Moon landings ITV the astronauts are as transparent as...

[whatthewhatthewhat]

The whole hoax!

Seriously! Ffs, you can see the line of horizon, they look green screened on that shit... like when you went to the museum in the 90s and pretended to be superman!

I think you're right. I'm pretty sure Elvis is up there too.

Are you my BIL OP? He also believes that we are being secretly gassed by airplane trails.

OP, what makes your think Elon Musk's attempts to go to the moon aren't a huge hoax?

@LEELULUMPKIN

it wouldn't be the first time

Anyone who believes the moon landing programme was faked deserves all the ridicule they get.

whatthewhatthewhat

How do you know you're actually posting on Mumsnet?

This isn't actually Mumsnet you know...

....or is it?

😱

I mean... maybe I'm not Binary?

Maybe it's all a liiiie!!!

It should be no surprise that the world is full of idiots who believe whatever conspiracies they are told to believe. I mean Donald Trump is president and Boris Johnson is about to become PM.

the world is full of idiots thstvwas my user name for a while in 2016...

You on the wacky backy?

The reason the horizon looks fake is because the atmosphere is thinner on the moon so you don't get the blue haze caused by our thicker atmosphere here on earth.

Just in case anybody needs a vaguely interesting but not very useful fact to fill your next awkward silence.

Except that that 'fact' isn't true. The atmosphere isn't 'thinner'; it is non- existent. For all intents and purposes an astronaut standing on the the surface of the moon is in a vacuum - that's why they needed those big bulky suits not just high-altitude breathing gear.

To be ultra-pedantic (before someone else does) there is a very, very thin layer of gases on the lunar surface that can almost be called an atmosphere. Technically, it's considered an 'exosphere'.

Slightly off topic but we met Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space when she was staying in the same hotel as us.

Please don't tell me that every space flight takes some of Earth's gravity up to space. Am terrified I'll float away if we lose too much.

Engages Ultra Ultra pedantry mode:

Every time we send a spaceship out of Earth's gravity well we are, in effect, making the mass of the earth infinitesimally smaller. As gravity is function of mass then there will be an infinitesimally small reduction in gravity. Mind you, this reduction is possibly more than made up for by the amount of mass added to the Earth by all those micro (and not so micro) meteors that fall into our atmosphere every day.

“Slightly off topic but we met Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space when she was staying in the same hotel as us}

... or did you? 🧐🤔🤨

@Poloshot
Please don't insult people who smoke weed even there not as daft as whatthewhatthewhat

There are reflectors placed on the moon. It's possible, with a powerful enough telescope, to see the footprints around them. Interestingly, the moon's orbit is slowly decaying.

Obviously aliens put the mirrors there, though. And faked the footprints. And kept well out of the way of the telescopes etc that were, no doubt, pointed at the moon while all this was going on. And carefully covered up their own footprints. Because that's a lot more believable than a space race between nations trying to outdo each other.

@AwdBovril

As you're well aware, no telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo-related. Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can discern evidence of the Apollo landings. The laws of optics define its limits.
Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 meters) at the Moon's distance. In visible light, it's 0.05″″*, or closer to 300 feet. Given that the largest piece of equipment left on the Moon after each mission was the 17.9-foot-high by 14-foot-wide Lunar Module, you can see the problem.

Are you my BIL OP? He also believes that we are being secretly gassed by airplane trails.

'Chemtrails'

Some idiot actually found the time to write a book arguing that the moon is an artificial construction, built by the lizard people and placed in orbit by them a few years ago, and we’ve collectively managed to forget that it wasn’t always there. The Amazon reviews for that book are very amusing if you like watching loons being taken down.

@whatthewhatthewhat

It's spectacularly stupid and embarrassing that you keep copying verbatim chunks of text from web pages that you obviously don't understand.

How do you imagine that pasting other people's words in random irrelevant ways equates to "thinking for yourself "?

My friend believes that you don't have to pay council tax, muslims are on the rampage and even HE believes that man went to the moon.

OP... why do you believe what you’ve read about bible?

Everybody knows Hubble doesn’t exist....

Bible = Hubble