Actually I DO remember now. It was actually before the landings took place when they first published those pictures of the earth taken from space. The Flat Earth Society claimed they were fake.
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Did Man ever land on the moon?
- Thread starter porkypie
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GOM
living vicariously
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
If they had faked it - why stop at the moon ? Shirley we would have landed on Uranus by now.
footychick
Nicola
A flag cannot flap in a vacuum.
BUSTED
The Build Team placed a replica of the American flag planted on the moon into a vacuum chamber at the Marshall Space Flight Center. They first tested at normal pressure and manipulated the flag. The momentum moved the flag around but the motion quickly dissipated. In vacuum conditions, manipulating the flag caused it to flap vigorously as if it were being blown by a breeze. This demonstrated that a flag could appear to wave in a vacuum, as the Apollo flag did.
Ah, bless.
And by the way, we only have one sun, so shadows can't...er, go in two directions!!!
Unless you have studio lights of course.
But they wouldn't do that, would they
nwgull
Well-known member
I think that the people who believe the moon landings were faked are the same as those nutters that believe that the 911 attacks were co-ordinated by the US government in order to give an excuse to have another pop at Iraq and the Afgan regime at the time.
It astounds me that people like to believe this sort of crap, do they really think that with all the manpower required to co-ordinate such an elaborate hoax and disaster, that not one person would blow the whistle given all the lives that were lost on that day?!!
It astounds me that people like to believe this sort of crap, do they really think that with all the manpower required to co-ordinate such an elaborate hoax and disaster, that not one person would blow the whistle given all the lives that were lost on that day?!!
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
And by the way, we only have one sun, so shadows can't...er, go in two directions!!!
Unless you have studio lights of course.
But they wouldn't do that, would they
As many others have pointed out, the Russians or the Chinese would have outed it immediately if they had any evidence it wasn't real.
There is a great comment on that website as well.
Rowdy Blokland says:
Geezz.
The ENTIRE Mythbusters series MUST have been set up and sponsored by NASA from the beginning, just to let this episode ‘sneak in’!!!
It’s alss so chrystal clear to me, all of a sudden.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Of course they can. A bright light - e.g. the sun - hitting a reflective surface - the lunar lander, the surface of the moon, etc.. - will cause some of the light to be reflected back in another direction, causing shadows in two directions.
I can recreate this effect in my back garden on any sunny day when the sun hits my living room window...
Cheeky Monkey
Well-known member
- Jul 17, 2003
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"Si vous le crois, ils met un homme sur la lune, homme sur la lune"
Michael Stipe wasn't wrong pop pickers!!!
Michael Stipe wasn't wrong pop pickers!!!
Arthritic Toe
Well-known member
It is the best conspiracy theory out there and it would be brilliant if it were true. However the vast weight of evidence supports the moon landings being true. 1 point - I dont think there yet exists any telescope on earth that is able to see the flag or any other evidence.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
You have to bear in mind where most of these conspiracy theories arise from, the same place where a significant portion of people doubt evolution despite overwhelming evidence from the fossil record, and think that the Earth is only a few thousand years old despite the fact that it demonstrably isn't.
But HOW though? Forget the pictures, let's assume that for whatever reason all the pictures taken on the moon didn't come out (the chemist lost NASA's film or something) and therefore to save face they faked them all in a studio - and then killed everybody involved so no one would ever spill the beans.
How did they fake everything else? Especially the radio and TV signals being broadcast back to Houston from the module and the lander? And why do it again a further five times? (Thank you Trufflehound)
I am genuinely interested as I think that would be a FAR bigger story than blasting three men into space bolted onto the nose of a glorified old German V2 rocket.
Huple
Unregistered
THEY are all in it together. There are things going on that THEY wont admit to. Like my neighbour up the road who once told me that HE had been abducted by aliens after a night drinking scrumpy in the WEST COUNTRY and was laughed at when he reported it to the AUTHORITIES.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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so are you going to present the case for no moon landing?
the shadows thing has already been put to bed above. there is a great website where all the camera issues are explained, with use of lego men and other toys.
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
I've got to say that my favourite conspiracy theory is http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/. The way that the (admittedly few) members stick to their completely looney ideas in the face of an absolute barrage of evidence is hilariously brilliant.
And by the way, we only have one sun, so shadows can't...er, go in two directions!!!
Unless you have studio lights of course.
But they wouldn't do that, would they
What like this on the earth with two shadows going in the differing directions (the bush and the hiker btw), so where is the false lighting here then?
Scoffers
Well-known member
Hold on everyone, I can resolve this once and for all. I'll pop up there now and see if I can find the flag and stuff. I'll report back here with pictures. Hold on, thanks.