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On 2002-04-24 17:08, slasher wrote:
Okay, for a school project we had to pick a topic that had 2 sides to it, and i chose the lunar landing hoax. After reading up on the topic i believe that we might not have gone to the moon, but there is one thing that sticks out in my mind. Apollo 11 took off on July 16, 1969 and weren't there witnesses confirming that the rocket took off? I'm sorry if this question has already been answered but i really need an answer thank you.
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Welcome to the BABB, slasher. I hope you will keep an open mind and examine the available evidence.
For a start, here are some Internet links to read. Among them, they offer solid, substantiated, scientifically sound rebuttals to every argument put forth by the HBers.
Internet Sites:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html Yes, We Really Did Go to the Moon
http://www.clavius.org/ Moon Base Clavius
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/...ototheMoon.htm Conspiracy Theory: Did We Go to the Moon? (Good rebuttal of the lunar rocks argument.)
http://www.business.uab.edu/cache/th...conspiracy.htm A Conspiracy of Conspiracy Theories: America’s Moon Achievement Under Fire
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/index.htm Moon Hoax? (Good rebuttal of the photography arguments.)
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/space/lectures/lec17.html Apollo Program (University of Oregon)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
http://www.nasm.si.edu/apollo/apollo.htm The Apollo Program
http://web.archive.org/web/199805221...m/acritiqu.htm A Critique of "Was It Only A Paper Moon?" A Video by James Collier.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-hass.html Apollo Cameras
http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/waw/mad/mad19.html Van Allen Belts
http://www.farhills.org/s/lees/space/apollo.htm Apollo Space Suit Information Center
You need to be careful while investigating this topic. You'll find that HBers tend to use rhetoric, suspicions and suppositions rather than rely on fact. When they are rebutted, they often backtrack and claim they were misunderstood, change the subject, insist you don't know what you're saying, or resort to personal attacks. Sometimes they mix and match these tactics.
Simply put: Yes, the US did send men to the moon and did bring them back safely. We have the eyewitness and physical evidence to prove it. All the HBers have is unprovable accusations.