Why the Moon Hoax makes no sense : Part 7

Part 7 of 9 of 'Why the Moon Hoax makes no sense' presented by Peter Barrett of the Canberra Skeptics on Friday, 13 April 2007 at the Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula.

There are people who believe that NASA faked the Moon Landings on a sound stage in Area 51, or Sudbury in Canada, or somewhere in Australia - and many people find Moon Hoax arguments superficially convincing.

But the logic which is used to support Moon Hoax arguments very quickly becomes self-contradictory. In fact, it requires NASA to be simultaneously brilliant and stupid. And although Moon Hoax supporters muster what appears to be strong technical evidence in support of their arguments, these arguments are surprisingly easy to demolish.

In this talk, Peter will examine a range of Moon Hoax arguments, explain why they make no sense, and discuss why the Moon Hoax matters. (Don't worry, no technical knowledge is required !)

Related links:

Canberra Skeptics: http://finch.customer.netspace.net.au/skeptics/

Australian Skeptics: http://www.skeptics.com.au/

Moon Base Clavius: http://www.clavius.org

Bad Astronomy: http://www.badastronomy.com

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

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• Moon
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• Hoax
• Nasa
• sceptics
• Canberra
• Skeptics

[Yozer245]

is this saying that the moon landing is fake?

[mddawson1]

@Yozer245 No he is pointing out the flaws in the logic people use to deny the landiings - they occurred.

[EGMAG]

NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine was drawing up ambitious plans for the establishment of a "permanent base on the Moon by the end of the 1970s" and the launch of a manned expedition to "Mars as early as 1981". All U.S. Project Apollo moon landings, and the attempted moon landing of Apollo 13, took place during water gator Nixon's first term. COVERUPS COVERUPs.

[mddawson1]

Your logic is poor. Just because a gov carries out a coverup, Watergate, does not mean that everything they did was suspect & required a coverup. Going back to the moon probaly was the wish of Paine but NASA relies on gov funding & by the time of the last couple of Apollo missions both the public & gov had lost interest. Now we have a new political incentive - beat the Chinese in building a moon base.

[EGMAG]

Go to search for "NASA Moon Hoax" by JokerisWebCams I can't believe it! In the video at the :50's I looked over and over and over. I finally was satisfied to actually CLEARLY see the wire that runs from in between the helmet and the antenna. I even used a good magnifying glass. Oh how funny to think this is a puppet string. Ohhhh sshhhhiiittt!Notice how grainy the picture becomes ; so to disguise the wire. ha ha ha heee heee hooo haaah yyeee hhaaaa!

[mddawson1]

So you studied a low res YouTube video probably copied from a multi generation VHS tape & you spotted flaws. Big deal!

[singedrac]

It wouldn't look the same as from Earth because the atmosphere blocks certain frequencies. But yeah, it looks the same from the moon as it does from low earth orbit. :)

[singedrac]

Nobody "thought of it" because there's no reason to do it. Yes, it's true that you can see broader ranges of starlight when outside the atmosphere, but there's no photography of the stars that could be taken on the moon which couldn't have been taken (and in fact was) taken in low earth orbit.

[plasmalux]

411,000 people worked on Project Apollo. If the project was a hoax then thousands would have come forward by now with REAL evidence of a hoax. But what do we get? Pot head kids and anti-government trolls who were not even connected to the program: And all of them trying to use low quality flash youtube vids to hawk their 'evidence'! Give me a break!

[EGMAG]

mddawson1 you spotted flaws<<

com'on-that's not flaws. that's cover ups.