Moon Hoax Theory is Itself a Hoax

I’ve noticed that the Moon Hoax Theory is largely supported by people who don’t have any interest in human spaceflight or space exploration in general. I think that to anyone not interested in these matters, the hoax offers a way of dismissing an experience that is totally beyond their comprehension.

The thinking goes something like: ” I can’t understand how this was accomplished, so therefore it must not be real “, or, ” the idea of walking on the Moon is so far beyond the events that characterise my daily routine”, so, therefore, lunar landings cannot be and were not real events. The Moon Landings therefore become a kind of ‘paranormal’ phenomenon to Moon Hoax believers, and they seek to ‘debunk’ the seemingly supernatural history of the events in the same way that Ghosts, Demons etc are debunked by science. These people crave to be lone messiahs – brought to save a brainwashed and herded multitude: Add in the idea (post Iraq) that the American government cannot be trusted, and you have a whole culture that seems to want to attack and destroy the historical event. Uninterested in the science, and unfamiliar with the peer review process by which science operates, pop culture turns Moon Hoax belief into some kind of trendy ‘insider’ club, where specialist knowledge and truth is traded to shame the evil American establishment.

The whole hoax belief culture is supported by lousy logic though; why didn’t the Soviets blow the whistle on the Americans? How come the supposed ‘errors’ in the photographs are visible to the amateur but not the worldwide experts? And if the American government is so expert with mass participation hoaxes and faking, why the hell didn’t they cook up a couple of nuclear weapons to plant in Iraq to belatedly justify the previous invasion?

The main reason no stars appear in any of the photos is because if the f-stops on the cameras were set high enough to include them, the images of Earth, the lunar surface and the spacecraft would’ve been terribly overexposed. That pretty much covers that point. And as for NoName’s inane comment, he is either intellectually handicapped or trying to be funny.

Okay, so now I’m going to tackle these arguments from both NoName and Butch. First off, I guess NoName was so ashamed of the position they’re taking that they would not use their actual name. That’s understandable; they should be ashamed of it. Now, let me say that my culture did not develop the Flat Earth concept. The simple folks of Europe’s dark ages were not my culture, and the mistaken perceptions of the Flat Earth concept has absolutely nothing to do with Judeo-Christian views. For instance, contrary to popular belief, the educated people of Europe already knew before Christopher Columbus set sail that the Earth was not flat. It was only the simple and uneducated masses who considered that idea, and it wasn’t based on their religious beliefs, but rather on their ignorance of science. They were after all, uneducated. To be perfectly frank, images of the flat Earth disk with the star speckled sky dome resting on the back of a giant turtle swimming in a cosmic sea has more of an arcane pagan origin than anything Judeo-Christian. NoName said, “…no other culture ever developed such a stupid perception as you did…” I didn’t develop this perception. I had nothing to do with developing it, so that statement makes no sense, whatsoever. To put it another way, regardless of the origin of the Flat Earth concept, even if my culture had developed it, which it did not, then I am still not responsible for it, since I personally had nothing to do with it’s development, and was actually educated at the most basic “elementary” level, by my culture, that it was a completely false and mistaken concept. While my culture in the United States is considered a part of “Western Civilization”, it is still not responsible for the development of this mistaken Flat Earth concept, as NoName seems to suggest. After all my culture is a relatively young culture, compared to the rest of the civilized world, and it was already known beyond the shadow of any doubts even before its inception, that the Earth is in fact spherical and not flat. So my culture never thought that the Earth was flat. Now moving on to a more substantive matter, NoName said, “Not even an unmanned craft ever landed on the moon yet!” By the way, I corrected your grammatical error. The proper way to say that is not “a unmanned”, but rather “an unmanned”. However, it is interesting that you should say that, since most MHT advocates actually do accept that unmanned probes were sent to the Moon. They use the unmanned probe argument to try to explain away the fact that NASA placed reflectors on the moon, which can be verified today with laser lights aimed directly at those reflectors. After all, the Russians also placed reflectors on the moon with unmanned probes. The problem is that the Russian unmanned probes were unable to give those reflectors the proper alignment, and are therefore useless. By contrast the reflectors put in place by the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 astronauts are perfectly aligned to reflect the lasers directly back to the Earth, a precision that could only be achieved by manual placement carried out by the astronauts, and are still being used today. NASA has made public the exact locations of all these reflectors, so that observatories from all over the Earth can aim laser lights at them and make extremely accurate measurements of the distance from Earth to Moon. It is in fact with these measurements that scientists have been able to determine that the Moon is very slowly spiraling away from the Earth, measured in feet per century. These reflectors are an indisputable fact. They are on the Moon, and had to get there somehow. So NoName, you can’t have both of your statements. If we didn’t send men to the Moon, then we had to at least send unmanned probes. And considering how precisely those reflectors were installed; the robotic technology needed to get them lined up just right would have been higher than the technology of just sending the astronauts to do it. Otherwise, those reflectors simply could not be there, even though they have been independently verified to be right where the astronauts installed them, by observatories all over the world. That these reflectors are on the Moon is not just a belief, or something thought to be, but a known and verified fact.

Okay, that finishes NoName, so let’s turn to Butch.

As has been admitted by NASA, the technology they developed in the sixties for those missions was barely able to achieve their goals. It was skin of the teeth technology. The “space race” persuaded them to take enormous risks, which they would not be willing to take now. But the reality demonstrated by such things as the above mentioned laser reflectors, and the 800 pounds of Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts glares in the face of your unsubstantiated and clearly invalid blanket statements. Not only were they capable of sending men to the Moon and return them safely, but they obviously did so. Like the reflectors, the Moon rocks have been independently verified by scientists all over the world to be the genuine thing. Even Russian scientists acknowledge them to really be from the Moon, as they have a very small amount of rocks they acquired with unmanned probes sent to the Moon, which returned with those small samples. Some have mistakenly argued that since the Russians were able in the 1970’s to acquire Moon rock samples with unmanned probes, then why couldn’t NASA have done the same? The problem with that argument is that the Russian samples are just a small few pounds, while the technology necessary to bring back 800 pounds of rocks with unmanned probes would have been higher than the technology needed to send the astronauts to collect them. Finally, your choice of saying that it would take another 20 years from now to actually send men to the Moon is completely arbitrary and has no basis in fact.

We went to the Moon, and quite likely we have not stopped going. If that likelihood is true, then it just went “black project” after Apollo 17. Given that, the technology of this theoretical continuing black project would now have become much higher than anything we see in the known public domain.

Very interesting! Great job!