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Given the conspiracy thread, moon landings?

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 15:31

I have an friend who is an academic and a scientist. He swears the moon landings simply couldn't have taken place given the technology in 1969, asteroid belts? Apparently the 'ship' simply couldn't have got there, this was the era before advanced computers and so on.

Don't most people believe we did go to the moon?

Which are the more 'believable' conspiracy theories?

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nikkershaw · 17/09/2010 15:35

yes we went to the moon

IMoveTheStars · 17/09/2010 15:38

Most people do believe that we went to the moon, yes.

I'm not totally convinced.

Why haven't we been back? Grin

AMumInScotland · 17/09/2010 15:39

No, it's all fake - proof here

IMoveTheStars · 17/09/2010 15:41
Grin
mrspear · 17/09/2010 15:43

My DH is from Albania which at the time of the moon landings was closed to the outside world and even when he was at school they learnt no world history , anyway i will stop rambling; he saw a documentry recently about moon landings and he thought it was a spoof documentry! He cannot believe it. It does seem unbelievable if you think about it.

Lauriefairycake · 17/09/2010 15:45

That clangers thing is fantastically droll Grin

people like the OP's mate are a bit egotistical to think that it didn't happen - as if the technology to do it has only existed for 10 years.

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 15:46

Love the clangers :)

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zingzillachinchilla · 17/09/2010 15:46

It happened! I was there! And then Bobby stepped out of the shower

Chil1234 · 17/09/2010 15:47

I love conspiracy theories. I especially love the formula that the bigger the event and the more numerous the witnesses, the more suspicion there is. JFK shot in front of thousands live and millions on TV by a nutter with a rifle?... nah... can't be right. Twin Towers pulverised by nutters in aircraft?... got to be more to it. Moon landings... well I've seen the footage and given the standard of SFX in the movies of that time I think it would have been tricky to hide the wires that let the astronauts do that bouncy walk thing... These days they simulate zero gravity quite nicely but not in 1969

lal123 · 17/09/2010 15:47

I don't think it happened.

weegiemum · 17/09/2010 15:47

Grin AMIS. That has made my day, I am ill and this had made me laugh! (and cough rather too much!)

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 15:50

Thing is apparently it's impossible to get there, to get through some sort of asteroid belt in a tin can with zero computer power etc.

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mayorquimby · 17/09/2010 15:51

we've been back like 5 times or something haven't we?

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 15:53

We've never landed on the surface again I believe, although wasn't there talk of shooting a rocket or something at it a while back?

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Chil1234 · 17/09/2010 15:53

'Impossible' is rather defeatist, isn't it? 'Difficult' certainly. But when you think that Vikings navigated the Atlantic with nasically a wooden box, oars and zero computer power, you'd have to admit that the human being is very resourceful. And the photos of earth rising over the moon horizon were taken how, exactly?

bigfootbeliever · 17/09/2010 15:53

There is definitely no asteroid belt between the Earth and the Moon.

There are particles up there (the ones that make shooting stars) but they wouldnt affect a space ship.

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 15:55

Hmmm I would have thought it has to have happened or Buzz etc must have been accomplished liars etc too.

He had a huge list of things which apparently meant it simply was v unlikely.

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Ripeberry · 17/09/2010 16:00

I remember last year turning on the TV to watch the news and one of the stories was "The USA has fired a rocket at the moon!"
I was like "WHAT????" Grin

Trying to find water apparently Hmm

UnquietDad · 17/09/2010 16:00

Has anyone read David Aaronivitch's book on conspiracy theories, "Voodoo Histories"?

Of course the moon-landings happened. There are loads of arguments about this, but they all come down to one basic thing - it would have been hugely more expensive and complex to have engineered a fake, even if they wanted to, than to do it for real.

Same goes for all the rubbish about the 9/11 planes being disguised missiles, and so on.

Jury's out on the assassination of Princess Di, though... Wink

UnquietDad · 17/09/2010 16:03

Buzz Aldrin thumped someone who claimed he didn't really do it.Grin

Anyway, all the conspiracy theories are debunked here

Chil1234 · 17/09/2010 16:03

As a scientist he should be the first one to appreciate that very unlikely is not even close to being impossible. (Bees flying comes to mind.) I could just have dreamed it but haven't probes taken photographs of the astronoauts' footprints since?

mayorquimby · 17/09/2010 16:03

"Jury's out on the assassination of Princess Di, though"

A lot of effort to go to for a concert and a fountain though if true.

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 17/09/2010 16:05

I think the argument goes that there is a radiation belt between the moon and the earth which would have made travelling through it without the astronauts being killed unlikely. Or something. Also, it'd destroy their films. Personally, if you don't think that technology was up to getting man to the moon, I'm not sure how you can claim that it was up to faking all of the evidence, either.

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 16:08

Unquiet Dad, I have a friend who shared their thoughts re: Princess Di soon after the crash. She was a well heeled client of mine at the time, she said 'Cortina, of course it wasn't an accident'! in a deadly serious tone.

I assumed she meant Diana was murdered etc and then she said 'Diana? Don't be ridiculous! Who'd want her dead, she was irrelevant, it was Dodi who was the marked man, for a long time he'd been in trouble'...

Interesting as I've heard that theory before...

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Cortina · 17/09/2010 16:12

What's 'all of the evidence'? Chickens. Doesn't everything look a bit blurred and grainy? Fairly easy to fake in a studio? Only rocks and dust and a few space suits etc chuck in a model and you're laughing? I've no real idea by the way...just pondering.

Oh and by the way re: Dodi I meant I'd not heard that theory before.

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