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Originally Posted by Type941

Anyhow, it's funny. And what's funnier is that Americans get so bloody defencive about it.

Here's my official list of 32 questions for people who think the moon landings were faked. Give it a shot.


1)The LM Descent Engine generated 2600 pounds of thrust upon landing, and should supposedly have burned a massive blast crater in the lunar surface. In that case, shouldn't the heat from the 75,000-pound thrust turbofans on the Boeing 777 melt concrete and vaporize baggage handlers hundreds of feet away?

2) You say that non-parallel shadows are the result of multiple stage lights. If that were true, wouldn't "lunar" objects cast multiple shadows?

3) If the rocket motors hidden inside the F-1 were of such limited thrust, why did they generate flames more than 600 feet long?

4) How would a complete rocket assembly fit into the 14-inch diameter thrust chamber of the F-1?

5) An empty Saturn V rocket weighs 213 tons. With an Apollo spacecraft on top, about 250. How do these tiny rocket motors, which surely must employ an exotic high-ISP propellant, lift such a heavy assembly into Earth orbit?

6)How was it possible for NASA to reproduce the parabolic trajectories of billions of specks of dust in an Earth-bound environment?

7) You say that lunar gravity was simulated using slow-motion. When I speed the Apollo footage up to simulate "Earth gravity", the astronauts hop around like coke addicts. How many times per minute can a man wearing a 150-pound backpack hop up and down?

8) You say that the LEM is too fragile to operate in outer space, noting it's aluminized mylar thermal blankets and thin aluminum pressure hull. In that case, are most communications and weather satellites fake, also?

9) Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin had a religious epiphany upon his return to Earth. Was he that impressed by the special effects?

10) You seem to feel as if the 1960s were some sort of dead-end in the arena of aerospace engineering. Were Gemini, the Concorde, the SR-71, XB-70, X-15, etc., also fakes?

11) Supposedly the Van Allen belts contain deadly radiation that will fry anyone in minutes. The ISS spends a good portion of the time in the inner layers of the belt. Is it also a fake, or do the astronauts retreat to a lead-lined chamber several times a day?

12) Supposedly the Apollo spacecraft stayed in Earth orbit. When the SIVB stage burned for five minutes to send the spacecraft to the Moon, how did it manage to so this with zero delta-velocity?

13) How did the CSM/LM, a 60-foot aluminum spacecraft covered in mylar foil and aluminized kapton, remain unseen by ground-based observers?

14) Why is it that the mid-60s era Apollo guidance computer was incapable of carrying out it's task, yet the mid-70s Space Shuttle computers are capable of flying a vastly more complicated spacecraft?

15) How come the United States create an Atomic Bomb essentially from scratch in four years in the 40s, but can't put a man on the Moon in nine years in the 60s?

16) Have you ever noticed that those supposedly whistle-blowing crosshairs appear only behind objects when that object is bright white?

17) In the early 70s, the Russians expended three 770-ton rocket to land three six-ton spacecraft on the Moon, which returned a single pound of rocks. In six missions, Apollo returned 836 pounds of samples. How many unmanned sample return missions, carried out in perfect secrecy, would be required to return 836 pounds of samples?

18) Let's assume the Moon rocks were actually Earth rocks created in a "radiation oven." At least one of the Apollo samples were given to the Russians two years before their sample return mission. How did we manage to perfectly recreate an actual moon rock, on Earth, two years before those superior Russians had their own?

19) If the flag is being blown around by air currents on the stage, why isn't the dust around it being blown?

20) There's no atmosphere on the Moon, so stars should be visible in the photographs taken there. Photographs taken during every manned spaceflight also show a lack of stars. Were they fake, too?

21) You complain about the lack of dust on the LM footpads. How is dust supposed to billow in a vacuum?

22) The lunar module ascent engine used UDMB/N2O4 for propellent, which produced a near-invisible flame when fired on Earth. Why should it produce a "bright orange" flame when fired in space?

23) Supposedly every picture taken on the Moon was perfectly framed. Are the hundreds out-of-focus shots of boots, gloves, and dirt completely intentional?

24) You say that Gus Grissom was murdered by NASA so he wouldn't spill the beans about the hoax. Wasn't there any easier way to go about this than killing three astronauts and destroying an $80 million spacecraft?

25) Approximately how many technicians were required to create the special effects for the missions, and how many months would it take them?

26) When I walk through a store parking lot on a sunny day, the streetlights cast non-parallel shadows on the ground. The sun is the only light source. Is NASA using special mind powers to trick me?

27) Did NASA use special mind powers to fling Pete Conrad from a moving motorcycle before he could spill the beans?

28) On a hot summer day, it could get up to 105 degrees outside. Shouldn't it be 105 degrees the instant the sun rises, just like it does on the Moon?

29) Richard Nixon was incapable of covering up an apartment burglary. How did he manage to pull off the biggest cover-up in human history in six months just three years before?

30) Is a 17,500 mph orbital velocity constant no matter what the mass of the body the spacecraft is orbiting?

31) Why didn't the Russians, who had their own manned space program, were planning on sending men to the Moon, and an extensive tracking network, blow the whistle on the hoax?

32) Why does NASA, an evil government-controlled bureaucracy with everything to hide, allow free and unrestricted access to documents detailing in insane detail the mechanical and operational details of their spacecraft, along with transcripts and technical documents relating to every detail of each manned mission?