Many types of technology are much more advanced. "Send tons of metal and some people hurtling out of the atmosphere without killing them" technology, not as much. In simpler terms, we've had fireworks for centuries. Sometimes you still get a dud. It took multiple tries before the successful attempt; why would we suddenly never fail again after that? It's a difficult thing, and an extremely expensive thing, one people are less willing to pay for without a cold war.

While we don't go to the moon often, we do still go into space, to work on international space stations and whatnot. There's not much reason to keep visiting the dusty moon and plant more flags on it. Technology has not yet advanced enough for us to, say, colonize the moon. When it has, you can bet people will suddenly care about landing on it again.

The earth is a globe? Blasphemy!

P.S.

The Russians never made a man lunar landing

Yes I think we did ,Why though would we go back.we scan study from where we are and attempt to do other things right now.

Are you really saying that one failed trip to the Moon is proof that the other 6 were all fake?

And we are planning another trip to the Moon, just so you know. They're planning to build a base there so we can put men on Mars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit
And as for the cameras, while I am not aware of the details of photographic exposure to electromagnetic radiation, is it inconceivable to imagine how high-frequency-radiation-resistant film might be developed?


Fair enough. Yet once again, an outlying failure means nothing compared to the tech or the past success. Error in tradjectory calculation, inherently uncontrollable failure risks, etc. Things break. Things malfunction. If you saw a malfunctioning mechanical process on earth, would you point to it as evidence that the mechanical process had never been successful ever before?

My government only makes a high-way of 5-10% of the money(you can imagine the quallity of the roads here),the rest they steal.
We here have the highest corruption in the whole of Europe.

My country is a mess,that's true,but americans spend money on things way less important than this.
And hunger,war and misery where always there.

I love a good conspiracy theory, but im pretty sure that the Americans did land on the moon. The documentary they ran a while back seemed to answer every question, although im not sure about the radiation. Thats the only thing that bothers me about it.

I'm sorry, this has bearing on the conversation at hand, how?

How is it important to go visit the Moon? There's nothing to prove and nothing to do that you can't do with robots or ranged surveillance equipment. The US governmant won't pay hundreds of billions of dollars just to stop the conspirators, because they wouldn't believe it anyway.

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Moon%20Hoax%20Answers.htm

EDIT: Should perhaps add pointful things. You can't of course go jumping on the Moon without actually being there, but the cost/result ratio will be a way to big number.

that's what they want you to think :shifty:

I agree, i see what your saying that the money should have been put to better use but how does that haven any bearing on whether we went or not?

One thing i like to point out in these threads: the moon landings happened during the Cold War, and you can bet your ass USSR was monitoring the american mission as intensively as USA. If they had found out that the landings were faked, why would they keep quite about it? They could've ridiculed USA good with that.

And also, during the moon landings, reflectors were placed on moon, that allow any observatory anywhere on earth to measure the distance between moon and earth.

I am wondering how they managed to keep the recordings they made safe from cosmic radiation, but the landings happend.

I am not funny. moon land on you!

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We are going back to the Moon. We have reason to go there (to build a base and then make a trip to Mars). NASA's planning it now. Obviously, Bush's original projection of 2020 is not going to happen, but we are going back there.

Good point.

Actually, I'm breaking one of my own rules, here. I'm trying to disprove a conspiracy theory, which is by its nature impossible, as everything in the world will eventually be pulled into question to support the conspiracy theory.

So I'm going to head all this off and alledge that your theory that the moon landing is fake is itself actually part of a grandiose conspiracy theory, one that aims to distract all the reasonable people in the world with conspiracies so that a cliche shadowy organization can take over and rule with an iron fist. Prove to me that your conspiracy theory is not in fact part of a larger conspiracy.

:P

Well of course they had Space suits, but they were still exposed to radiation: http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/apollo/S2ch3.htm

I knew it! There's a secret communist society in one of the craters in the moon! It all makes sense!

Mythbusters busted that myth.

Oh we did go to the moon again. But when the Nazis hiding there killed the astronauts NASA stopped sending more people, since they didn't have the technology to send a large invasion force.

:o

I knew it!

Bad argument my friend. Very bad argument. Although I agree that the Mythbusters proved everything was plausible, the conspiracy theorists are too jaded to believe it.

They are entertainment, not science.

I like them,but i can't consider anything they do scientific evidence.

Every time this topic comes up, I say the same thing. Well, not the same words, but make the same point.

I grew up in Cape Canaveral Fla during the Apollo and Mercury Programs. My grandfather worked at base and could get me into places that most of the public could not get into. I have seen launches of the rockets from closer than you want to be in a bunker and from the beach down the street from my house which was several miles away. I have been all over that base. I have been into buildings that you never see unless you have clearence or work there. There is no way that they would build all that infrastructure for hoax. There is no way that they would employ the hundreds of thousands of people all over the world (Cape Canaveral, Huntsville, Houston, Adelaid, Madrid etc) in all those locations and be able to pull off any kind of hoax. Someone would have seen something if it was a sham.

One thing about conspiracies. They never remain a secret if more than one person is involved. Get 400,000 people involved, along with 20,000 other businesses and universities and the people they employed and if there was something to tell, it would have been told by now.

When a rocket ship taller than a 36 story building leaves the ground on a pillar of fire, there is no doubt in anyone's minds what happened. Or where they went.