Moon landing - Fact or fake?

[Finn]

Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15.

Not to mention a half empty bottle of Speights. Yes, even after 5 days in space without a beer, a desperate Mr Armstrong found the "Pride of the South" beverage completely intolerable.

[Mental Trousers]

Good old fake moon landing theories eh. Such a pleasant way to giggle away the hours. How people can talk themselves into believing that crap is beyond me. Apparently it's ok to ignore the fact all of those so called experts were discredited after they claimed the landings were fakes.
I would say that if anything has been faked it's the number of landings, ie they made more than has been revealed and there's a secret US military base on the dark side of the moon!!!!! (kidding)

[SimJen]

Nasa are now talking of a habitable moon base by 2020 according to current news reports!
We'll send all the conspiracy loons, to the moon! and they can see for themselves.

[Disco Dan]

I think that NASA have indeed been to the moon, however NASA did not want the public to see what is really there and created the fake footage.

[Disco Dan]

Hey Dan - Feb next year I have a couple of friends coming down to NZ... one female (single...!) who works for, none other than NASA (by that way that's all caps).

Take it up with her. She'll be sure to have an entertaining "chat" about it with you.

I did not this NZ had a runway long enough for a space shuttle landing?

[jrandom]

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Such as "why are no stars ever seen in photographs of the men on the moons surface"
basic photography 101! the camera meters the scene for correct exposure and the less bright stars will get lost as it meters for the bright foreground!

I have always like this one too... yes basic photography 101! I also like how the keep saying why is it all the photos that were taken are perfect contrast and in focus and aligned when the cameras were mounted on the suit etc...

There were over 6000 photo's taken there are only about 10% that made it to the paste the cutting room floor like hello

the angles of the shadows... again basic photography 101!

The moon dust not floating away on from the rover... basic science 101. Dust floats on oxygen... there is no oxygen for it to float on therefore the gravity of the moon pulls it back down quicker...

No dust on the landing gear. first off it would have been blown away from the retro rockets firing, and fine particles were even most likely vapourised and as for not sticking to the gear... come on... sandpit science... go to a sand pit pick up a handfull of dry sand... go to wall, throw at wall... does sand stick to wall.... ummm noooo... go back to sand pit add water... walk back to wall throw damp sand at wall, does sand stick... is there mositure on the moon...

Flag pole, no atmosphere to make flag flutter, and no atmosphere to stop flag from fluttering. When the astronaught put the pole in the ground they commented on that the first few inches was soft dust and then it was solid hard and struggled to push the pole in... the pole was a light aluminum pole that has some spring to it, this caused the flutter, since the moon has no atmosphere there was nothing to stop the the spring action of the pole and or fluttering action of the flag... basic science 101.

The launch... well the conspiracy theorists say the rockets wouldn't be powerfull enough to relauch... crap... th emoons gravity is 1/6 of Earth and therefore needing a less powerful rocket and a lot shorter burst.

The landing. On Eath they struggled landing in the test modual built for the pilots to practise on, this is well know... we only get to see the footage of the crashes and mishaps not the hundreds of successful flights... with the added gravity (1g) of the modual needed alot more correcting to stay stable, this resulted in alot of over correcting. In the zero g of space it was alot easier to control, as was it on the 1/6g of the moons gravity during the landing as well as the fine tuning of the controls and gear.

Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15. Today, anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system may bounce laser beams off of these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo moon landing sites.

And I always like the doco that showed this, and not once have the conspiracy theorists asked about this...they seem to stere clear of it

[007XX]

WOW...that is comical, in an absurd kind of way!

Where is that gene-o-clean bottle???

[jrandom]

WOW...that is comical, in an absurd kind of way!

[007XX]

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[imdying]

I did not this NZ had a runway long enough for a space shuttle landing?

Yep, Christchurch does, it was one of the reasons why they extended it iirc.

[idb]

I think that NASA have indeed been to the moon, however NASA did not want the public to see what is really there and created the fake footage.

NASA had been working on the assumption that the moon was made from green cheese...as everyone knew.
Unfortunately, when they got there they found that it was in fact made out of butter, a completely different type of dairy product and one for which their craft and instruments were completely unsuited.
They were unable to land safely and had to turn around and come home again.
Of course this would have upset their sponsors and caused much merriment from behind the Iron Curtain so they had to do something fast.

The decision was made to fake a landing but there was no way that they could get hold of enough butter in time so the idea of claiming that the moon was in fact made out of rocks and sand was hit upon...this was much easier to get a hold of without causing suspicion.
After the first deception the lie had to be continued and so subsequent "moon landings" were also staged.

Of course this will all unravel if an independent company finally gets to the moon and finds out for themselves what's really there.
This explains the real purpose of the U.S. military space programme which is to create a cordon about the earth to stop anyone else getting off to look for themselves..." sorry about blasting your little rocket ship to smithereens fellas, we had a malfunction and our geosynchronously positioned laser thingamebob accidentally identified it as an ICBM, we'll have it sorted in time for your next go...".
It won't take too many incidents like that before the private crowd runs out of money.

This has all been confirmed by anonymous insiders with beards and lab coats.

[-df-]

I can't seem to play the video...have you embedded it correctly?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

NASA had been working on the assumption that the moon was made from green cheese...as everyone knew.
Unfortunately, when they got there they found that it was in fact made out of butter, a completely different type of dairy product and one for which their craft and instruments were completely unsuited...

Butter... I thought it was cream cheese from when the cow jumped over the moon... and smacked into the flying pig that landed on the white elephant...

[007XX]

Butter... I thought it was cream cheese from when the cow jumped over the moon... and smacked into the flying pig that landed on the white elephant...

Personally, I'm still worried about the giant bunny that's supposed to live there...