*shrugs* It happens.

I'm not much of an argumentative person. I honestly didn't even look into the subject at all and commented on the thread thinking that I had something of intelligence to add.

And, as you so nicely told me, I didn't. =P

Know something?
I have more respect for you than ever before, because you were just honest about it.

Most people retreat to google and find some quotes so they can defend their honor... You didn't.
That's even better than being right.

Well done.

Heh. Thank you.

I love me some barley :love:

One of the conspiracie theories is that it was all performed on a sound stage, and you can see the letter 'C' (common on Hollywood props in the '60's.)on the ground and in a crater, but............

if you've ever seen the video, it shows them get out of the spacecraft, and then shows them playfully frollicking around for a few minutes, in a notable absence of Earth's gravity.:usehead: Hollywood can't replicate anti-gravity or one/seventh Earth's gravity.

I mean, the only thing on Earth that can come close to anti-gravity are those cool carnival rides like Gravitron or whatever..........but then the center of gravity is shifted outwards centrifugally, and no longer vertical(clearly not what you see in the vid).........so in other words, the plainfully obvious anti-gravity in that vid is virtually impossible to replicate.......especially in 1969.

This conspiracy theory is too far out there for me.......and that's saying something......
also I have a hard time believing the o.p. hadn't heard of this, or were you taking the piss?

I think I overestimate how important America and its 'achievements' are to other countries:p:

I'm with Freebase. Look at all the proof before you decide to make some rash conspiracy-based decision.

There was a period in which I was skeptical about the whole thing as well, coincidentally at the time I was living with my dad who is an astronomer (seriously, he is, his photos of comets are on the net and such.) He rebutted every single piece of 'evidence' I thought I had about it being fake with perfectly believable and scientific explanations. There are countless numbers of photos and videos and discussions on the web that if you really are skeptical I urge you to go through before you make some allegation about the landing being fake.

Here are some examples of rebuttals against moon landing conspiracies: There was no "blast crater" from the spacecraft because the engine was designed to slow the craft down, not blast it off, there were no stars in the background of photos because the aperture of the cameras had to be turned down due to the reflection of the sun off the moon, the flag was waving because there is STILL atmosphere on the moon, and flags still wave in vacuums, there were too sets of shadows in the photos because the moon has TWO light sources: the sun AND earth... etc etc etc.

And to all those who say it was impossible to do it back then because of technology - a lot of NASA's technology and inventions came from military technologies, not technologies that you would see around the house. Back then there certainly was technology advanced enough to perform the moon trip. It just wasn't everyday technology.

Also, going to Mars is a completely different topic. Because the typical time distance when Mars is closest to Earth is approximately a one-and-a-half year trip... more when Mars isn't at its closest to Earth. That's why it is so difficult to achieve it. It's not really comparable to going to the moon.

Mars isn't comparable with the moon yes, but it still could be achievable eventually. It's another planet we could potentially pollute right?

Yeah this thread has bombed in my eyes. This arguement has gone on way too long and unless you were actually there then stfu.

I don't know how we could possibly polute mars, it's not exactly in the best condition as it is.

But eh, it's either it or Venus. At least Mars won't melt our eyeballs off.

Ohh, I just talked to my best friend. He's in intelligence in the Army. And he's all like, "Why the hell would I lie to you? They landed on the moon."

And for some reason, since I really don't care enough, that's good enough for me.

They landed on the moon.

End of discussion.

We definitely landed on the moon at some point they put a big reflector up there that you can shoot a high power lazer at.