Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

I find conspiracy theories, particularly well-researched ones, fascinating. This film makes you think about something that you perhaps never considered -- that man may actually have never landed on the moon. The thought surely had never crossed *my* mind before! It asks very interesting questions.....even a few I *have* wondered about, but never attributed it to being a hoax -- for example, why there seem to be no stars in the photographs from the moon. Some of the stuff they show is pretty convincing....such as two film clips supposedly showing two different locals on the moon, but when shown overlapped, they are the same location (however I agree this is a case of bad editing or a mislabel!) Though the questions brought up are interesting, the answers given are lame (though a few are somewhat convincing), and obviously biased, with almost no comment by 'the other side' (the scientists/researchers/ASTRONAUTS who believe we went to the moon). Overall, this will either freak you out, make you laugh or just remind you not to accept things without question.

So. Every piece of argument presented in favour of the hoax idea is very easily disputed, and the "experts" discredited (or, in the case of the grieving family members, understandably emotionally biased). In contrast, existing reliable evidence, and sound logic, fully support the reality of the '69 landing and those that follow.

But. For precisely this reason, and the shameless use of logical fallacy and entry-level persuasive technique, it is a really useful teaching tool when working on examining the validity of historical evidence and/or verifying sources. A handful of kids are usually swayed by the presented arguments at first...which puts them in a fun, argumentative, place for conducting further (simple) research. It instills a pretty strong instinct to question, and willingness to properly search out answers.

Problem: It's been taken down by Netflix and is hard to find! Anybody have any idea where to find it? I'm relying on youtube, where uploads don't last long.

In my astronomy class, we watched this movie and then went through why all the theories are wrong. There is an entire website dedicated to why everything in this movie is wrong Everything in this movie is taken out of context for sensationalism.

Conspiracy-theory-nutjobs should spend less time researching the Illuminati, the reverse-vampires, the Zionists, the saucer-people, and the Freemasons and instead take an introductory physics course.

Even today, there are people who believe in the 5 second rule. Who believe that a badge or book can stop a bullet. Who believe the gravity is a push. And who believe, even today in the first world, the world if flat.

But even the greatest conspiracy theorist, Agent Fox Mulder from the then hit TV series X-Files, when looking at it would say "We landed on the moon." Three of the best evidence that proves the moon landing was a hoax can easily be explained by people with eyes and a brain.

#3 - No Stars: On a clear night in the city, look up into the sky and what do you see? You see the moon. Can you see stars? No, or at least hardly. Those stars are even being dampened out by "dimly" lit street lights, so image being on a bright surface of the moon.

Myth busted.

#2 - No Parallel Shadows: If you were to look on a hill or ground on Earth that isn't a road when the sun is relatively how in the horizon, either in the morning, evening, or in winter, how many of the shadows are parallel? Not many. Cause that conspiracy was based upon flat surfaces, and the moon has none.

Myth busted And the ultimate evidence: #1 - Waving Flag: That "evidence" is suppose to be the evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lunar landings were hoaxed. Look again. When the astronauts are positioning the flag, it is true the flag is moving, but the astronauts are moving it when they are positioning it. And the flag isn't flapping, it is whipping. And when looking at other footage with the flag, the flag isn't flapping at all.

The ultimate evidence - myth busted.

Even though it is nothing more than pure and utter fiction, does show the gullibility of the average person. But even then it is very thought provoking. Even worse, not only all the evidence that favours the conspiracy can easily be used to prove the lunar landings did happen, there is even more evidence never addressed by the conspiracy theorists that proves that the lunar landings did happen.

It beggars belief as to why actor Mitch Pileggi, star of the X-Files and an apparently healthy and sane man, would lend his name to such hilariously uninformed trash as this.

The conspiracy theory that NASA faked all the Moon landings, has been trotted out for years by self-declared experts whose expertise often seems to cover a superhuman range of highly specialised fields - from Geology, Photography and Physics to Engineering.

One of them, Bill Kaysing - a king of conspiracies, claims amongst other things, that the reason why Astronauts who have been to the moon hang up on him and refuse to talk when he calls them incessantly, "proves" that they have something to hide.

He and others breathlessly point to everything from photos of unexpected shadows and reflections, to the 70s B-movie 'Capricorn One' (which tapped into the public's growing pre-XFiles interest in conspiracy-fantasy), to contradictions between NASA drawings and what THEY think would actually happen in space.

But by far the worst moment of this program comes during the unsavoury references to deceased astronauts, in a cheap attempt to link their tragic deaths to a wider NASA cover-up.

Before you ask yourself if any of this stuff proves we didn't go to the moon, ask yourself this: Is there anything that proves that we did?

Then consider, as one example, the hundreds of scientific staff from around the world, and from all walks of life, who for 30 years have had the pleasure of examining the many kilograms of moon materials that were collected and returned by the Apollo missions. These geological materials are well documented, and are so unique that there is no way they could be artificial.

Meanwhile, with it's dramatic and sinister voiceovers, multiple use of the words "could?" "might?" and "did?", and a complete lack of reasonable objectivity, this sort of crap will no doubt entertain a few more gullible souls, on a break from searching their bellybutton lint for microchips.