Did the Americans walk on the Moon?

[Lucas Garron]

I would like to create another poll:

Has any human ever actually solved a Rubik's cube?

1. Yes, of course.
2. Yes, I think so.
3. Maybe yes, maybe no.
4. No, maybe.
5. No, I don't think so.
6. No way.
7. I have seen someone "solve" it in real life.
8. I have not seen someone solve it in real life.
9. What an interesting poll; please make some more in the future.
10. This poll sucks.

Okay, people, try to prove that any YouTube solve is not a fake.

 

[Lofty]

this is sad. every major conspiracy theory that has been promulgated about 9/11 and the lunar landing has been proven to be bogus. for example, the classic moon hoax theories were tested in an episode of mythbusters, in which they were able to simulate the waving flag in a vacuum, the slant of shadows being different because the moon is not a completely flat surface. they proved these very easily. the real "hoax" is convincing smart people it never happened.

either way, it's pretty sad that people keep up with these myths when they don't do the research to prove otherwise. the famous 9/11 conspiracy myths fail as well. Loose change has been debunked with numerous responses. other such ideas have been brought up time and time again and have never been met the test of real science.

And to Joo, I do take offense on the taking the US seriously comment, even though you say I shouldn't. The audacity that you must have to make such a comment about our government from 5000 miles away is pretty absurd. I can only hope you don't believe in the "myth" that I don't live in a fantastic nation. I thank God I'm able to live here and your flippant statements are unfair and unfounded. I will not take cheap shots at the government of RSA, a nation in far worse a situation than my own, and I do expect the same from you.

I almost took you seriously.

Why does the fact that he is a theist change anything?
More on topic: This is a pretty dumb poll...

 

[tim]

this is sad. every major conspiracy theory that has been promulgated about 9/11 and the lunar landing has been proven to be bogus. for example, the classic moon hoax theories were tested in an episode of mythbusters, in which they were able to simulate the waving flag in a vacuum, the slant of shadows being different because the moon is not a completely flat surface. they proved these very easily. the real "hoax" is convincing smart people it never happened.

either way, it's pretty sad that people keep up with these myths when they don't do the research to prove otherwise. the famous 9/11 conspiracy myths fail as well. Loose change has been debunked with numerous responses. other such ideas have been brought up time and time again and have never been met the test of real science.

And to Joo, I do take offense on the taking the US seriously comment, even though you say I shouldn't. The audacity that you must have to make such a comment about our government from 5000 miles away is pretty absurd. I can only hope you don't believe in the "myth" that I don't live in a fantastic nation. I thank God I'm able to live here and your flippant statements are unfair and unfounded. I will not take cheap shots at the government of RSA, a nation in far worse a situation than my own, and I do expect the same from you.

I almost took you seriously.

Why does the fact that he is a theist change anything?

It doesn't. It's more the fact, that he believes that god has anything to do with nations. But maybe it's meant ironically, i don't know.

 

[DavidWoner]

this is sad. every major conspiracy theory that has been promulgated about 9/11 and the lunar landing has been proven to be bogus. for example, the classic moon hoax theories were tested in an episode of mythbusters, in which they were able to simulate the waving flag in a vacuum, the slant of shadows being different because the moon is not a completely flat surface. they proved these very easily. the real "hoax" is convincing smart people it never happened.

either way, it's pretty sad that people keep up with these myths when they don't do the research to prove otherwise. the famous 9/11 conspiracy myths fail as well. Loose change has been debunked with numerous responses. other such ideas have been brought up time and time again and have never been met the test of real science.

And to Joo, I do take offense on the taking the US seriously comment, even though you say I shouldn't. The audacity that you must have to make such a comment about our government from 5000 miles away is pretty absurd. I can only hope you don't believe in the "myth" that I don't live in a fantastic nation. I thank God I'm able to live here and your flippant statements are unfair and unfounded. I will not take cheap shots at the government of RSA, a nation in far worse a situation than my own, and I do expect the same from you.

I almost took you seriously.

Why does the fact that he is a theist change anything?

It doesn't. It's more the fact, that he believes that god has anything to do with nations. But maybe it's meant ironically, i don't know.

he could also just be using it as an expression too...

 

[Lofty]

this is sad. every major conspiracy theory that has been promulgated about 9/11 and the lunar landing has been proven to be bogus. for example, the classic moon hoax theories were tested in an episode of mythbusters, in which they were able to simulate the waving flag in a vacuum, the slant of shadows being different because the moon is not a completely flat surface. they proved these very easily. the real "hoax" is convincing smart people it never happened.

either way, it's pretty sad that people keep up with these myths when they don't do the research to prove otherwise. the famous 9/11 conspiracy myths fail as well. Loose change has been debunked with numerous responses. other such ideas have been brought up time and time again and have never been met the test of real science.

And to Joo, I do take offense on the taking the US seriously comment, even though you say I shouldn't. The audacity that you must have to make such a comment about our government from 5000 miles away is pretty absurd. I can only hope you don't believe in the "myth" that I don't live in a fantastic nation. I thank God I'm able to live here and your flippant statements are unfair and unfounded. I will not take cheap shots at the government of RSA, a nation in far worse a situation than my own, and I do expect the same from you.

I almost took you seriously.

Why does the fact that he is a theist change anything?

It doesn't. It's more the fact, that he believes that god has anything to do with nations. But maybe it's meant ironically, i don't know.

the post seemed serious enough but I dont know either. And the idea that God has something to do with nations doesnt seem that farfetched to me. if there was a supreme all powerful being interested in the affairs of humans why would He not have something to do with nations?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Based on Lucas's comment, I think there should be two more options to this poll:
11. I personally walked on the moon.
12. I helped create the moon hoax.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Based on Lucas's comment, I think there should be two more options to this poll:
11. I personally walked on the moon.
12. I helped create the moon hoax.

LOL xD I love this topic

 

[Kian]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort. All I said was that I am thankful that I was born in the United States and that I am blessed to live a happy and fulfilling life.

I really don't see what the problem with that is.

 

[Dene]

I think anyone that is prepared to believe such conspiracy theory stuff is an idiot - offence intended. Are you that jealous?

also those astronauts were totally justified in both their anger and their violence. if you had a bunch of attention-craving morons coming up to you and telling you that what you worked for your entire life was a lie, then you would probably punch people too. come to think of it, i would probably punch that guy too.

I disagree, violence of any form is never acceptable, no matter what. It is merely an excuse of the weakminded.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

DAE_JA_VOO and Kubismo, could you post pictures of yourselves wearing your foil hats? It'd be cool. Really.

Sure thing. Myself:

My dog:

And my cat:

Stop being such a chop. My opinion is mine. No need to be nasty about it. I can't remember ever treating YOU in a similar fashion.

 

[Lofty]

You did insult the US govt and its people and saying no offense after something offensive doesn't make the original statement less offensive.... that could be taken as nasty.
So tho you haven't been nasty to Dene you have been in general.

 

[Dene]

But i'm not American? I think you're talking about Mr. brunson, not me >.<

 

[tim]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort.

No one says that you claimed that.

 

[Bounb]

Give me one piece of 'evidence' countering this and I will tell you why you are wrong.

How did the astronauts survive the van Allen radiation belt?

The spacecraft spent approximately 30 minutes moving through a radiation belt and the astronauts had some protection from the radiation by the aluminium hulls of the spacecraft (harmful ionizing radiation can be slowed or stopped entirely with a little bit lead or aluminium, alpha radiation is easily stopped, low level beta will be stopped by 3mm of aluminium.). Further, NASA made efforts to ensure that the trajectory from the Earth to the Moon through the belts was selected to minimize radiation exposure. Supposedly, Van Allen whom after the radiation belts in space are named personally rebutted the claims that radiation levels were too dangerous for the Apollo missions.

Dosimeters carried by the crews showed they received about the same cumulative dosage as a chest X-ray or about 1 milligray. Phil Plait cites (in Bad Astronomy, a book) an average dose of less than 1 rem, which is equivalent to the ambient radiation received by living at sea level for three years.

The radiation belts are not evidence for the hoaxed moon landing. In fact it is funny you should choose this line of attack as the radiation is actually evidence that the astronauts actually DID go to the moon.

Irene Schneider (whose area of expertise and research is focused around planet Mars and its radiation environments!) reported (on a November 2005 episode of The Space Show podcast) that thirty-three of the thirty-six Apollo astronauts involved in the nine Apollo missions to leave Earth orbit have early stage cataracts that have been shown to be caused by radiation exposure to cosmic rays during their trip. (Wikipedia)

Any more?

 

[MistArts]

Maybe we need to check Neil Armestrong's passport .

 

[AvGalen]

I think anyone that is prepared to believe such conspiracy theory stuff is an idiot - offence intended. Are you that jealous?

also those astronauts were totally justified in both their anger and their violence. if you had a bunch of attention-craving morons coming up to you and telling you that what you worked for your entire life was a lie, then you would probably punch people too. come to think of it, i would probably punch that guy too.

I disagree, violence of any form is never acceptable, no matter what. It is merely an excuse of the weakminded.

In this case violence is not acceptable. Punching someone because he insults you is way overreacting.
But I can imagine many cases were violence is acceptable, like self-defense or reaction to an enemy that isn't interested in talking/listening

 

[Dorsenstein]

You know what I say about this:

My favorite shade of MOON sticker is regolith!



Sorry, I just thought that was pretty funny.

if you don't know what regolith is, read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Scissors12321

thats what i think.

 

[Odin]

Yes they did, and the U.S. has proof

1. the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon then put reflector like pyramids (kind of like the ones on your bike BUT HUGE) on certain areas of the moons face so earth scientists could beam a laser like light to that spot and learn more about the surface of the moon. (You can find pictures/results of this test on line just Google "moon reflectors"

2 there’s satellite images of the Apollo astronauts foot prints which pictures where token via satellite.

(Both of those could not be there if the Apollo astronauts never went to the moon)

Also Myth Busters did A LOT of tests about this and showed the giant laser thingy which I think was kinda cool

 

[Pedro]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort.

No one says that you claimed that.

so what was the point of your first post?