40th Anniversary of the start of the Moon Landing Hoax

[CountDeMoney]

Don't want to come off as Timish and I know it's been posted a thousand times before but here is the great footage of Aldrin punching out a guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaUqaVj51w4

I never get tired of that.

Never fuck with the Apollo program.

[CountDeMoney]

Only 51% of Russians believe that the US landed men on the moon (http://bd.fom.ru/report/cat/sci_sci/kosmos/of001605)

Quite frankly, I thought that number would be much, much lower for our cossack friends.

[Grey Fox]

I prefer the Alien told Nixon to stay home or be destroyed conspiracy.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'm surprised there are enough literate Russians to have taken any poll.

[Viking]

Since you can see the the Moon Landers with a decent telescope from earth I can't really understand how this hoax persists.

[saskganesh]

Since you can see the the Moon Landers with a decent telescope from earth I can't really understand how this hoax persists.

I thought it was very difficult but you can see the shadows sometimes at the right time of day?  ... orbiters and other solar system voyagers can do flybys and take shots though.

[grumbler]

I prefer the Alien told Nixon to stay home or be destroyed conspiracy.

What is best about that theory is that Nixon somehow negotiated to get 6 more missions! 

[Neil]

I prefer the Alien told Nixon to stay home or be destroyed conspiracy.

What is best about that theory is that Nixon somehow negotiated to get 6 more missions! 

Nixon's foreign policy is not to be underestimated.

[grumbler]

Since you can see the the Moon Landers with a decent telescope from earth I can't really understand how this hoax persists.

Really?  You have seen it?

Most of the self-proclaimed scientists I have seen writing on the subject say that atmospheric distortion does not allow earth-based telescopes, no matter how large, to see objects that small.

Maybe those scientists are misinformed, though.

[grumbler]

I thought it was very difficult but you can see the shadows sometimes at the right time of day?  ... orbiters and other solar system voyagers can do flybys and take shots though.

I think the space-based telescopes are a bit too busy to debunk conspiracy theorists.  Even if they weren't, the nuts would cl;aim that such pictures were part of the conspiracy, too (just as the Soviets are).

[Darth Wagtaros]

Since you can see the the Moon Landers with a decent telescope from earth I can't really understand how this hoax persists.

I thought it was very difficult but you can see the shadows sometimes at the right time of day?  ... orbiters and other solar system voyagers can do flybys and take shots though.

Sigh.  If you believe that those 'voyagers' actually did anything beyond look pretty in mockups you are probably also the same kind of sad sack that believes AIDS wasn't developed by the CIA.

[Neil]

I thought it was very difficult but you can see the shadows sometimes at the right time of day?  ... orbiters and other solar system voyagers can do flybys and take shots though.

I think the space-based telescopes are a bit too busy to debunk conspiracy theorists.  Even if they weren't, the nuts would cl;aim that such pictures were part of the conspiracy, too (just as the Soviets are).

True.  I don't think Hamilcar is going to give up telescope time so that a bunch of imbeciles can claim that he's part of a grand conspiracy.

Conspiracy theorists are on a level of idiocy with creationists.

[Razgovory]

I prefer the Alien told Nixon to stay home or be destroyed conspiracy.

What is best about that theory is that Nixon somehow negotiated to get 6 more missions! 

Really it's nothing to brag about.  His claims of withdrawing from Space with honor were pretty hollow.

[hsilbud]

Anti-Americanism and believing that the moon landings are a hoax track fairly closely, I would imagine.

It must be rather galling to admit that the greatest thing that our species will ever do has been done by Americans.

I wonder what they think about the airplane or the lightbulb.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Since you can see the the Moon Landers with a decent telescope from earth I can't really understand how this hoax persists.

I thought it was very difficult but you can see the shadows sometimes at the right time of day?  ... orbiters and other solar system voyagers can do flybys and take shots though.

You can't with any home telescope, for sure. Not only do you not get enough magnification, but the moon is pretty damn bright.