Posted on 07/10/2019 10:21:39 AM PDT by NRx
It took 400,000 Nasa employees and contractors to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 – but only one man to spread the idea that it was all a hoax. His name was Bill Kaysing.
It began as “a hunch, an intuition”, before turning into “a true conviction” – that the US lacked the technical prowess to make it to the moon (or, at least, to the moon and back). Kaysing had actually contributed to the US space programme, albeit tenuously: between 1956 and 1963, he was an employee of Rocketdyne, a company that helped to design the Saturn V rocket engines. In 1976, he self-published a pamphlet called We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, which sought evidence for his conviction by means of grainy photocopies and ludicrous theories. Yet somehow he established a few perennials that are kept alive to this day in Hollywood movies and Fox News documentaries, Reddit forums and YouTube channels.
Despite the extraordinary volume of evidence (including 382kg of moon rock collected across six missions; corroboration from Russia, Japan and China; and images from the Nasa Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the tracks made by the astronauts in the moondust), belief in the moon-hoax conspiracy has blossomed since 1969. Among 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, chemtrailers, flat-Earthers, Holocaust deniers and Sandy Hook conspiracists, the idea that the moon landings were faked isn’t even a source of anger any more – it is just a given fact.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I don’t watch that show but what i have just briefly read....YEA
Of course, for those of us old enough to have seen it live...Jules Bergman of ABC explained that there is a flexible aluminum rod at the top of the flag.
Do you really believe that?
The show is off the air now.
It was funny! Particularly if you grew up in small town America. I had high school friends that were every character in that show! - yes my own Dale Gribble!
also because “it was faked” is a lot easier to understand than why we totally abandoned space travel for two generations after such a triumph
My friend kept a terrarium with a few rocks in it and nothing else. As I recall, it had something to do with levitating the rocks. And this guy was an equipment maintenance technician. Had to be a lot of cognitive dissonance going on in his head.
Believe what? I merely asked a good faith question.
What are you talking about?
Sound is a tad bit below the ultraviolet spectrum.
My bud mike told me so....
Yes, those pics are taken from lunar orbit, not earth. Pretty cool to see the footpaths are still visible.
“Probably because we haven’t demonstrated the ability to go back.”
We can return to the moon wit our current technology and a team running the entire mission from a half dozen laptops at Starbucks.
interesting
What is even more interesting is how they completely dismiss the physics behind con-trails to keep their stupid conspiracy theory alive.
kinda like how leftists think..
Not only the Russians, but our Democrat-owned press and Democrats. You think the Democrats and press hate Donald Trump? Multiply that x10 and that is how much they hated Richard Nixon. If Nixon had tried to set up an elaborate hoax that had to involve thousands of people, the press would have found out about it and they would not have had to wait for Watergate to destroy him. They would have crucified him. And the Democrats, i.e., Daniel Inouye would have had a field day in his senate hearings. This would have been circus like no other!
The noise coming from his ‘black lights’ must be deafening.
No. You can’t clearly see the landing sites from earth. However, the lunar orbiters can and have photographed the sites.
ALSO, laser reflectors were left on the moon. Lasers are fired from earth from time to time and the beams are reflected back directly on the paths that they came in on. The time it takes to detect the round trip is used to calculate the distance.
We could not do that if we had not been there leave the reflectors.
Sorry, read too fast and "focused" on the "I" rather than "If".
The answer is no you can't. An extremely good telescope has an angular resolution of about 1 arc second which translates to objects about a mile in size at the distance of the moon.
My Buddy Brian LOVES King of the Hill....he does a perfect Hank impression.
I have so little time i never really got to watch it.
it’s on my list with like a hundred other shows to eventually binge watch.
Was one of subjects listed not a nutty idea? I must have missed it.
That and the LSD...
lol
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