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Moon landing 1969

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Yorkshiremum17 · 12/07/2019 20:50

Just watching a programme about the 1st men on the moon. I'm still not convinced that we actually did it. I would love to think that we did, but I just don't think that the technology of the time was capable of doing that.
What do you think, did the human race actually land on the moon in 1969 and return safely to earth?

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Bromeliad · 12/07/2019 20:50

Yes.

Backstabbath · 12/07/2019 21:38

I don't normally respond to this type of crap, but let's just imagine your right, just how many people do you think would have to be involved in a conspiracy this big. Literally thousands. Presidents, politicians, astronauts, the whole workforce of NASA.

If this was fake do you really think it would still be covered up.
Jesus get a grip

GreasedPiglet · 12/07/2019 21:41

I always read the comments on NASA's FB posts in utter amazement that anyone would think this 😄😬.

I probably shouldn't ask 😣 - OP, what are your views on the vaccination and the climate crisis?

DramaAlpaca · 12/07/2019 21:42

Yes.

GreasedPiglet · 12/07/2019 22:08

I'm now worrying that my post wasn't very clear - Yes, humans landed on the moon; no, it wasn't faked.

LittleLongDog · 12/07/2019 22:19

I’m open either way. My main conspiracy reasons are:

It seems too simple that the original footage is ‘lost’ or ‘taped over’ (as if you would tape over the original footage like it was some VHS recording of the Vicar of Dibley). Surely it’s more likely that it wouldn’t stand up to today’s analysis.

It also seems too simple that they ‘could go to the moon again but have destroyed all the technology’.

The USA had massive motive to ‘be first’. Imagine what power people would have thought China or Russia had if the US had been beaten by them in the space race.

ErrolTheDragon · 12/07/2019 22:20

Why would you think the technology of the time couldn't do it? Do you actually understand what technology was involved?

Why do you doubt the moon landings - I bet it's never even occurred to you what levels of technology were already available in the 1960s ... here's a clue, quite a lot of nuclear power stations were up and running.

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Yorkshiremum17 · 12/07/2019 22:20

I absolutely believe in vaccination and climate change😁
I also believe that we landed on the moon, I'm just not sure that we did it in 1969. It doesn't make me stupid to ask the question, surely it would be much worse to blindly accept that it happened without questioning whether it was in fact possible with the technology available at that time.

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ErrolTheDragon · 12/07/2019 22:22

The USA had massive motive to ‘be first’. Imagine what power people would have thought China or Russia had if the US had been beaten by them in the space race.

And if there was a shred of credible evidence that the US had faked it, don't you think Russia would have been all over it?

LittleLongDog · 12/07/2019 22:26

I wonder when the conspiracy started. As it was happening surely everyone believed what they were seeing/reading? I wonder how many years after the doubts started.

GreyGardens88 · 12/07/2019 22:28

Why don't you just read up on it and educate yourself instead of posting on mumsnet

TooTrueToBeGood · 12/07/2019 22:31

I'll wager you know exactly the square root of fuck all about the technology of the day.

StephanieSJW · 12/07/2019 22:34

The landing sites are now visible from Earth using the most powerful high res telescopes.

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Yorkshiremum17 · 12/07/2019 22:35

The nuclear power stations were massive and firmly planted on earth using computers that were the size of rooms with less processing power than most modern day phones.
Those 3 men were supposed to fly to the moon, in a ship using computers, how did they make them (computers not the men) small enough that they would actually work as they were supposed to? Bearing in mind that they are struggling today to achieve the same thing with all of our advances in computing technology and shielding material.

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LittleLongDog · 12/07/2019 22:35

What an weird response @GreyGardens88 Why can’t the OP have a chat about it here? Her post asked for opinions, not research. It’s MN, plenty other threads for you to join in with if you don’t find this one interesting.

Crockof · 12/07/2019 22:36

I don't believe we have ever been and I don't believe it with every Fibre of my being, fwiw I also don't buy into the climate change. (I agree it's changing but only like the world always has)

Other than this I am very rational I believe in Vaccinations and I don't believe in fairies.

LittleLongDog · 12/07/2019 22:38

But @Yorkshiremum17 half the technology was back at base with a whole huge team and a whole building of computers. It wasn’t like they just popped a rocket up towards the moon with a ye olde satnav in.

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Yorkshiremum17 · 12/07/2019 22:42

Thanks for all the insulting comments by the way, I thought we might be able to have an intelligent discussion, not a race to the bottom because you can't be prepared to argue intelligently why I'm wrong. Mumsnet at its best. Not😕

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StephanieSJW · 12/07/2019 22:46

From the very first result of a Google search

Despite the extraordinary volume of evidence (including 382kg of moon rock collected across six missions; corroboration from Russia, Japan and China; andimages from the Nasa Lunar Reconnaissance Orbitershowing 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

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Yorkshiremum17 · 12/07/2019 22:53

littlelongdog that is a good point, but if half the technology was back at base in a huge building, where was the other half? There had to be something in that capsule that was capable of something more than just receiving instructions from base. It can't possibly have been a fly by wire operation, so where did all that computing equipment go?

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Crockof · 12/07/2019 22:55

Quoting an American owned search engine is hardly conclusive proof.

HeronLanyon · 12/07/2019 22:56

Yes.

tenbob · 12/07/2019 22:57

OP, there is a great film called ‘Hidden Women’ which is probably worth you watching if you’re wondering where all the computers were...

Clue: they did maths and calculations the good old fashioned way back then

ErrolTheDragon · 12/07/2019 23:00

I don't actually know what the onboard computers were for - as littlelongdog says, the main computational power was back on earth. Weren't a lot of the calculations done ahead of time?