# More on the apollo moon landing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 31, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957 "2010-12-31T16:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aguyant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@aguyant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aguyant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/1 "2010-12-31T16:25:38Z")
I watched and episode of “Myth Busters” the other day that was very very good at proving that we went to the moon. I highly recommend it to someone who is still skeptical after reading the answer to this question ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/2 "2010-12-31T18:54:37Z")
I think this is the staff report you’re referring to. > **[Was the Apollo moon landing a hoax?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342896/was-the-apollo-moon-landing-a-hoax)** > > A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD Generally the rule is that you post a link to the report you’re responding to. You’re new and you’ll know in the future. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/3 "2010-12-31T19:13:01Z")
People who believe that we didn’t send people to the moon are not going to be swayed from that position by something as ridiculous as evidence. Given that, watching MythBusters is certainly not going to convince them as the show is less about science and more about entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/4 "2010-12-31T19:52:22Z")
Someone who thinks the moon landing is a hoax is not likely to watch Myth Busters at all. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/5 "2010-12-31T21:00:28Z")
Wait! Are you guys saying that the moon landings were real??? 😕 -XT ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/6 "2010-12-31T22:31:25Z")
What? We landed on the moon? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/7 "2010-12-31T22:47:46Z")
Moon? What’s the moon? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/8 "2010-12-31T22:52:27Z")
You know, I really am a strong advocate for peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution, but this video of Buzz Aldrin just never gets old. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/9 "2010-12-31T23:20:21Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Moon? What’s the moon? It’s a large ball of cheese in the sky but that’s not important right now. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/10 "2011-01-01T01:17:01Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > It’s a large ball of cheese in the sky but that’s not important right now. Surely you can’t be serious? ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/11 "2011-01-01T01:31:05Z")
I am, and stop calling me “Shirley” RIP Leslie Nielsen ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/12 "2011-01-01T07:08:02Z")
Sniff, wipes a tear, ‘I love you guys.’ ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/13 "2011-01-01T13:22:20Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > People who believe that we didn’t send people to the moon are not going to be swayed from that position by something as ridiculous as evidence. Sadly, I think you’re right on. There is a website that shows photographs of the landing site, but (obviously) someone who thinks that the whole thing was a hoax won’t be convinced by mere photographs. If you invited them to look through a telescope that could see the landing site and debris left there (not possible, alas, but if it were…) they’d still say it was trickery. Those who are determined to believe (or not to believe) aren’t going to be swayed by mere evidence. Or reality. Anyhow, welcome, **aguyant** , and thanks for the comment. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/14 "2011-01-01T23:05:19Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Sadly, I think you’re right on. There is a website that shows photographs of the landing site, but (obviously) someone who thinks that the whole thing was a hoax won’t be convinced by mere photographs. If you invited them to look through a telescope that could see the landing site and debris left there (not possible, alas, but if it were…) they’d still say it was trickery. Those who are determined to believe (or not to believe) aren’t going to be swayed by mere evidence. Or reality. > > Anyhow, welcome, **aguyant** , and thanks for the comment. True. The ultimate out is that they can claim that we could send stuff up there but not people so even if there are manmade things on the moon, man has never been there. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/15 "2011-01-02T20:38:11Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > People who believe that we didn’t send people to the moon are not going to be swayed from that position by something as ridiculous as evidence. Given that, watching MythBusters is certainly not going to convince them as the show is less about science and more about entertainment. Keep in mind that the majority of people who believe in the moon hoax do so because of a silly television show that Fox ran in 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/16 "2011-01-03T17:30:46Z")
> [@aguyant](#): > > I watched and episode of “Myth Busters” the other day that was very very good at proving that we went to the moon. I highly recommend it to someone who is still skeptical after reading the answer to this question They did a good job of demonstrating a few key points. That hardly counts as proving anything. > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > People who believe that we didn’t send people to the moon are not going to be swayed from that position by something as ridiculous as evidence. Given that, watching MythBusters is certainly not going to convince them as the show is less about science and more about entertainment. Yes, there are people who have decided the answer is we didn’t go, and they won’t take any evidence to the contrary. There are, however, plenty of people who are confused by the deniers, such as people who watched that dreadful Fox show and didn’t know enough on their own to refute it. Those people are reachable with the right level of response. Certainly something like the Mythbusters show is on the right track for reaching them. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/17 "2011-01-03T17:48:34Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > What? We landed on the moon? Once, in the 1960s, for about 20 minutes… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/18 "2011-01-03T17:57:25Z")
What was the show on Fox that convinced people that the moon landings were a hoax? -XT ---
**Author:** ![Kokopilau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Kokopilau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kokopilau)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/19 "2011-01-03T18:56:16Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > What was the show on Fox that convinced people that the moon landings were a hoax? > > -XT [This](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html) is the Bad Astronomer’s writeup about the Fox show. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957/20 "2011-01-03T19:44:38Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > People who believe that we didn’t send people to the moon are not going to be swayed from that position by something as ridiculous as evidence. That’s the best part of being a conspiracy theoriest! You can just say the evidence is fake and demand “real” evidence! You don’t have to defend your position or produce any evidence yourself! 😃 Next you must prove that aliens don’t exist, have never, and will never come to Earth! (With a herring) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-apollo-moon-landing/565957.md?page=2)