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Teachers: do you believe the moon landings were a hoax?

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noblegiraffe · 03/11/2018 18:39

I was just on Teacher Tapp and found the results from this poll pretty horrifying: 15% of teachers polled don’t disagree with the statement “I believe the moon landings from 1969 to 1972 were actually a hoax”.

What now? Nearly 1 in 6 of us??

Teachers: do you believe the moon landings were a hoax?
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elephantoverthehill · 03/11/2018 19:52

Urbanbeetler it's funny isn't it that those of us old enough to have watched those grainy images still remember where we first saw them. If it was a hoax it was bloody awful footage to broadcast. Grin

Urbanbeetler · 03/11/2018 19:53

Maybe it was the first showing on uk tv though. There was no breakfast tv then; I don’t think tv started until ‘Watch with Mother*...

Urbanbeetler · 03/11/2018 19:53

Yes- it sticks with you- the adults impressed on us what a monumental occasion it was.

Urbanbeetler · 03/11/2018 19:56

Interestingly, this is from wiki...

20-21 July – A live transmission from the Moon is viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11: at 10:56 p.m. EDT on 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon, broadcast live.[3]

That says the live showing was late in the evening.

Urbanbeetler · 03/11/2018 19:57

That’s about British TV rather than USA

elephantoverthehill · 03/11/2018 19:58

I confess I did Google when Db came out with his recollection, I think it was the first time that the BBC did a 24 hour broadcast.

youknowyourself · 03/11/2018 20:04

So, um, my science teacher (when I was in year 8) informed us that it was indeed a hoax and filmed within a TV studio. I remember feeling a bit perplexed when he said, "why do you think they haven't been back [to the moon]?"
I was taught that :)

Biddlyboo · 03/11/2018 20:05

Has no one noticed that hrs percentages add up to 101%?

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noblegiraffe · 03/11/2018 23:59

So is Peppa Pig. It's not real.

Er Peppa Pig isn’t broadcast live internationally as fact, which really should make a difference to your view of it. Or do you think all news broadcasts are as reliable as Peppa Pig?

But anyway, we left a mirror on the moon. You can fire lasers at it and they reflect off it back to Earth. It would be a bit weird if that happened but we hadn’t been to the moon, then it would be aliens.

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noblegiraffe · 04/11/2018 00:00

Biddly that’s quite common when values have been rounded. No conspiracy!

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VisitorsEntrance · 04/11/2018 00:05

20-21 July – A live transmission from the Moon is viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11: at 10:56 p.m. EDT on 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon, broadcast live.[3]

EDT. Which is the Eastern Time Zone in America, about 4 hours behind GMT.

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noblegiraffe · 04/11/2018 00:07

youknow Shock did you say anything? Like “they went back 5 times after Apollo 11?”

What baffles me is that if people think the moon landings were a hoax, then what on Earth was Apollo 13 all about? They faked a failed mission?

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BusterGonad · 04/11/2018 00:16

Noble I don't know why it upsets you so much that some people don't have the same view as you, not everything we are told is true.

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noblegiraffe · 04/11/2018 00:18

Because I like to think that teachers are reasonably intelligent, and this goes against that.

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BusterGonad · 04/11/2018 00:21

Noble in your opinion it goes against that, not everyone is willing to believe everything the are told via the media.

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noblegiraffe · 04/11/2018 00:49

Oh dear god. You believed they faked 6 moon landings, 12 men walking on the moon, a reflector on the moon you can bounce lasers off and collected moon rock you can go and see at the Science Museum.

They also faked a failed moon landing, a technically detailed book about which which became a film, thousands of moon mission photographs www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums, radio transmissions from the moon, live broadcasts from space and on and on.

Pretty clever stuff, but a bit over the top, don’t you think? One fake would have been hard enough to keep quiet.

But sure, it’s all believing what you’re fed by the media Hmm

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mrbob · 04/11/2018 00:54

I read a great book about all the men that had ever been to the moon. One of them said it was really depressing when you had done this amazing, life changing thing and there were a huge number of people who old you it was a lie...

mrbob · 04/11/2018 00:55

*told

BusterGonad · 04/11/2018 03:10

Noble I've not actually said my view on it, I'm merely saying that other view points are not wrong because they are not the same as yours.

HotInWinter · 04/11/2018 03:30

Do you think some people read it quickly, and havnt grasped the double negative?

Alfie190 · 04/11/2018 03:32

Yes, I believe that they faked moon landings. (I am not a teacher). I dislike your opening post, you pretend you are canvassing opinion whereas in fact you just want to berate everyone that doesn’t have the same opinion as you.

When did you last bounce your laser of the moon? Wtf.

PerspicaciaTick · 04/11/2018 03:38

Some opinions are just plain wrong and should be challenged.

I expect that a handful of decades from now people will be denying the Brexit vote really happened, that none of the votes were actually collected and the whole result was predetermined in a secret meeting between Putin and Corbyn as part of a left-wing plot to destabilise Western democracy. And someone will be saying "well it sounds like a perfectly reasonable theory to me and my opinion is just as valid as yours".

PerspicaciaTick · 04/11/2018 03:39

And yes, I am fully expecting some bright MNer to post a link to a blog or article supporting exactly that theory even today.

explodingkitten · 04/11/2018 04:52

Because I like to think that teachers are reasonably intelligent, and this goes against that.

I come from a family of teachers and they are just as stupid intelligent as everyone else.

BertrandRussell · 04/11/2018 05:01

People are entitled to their own opinions. They are not entitled to their own facts. The trouble is, there are many people who don't know the difference,