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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 3, 2009 17:47:46 GMT -5
It was recently the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I watched a program on tv with original BBC footage of the event from 1969 over the weekend and it was interesting.
Where do you stand? Do you think it was a legit mission and that two men actually did walk on the moon, or do you think it was a hoax?
There are enough "facts" to support either theory, so it's a gut feeling for me and I still lean towards the belief that the landing was staged.
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 3, 2009 18:05:09 GMT -5
I suppose there's a possibility that it was staged, in the same way there's a possibility I'll get hit by an asteroid tomorrow.
I can't remember where I read it, but I seem to have it in my head that they took INSANE risks to pull this mission off. As in, the reason why they haven't been back to the moon in decades is because it's too risky. It would never be approved. But back then the propaganda victory over the Commies was deemed to be "worth it".
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 3, 2009 18:26:30 GMT -5
"Worth it" enough to pretend they went to the moon?
They did take a lot of risks. When Armstrong and Aldrin were on the moon, they had to blast back up to the rocket on a seperate little rocket and re-dock. Basically, if that rocket had failed, those two would still be there.
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 3, 2009 18:43:57 GMT -5
"Worth it" enough to pretend they went to the moon? Sure. That's why I think there is a possibility. I like a good conspiracy theory. The likelihood of a conspiracy working is inversely proportional to the number of people involved. There were hundreds (thousands?) of people involved in the apollo mission. I don't buy it was faked.
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Aug 3, 2009 20:21:53 GMT -5
They where there the new probe sent back pictures of the landing sites and the stuff is still there. The Russians would have said so if it was fake. That was the good thing about the cold war everyone was kept honest by the other side. But yeah the missions where insanely dangerous. Apollo 13 exploded and they had to use the LEM as a lifeboat and froze their asses off till they came back their odds of coming back had to be 80 to 1.
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Post by Naitch on Aug 4, 2009 9:58:37 GMT -5
MS is dumb. USA goes to the moon and all the third worlders get jealous.
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 4, 2009 13:36:17 GMT -5
The likelihood of a conspiracy working is inversely proportional to the number of people involved. There were hundreds (thousands?) of people involved in the apollo mission. I don't buy it was faked. True. Although there were many people involved with the project, it would really only be the people directly involved during the mission who would need to be fooled. SM, I don't doubt that there is "stuff" on the moon. Although that doesn't prove that there were people there at the same time. It is far easier to get hunks of metal there than it is humans. And Naitch, I assume you're joking, but the dumb people are the one's who don't question anything. I don't want to believe that man didn't walk on the moon. I just feel that staging it could have been pulled off, and would have been far easier to do than to actually send two guys up there to walk about.
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Post by Naitch on Aug 4, 2009 20:32:38 GMT -5
Like V said, too many people involved. Someone one have said something by now.
Roswell and JFK are good theories. This one sucks.
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 4, 2009 22:00:10 GMT -5
But yeah the missions where insanely dangerous. Apollo 13 exploded and they had to use the LEM as a lifeboat and froze their asses off till they came back their odds of coming back had to be 80 to 1. Again, I can't remember exactly but the first moon mission, they had to cut weight as much as possible and made part of the lander (?) out of tin foil. Or something like that. High tech it wasn't. dumb people don't know how to use apostrophes too. There comes a point where you have to accept something on the balance of probabilities. The evidence to support the moon landing is overwhelming, the evidence against isn't very convincing. I'll pull a number out of my ass and say there's a 99.5% probability that it happened. To accept the 0.5% probability as reality is being wilfully perverse. I actually think it's easier to put a man on the moon than it is to get 1,000 people to keep a secret.
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Aug 7, 2009 21:00:33 GMT -5
The landers where made out of thin aluminum. Any debris in space would have gone through them like nothing.
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