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Originally posted by combine_hunter:
I remember reading something about the dark side of the moon. So I have doubts there. But as to the landing itself, I think that was on the level. Unless someone has proof otherwise, of course.

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Haha

There's lots of stuff that really doesn't ring true - far too much to all be a coincidence as far as I'm concerned.

I'll go through it as best I can if you want?

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• To win the Space Race that the old Cold War buddies, Russia had been leading from the start.

• To display (lie about) America's technical expertise in a safe without the possibility of a botched moon landing or re-entry.

• To take people's minds off of Vietnam.

• To make-believe that the estimated $30 billion dollars that went into the fund was not wasted - some say it could have been used to pay everyone off...I'd kind of lean more towards all but an incredibly small number of people actually knew it was never going to take off. Everyone else just built to spec.

• A faking guarantees success. If they crashed and burned...it was on live television for the world to see. Big humiliation.

• Kennedy made some bullshit promise about doing it before the turn of the decade in '61 for some reason...the pressure was on and a failed take-off/landing would have lowered popular opinion of him.

• Multiple light sources (such as those seen on a ghetto 60's sound stage) which cast the shadows in numerously different directions.

• The good quality of lighting despite the lack of stars (shouldn't there be stars visible on the moon? And if there's some scientific explanation as to why you couldn't see them despite no atmospheric conditions such as clouds, why is the quality of lighting so good?)

• There's a picture where the + thing (I forget the name) is obscured by a rock and an astronaut's arm in two separate photos (clearly pointing towards photo editing).

• The flag waving as the guy puts it in...there's no atmosphere and therefore no wind on the moon.

• The fact that if you double the speed of the astronauts jumping about and driving around on their buggy, it looks as it would on earth - some retard jumping around in a heavy suit.

• The absence of shadows in some pictures, despite knowing the location of the sun in reference to the picture. Again pointing towards photo editing.

• The famous stage-prop mark on one of the rocks "C" - meaning...something to do with stages...I can't remember what.
  
  
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• Identical backgrounds on practically opposite sides of the moon.

• The fact that when they left the moon, no crater is made from the blast off and it really looks like it's being pulled as opposed to propelled.

• The maker of the cameras himself said that there's no way they could get the quality that they did by having it mounted to their space suits. Also...an interesting one: the cameras filmed in colour, yet all moving footage of them in space is obviously in black and white.

• The plans for the shuttle were soon destroyed and the shuttle itself likewise. That would be one of the biggest cash-cows in the world. Why would you scrap something so iconic unless there's something to hide such as...it would never have been able to get to the moon safely?

• There were people that during the original live broadcast swear that they saw a coke bottle being thrown across the screen - odd in and of itself. But in the repeat broadcast, that had been removed from the film. Now I understand that I am somewhat using the absence of evidence *as* evidence here, but it was either 10s or 100s of people that saw it originally from different points across America.

• Why haven't we ever gone back?

There's also a shitload of scientific stuff that I don't know about to do with the surface of the moon and safety of their suits Vs. the Van Allen Radiation belt and all sorts of shit I don't understand.

But I mean this is just from memory mostly when I did a presentation about it in Science class when I was about 12. There's loads more and plenty of documentaries out there talking about all of the above and more (including mysterious deaths and fires and all sorts amongst the people within the inner-circle of the decisions for going to the moon.

I'd love to believe we as a species managed it - my favourite part of a holiday to Florida when I was young was driving down to the Kennedy Space Centre for a day - but I just can't get past the turd-pile of evidence suggesting hoax :/

[ December 15, 2010, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Andy-Laa ]

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