Apollo moon landing: a hoax or a reality? A growing number of people are beginning to believe it...
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As Time Stretches Between the Present and the Last Apollo Moon Landing, More People Are Beginning to Think it a Hoax
NASA may have given the conspiracy theorists that believe the Apollo moon landings are a hoax a little more ammunition. Believing that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes is nothing new, but NASA has now admitted that they do not have the original footage of the first lunar landing. They believe they may have actually taped over the original film and now have asked Hollywood effects specialists to restore footage from four source tapes gathered from around the world.It doesn't take but a handful of people gathered talking about the Apollo moon landing to find at least one person who believes it was all a hoax. The Apollo moon missions landed six lunar modules on the moon between 1969 and 1972. But, according to a Gallup poll taken in 1999, 6% of Americans believed that the Apollo landings were "staged," a public relations stunt set up by the American government to make the Soviet Union, who was also engaged in the space race, look bad in the eyes of the world.
According to CNN, that number may be increasing. A recent poll in the British magazine Engineering & Technology reported that 25% of the respondents did not believe that a human had ever set foot on the moon.
A documentary, "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?," shown on Fox Television in 2001 attempted to prove that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax, showing many of the supposed inconsistencies in the visuals shown from the lunar landings. The American flag moves in one scene (no wind on the moon), intersecting shadows (suggestive that another light source is present), and no blast craters (propulsion should have left craters) are all used as "evidence." Many believe the enter production was filmed in a huge warehouse in the secret government facility Area 51. And all the supposed lunar rock specimens brought back are actually pristine meteorites from Antarctica.
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You're right, people will believe what they want to believe but one thing I've noticed is that the majority (not all) of conspiracy theorists would have failed Astro Physics Level 0. Most arguments are reused ( in a broken telephone manner ), inaccurate, and are made by people who can't even ( in layman's terms ) describe the mechanics of the first lunar module let alone the mission and what made it possible. It's difficult to argue with people like that. Belief over Fact. It's a shame in the sense that simple ignorance trivializes the work, dedication and even the lives lost over NASA's Space missions.
I don't think I know anyone who thinks it is a hoax, but it's not a commonly-discussed subject in my circles. That movie Capricorn One really screwed with a lot pf peoples' minds, didn't it?
The military has never wanted for funding, Lori. Not since the before the Civil War, when the military-industrial complex was just beginning. Private enterprise and government funding have gone hand-in-hand for quite some time. We really didn't receive the red flag warning about its Leviathan manchinations until Eisenhower left office, but its been there. Because war is profitable, but only certain people profit.
One last note: NASA also needed funds during that time too. To create a space mission would be a great way to scrap up some government cash. Remember, these moments surround a time when the military was receiving funds for testing, but when someone tossed restrictions, the military operation turned into a cancer institute to continue to receive funds...just something to think about.
LOL, I remember watching the studio where they placed everything at a certain spot to review the possibilities. What struck me as something to consider would be the flag shadows and the technology that was "used" in Apollo but really hasn't been mastered yet on Earth. But then again, it would be hard for me to believe it never happened. Thanks Saul, quite a cup of coffee today!
Drama, drama, drama, Carol. Easy to script a space melodrama, where all the action is being conveyed over a radio frequency. I don't even think the conspiracy theorists bother with it because it adds nothing to their argument.
One comment I read elsewhere on this subject that I found persuasive was that if as some contend, the government faked all the Apollo missions, how do you explain Apollo 13?
And that, my dear friend, is where the disconnect originates -- a lack of critical thinking engendered by ignorance and the misinterpretation of what they most desperately think they do know... By the way, I think Elvis shot JFK, and that Marilyn Monroe was on the Grassy Knoll. Jack Ruby was sent by the Bilderberg Group so that their fall guy, Lee Harvey Oswald, wouldn't sing...
The continuation of this discussion is a serious (albeit comic) indictment of the notion of democracy and, more than likely, the internet. Who gives a sh*t if any tape has been lost. At the time of Armstrong's landing, there were approximately 50,000 NASA employees who had worked on the Apollo project that first landed on the moon with humans aboard (as Casey Stengel would say, you could look it up - BUT NOT ON THE INTERNET). Those who doubt the moon landing are positing a conspiracy of 50,000 who never broke the silence. Think about it.
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