by jacquesm on 7/20/09, 8:55 PM
I think the biggest debunking argument there is is that even if the public could have been duped there is no way they would have been able to dupe the Russians, they had by far the best incentive to prove that the Americans had pulled a hoax. That would have been the PR coup of the century.
by nopassrecover on 7/20/09, 8:54 PM
I don't think authorities ever helped this idea. The rebuttals I've seen have always been tenuous at best (maybe it's hard to rebut such wild claims) and when you hear things like the original footage was taped over due to a shortage of tape it doesn't seem all that surprising that people will be skeptical. Interestingly, the wiki page (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_conspi...) probably does the best broad analysis I've read.
by falsestprophet on 7/20/09, 9:07 PM
I am not a proponent of the moon landing hoax theories. But you have believe that if the United States could land men on the moon they could fake it.
by BrentRitterbeck on 7/20/09, 8:58 PM
In that case, the Indians and Chinese are completely full of it. They have their own satellites orbiting the moon and have surveyed the six landing sites. Even if it were possible for the U.S. to keep a hoax under wrap, wouldn't another country like to blow the hoax wide open?
by periferral on 7/20/09, 10:07 PM
I think the biggest contributor to this maybe the fact that no one else has done it even until today. No one is even close to doing it again. 40 years later with technology leaps and bounds better than back when it was done.
Or maybe it is technology that is holding us back. The idea that not everything is perfect and we can't run a mission till everything is.
by rottencupcakes on 7/20/09, 9:45 PM
by bavcyc on 7/21/09, 10:56 AM
I had fun at one place of work by saying each time someone brought up the moon landing, you mean 'the alleged moon landing.' One gent knew I was joking but the rest weren't sure, so the two of us had a good laugh.