why do many people belive that the moon landing was shot in a studio?
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many reasons, the prop rock C.  in one of the pictures, you can clearly see the letter C on one of the fake rocks.  another is if you take the film up they used in the moon landing, you would need a 2 foot thick led box to protect the film from the magnetic forces in the atmosphere.  they didn't even know about this, but in the ninety's they sent up a probe to get pictures, and when they got them back, there was nothing on it, becuase the magnetic forces in the atmosphere erased them.  they never landed on the moon.\n\nalso, the week that they were suppose to be up there, the sun sent out a solar flare that would have cooked the astronauts in one hour.  solar radiation.  how could have the astronauts be out in the elements of the moon with only that space suit.  dust flies through space so fast, it would have went right through their suits, through them, and then back through the suits without even slowing down.  if they really did land on the moon, there would be three dead astronauts and a space shuttle still on the moon.\n\noh, yeah, and they didn't shoot it in a stuidio, they shot it in the desert.  if you shoot it at a level angle, the stars will not show up on the film.
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you know in the 50´s or so Orson Welles did a radio show about the martians landing ,and every body believed that as well.just goes to show how gullable the Americans are,\n\nHas any one from the government or nasa come forward and attacked the allegations that the moon landing was false.\nno they havent so that tells you already.\n\nWe had a visitor from Nasa here last week where i am and he also thought that it was a big joke.\n\nI mean the flag was waving where there is no wind,no stars where there should have been millions,no flying dust or a crater beneath the rocket where the dust is supposed to be 1 metre deep\ntin tin was more realistic ,but it was still a good movie
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Several people have written books trying to disprove our landing on the moon.  I have not actually researched this, but for one thing, supposedly there is no dust on the moon like the ton of dust our astraunats walked through that day.  The photos have been disputed as made up and I believe our corupt government is capable of pulling this off.....)(
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Supposedly it's true, there were visitors around the ships, I think that they (Astronauts) refered to them as "Space bugs", they were (and are) seen floating around the ship on several occassions, NASA is well aware of them, they show up on just about every launch, supposedly harmless, but still a life form of some sort. One school of thought is that the reason the moon shots were cancelled was because, NASA had found evidence that now, or at one time the moon was being used as an observation post for another life form that was studying Human behavior on Earth.... Perhaps they got sick, after seeing how we treat each other, and left ! Pretty interesting stuff, Huh ?
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we never went there in the first place it was a hoax to show the world that the USA was Superior to the USSR . they cant do a hoax  now because the technology the public have is to good . if we did go and it was possible to resist the radiation on the moon we would have company's sending people there all the time look at all the money they would make . where there is money there is a will . but if it is not possible then no one will try.
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no...they didnt land on the moon at all and lot of evidence points that the moon landings were faked\n1,,to reach moon the astonauts had to pass beyond the van allen belt.which is a protective barrier of charged particles cosmic rays etc..beyond which they wud b exposed to intense harmful cosmic rays...thir aircraft apollo 11 had only a thin lining of lead for protection which is not at all sufficient...so it is suggested dat apollo 11 just cirled up before reachuing the van allen belt\n2,,moreover the photographic film wud hav been clearly damaged while passing thru the belt as it does it if its passeed thru an ordinary xray machine\n3,,the camera that the astros used i.e. hasselblad wree old fashioned and changing their photographic plates is a very tricky process requiring handling of delicate plates n nimble fingers...this task was impossible 4 the astros as they wore thick rubber gloves\n4,,one of their pics shows the terrain behind aldrin fading away into the horizon while there is no atmosphere on moon to cause such an effect\n4,,more over in one of the pics some suspiciuos equipments reflection can be seen on aldrins visor..it can cl4early be seen againt the darkness of the horizonwhere one might expectto glimpse a piece of film equipment if it had been shot in a film studio\n5,,moreover the absence of stars in the pics,lack of scortch marksand a crater under the lunar module which wud hav been formed by its landing are suspiciously missing\n\nhence too much to prove that the landings were faked
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yeah men, pointing itself, no dust over the legs on landing, no proves at all, and we already know that with the tecnology of the 60 it will be a surprise if they could be able just to hit the moon with the rocket, actually, many years later still Nasa was proving materials to suport speed over MATCH, and plus the space clothes...for God sake...really...the most expensive and bad movie ever...
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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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The shutter exposure time is too fast. On the moon, the sun was up, and the astronaut suits were white. It was really really bright, so they changed the exposure time. Ask any professional photographer.\n\nOh, and to the first answerer, bull s***.
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Although my wife's father did performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech.  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\nI would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn 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 have neither the resources nor the 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?  The Soviet Union and East Germany had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions.  Don't you think they would have called is out if they have evidence that it was all fake?  \n\nPerhaps the most definitive proof of our trips to the moon is what we left behind.  For the last 30+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times.  How are they doing this?  Because the beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon in 3 different locations on 3 different trips.\n\nCase closed.
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On July 20 ( July 21 GMT ) 1969 the first man stepped on the moon. During the next 3 years 6 missions to the moon was made and a total of 12 astronauts walked on the moon. One of the missions Apollo 13 failed and they had to return.\n\nDuring these missions thousands of images were taken, most of them with the Hasselblad EDC. A special version of the Hasselblad 500 EL. Many of these images are famous, like the one from Apollo 11 showing Buzz Aldrin with Neil Armstrong reflected in the glass of his helmet. (It is available in super resolution from the panorama).\n\nLess known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with todays computer technics can be stitched together into 360o interactive panoramas giving you the possibillity to view the moon almost as you were there.\nMany of these panoramas have been published before but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes.\n\nDuring the last year the original films have been rescanned in large resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary. I can now present you for the first time the Moon in interactive 360 degree fullscreen Quicktime VR.\n\n3 panoramas are now available and I will follow up with panoramas from all the missions\n Stitching these images to make 360 degree panoramas is a difficult task as the astronauts did not know anything about interactive panoramas and the stitching methods which would come 25 years later.\n\nBookmark this page and return to see the rest of the panoramas.\n\n\nAnd while you wait for them - there are many other panoramas at panoramas.dk - Mt Everest, Mars, Eiffel Tower, New Year at Times Square, Niagara Falls and more than 150 others.\n\nToday we are sending space ships to Mars (view panoramas) and to Titan but still there are young educated people out there who believes in conspiration theories that claims we never been on the Moon. Please, Please Use your brain.\n\nGo to the frontpage for the last fullscreen of the week.
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I'm not sure. I believe it is real though. Wish I had some solid proof to back it up. Perhaps we wont know for sure untill civilians are able to land freely on the moon and see for themselves. Until that happens fully, we just have to rely on faith.
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There are 6 flags there, one for each of the Apollo landings. But no, the Moon is too far away for even the largest telescope to see something so small. Lots of objects were left on the Moon by the Apollo landings, the largest being the LM decent stage. But as others have pointed out, there were special reflectors left that will bounce any light you shine on them back in exactly the same direction it came from. If a sufficiently bright laser is aimed toward the places where the landings occurred, you can see a bright spot where the reflectors are. You need a big telescope and powerful laser though, I never heard of an amateur doing it.
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There are a lot of reasons that the moon landings were not hoaxes:\n\n1. We have a lot of photographic and video evidence. \n2. We have many pounds of unique rocks from the lunar surface\n3. We left a corner cube reflector on the surface of the moon to reflect laser light (for measuring distance to the moon) that is still there and still being used.\n4. There would have to be a uniquely successful coverup, given the thousands and thousands of people involved\n5. All of the reasons that people quote to support a hoax theory have been addressed conclusively\n\nFor all these reasons, and many more, there is very little chance that the moon landing was a hoax.
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Phil Plait's website http://www.badastronomy.com as mentioned by others has gobs of info, but really the "moon hoax" junk really started in earnest in about 1978, coinciding with the release of a movie who's plot was about how NASA must fake a manned Mars mission.  The film, "Capricorn 1" was released in 1978.\n\nAlso, if you are actually doing a report on the 60's and the moon landing, you probably want to steer clear of the "conspiracy," as it really is quackery of the highest caliber.
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I wonder how many people out there are too lazy to do some real research and read the scientific facts proving that man has landed on and partially explored the Moon. Here's a good place to start: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html  On this website each and every "fact" claiming that the Moon landings were all faked are ripped to shreds.\n\nMy favorite "fact" is about the 'waving' flag on the airless Moon. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand how the flag can be made to appear to be waving. Duh!\n\nNobody from the Faked Moon Landing bunch has ever answered my question about several hundred pounds of rock and soil brought back that research groups AROUND THE WORLD unanimously agreed was non-terrestrial.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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Peoples opinions are just opinions, neither right nor wrong until proved either right or wrong.\n\nPeople say that Neil Armstrong went to the moon, others say he didn't and that the video footage was a hoax.\n\nUntil this is proved, people can think what they like. But then you do have other factors controlling people's views: Propaganda, brainwashing. If someone states their opinion, a lot of people will jump in like headless chicken and follow the crowds\n\nIn the middle ages people believed that the world was flat. With proof everyone now knows the world is a sphere.\n\nAre space aliens really demons? Maybe, maybe not. Until we can actually find one and ask him "hey alien, are you a demon?", we can never find out...