIf you do a google or yahoo search on this subject you will see countless of articles on why man has not gone to the moon.. Just my two cents.
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I am a big project Apollo fan and have done a lot of reading into this over the years (including the conspiracies). Armstrong has never talked openly about the moonlandings in public and most of what is reported from him has been hearsay. One thing I did read is that he was meant to say 'That's one small step for A man, one giant....'. I read also that the lunar ladder to the surface had to be modified after the landing as it was too short.