Comments on: Apollo interview roundup

By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.

Charles J. Slavis, Jr. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:16:48 +0000

There is no way Apollo made it to the moon. The theater is still on location in New York City.

By: The Colony/Apollo stuff « steve cross loves music and science

The Colony/Apollo stuff « steve cross loves music and science — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:19:11 +0000

[...] Plait at Bad Astronomy posted a bunch of good links to various interviews related to the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s [...]

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:02:16 +0000

I am going to use lmgtfy.com a LOT now. Thanks!

By: TechyDad

TechyDad — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:24:24 +0000

Parkylondon,

I’ve heard some hoaxers claim that Russia went along with the moon landing hoax to induce fear in their populace, but honestly did they really need a moon landing for that? We had tons of nuclear weapons pointed at each other. I’d be a lot more afraid of a dozen nuclear weapons then a few (unarmed) lunar landers. And if they exposed the moon landing as a hoax, they would have been able to shoot for being first to land on the moon.

In the end, the “Moon Hoax” theory requires too many people to have been fooled or kept silent in some fashion for far too long. Surely, of the thousands upon thousands who were either in on the hoax or initially fooled by it, *someone* would come forward with hard evidence of fakery by now!

By: Parkylondon

Parkylondon — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:52:31 +0000

A lot has been written about the “Man Didn’t Really Land On The Moon” nonsense and the Bad Astro book does a lot to debunk those stories. However, one piece seems to be missing from the argument.

Let’s go back in time.

It’s the sixties. We’re at the height of the Cold War / Space Race. Everyone is watching everyone else. Looking for a loophole, a propaganda mistake. The Russians love to embarrass the Americans by putting a satellite / dog / man into space before the USA and would have been watching the American efforts closely and undisguised glee.

We watch their rockets go up and we watch them come down. They do the the same to us – except in the early days they went down a lot more than up. The Russians liked this.

If the Apollo missions were staged in the desert why then didn’t the Russians shout loud and often about the USA’s moon shot not going to the moon? Surely they would have seen it just stay in orbit?

The propaganda power it would have given them to proclaim (with evidence) that the Capitalist Pigs had failed to deliver would have been breathtaking.

I’ll tell you why. It’s because the Apollo Moon landings actually happened. QED.

By: Zyggy

Zyggy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:48:13 +0000

A bit off-topic…I was wondering if anyone had some good (fictional) reading suggestions about moon colonization, and I figured this would be a good place to ask.

I have read Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. But that’s about all I remember. The Mars series excellent is you haven’t read it, but most of the Moon stuff is in the first novel and focused on training for Mars (which is a great use for a Moon base, IMHO, but that’s another post entirely) .

Thanks!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:07:25 +0000

So, Phil, tell me — how much has the gubbermint paid you to support this nonsense about us landing on the moon? Everyone knows it was a hoax, they must have paid you plenty to come up with all this nonsense supporting their story.
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JUST KIDDING!!!!
What gets to me the most about these conspiracy theorists is this: why are they so convinced that we are not capable of doing something so spectacularly difficult once we set our minds to it? Are they so down on themselves that they have to project their own inadequacies on the rest of the race? Well, get over it — we can do anything we set our minds to, “not because they are easy but because they are hard!” One of the things that makes me proud to be a human being living in the times that I do is that I was around to see us take our first steps on another world. (I just hope that they weren’t our last!)

BTW, Phil, I am looking forward to meeting you this weekend at Comic Con. I should have said something when I was in the Mythbusters line last year and you came out and talked to some people just 5 feet in front of me!