[ian807]

No-one was allowed to check closely because of course the moon landings never actually happened. First the original tapes are lost, then they cant find the flag, and no this.

I'm starting to believe it was all a hoax.

Easy to verify. Look at China's map of the moon (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/12/content_10347379.htm) of where we landed. If there's nothing there, we have some evidence of a hoax. If we see an old lunar lander, footprints and some vehicles, we can safely assume the moon landings happened.

[eastbay]

No-one was allowed to check closely because of course the moon landings never actually happened. First the original tapes are lost, then they cant find the flag, and no this.

I'm starting to believe it was all a hoax.

Maybe not all. Just Apollo 11. My faith in the claim of the Apollo 11 landing has eroded a bit.

[PenultimateManStanding]

No-one was allowed to check closely because of course the moon landings never actually happened. First the original tapes are lost, then they cant find the flag, and no this.

I'm starting to believe it was all a hoax.

Maybe not all. Just Apollo 11. My faith in the claim of the Apollo 11 landing has eroded a bit.

Scientists are still using the lunar laser ranging retroreflector array placed on the moon in 1969. This business of the petrified tree-rock is bizarre, but doesn't mean we did not land on the moon.

[heroineworshipper]

uh huh. Next post.

[Carlhole]

No-one was allowed to check closely because of course the moon landings never actually happened. First the original tapes are lost, then they cant find the flag, and no this.

I'm starting to believe it was all a hoax.

Maybe not all. Just Apollo 11. My faith in the claim of the Apollo 11 landing has eroded a bit.

Scientists are still using the lunar laser ranging retroreflector array placed on the moon in 1969. This business of the petrified tree-rock is bizarre, but doesn't mean we did not land on the moon.

I'm not one of those who thinks that the moon landings were a hoax. But someone needs to quiz Buzz Aldrin about his gift of petrified wood.

Wiki



I mean, the rock in question is the kind of thing that a practiced minerologist would glance at and say, "Oh, that's peterified wood".

The piece that Aldrin gave the museum may not have been so obvious as this picture, but still... the rock would have been easily identifiable by anyone with any experience.

No practiced rock hounds at the museum ever peered closely at Aldrin's gift for 40 years?

[FoolYap]

No practiced rock hounds at the museum ever peered closely at Aldrin's gift for 40 years?

I think a likelier explanation would be that some amateur rock hound working at the museum during the past 40 years performed a switcheroo, and now has a real moon rock in their private collection?

--Steve

[Daniel_Plainview]

I mean, the rock in question is the kind of thing that a practiced minerologist would glance at and say, "Oh, that's peterified wood".

The piece that Aldrin gave the museum may not have been so obvious as this picture, but still... the rock would have been easily identifiable by anyone with any experience.

No practiced rock hounds at the museum ever peered closely at Aldrin's gift for 40 years?

[TheDude]

He's fessed up: Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked

Although Armstrong said he "could have sworn" he felt the effects of zero gravity while soaring out of the Earth's atmosphere and through space, he now believed his memory must be flawed. He also admitted feeling "ashamed" that he had failed to notice the rippling of the American flag he and Buzz Aldrin planted on the surface, blaming his lack of awareness on the bulkiness of the spacesuit and his excitement about traveling to the "moon."

"That rippling is not possible in the vacuum of space," Armstrong said. "It must have been the wind from an air-conditioning duct that I didn't recognize because you can't hear a damn thing inside those helmets."

"This is all just common sense, people," he added. "It's the moon. You can't land on the moon."

In a symbolic display of his newfound skepticism, Armstrong then grabbed a collection of moon rocks he had kept as souvenirs and dramatically dumped them into a trash can.

[Carlhole]

He's fessed up:

Dude, this isn't a "moon landing were faked" thread.

[eastbay]

He's fessed up: Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked

Now THAT was funny!

[Novus]

No practiced rock hounds at the museum ever peered closely at Aldrin's gift for 40 years?

I think a likelier explanation would be that some amateur rock hound working at the museum during the past 40 years performed a switcheroo, and now has a real moon rock in their private collection?

--Steve

-> The real rock was probably stolen.

[EnergyUnlimited]

He's fessed up:

Dude, this isn't a "moon landing were faked" thread.

So do you believe that Armstrong was on the Moon?
Apparently he doesn't...

[vision-master]

Moon Landing 1969 Original see Frogs/Desert Rats Proof Hoax

[SFDukie]

I'm surprised so many are frustrated that this topic has been raised. If it's false, then what harm will discussing it cause?
How are crazy ideas supposed to get sorted out except by talking through the different points of view? If you can't discuss it in the PO.com Open Forum where can you discuss it?

I wish that there were some photos of the Moon's surface from the earth or satellite telescopes that showed the landing spots and the gear they left behind. As I understand it, the Hubble telescope does not provide enough resolution to provide these kinds of images. But to be clear, I believe that the Moon landings occurred.

Subsequent to this post, there are such photos now.


Explanation re resolution from Hubble, and statement re coming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/11jul_lroc.htm

LRO pictures:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

[smallpoxgirl]

You guys are missing the obvious explanation. Maybe there's petrified wood on the moon.

[eastbay]

I have come to the sad conclusion that the moon does not even exist.

[BigTex]

Ah, I'm glad we got that loop closed.

[Caffeine]

Heh.

Seriously, some major media outlet should go and have a couple other moon rocks in museums analyzed. Not only would it provide further support for the "Yes, Virginia, we really DID go to the moon" idea, I think you could easily get enough viewers to tune in and learn what moon rock is actually made of. It'd be an educational thing. Especially if you did it on Discovery Channel or one of the similar channels. I don't watch much TV, but I'd probably watch the show.

Somehow, though, I don't think any major news outlet would do that.

[EnergyUnlimited]

Ah, I'm glad we got that loop closed.

These photos are from Apollo 14...
Maybe Apollo 11 was just an unmanned mission?

After all it is recently reported that Armstrong personally doesn't believe that he was there.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/co ... inces_neil

Maybe only latter visits were real?
Or maybe none

[dorlomin]

"Famed “Moon Rock” Turns Out to Be Hunk of Petrified Wood"


So what scared it?



IGMC