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Old 01-19-2005, 05:29 PM   #1
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Moon Landing

Just curious if anyone here believes the moon landing was a hoax. I seem to be having this debate a lot lately and I was curious about what people on this board thought about the subject.

So, moon landing: real or hoax?

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Old 01-19-2005, 05:31 PM   #2
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Haven't we been down this road before. Time for the whackos with their conspiracy theories to come out.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:32 PM   #3
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it was filmed on an air force base in california
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:33 PM   #4
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I don't know if we have or not. I do have a very particular reason for asking the question though. Maybe I should have done a search, but maybe it will be a fun debate to have again. If not, I guess we will see.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:34 PM   #5
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it was filmed on an air force base in california

I heard that it was made to look like an air force base in California. It was actually filmed in the Gobi desert.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:37 PM   #6
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I heard that it was made to look like an air force base in California. It was actually filmed in the Gobi desert.


I heard it was actually filmed on Mars but made to look like it was being made to look like it was being filmed in the Gobi desert while being made to look like it was being filmed at an Air Force base ni California.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:47 PM   #7
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I wonder what the correlation between the intelligent design nutjobs and the moon fake is.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:50 PM   #8
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Im actually wondering about a different correlation. If you are wondering, I believe in intelligent design and believe the moon landing was real.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:55 PM   #9
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I heard it was actually filmed on Mars but made to look like it was being made to look like it was being filmed in the Gobi desert while being made to look like it was being filmed at an Air Force base ni California.

They say that is actually a false version of the story secretly released by the Trilateral Commission to confuse the general public and keep them out of the Gobi where they continue to manipulate the world economy and build a giant laser.
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Old 01-19-2005, 05:57 PM   #10
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I've had a very simple "Idiot Test" for several years. It goes like this

Question 1: Did the Holocaust happen?
Question 2: Did we land on the Moon?

If the person gives an answer of "No" to Question 1 And/Or Question 2, they're an idiot.
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Old 01-19-2005, 06:03 PM   #11
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I cannot believe 5 people out of 24 voted no.
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Old 01-19-2005, 06:20 PM   #12
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I cannot believe 5 people out of 24 voted no.

I am guessing most of those voters were looking for the trout option.
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Old 01-19-2005, 06:35 PM   #13
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Old 01-19-2005, 06:57 PM   #14
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They say that is actually a false version of the story secretly released by the Trilateral Commission to confuse the general public and keep them out of the Gobi where they continue to manipulate the world economy and build a giant laser.
In conjunction with the Rand Corporation under the supvervision of the reverse vampires.
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Old 01-19-2005, 07:00 PM   #15
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Old 01-19-2005, 07:00 PM   #16
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I think I have to go with Sabotai on this one. It's pretty much a no-brainer. I've seen the manifestos of people who don't believe it happened and the number of verifiable facts that prove it happened that they overlook to prove the conspiracy theory is staggering.

Then again, I guess I'm a conspiracy nut job because I'm not convinced that Area 51 was a weather balloon experiment.
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Old 01-19-2005, 07:03 PM   #17
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Old 01-19-2005, 07:13 PM   #18
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Old 01-19-2005, 08:05 PM   #19
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I think I have to go with Sabotai on this one. It's pretty much a no-brainer. I've seen the manifestos of people who don't believe it happened and the number of verifiable facts that prove it happened that they overlook to prove the conspiracy theory is staggering.

Not to mention that their arguments are some of the worst arguments for anything I've ever heard. Just bad logic, false assumptions....it's just so bad. It makes me shake my head. How can people be so stupid?
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:02 PM   #20
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:04 PM   #21
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I dunno I might have to change my vote after reading this site. They seem to have the whole thing pretty well covered. Hoax.
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:29 PM   #22
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I dunno I might have to change my vote after reading this site. They seem to have the whole thing pretty well covered. Hoax.

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:35 PM   #23
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:39 PM   #24
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:49 PM   #25
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Old 01-19-2005, 09:56 PM   #26
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I think that the landings are real. Maybe.
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Old 01-19-2005, 10:29 PM   #27
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The Gobi Desert makes me laugh, since it was located in between the Soviet Union and the PRC at the time (yeah, I know it was a joke--or I think it was ).

I was thinking that in order to get to and out of the Gobi Desert undetected with all the equipment they would need, NASA (or whatever shadow organization would have put it together) would have needed to spend as much as they did on the moon landing.

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Old 01-19-2005, 10:50 PM   #28
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Old 01-19-2005, 10:56 PM   #29
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Actually, I belive that the "Still" pictures were later redone. Using the Astronauts journals they built a set and refilmed everything; the actual Astronauts di not know anything about this. Asking still picture film to go from boiling temps to freezing temps is even hard by todays standards, and then to get the quality that NASA claims in this still pictures is just plain unbelievable.

I believe the live feed because it looks like crap, but NASA's crystal clear pictures I do not believe. I do not blame NASA for "Dramatazing" their pictures, after all without the cool looking still pictures all they would of had for proof they went to the moon would of been a bucket of ordinary looking rocks.
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Old 01-19-2005, 11:00 PM   #30
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What evidence do you have the picture film went from boiling temps to freezing temps?

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Note - this is a common misconception among conspiracy believers.

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Old 01-19-2005, 11:29 PM   #31
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What evidence do you have the picture film went from boiling temps to freezing temps?

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Note - this is a common misconception among conspiracy believers.
This is true. I'm assuming that the astronauts walked from the shade and into the sun on a number of occassions. I don't know why we would assume that the film was subjected to any more extreme temperatures than the astronauts themselves.

Damn near all of the assumptions/assertions on that page are patently ridiculous. I am sorta curious what the, I guess Moon shot believers/defenders, say about one of the photos with the shadows going in different directions. It certainly looks wrong to me, and I really can't come up with a reasonable explanation for it; other than well perhaps some of the indivisual photo was retouched.

Well that and when Tommy Lee Jones dies on the surface of the moon in Space Cowboys, he clearly looks up and sees stars. Since there are no stars visible in the Lunar Surface pics, they are clearly faked.

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Old 01-19-2005, 11:44 PM   #32
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Damn near all of the assumptions/assertions on that page are patently ridiculous. I am sorta curious what the, I guess Moon shot believers/defenders, say about the photos with the shadows going in different directions. That certainly looks wrong to me, and I really can't come up with a reasonable explanation for some of the shots; other than well perhaps some of the indivisual photos were retouched.

If you really want to know about this, here's a link:

hxxp://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#parallel
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Old 01-20-2005, 08:31 AM   #34
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Maybe a Mars Landing could bail out Social Security!
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Old 01-20-2005, 09:34 AM   #36
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Well first of all the missions were scheduled for lunar morning when the temperatures were moderate. Second of all don't forget there is a difference between temperature of the lunar SURFACE and things that are not the lunar surface. Heat transfer is certainly not efficient when there is no medium to transfer heat (atmosphere).

As for the pictures, do you really think you would see stars in a photograph from the surface of the moon? Why do you think that? Because you saw it in a movie? The stars are far too faint to show up on the film using the exposure settings used by the astronaut for the BRIGHT lunar surface. If you take a camera tonight and take a picture of the night sky using these same settings on earth, you will not see stars in the picture.

As for the shadows goind different directions that is easily explained by surface angle. See this photo from earth for an example of shadows going in different directions http://www.clavius.org/shad15.html

You see, there really is nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing to the hoax theory. Everything that is brought up is either extremely poorly reasoned, factually inaccurate, or based on false assumptions. Please, people, for the love of pete, stop believing this nonsense. I'm losing hair over this.
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Old 01-20-2005, 10:10 AM   #37
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I believe that the moon landings have happened. I have heard that there were peole who were in the sound stage when the landings were taped. There was a debate on the george noory show a while back about the landings. Usually happen 2x yearly.
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Speaking of Mars whatever happened to the planned Mars Missions?
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Old 01-20-2005, 10:13 AM   #39
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I'm the key figure in an ongoing government charade, a plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman and child on this planet....So of course no one believes me. I'm a..I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers, they call me 'Spooky', Spooky Ardent, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid. And who now chases little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens and to anyone who'll listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling, and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time.

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Old 01-20-2005, 03:47 PM   #42
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Actually I had pretty well been able to dismiss all of the photo problems except one, and I haven't seen it specifically debunked as of yet. I'm sure the explanation is just as sensible as the more obvious one's, I just didn't find it.

This is the pic.


I'm just not seeing how a slope, even if it is more severe than it looks could effect the shadow of the flag in that manner. I'm sort of wondering this this isn't some sort of panoramic lens issue.

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Actually I had pretty well been able to dismiss all of the photo problems except one, and I haven't seen it specifically debunked as of yet. I'm sure the explanation is just as sensible as the more obvious one's, I just didn't find it.

This is the pic.


I'm just not seeing how a slope, even if it is more severe than it looks could effect the shadow of the flag in that manner. I'm sort of wondering this this isn't some sort of panoramic lens issue.


The hand puppet in the lower right hand corner makes it so obvious that this was a fake.
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At first glance I would say that the panoramic view contributes to any uncomfortableness you feel about shadow angles.
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This link should help, too.
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I can resolve the discrepancy between the LEM's shadow, and the photographer's. I can also resolve the flag's shadow with that of the photographer's. I just have trouble with the three shadows together. The slope to the right doesn't seem steep enough to cause such a difference.

I'm not saying that that I buy into this stuff in any way at all, I'm just saying that I'm not 100% happy with the explanation of perspective to resolve the shadows above. I'm sure the explanation exists, and perhaps it really is just perspective.
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It's a combination of perspective and panorama. The specific location of the photographer's shadow further proves this point. The flag is to his right and the LEM is to his left.
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It's a combination of perspective and panorama. The specific location of the photographer's shadow further proves this point. The flag is to his right and the LEM is to his left.
I just came back here and looked again at that picture, and ...

When I noted where the camera was actually pointed, and forced myself to realize that the shadow of the "photographer"(Thank You Huckleberry) was not the direction of the photo. It is an optical illusion of sorts, that draws the eyes to that area of the photo. I believe that the three shadows actually perfectly coorespond to a light source behind the photographer and to his left. All I had to do was realize that the shadow of the photographer was incidental so to speak.

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