Was the landing on the moon a fake?

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Originally Posted by trish

The surface of the Moon is roughly 376000 kilometers from the surface of the Earth at their closest points. Two points on the surface of the Moon one yard apart from each other would subtend an angle of 1yard/376000km =0 .00000000243 radians = 0.0000000696 degrees = 0.00025 seconds of arc. The Lunar Lander itself might subtend angle of one order of magnitude higher, say 0.0025 seconds of arc. So what is the resolution of our best telescopes? The Hubble has a resolution of about 0.1 seconds of arc. Even given it’s slightly closer proximity to the Moon, even Hubble wouldn’t be able to confirm the presence of the Lunar Lander, let alone the flag. Future missions to the Moon, which a currently under preparation may be able to observe it from lunar orbit.

But let's suppose we could build a telescope with the resolving power to confirm the presence of the Lunar Lander on the Moon. I don't think it would resolve the issue. The conspiracy theorists will just take the same position the Catholic bishops took against Galileo, namely they will claim the telescope was designed to decieve.

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Thank you,Trish. Thank you thank you thank you.

You know where we're going next, don't you?

Not sure if this has already gone up, it's only tangentially related to the topic, but I think it's funny.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/youtube.png

This topic is simply silly.

The people who promote these views are just looking for their 15 minutes, money or both. The simple fact that a credible independent news source (e.g. The New York Times, CBS News, anything on PBS, etc.) hasn't broken this "story" in 40 years is reason enough to disprove it. It would literally be the story of the century! If it were out there, they would have found and published it.

There have been a total of six successful, manned lunar landings by the US spanning from July 1969 through December 1972. In addition, there have been twelve unmanned landings by the US (eight), the Soviet Union (three) and India.

As far as the comparison's between the complexity of lunar landings and terrestrial landing on Mars, there really is no comparison. Mars has a thin atmosphere which complicates things enormously (e.g. friction, wind) and a gravitational pull of roughly twice our moon (or 38% of Earth's).

P.S. The reason the flag is "waving" is due to Newton's First Law of Physics i.e. The Law of Inertia.

Since I saw this thread continuing to get bumped up I decided to read the entire thing. Entertaining stuff! Conspiracy theorists are always good for a laugh or two.

Another thing that makes no sense to me is why would we spent all that money to fake a moon landing? Just to have bragging rights? Even though I don't agree with the JFK assassination and 9/ll conspiracy nuts, at least there's plausible reasons for certain groups to pull off those acts.

Then there's the dueling wikipedia page about independent evidence of Apollo Moon landings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indepen..._Moon_landings

which, of course, by the nature of Wikipedia, could also be an elaborate hoax. :)

"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he did not exist" I don't buy into conspiracy theories, but I don't ignore facts. If the facts outweigh the opinions than....... u know the rest

More grist for the mill: http://www.geschichteinchronologie.c...ions-ENGL.html

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Originally Posted by thx1138

More grist for the mill: http://www.geschichteinchronologie.c...ions-ENGL.html

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lol, like i said before, im not ready to conclude it was an all out hoax, but Im simply saying im not ignoring all of this shotty information

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"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he did not exist"

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Doesn't this example kind of defeat your point. There is no devil.