# The Apollo Moon Missions Were Faked in a Studio **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949 "2013-03-25T21:15:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/81 "2013-03-26T04:12:41Z")
The moon landings must have been faked. You know why? Because [there is no moon!](http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/) That’s right. The moon doesn’t even exist. You can’t land on something that isn’t there. The big conspiracy is that the government wants us to believe in the moon. So there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/82 "2013-03-26T04:54:14Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I did a simulated Mission to Mars in middle school. It was so much fun! I was the mission reporter. I wanted to be the one of the two who were picked to go outside the ship and pretend to walk around Mars, but oh well. It was still memorable. Aw, fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/83 "2013-03-26T05:15:09Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > I’m reviewing the tape at this very moment – if it’s not fake, how do you explain the weird-looking alien saying “You should kill us all on sight”? > > (Er… what was I talking about again?) You should see a Doctor about that memory problem of yours. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/84 "2013-03-26T07:01:23Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Cosmored! You’ve been hawking this garbage around the Internet for years! Why did it take so long for you to find the Dope? He only gets out of his straightjacket and to a computer once in a while. I personally saw Apollo XVII lift off. Why the government would spend all that money on repeats is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/85 "2013-03-26T08:03:48Z")
Video of the conspirators, who have British accents so you know they are evil: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/P6MOnehCOUw/hqdefault.jpg "That Mitchell and Webb Look - Moon Landing Sketch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw) (The British faked the moon landing to cover up that an eccentric inventor and his dog did it first.) ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/86 "2013-03-26T08:58:25Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Cosmored! You’ve been hawking this garbage around the Internet for years! Why did it take so long for you to find the Dope? Hey no shit, right? I remember feeding this guy (or a guy very much like him) to my anti-fuckwittery device on Usenet. Good times, man, good times. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/87 "2013-03-26T10:59:45Z")
Yeah – and the ISS is also fake – every time I look it up with a telescope, I can see it – the telescope shows me a little picture of it. How they do it, you ask? No telescope can be sold WORLDWIDE without the ISS simulator in it - it s a cover up conspiracy… … there are no Airplanes either, they actually brainwash you into thinking that you travelled and there is only YOU in the world – everyone else is a figment of your imagination. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/88 "2013-03-26T11:35:08Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > All you dipshits quoting his whole post are just a fraction smarter then the OP is. I suspect you think it’s somehow funny. You’re wrong. Francis? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/89 "2013-03-26T12:30:24Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Heres what I don’t get. > > If we had been to the moon (and by we, I mean countries with money), well it stands to reason that we would now have people living on the moon. QED. When the irish discovered America, people soon followed and started to live there. When the Irish discovered Australia and sent the British off to prison there, people soon followed and started to live there. > > So do you mean to say that we found the moon, and nobody followed to live there? Pah, that wouldnt make any sense at all, so you just have to doubt that we ever found the moon at all. Alas, the [Irish Space Program](http://www.irishelection.com/2009/12/irelands-space-program/) has been sadly underfunded. Thus the lag in civilizing the moon… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/90 "2013-03-26T12:35:46Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > (23 parts) Dear sir, Unfortunately, the Nigerian Ministry of Telecommunications will not allocate the bandwidth that I need to watch your videos. However, if you will permit me to mail you the sum of 4.2 million dollars which I am holding in trust for the NMoT, perhaps you would be willing to purchase us the internet that we need. I eagerly await your reply. Rev. Jesophat P. Bailywick God bless you always!!! :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Donna\_Lange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Donna\_Lange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donna_Lange)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/91 "2013-03-26T12:41:05Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > March 2013, you say? I’m stunned. Now now, not all of use March posters are shit. In this case though, OP is F.O.S and needs to get outside and seek some fresh air. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/92 "2013-03-26T12:41:42Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Join date this month. Check. > Whackadoodle Conspiracy Theory. Check. > Youtube links. Check. > > Conclusion: Loon. > Prediction: Short Timer. I’m thinking you were a little soft on your conclusion. Otherwise, I’m in complete agreement. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/93 "2013-03-26T12:58:39Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Seriously, why do you give a fuck? What was it about your post that made this thread so much better? > > And you know what, Czarcasm’s post _was_ funny. No. No, it wasn’t. I laughed, sure. And it sounds like you did too. But that wasn’t because it was funny. It wasn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@Cosmored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmored)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/94 "2013-03-26T13:06:30Z")
Sorry I didn’t stick around to do any followup posting; the cybercafe I was in closed half an hour early unexpectedly. I see that almost all of the posts are empty ad hominems. > **[Ad hominem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem)** > > Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are usually fallacious. Often currently this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion often using a totally irrelevant, but often highly charged attribute of the opponent's characte... There were only a few which addressed the actual issues. This issue was addressed [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ymwE1sNm82Y/hqdefault.jpg "Apollo 15 flag waving") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymwE1sNm82Y) (2:35 time mark) > [@](#): > > Serious question: what is the standard explanation for the flag being crumpled/waving? Just momentum? Anyone can exactly duplicate the movement of the flag here on earth by trotting by it at about a forty five degree angle. We know he didn’t touch the flag because it started moving before he got close enough to touch it as these two analyses show. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dW9qcL4LiUg/hqdefault.jpg "Initial Apollo 15 Flag Movement") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9qcL4LiUg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oFMpmjEv9o0/hqdefault.jpg "The flag that moved") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMpmjEv9o0) > [@](#): > > What gets me is that these whack-a-doodles never, ever seem to consider that the rest of the goddamned motherfucking world was listening in to all of this using their own technology. For fucking out loud, it would have been impossible to dupe Russia, China, Canada, Australia, The UK, India, Germany, and about a dozen other technologically savvy countries at the time. This doesn’t make the proof of a hoax go away. There are lots of plausible scenarios that would explain this. Countries can have secret agreements. Governments can be bribed and blackmailed. There may have been an unmanned lander on the moon sending prerecorded dialogue. MythBusters’ lame attempt to obfuscate the anomalies has been debunked. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I7yc2rVOs00/maxresdefault.jpg "windyz.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7yc2rVOs00) > **[MythBusters episode 104 Exposed | AULIS Online – Different Thinking](https://www.aulis.com/mythbusters.htm)** > > Was the landing by US astronauts on the Moon a complete hoax? The famous photo of Aldrin descending the ladder is re-analysed by professional Cinematographers in Russia. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r5ajIVmGiQE/hqdefault.jpg "MoonFaker: Phil Plait, Mythbusters & Dirty Tricks. PART 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ajIVmGiQE) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/23BIb_PMJ4M/hqdefault.jpg "Prepare to be Busted - Mythbusters Debunked addendum") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23BIb_PMJ4M) The Clavius site which defends Apollo is obviously a government attempt at damage-control. [http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125628](http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125628) [http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=8940846&postcount=5](http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=8940846&postcount=5) Instead of all this empty rhetoric, let’s hear some actual analyses of the anomalies. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/95 "2013-03-26T13:13:41Z")
That’s no where near 110 cites. Slacker! ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/96 "2013-03-26T13:20:46Z")
Ad hominens? Maybe. Mine sure was. This is the Pit, buddy. Suck it up. Empty? Not a chance. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/97 "2013-03-26T13:29:27Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Heres what I don’t get. > > If we had been to the moon (and by we, I mean countries with money), well it stands to reason that we would now have people living on the moon. QED. When the irish discovered America, people soon followed and started to live there. When the Irish discovered Australia and sent the British off to prison there, people soon followed and started to live there. > > So do you mean to say that we found the moon, and nobody followed to live there? Pah, that wouldnt make any sense at all, so you just have to doubt that we ever found the moon at all. Your logic doesn’t follow. Just because we’ve discovered a place does not mean that people will want to live there. Delaware is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/98 "2013-03-26T13:31:29Z")
Looks like spring break is here… ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/99 "2013-03-26T13:39:57Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > The US government can’t censor the evidence that’s on the internet… Don’t be so sure. This cite clearly must have been available yesterday when you excerpted it. > [@](#): > > [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](http://www.geocities.com/apollotruth/) > (excerpt) … But now it’s been censored. They’re really fast. And they took down a whole domain to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/100 "2013-03-26T14:00:11Z")
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