Have you ever met anyone who thinks that Apollo was fake?

[FishInferno]

We all hear about the "moon hoax" and how some people believe that the Apollo missions were all a hoax and we only did it to make the Soviets think we beat them. Have you met any of these people? I personally haven't.

[Wanderfound]

Only idjit teenagers going through their "reject all authority!" phase.

[Thomas988]

I can't put my finger on any real-life examples, but I'm sure I met someone along the way. And oh man do they make me mad.

[Stone Blue]

Oh, HECK YES, I have...I live in western NY, and TONS of rednecks around here dont believe in the moon landings...Also, most think NASA and current space programs are all a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and pointless...

[Thomas988]

Also, most think NASA and current space programs are all a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and pointless...

This almost made me throw up.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

I met one kid in school. Blonde 12-year old girl. Gave the run-of-the-mill "how come the flag waved?" arguement.

[_Augustus_]

Only idjit teenagers going through their "reject all authority!" phase.

Ikr?

I can't put my finger on any real-life examples, but I'm sure I met someone along the way. And oh man do they make me mad.

This almost made me throw up.

Yeah....

The only things we waste tax dollars on are the rest of the crap the government wastes money on.

NASA is not a waste..

I met one kid in school. Blonde 12-year old girl. Gave the run-of-the-mill "how come the flag waved?" arguement.

Why did it wave again?

[Bill Phil]

Probably. At least now I have a good argument:

Why hasn't NASA faked anything else, like a Mars Landing? It's easier than actually doing it.

[gmpd2000]

Why did it wave again?

Because it wanted to say hi!

[ZedNova]

Only on the internet. Where you are free to express yourself.

And free to show off your stupidity

Also pretty sure this is gonna be locked soon.

[segaprophet]

[Sidereus]

Only online...though I did have a professor in college who was a 9/11 truther (I even got into an argument with him in the middle of class over it...). Wouldn't surprise me if he was also believed the moon landing was a hoax as well.

[Whirligig Girl]

Yes, but it might be because they're trying to bug me.

[Sidereus]

Why did it wave again?

Due to the oscillations of the pole as they were planting it into the surface. Also, the wire that held it out straight was bent, which made it look kind of wavy.

On a sad note, if you were to visit the flag today, it would probably be bleached white due to solar radiation. Future civilizations are going to think we surrendered to the Moon.

Edited February 14, 2015 by Sidereus

[Dispatcher]

No. And I don't know anyone who has indicated that they have met such a person. For those reasons, it follows that I hold suspect the "yes" poll responses (which at the moment outnumber the "no" responses ['lookie here, Billy Bob said "yes" just for laughs']) in this thread. I consider the notion that many people believe that we were "hoaxed" to be nothing more than an "urban legend", so to speak. If any of you have actually met a person who really thinks we were hoaxed, I consider you a rarity.

[Camacha]

Wouldn't surprise me if he was also believed the moon landing was a hoax as well.

Hoaxers believing in only one big hoax and no others are very rare indeed. I have seen plenty of people contesting everything and anything, but none that just contested one, or maybe two at most. This probably tells us a lot about the phenomena.

On a sad note, if you were to visit the flag today, it would probably be bleached white due to solar radiation. Future civilizations are going to think we surrendered to the Moon.

They will probably be able to detect its original colours and just believe NASA came horribly ill prepared. Flying (floating?) all that way to plant a flag and just bringing a cheap version with you might be frowned upon the way we frown upon seemingly simple errors of the past.

Edited February 14, 2015 by Camacha

[razark]

Why hasn't NASA faked anything else, like a Mars Landing?

It's simple really.

Look at the footage of the moon "landings". They're all low quality pictures. It's easy to fake something when people are expecting it not to look very good in the first place. After the Skylab missions, people got used to seeing much higher quality. Faking a moon or Mars landing in the quality expected now would be prohibitively expensive, and the quality would never be good enough to fool people who have grown up with high quality special effects and CGI.

No, I've never met anyone that believes the landings were faked. (I think my area might be a little bit biased against a large hoaxer population, though.)

But my coworkers no longer let me get near the trams when the tourists are passing by since I started telling them it was all done on a sound stage.

[TheBlueJay]

I've met a few. As soon as they start saying "Oh yeah, the moon landing was SO fake!", I walk off and ignore them. I don't have time for conspiracies as as such.

[Bill Phil]

There are quite a few areas in deserts that look like Mars, and you can add a red tint if needed. Heck, if they go to the Namib desert it's already red! The biggest problem now is the lander design, it needs to be believable. That and the spacesuits.

Of course, with the internet, it's harder to convince people.

They could have faked it in 1978, with low quality, saying that they had budget problems...

[LordFerret]

Oh, HECK YES, I have...I live in western NY, and TONS of rednecks around here dont believe in the moon landings...Also, most think NASA and current space programs are all a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and pointless...

"Hicks" are in western NY... you have to go down south to find "rednecks".

[FishInferno]

On a sad note, if you were to visit the flag today, it would probably be bleached white due to solar radiation. Future civilizations are going to think we surrendered to the Moon.

Actually, that process requires oxygen i think. So it should still be colorful:)

[lajoswinkler]

Yes. My female colleague from the university. It wasn't even about the facts or their misinterpretations. She thought it was preposterous to even consider that a human being was able to go there, something on the order of having a lunch in a black hole and coming back before supper, so she didn't even want to hear the argumentation. To her, it was something utterly impossible and absolutely faked.

I think it's enough to say I've lost almost all of the academic respect for her.

Actually, that process requires oxygen i think. So it should still be colorful:)

Nah, it doesn't. Sun's spectrum, even when filtered by our own atmosphere, is enough to ruin dyes. In the naked vacuum of outer space, that's a lot more prominent.

Edited February 14, 2015 by lajoswinkler

[Sidereus]

Actually, that process requires oxygen i think. So it should still be colorful:)

No, that's oxidation. UV radiation bleaching is a different effect, called photodegredation. The radiation breaks down the bonds in the molecules that make up the dye, causing fading over time. The flags placed on the moon weren't specially made; they bought it off the rack from a government supply store, so they weren't designed to withstand this effect.

[cptdavep]

My sister is a big conspiracy theorist and thinks it was fake. She also believes in chem trails, crystal healing, and once claimed that you never see colour photos of the moon far side because they don't want you to see there are secret government bases there (even though Apollo was fake, she's so consistent...). She also stinks of incense and wears wierd home made clothes so I'm not too worried about people taking her seriously!

[EdFred]

No but, I've met a bunch of crazy people who think it was real.