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Did the Americans put a man on the moon?

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    There is also that Newton would have to be in on the conspiracy as well, along with any other person paying vague attention to the world around them since the invention of the wheel, or discovery of how to create and control fire.

    For the moon landings and space travel to be fake, the entirety of science since the dawn of time must also be fake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    You're directly and indirectly claiming that the US and USSR faked their space programs. Along with the Japanese, and Europeans and Chinese and everyone. Private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin. GPS systems and international commercial satellites. Not just that but you are claiming there is a vast cover-up and conspiracy going on for decades involving astronomical numbers of people, scientists, engineers, experts. That the international space station is not actually in space, that it's all shot underwater. That every space launch is trickery or CGI. That all photos from space are faked. On top of all that, you're claiming the related study of physics, orbital mechanisms, jet propulsion, large tracts of science is either wrong or part of the conspiracy. That schools all over the world that teach these are wrong, that universities have it all "wrong". That Newton was wrong, that essentially all human knowledge on the subject is wrong.

    Or

    You can't grasp some school science


    Even you should be able to see why people are leaning towards the second one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,633 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The USSR didn't know themselves that the missions were impossible? The USSR could put Sputnik into orbit but lacked the basic understanding to know the moon landing wasn't possible? But you do?

    Because the claims you have made on this thread are not just about that the moon landing was impossible but are much wider in scope re: what space missions were not possible.

    They wouldn't be helping out the USA. They would be helping themselves out because the loss in the space race to the USA was a great hit to the prestige of the USSR. If their programmes such as Sputnik were sound, but the US had faked it, they had expertise to know it was not possible, and the motive to disclose it.

    Notice how when you are unable to respond to a point which is fatal to the plausibility of your theory, you dash off on a gish gallop tangent to distract the person from honing in on the point you could not refute.

    The concern re: the cuba based missiles was the time the US would have to respond and the success of a first strike.

    Evidence of the USSR shouting this from the rooftops = zero. Absolutely zero. To suggest that the USSR did this and there is no record of it is completely without merit or foundation. You have discredited your own theory by the falsehoods your have to resort to to defend it.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    have you ever even seen a rocket of any kind, sure air to light to provide enough resistance to make a rocket move at that speed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    if they are wasting their time here, it gives them less time to be doing some actual damage somewhere else



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    I stumbled across a few videos online, I think some individuals believe that rockets work by pushing against the ground or air. This is why they refuse to accept that rockets work in the vacuum of space.

    Even when there are experiments which demonstrate rockets working in vacuums, these individuals claim that the rocket is "pushing" against the piece of glass or whatever at the end of the vacuum chamber.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,915 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    the issue of they cannot differentiate between the potential energy of a chemical such as fuel (petrol etc) an teh ability to turn this potential energy into the kinetic energy of motion.

    no new energy is created, instead its the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy and the resultant motion.

    a coiled spring can be brought to space, put against a motionless spacecraft, released, and the resultant forces will move both the spacecraft and spring away from each other.

    Thrusters are simply stronger versions of this energy and this conversion from potential to kinetic energy.

    There are many, many examples of chemical potential energy being converted to kinetic energy to do work



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Passenger jet planes, we’ve all travelled in them, they get pretty high.

    Turbofan jet engines expel gases at speed to provide thrust, sounds similar to rockets.


    Why do passenger jet planes travel so high? The air is considerably thinner that high up so according to Markus’ theory they would be far less efficient. Why expend all that energy getting so high in order to work in a less efficient environment?

    I have 3 theories on why (following Markus’ line of thought here so near with me)

    1; They do it to provide credence to the space travel hoax somehow

    2; The windows in the planes are actually tv screens, we don’t actually go anywhere (haven’t figured out how they change the airport yet though)

    3; I’m a shill (and so if everybody else who claims to have been on a jet plane).


    Of course the debunkers will just say that planes fly high because (just like rockets), they work better in a low atmosphere environment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    the funny thing is, jets exist because air is so light, propellers wont work at high speed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    Do you really think the USSR, who had the greatest mathematicians in the world would let the US beat them in a space race? The only thing the US beat them at was how far they defrauded their own citizens.

    Why didn't Russia land a man on Mars since? Wouldn't this give them the bragging rights in space if it's all about prestige as you say?

    They didn't, because the US never went to the moon. The footage is laughably fake and the only thing propping it up is your gullibility. It's remarkable when you think about it. In order to believe the moonlandings, you are openly accepting that space travel is the only technological field in history which has regressed in the last 50 years rather than advance 😂



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,633 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    But your entire argument rests on the USSR letting the US fake a win over them.

    In order to believe your theory...

    We have to believe that no expert in physics in any country could see through the deception.

    We have to believe that the USSR scientists who could put Sputnik into orbit, could not see through the US deception.

    But you could.

    Your own posts contradict each other and therefore discredit your own theory.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,356 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    if you have to ask 'why haven't we been to the moon in 50 years?' as a way of supporting a moon landing hoax theory; why not ask 'why haven't we faked a manned moon landing/mars landing in 50 years?' as a way of supporting a counter-hoax theory?

    if it was so much easier for them to fake the landings in the late 60s/early 70s - why did they stop faking them? the technology to fake the landings has come on in leaps and bounds in the intervening decades.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    The British could only make it to Button Moon. Mr Spoon and Tim Peake the only 2 British astronauts i ever heard of.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Why didn’t the USSR fake them first for the win? Or when the US faked the moon landings why didn’t the USSR fake going to mars? Or the sun?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,356 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    also, if rockets don't work in a vacuum, what about the mirrors on the moon you can fire lasers at and get a measurable response from?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭gameoverdude




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,934 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    You've clearly been reading the flat earth forums/tiktok/manifesto.

    (yes, that is one of the explanations they have about how the atmosphere works on flat earth).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,934 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Same as we saw with dissident, it all comes back to "proof" that there is an almighty god actually controlling everything and only a few people know the real truth about it and all evidence to the contrary is a test of their faith.

    Most don't openly admit this, but let it slip in here and there.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Russia: The Real Moon Landing Hoax

    After the Apollo 1 fire NASA really upped it's quality control game. This paid off when the engineers were fired after the moon landings and took the processes into general industry.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    But space flight hasn't regressed. No one arguing this or "accepting" this.

    We used to have a super sonic jetliner, but now we don't. Yet it would be wrong and ridiculous to suggest that aviation has regressed because of this.


    Also if the Russia mathematicians were so unbeatable, then they would have figured out that space travel was impossible and figured out that the Americans were faking it.

    So it seems you are arguing that you are somehow smarter or more well informed than the greatest mathematicians.



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    As someone else said, just let the thread die. Leave the op to own their own thread of nonsense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    This is a big plot hole in the conspiracy that is never really explained.

    Most moon hoax believers only contend that soon or all of the Apollo missions are faked. They were faked to win the space race and after that there was no need to fake anything else.

    With the flat earthers however, it's a different issue.

    If they are already faking space missions then there's no reason for them not to fake more manned landings.

    It can't be because doing so is too expensive. Markus is claiming that they are already spending trillions to fake space missions that the vast majority of people don't care about as well as paying off all scientists and science youtubers. And on top of that they are somehow is making a profit from it.

    It can't be that it's too difficult because we've been told that they were able to fool the greatest mathematicians on Earth at the time using only 60s technology. So unless it's going to be argued that the technology to fake the landings has somehow regressed since the 60s it is now much easier to fake landings. We are also told that all space images and videos released are completely fake so they would not have any issue faking new images from the moon or Mars.

    And it can't be that they are afraid of exposing the theory. They are pumping out faked missions every year to a public that isn't paying any attention. According to theorists these are already chock full of obvious mistakes and errors that prove they are fake even to people with no knowledge or training in science. So the conspirators clearly cannot be afraid of exposure due to attention or errors.


    Like with all aspects of this theory, if you actually stop and think about it with any depth or look into the "nitty gritty" for more than a second, it falls apart.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    So they couldn’t have faked it using 60’s technology, but they had the technology to send and land men on the moon 6 times in 3 years.

    How does that work?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Excellent explanation here.

    TLDW: It would have been easier to go to the moon than to fake it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Dohnjoe provided an excellent video that shows that it would have been impossible to fake.

    Claiming that they did fake it requires you to be believe that they somehow secretly had the super advanced technology to fake all of the footage. Also that they had the funds and resources to run an entirely fictitious rocket development. And that they were also running a secret robotic space program to retrieve the lunar samples. And that they were bribing all scientists around the world to keep quiet about how the mission was obviously impossible (and continue to do so for the next 60+ years. And then also they keep all of this completely silent and secret even from the Russians, for decades with zero leaks or death bed confessions. (But then also leave in obvious amateur mistakes that even untrained internet detectives can find)

    And this is assuming the bare bones version of the conspiracy theory where they only faked Apollo. This becomes exponentially more ridiculous when you consider Markus' notion that all space flight is impossible and fake.

    I asked if that's something you believed but you neglected to answer. I will assume you don't agree with that claim.


    So why is the above all believable to you, but not the notion that they were able to land on the moon?

    What about the Apollo missions were impossible in your view?



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Don't forget that anyone living within 100 miles or so of the launch site will also have to be in on the conspiracy and lied about watching the rockets launch, and be provided with fake home video and photos to show their grandkids.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,356 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    I would assume that to land on the moon, the challenge is scientific and technological. To fake it, the challenge is logistical and dependent on human nature.

    I read once that the CIA have an unofficial measure of how likely a secret is to get out; that it's proportional to the square of the people who know it. Hundreds of thousands of people worked on the space programs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,552 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    dont worry, if you dont like that theory they will have a new one tomorrow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,483 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    " And yet if I showed you video footage of Neil Armstrong/Buzz/Collins faking the footage (which absolutely exists)"


    Please, show us the video footage of them faking the footage.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,915 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    notice how the CTers never engage directly with the posts that clearly refute their warped misunderstandings

    its a "stick my fingers in my ears and shout nan nan an" mentality

    its a trait shared with pathological liars.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Think it would still be impossible to fake. It's not just having grainy footage of people bouncing around a rocky landscape that you have to produce, and Sci fi movies from decades later than the moon landings can clearly be seen as fake. Creating the special effects just wasn't possible then.

    The bigger challenge though is that you have to broadcast that fake footage from the surface of the moon, and have live two-way communication with the fake people on the moon without anyone else who is listening in noticng that the transmission is actually being sent first from the USA.

    They might be able to fake the video today, but they still couldn't fake the radio transmission from the surface of the moon or from the craft whilst on its way there and back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    There's certain things in the videos that are impossible to fake.

    For instance when you see the lunar rovers driving around you can see the dust being kicked up by the wheels doesn't behave like dust on Earth. It flies in parabolic arcs rather in big clouds because there is no air for it to do so.

    The only way to fake that would to put the whole sound stage the were on into a vacuum chamber and keep it at a near perfect vacuum for the lenght of the shot.

    Then eve if you did make the largest most perfect vacuum chamber in history it still wouldn't work because you can see the dust is falling as if it was in lesser gravity.

    The only way to fake this would be to put that massive vacuum chamber in a plane and fly parabolic arcs like the vomit comet. (Though since we are seeing that physics is being rewritten on this thread, there's no guarantee that this would even work.)


    The only other option would be to use cgi to simulate the millions and millions of dust particles, which isn't possible either because we are being told that they only had the computing power equivalent to pocket calculators.


    And even then assuming that they over came this by building a giant flying vacuum chamber or inventing hyperadvanced computer graphics decades ahead of everyone else, they're doing so to fabricate the dust flying off the wheels of the rover. Why would they go to all of that effort and expense to fake since a minor thing.

    Why would they do so, but then in other aspects be completely lazy and incompetent and leave obvious clues, like the claim the flags are bowing in the wind.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    And to do it 6 times. With hundreds of thousands of people having to all keep the secret. Without any foreign intelligence agencies finding out, including the Russians, who most certainly had people in NASA and other areas of US government. Next to impossible.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,356 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    I see the thread has already been spammed-out and rendered unreadable as usual. Censorship at it's finest.

    Here's the footage. Watch from 32:00 to 40:00

    I'm sure this will be followed by another slew of nonsense posts from the usuals in order to bury this and move the thread onto another page. 👍️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭gameoverdude


    Hold on a second. They're not liars but extremely robust with the truth.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭gameoverdude




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    I thought all space travel was fake?

    Why did they go to the bother of launching the rockets and then faking the filming on board those craft if they knew they weren't going to get to the moon. Why did they think that the USSR wouldn't announce that they never went to the moon and only an earth orbit? It would have been blindingly obvious to USSR exactly where they were, and likely a bunch of amateur people listening into the radio transmission as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    Only just noticed this new video from Sibrel, posted just a few months ago, showing a testimony of a son of Cyrus Eugene Akers, a member of the US Air Force who confided in him on his deathbed what he saw at Cannon Air Force Base New Mexico in the 60s.


    He mentions hangars that contained lunar landers and truckloads of sand/cement mixes that entered and exited the hangar on a regular basis. The hangars were restricted by order of President Johnson who also visited the site. The most interesting thing was the list of people who had exclusive authorization to enter the hangars (spelling may be wrong):

    • Neil Armstrong
    • Edwin Aldrin
    • Wernher von braun
    • Robert Eminegor (known for making videos for the Dept of Defense)
    • Jean Krantz
    • James Webb
    • Joe Kirwin
    • Thomas Payne
    • Glenn Looney
    • Christopher Kraft
    • James Van Allen
    • General Trudeau
    • Donald Simon
    • Grant Noray

    A sickening part of this video is how he mentions being visited by men in black suits, not long after making contact with Sibrel, threatening him and his family, which is why he decided to only release the footage after his death.

    A very apt line from Sibrel in the description:

    All Truth passes through three stages.

    First, it is ridiculed,

    Then it is violently opposed,

    Finally it is accepted as self-evident.

    -Arthur Schopenhauer

    Sums up the conspiracy forum 🤣. Can't tell if we are at the ridiculed or violently opposed stage..



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,915 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    source please?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    This is a questionable video made by the conspiracy theorist who went around trying to get astronauts to swear on a bible (and was famously punched by Buzz Aldrin). It's got a lot of old debunked stuff in it, shadows, Van Allen belts and so on.

    I don't see anything "spammed" or "unreadable" about the thread at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,552 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    That was done by the bloke that Buzz Aldrin punched.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Crew of space craft take part in training exercises before embarking on mission shocker!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    No it doesn't have any old debunked stuff in it. And yes that is the man who was punched by Buzz Aldrin and also had another astronauts son conspire to have him assassinated by the CIA.

    None of them would swear on the bible by the way which is very telling. Very telling given some of them are very religious, namely Armstrong himself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    I just watched all of that.

    The man in the video has no evidence of anything apart from being the son of a person who made the initial claim (for which there's no evidence, and the apparent deathbed confession was lost in a fire)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,231 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    No evidence Armstrong was religious (below). No one goes around getting people to swear on Bibles, that's really crossing into strange territory.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-armstrong-bible-idUSL1N2RG249

    If you want to believe man didn't land on the moon in 1969, okay, but you are also maintaining all the other moon landings, and all space flight is faked, and all human knowledge on space travel is fake. That's a big one.

    How do you, for example, rationalise the below 50 mins of International Space Station footage to yourself. You claim it's shot underwater, but how is he speaking? why aren't his clothes wet? Etc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Hey @Markus Antonius , big slip up with that video!!

    You've claimed before that all space travel is fake, the video you posted claims they took the footage in earth orbit.

    Can’t wait to hear your theory explaining this one!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,587 ✭✭✭silliussoddius




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    Do you ever regret spending disproportionate amounts of your life camping out in an online conspiracy forum posting repititious, cynical, condescending drivel? Surely there are more positive ways of making the world a better place?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    its only 5 pages long so far, i'd say even a 10 year old could manage to read that much

    there are even videos for those that can't read



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