did man land on the moon?

ed6hellsfresh

i was speakin to some pals about this recently and i found a few of them think the whole thing was a hoax.
i know there has been loads of tv programs about you know.... made in a studio or whatever. people always refer to one bit where the flag is 'flapping' in the wind. if u look at the photos the flag is attached to a pole with a metal rod on the top. if the pole shook when pushed into the groung the pole would shake moving the rod with it and the attatched flag, also i doubt they would make the movie on a windy set. would they?

also im sure they were aware that the russians would be watching their every move, as was the fashion at the time, and had they found out about a hoax they would have torn them apart!

what do u think?

johnnyrotten

No

Sarky

Of course it was a hoax. The moon, being as it is made entirely of space cheese (or "speese", to use the commonly accepted name), could never support the weight of a human, let alone a landing pod.

MrJoeSoap

There is a conspiracy theories forum and plenty of discussion there.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576

elurhs

Personally I think they did.

There are samples of moon rock the astronauts brought back, and if I remember it right scientists measured the distance from the earth to the moon by bouncing a laser off a mirror that was left there for that purpose.
Although I suppose they could be all in on it...:D

There's a new telescope coming online, I think sometime this year, that will have a high enough resolution to see the lunar rover the astronauts used so that should put this to rest once and for all.

mad m

Well what I think is that they were there...Did anyone see a programme on bbc other night about making a commerical fight for passengers to goto space and then back down.

Virgin reckon they will have it up and running by 2008,Virgin have backed this aircraft designer who came up with a unique design on one of his planes.This plane was attached to a main plane and flew up to 46,000ft and then the other plane detached itself,fired its rockets for one minute and hey presto it was in to outer space.

The unique design was in the tail as it lifted upwards to create a drag while the plane gently drifted back down to earth,thus not creating the amazing heat that the shuttle gets while re-entering earths atmosphere.Great programme.

Had to smirk also as the fella who created Doom and quake, I think is trying to do the same.He uses the money he has got from these games with volenteers once a week to make a rocket.Should also point out that who ever got a person into outerspace twice within 14 days got 10million,it was called the X prize.

nesf

I'd move this to Conspiracies but there is already a few threads there on this.

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