At Last, 40 Years Later: Apollo Landers Seen on the Moon

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/51023977.html ^

[chessplayer]

"Hey, can you see the flag on the Moon with that thing?"

For the last 40 years, every amateur astronomer with a big telescope has heard this countless times. My standard response, ever since I was a teenager, has always been:

[chessplayer]

Won`t convince the conspiracy bunch.

[taildragger]

No wonder Neil Armstrong to a lunge at one of these lugheads a while back or was it one of the other astronauts.I have some good Christian neighbors who watched those videos and were thinking we were had. I knew better, I told them flat out, I've seen these good men at Oshkosh, they are the right stuff, end of story.

[MarkeyD]

I think it was Buzz Aldrin.

[jmcenanly]

Virgin Galactic could run a twice daily tour bus by the landing site, and the skeptics wouldn’t believe it. I find it illogical to believe that they would create nearly 300 hours of special effects with technology nearly 30 years ahead of its time,most of it devoted to regolith-dry discussions between engineers or between a pilots and scientists with PhD’s in geology.

[Bean Counter]

Pretty cool!

Lunar Heritage Site...??

[taildragger]

Thanks I think you are right.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Yeah that is what I was thinking. They will say, yeah but this shot isn’t real either.

[El Sordo]

People don't believe that kind of thing because it's true. They believe it because it fulfills an emotional need.

[freedumb2003]

Lunar Heritage Site...??

Ah, see what happens when we go slumming?

[SJSAMPLE]

What?
You don’t think we’ve learned how to fake grainy black and white photos in the past forty years?

[El Sordo]

XKCD on Conspiracy theories: http://xkcd.com/258/

[Snickering Hound]

"And I'm STILL waiting for those pictures showing where the astronauts walked on Mars!"

[FlingWingFlyer]

Damn martians!

[BallyBill]

How did they make them footpaths? I mean, we almost Really could have went to the moon for what it costs to doctor them photos.

[GeronL]

taxpayers funded it... we can post it

[Nateman]

I can't find the shadow of the flag. Perhaps its too small to be seen at this resolution.

[Nateman]

...lunge at one of these lugheads...

I studied the shadows , the images of stars in the background and concluded that the video of that punch was faked.

[cripplecreek]

So has anyone else been listening to the recorded webcast of the Apollo 11 mission?

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

Watching the telemetry I hadn’t realized that they slowed that much (4300 fps at 130,000 nautical miles)

[taxesareforever]

There will always be those of us who will not be convinced.

What are the odds of landing men on the moon six times and bringing them back without nary a problem in 3 years? Now they say it will take us 20 years to put a man on the moon. Something terribly troubling with this scenario since Kennedy said he wanted a man on the moon in 8 years and whamo, it’s done. Propaganda at it’s best.

[cripplecreek]

And all it takes is to keep hundreds of thousands of pairs of lips closed.