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SURELY man didn't really land on The Moon? It was 1969 fgs, they didn't even have remotes without wires...

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WideWebWitch · 27/11/2006 19:11

We watched Independence Day last night (I like it and Bill Pullen as pres) and Dh and I agreed that surely the moon landings were a hoax. In 1969 there were no mobile phones, cds, remotes without wires, all sorts of other technologically advanced stuff. Computers were massive things with TAPES.

Surely we didn't really land on The Moon? Or am I being completely naive/stupid/technologically dense?

If we did, someone please explain HOW we did it with 1969 technology. TIA.

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LadyMacbeth · 27/11/2006 19:16

There was a documentary once all about how it was a hoax (intended to scare off the Russians - in simple terms). I'll see if I can find some info on it.

Since seeing the doc I think it was all a bollocks stunt.

southeastastra · 27/11/2006 19:18

there are tons of pictures which try to prove that it was a hoax, like the film capricorn one.

mumatuks · 27/11/2006 19:18

You're right WWW, if you look it up, there is something about the shadows being wrong, they should be absolutely black and should be parrallel (sp?)

I think it was just to get up the Russians nose and get in there before them..

I could go on, but there is a good page...here

Tinker · 27/11/2006 19:19

Don't believe in the hoax conspiracy theory myself. Rocket science isn't that complicated. The astronauts would have to have been paid mega-millions to keep schtum - they weren't particularly, if I recall The Right Stuff correctly.

GeorginaA · 27/11/2006 19:19

The rebuttal of the documentary is here

JoolsToo · 27/11/2006 19:19

well it's one of those conspiracy theories isn't it.

Fwiw - I don't think they did. I didn't even stay up to watch it! Dh (my bf at the time) was horrified that I was missing a momentous event in history - I just wanted my bed!

Gobbledigook · 27/11/2006 19:20

Oh agree. There is loads of evidence that it's a hoax - also seen a few documentaries on it.

I'm not convinced at all

Waswondering · 27/11/2006 19:20

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WideWebWitch · 27/11/2006 19:20

pmsl at 'rocket science isn't that complicated' ! oh so it's like that other stupifyingly simple trade, brain surgery, then?

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Tinker · 27/11/2006 19:22

Stuff here

But it isn't though, relative to other complicated stuff. That's why that "It ain't rocket science" cliche is so grrrrring.

mousiemousie · 27/11/2006 19:22

Expect you and dh could manage a lunar landing if you put your minds to it...how hard can it be?

In fact, how about we have a mumsnet moon launch, funded by donation and engineered by our collective wisdom...are you on for it?

UnderWItnessProtectionCod · 27/11/2006 19:23

yes but isnt hteir evidence noa thetchology to powert e spacecehten is not in= a domestic pc

UnderWItnessProtectionCod · 27/11/2006 19:24

shit
sorry spaceraft has the same pwer and tech as a home pc NOW

GeorginaA · 27/11/2006 19:24

Rocket science is easy - it's basic mechanics. There's a reason they call them "big dumb boosters"

zippitippitoes · 27/11/2006 19:24

we had a colour tv to watch it on..but i couldn't be bothered

mousiemousie · 27/11/2006 19:24

wot cod woz that u r on about?

GeorginaA · 27/11/2006 19:25

Bad Astronomy: Bad TV goes through each of the points the documentary made and blows them out of the water.

charliecat · 27/11/2006 19:27

Wasnt it something like the shadows were in the wrong place? or there shouldnt have been shadows at all. and that the film uses should have discintigrated(sp????) at the temperatures it was in...

moondog · 27/11/2006 19:40

lol
You crack me up WWW.
You and CountessDrac.

GeorginaA · 27/11/2006 19:48

Another good summary of why the moon hoax theories are utter cack

FioFio · 27/11/2006 19:49

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southeastastra · 27/11/2006 19:52

or did they...?

hehe i suppose once they'd been there wasn't much point in going back

ELF1981 · 27/11/2006 19:53

I am easily led on hoaxs, especially this one! But I watched a documentary where they did something or other with these wave thingies (wasn't much paying attention!) but it was aimed at the moon where they space craft landed, and the returned the image of moon dust with a foot print in it!!
Now that was pretty cool!

Have any of you seen the Red Bull advert? The "oh come back and we will shoot the thing in a hanger" line makes me lol

NotQuiteCockney · 27/11/2006 19:56

Brain surgery is not, as it turns out, brain surgery. Imagine a big custard that's got icky bits in it. And you have a spoon. And a can of fake whipped cream, which you use to fill the holes. Ok, you're a brain surgeon.

Spinal surgery, on the other hand, is actually pretty hairy.

catsmother · 27/11/2006 20:34

Hey, they DID land on the moon !

At the age of 4.5 I distinctly remember peering out of my bedroom window, my junior "Patrick Moore" telescope clutched excitedly to my eye and could see a couple of tiny figures moving about.

I think Neil Armstrong waved to me in fact.

Or at least that's what I insisted to my mum was true.

So there.