# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/161 "2013-03-26T20:01:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Elvis is dead and Paul McCartney is alive. You had me until the last part. Long live Billy Shears! ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/162 "2013-03-26T20:04:29Z")
[QUOTE=AtomicDog] {snip} Did I miss anything? [/QUOTE] Yeah… I can’t believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I didn’t see _that_ one coming. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/163 "2013-03-26T20:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=Cosmored] {snip} Let’s hear everybody’s view on the Chinese spacewalk? Do you say it was real, or faked? [/QUOTE] Fake. Gotta be. Had it been real, they would have done it all over again an hour later. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/164 "2013-03-26T20:12:05Z")
Chinese spacewalk? Is that anything like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk? I know that was fake. Ain’t no way a real person could do that, much less the [alien sleeper agent that was Michael Jackson](http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/alien-v-mj.html). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/165 "2013-03-26T20:39:19Z")
I’m sorry all but I can no longer live this lie. They’re on to us! We may as well admit everything. Yes, it’s all fake. The moon landings, the space station, all of it. Hell, we’ve never even mastered flight. A plane hasn’t been made that’s left the ground yet. All those who’ve been payed off for pretending like you atually boarded a plane that flew somewhere, please raise your hands. Come on now… not one of you has ever taken a flight anywhere. Admit it. We get on, we are shown a video of where we’re pretending to go and after the briefing we get money to keep our lying mouths shut. Well no more! It ends now. The truth is out. I feel so much better now. Like a great weight lifted… Wait… someone’s at the door… brb… ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/166 "2013-03-26T20:45:13Z")
Aww man, I missed a nutball. I always love it when someone says that watching a few youtube videos makes them smarter than all the astronomers, engineers, mechanics, and other experts who actually worked on it. Really does something to their credibility. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/167 "2013-03-26T20:54:32Z")
I’ll bite. The moon landing is real. Flags can still move in a vacuum- not due to a breeze, but due to gravity, or getting bumped into, or other mundane forces. It’s much, much easier to actually get to the moon than it is to maintain such a conspiracy, which would require the silence of thousands of people. Getting to the moon is a tough task, but we did it six times. Every piece of supposed evidence of a hoax has been refuted. Flags can move, stars don’t always show in photographs up depending on light conditions, shadows look weird in rough terrain, etc. You have failed. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/168 "2013-03-26T21:01:11Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Aww man, I missed a nutball. He’s actually not a one-and-done. He’s responded in this thread. Yes, I’m assuming it’s a male. I think it reflects well on my opinion of females that I just can’t picture a woman being this invested in a moon hoax conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/169 "2013-03-26T21:01:53Z")
Paging Kozmik…Kozmik to Aisle 7, please. Cosmored, meet Kozmik. Kozmik, meet Cosmored. I think you two have a lot to discuss. We’ll just all quietly let ourselves out. Don’t mind us. C’mon, everyone, let’s go. Last one out lock the door. ---
**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, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/170 "2013-03-26T21:17:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I always love it when someone says that watching a few youtube videos makes them smarter than all the astronomers, engineers, mechanics, and other experts who actually worked on it. I responded to this in post #138. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138) > [@](#): > > Flags can still move in a vacuum- not due to a breeze, but due to gravity, or getting bumped into, or other mundane forces. You ignored post #94. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94) Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/171 "2013-03-26T21:20:57Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > No it wasn’t. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRE7grId3sI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRE7grId3sI) > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKj5fckUX-c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKj5fckUX-c) > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2kijG8YdY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2kijG8YdY) Seriously, you’re trying to use a guy that only uses HALF of the science required only to bolster your position? You also know what an atmosphere (on Earth) does that doesn’t happen on the Moon which explains a lack of detail AND reflective light artifacts from overexposure of the top of the equipment in order to get the darker regolith? A: [Diffuse sky radiation.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation) The scattered light evens out the lighting on the landscape on Earth, which smooths out the contrast of brightness that otherwise is not observable on the Moon. As for the vehicle tracks, you got nothing there either. There are many different types of surfaces on the Moon and like Earth, vehicle tracks may be very pronounced (in sand, silt, dust, etc.) or nearly undetectable (hard surfaces, packed gravel, rocky layers, same reflective properties, etc.). Just to pull a page out of your playbook, missing tracks are for you to prove that the soil there is the former and not the later. Why don’t you go there and let us know what you find?:rolleyes: > [@Cosmored](#): > > The proof that the Chinese spacewalk was faked in a water tank is so clear that only a disinfo agent would say it was real. > [Opposingdigits | Discover the magic in everyday moments.](http://www.opposingdigits.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1222) > > Let’s hear everybody’s view on the Chinese spacewalk? Do you say it was real, or faked? Could care less about the Chinese spacewalk, it has nothing to do with your topic…your thread is specifically titled “The Apollo Moon Missions Were Faked in a Studio”. Stick to the topic, since this is your Pandora’s Box that you opened. You guys tend to be slippery eels when it comes to this nuttery. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/172 "2013-03-26T21:23:19Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I responded to this in post #138. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138) Very silly explanations. > [@Cosmored](#): > > You ignored post #94. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94) > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. > **[Welcome astroprofspage.com - BlueHost.com](http://astroprofspage.com/archives/162)** > > Bluehost - Top rated web hosting provider - Free 1 click installs For blogs, shopping carts, and more. Get a free domain name, real NON-outsourced 24/7 support, and superior speed. web hosting provider php hosting cheap web hosting, Web hosting,... > [@](#): > > The wire mesh is sewn into the fabric so that the flag will appear to stand out straight in the absense of wind. But, a flag sticking straight out from the pole doesn’t look natural. So, the astronauts often would extend the flag and bend ripples into it so that it looked more like it were wAS12-47-6897.jpgaving. Look at video of the astronauts moving around the flag. It looks like it is waving, but it is frozen in position as the astronauts move by. It doesn’t actually wave. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/173 "2013-03-26T21:39:08Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I responded to this in post #138. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138) > You ignored post #94. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94) > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. [Seriously, this is 6th grade science that you are ignoring here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum) The flag is acting very similar to pendulum in a vacuum. And so the fucking flag moved? Did you guys ever thought of the energy from the footsteps by the flag transferred to the base of the flag to shake it slightly from the ground? If the regolith there is soft, it would be easy to jump on by and compact the soil under the foot to push it towards the flag pole. Stop sucking conspiracy dick already.:o ---
**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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/174 "2013-03-26T21:40:52Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I responded to this in post #138. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16134902&postcount=138) > You ignored post #94. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16133621&postcount=94) > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. Angels. You’re in the Pit, Cosmo. We’re not required to treat either you or your wacky ideas with even a modicum of respect. ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/175 "2013-03-26T21:48:10Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. Know what makes _my_ flag move? ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/176 "2013-03-26T21:50:34Z")
My God, it’s full of stupid. . . ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/177 "2013-03-26T21:51:45Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. Patriotism? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/178 "2013-03-26T21:52:26Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > [**SUCK IT AGAIN, BITCH.**](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html) fake and gay ---
**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, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/179 "2013-03-26T21:56:24Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > Tell us exactly what you think made the flag move. I know for a fact that it wasn’t a flag at all. It was Obama’s birth certificate. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949/180 "2013-03-26T22:08:21Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > One strategy they us is to have a crazy person defend a conspiracy theory which discredits the theory. I know who they picked for this moon hoax theory!😃 Hint: The username starts with C. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-in-a-studio/653949.md?page=10)