[Ahithophel]

According to news reports, messages from the probe “took 15 minutes to travel to Earth from Mars at the speed of light.”

Assuming that’s correct, it would be interesting to extrapolate the time it would’ve taken messages from the initial Apollo missions to reach earth and then compare that with the actual audio recordings. The exercise would, I think, help prove or disprove the moon landings as a fake or not.

[steveo]

about 1.3 seconds each way

[sig226]

You would just get an argument that they used an audio delay to make it sound right. Fake moon landings are a running gag on these threads, so if you can find some exceptional piece of humor from the whacko culture, please post it. Head cases are funny.

Besides, any idiot can see that the picture is really the desert outside Flagstaff. :)

[null and void]

When I was watching it live, Walter Cronkite -the most trusted man in America- explained that the gaps in the conversation were due to the radio signal transit delays.

If you can’t trust dear old Walter, who can you trust?

[allmendream]

We left a mirror on the moon that we can bounce lasers off of to get a reading on how close the moon is to earth (it swings back and forth quite a bit). Hard to do that if we were never actually there.

Only far out kooks think the moon landing was fake. Nobody can keep THAT big of a secret, and it was a matter of national pride to outdo the Soviet's Sputnik, and we did.

[allmendream]

We left a mirror on the moon that we can bounce lasers off of to get a reading on how close the moon is to earth (it swings back and forth quite a bit). Hard to do that if we were never actually there.

Only far out kooks think the moon landing was fake. Nobody can keep THAT big of a secret, and it was a matter of national pride to outdo the Soviet's Sputnik, and we did.