Do you believe we never went to the moon?

officerripley said:
Actually, back in the early 70s, I met a gal who'd lived in South America (forget which country) for a time because her dad was with the U.S. embassy staff in that country and she said that among the citizens who lived there, including very-educated ones, there were a lot who expressed disbelief of the moon landing. She said they said stuff like, "Oh, the Americans! You can't believe anything they come up with!"
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Americans. So sexy it's unreal.
 

Remy said:
My mother was convinced they never went to the moon. And in that house, if the crazy said it didn't happen, you'd better say the same.

Remember that movie Capricorn One? OJ's in it.

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Yes! I remember seeing it. Had a hard time believing that the government would actually be willing to kill the astronauts in order to cover things up. Now I wouldn't doubt it.
 
That some intelligent people in this era actually still doubt we walked on the Moon in 1969 reflects how some people may get sucked into a range of conspiracy theory nonsense and admit such in public without even bothering to make any further efforts on the Internet to research whatever. Other non-science, low educated persons who tend to believe conspiracy theories are often just too science ignorant with illogical thinking processes long baked into their brains from their own life long poor choices, to be able to separate reality from fiction and manipulation. There are whole money oriented media industries that target such people like with UFO book and magazine publishers. And of course is worst regarding politics.

https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/moon/how-do-we-know-we-went-to-the-moon
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...If this is not enough to convince the most-hardened skeptic, Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) might sway them. Today, LRO takes high resolution pictures of the lunar surface from a low orbit. During its mission, it has captured the landing sites and the abandoned descent modules and rovers from the Apollo missions. And its resolution is so good it has picked up the dark squiggly paths that the astronaut’s footprints made. Spacecraft from China, India and Japan have also spotted these landing sites, providing further independent verification of the landings.

A final nail in the coffin of the Moon hoax theories is a simple instrument installed 50 years ago by Apollo 11. During their day on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin planted a lunar laser ranging retroreflector array on the surface. It’s still operational today, and allows us to reflect lasers off of it and measure the distance to the Moon down to the centimeter. We simply couldn’t do this if we hadn’t visited the Moon...
 

I'll add that my father at that time, worked as a rep for the Connecticut company that built the large rectangular white backpack astronauts used. Post flight, he would fly down to Houston to recover the backpacks that always contained some lunar dust he vacuumed up. Personally knew at acquaintance levels, some of the astronauts. And yes mr dave does possess small amounts of that Moon dust.
 
Yes, I believe we went to the Moon. Mostly because we actually went to the Moon.

People who believe otherwise tend to also believe in a Flat Earth, and other nonsense. So yeah.
 
Don M. said:
Do you also think that the Earth is Flat???
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No, neither does my former doubt in the moon landing justify thinking me capable of believing the obvious absurdity that the Earth is flat. You see, the two beliefs are not comparable. So you are erroneously basing your assumption of my gullibility on a false analogy. However, and in very stark contrast, I would be totally justified in suspecting a person who claims that water meticulously coded DNA as capable of believing the flat-Earth absurdity since believing that water magically codes DNA would justify such an assumption.
 
Of course it's real. The scientists at Parkes, NSW would have said so f it weren't.

The Dish - Wikipedia​


  • The Dish is a 2000 Australian historical comedy-drama film that tells the story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of humanity's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
 
chic said:
I've heard this conspiracy theory but it's one I'm not sold on it. I do wear the tin foil hat re: JFK and RFK and Covid 19 but I just don't buy that this whole moon race / moon landing was faked.


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Does the tin foil hat help?
 
Radrook said:
Does the tin foil hat help?
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Of course. This is a special one. :ROFLMAO:

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Well, my mother used to work for Neil Armstrong @ the University of Cincinnati.

When he came to work there , she and all others were warned not to mention the moon or Apollo 11 to him. She said, they [her bosses] never explained why, and when it was asked of them the question was just ignored. Later it was explained to her that he just didn't like to discuss it ?? As such she never asked him about it.

I picked her up @ the office one time, she said I'll introduce you too him when he comes through , but do not mention the moon, or any of that ........ OK

She did introduce me, he was a very polite man and had all nice things to say about my mother.

While I do think the lunar landing happened , I do not / did not, understand his silence about it ?
 
rgp said:
Well, my mother used to work for Neil Armstrong @ the University of Cincinnati.

When he came to work there , she and all others were warned not to mention the moon or Apollo 11 to him. She said, they [her bosses] never explained why, and when it was asked of them the question was just ignored. Later it was explained to her that he just didn't like to discuss it ?? As such she never asked him about it.

I picked her up @ the office one time, she said I'll introduce you too him when he comes through , but do not mention the moon, or any of that ........ OK

She did introduce me, he was a very polite man and had all nice things to say about my mother.

While I do think the lunar landing happened , I do not / did not, understand his silence about it ?
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An understandable reaction. He was probably sick and tired of being asked this that and the other thing about the moon by everyone he met.

And BTW …

Moon landing conspiracy theories aren't true - here's how we know​

 
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David777 said:
Some public figures weary of having to constantly answer the same nauseating simple questions that anyone with a web computer search can otherwise find with details.
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Perhaps but ...... there was no internet back then . This was in the middle 70's.

But I do get your point.
 

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