Poll: Do you believe we landed on the moon?

[Calatar]

I'm well aware of the conspiracy theory that we did not, and doubly aware that the internet abounds with conspiracy theories. I was inspired to ask this question by a Mythbusters episode where they explored the moon hoax and concluded that we did land on the moon. I too hold this opinion.

We have a large quantity of evidence of the moon landing, but one of the most convincing pieces I think is the reflector array left on the moon, which allows scientists to bounce lasers off it and back to earth. Along with the footage, returning debris, eyewitness accounts, and the fact that the moon landing being a conspiracy would require the collusion and closed-lips of hundreds of engineers, I think it is fair to say that this conspiracy could not possibly be pulled off.

A fairly old Gallup poll from 1999 showed that about 6% of the US believed in this conspiracy theory. However, this was in a day when the internet was young. 10 years later, it could be a very different story where the "unofficial" story becomes just as widely spread as the official one. So fellow escapists, do you believe that we have indeed landed on the moon, or do you believe it is a fabricated hoax pulled off by the US government for Cold War dominance?

EDIT: People are getting a bit confused by the poll answers, so I'm changing the grammar a bit.

 

[malestrithe]

We were on the moon. We left things up there, a couple of which are a few mirrored reflectors on the moon. We can bounce a laser array off those reflectors and get the laser back in real time. That is the final proof that will never be disproved. We have been to the moon.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

We have landed on the moon. Because even vacuum can't stop us now.

We were on the moon. We left things up there, a couple of which are a few mirrored reflectors on the moon. We can bounce a laser array off those reflectors and get the laser back in real time. That is the final proof that will never be disproved. We have been to the moon.

Yep, proof enough.

 

[The Cheezy One]

you are there now, but not necessarily the first time in 1969. im not saying they did fake it, but it is possible
*readies flame shield*

 

[Deleted]

I do but ultimately who gives a shit if we did or didn't. I'd be more angry at the fact that they pretended rather than that we never went there.

 

[Puzzles]

Of course they went there, it's been proven... Conspiracy theories are fun and all, but incredibly stupid.

 

[thiosk]

What I can't fathom is how people are still carrying on about the so-called fake moonlandings.

The indian mission to the moon imaged the landers for christs sake.

Oh wait, i forgot, india is merely an agency of the US government and we threatened to nuke them unless they doctored their images.

We were on the moon. We left things up there, a couple of which are a few mirrored reflectors on the moon. We can bounce a laser array off those reflectors and get the laser back in real time. That is the final proof that will never be disproved. We have been to the moon.

This is VERY TRUE. However, a bunch of disco balls on the surface of the moon would have the same effect. Not to diminish it or anything.

Every so-called OMG PROOF OF FAKING IT claim has been debunked. Repeatedly.
The only skeptics that remain after seeing the debunked conspiracies are people who will simply refuse to believe it no matter what the evidence. The kind of people who will see an airplane fly overhead and say "UFO." Dude, it has wings. "U. F. O. The government is lying to you about airplanes, they are alien spaceships, the lot of em."

 

[meatsplash]

For those of you who aren't sure about this topic, check out the (PBS I believe) series called "When We Left Earth" and you will see that all the missions were real.

New Question: Do you think people asked the same question, but in regard to guys like Columbus, Magellen (sp?) etc..?

For the record #1: there is still a Flat Earth Society TODAY that denies the heliocentric theory. People aren't that smart and will believe anything sometimes regardless of evidence.

For the record #2: there were 4 votes for 'Of course not!" and 2 for "Of course they were!" when I cast my vote. Sad that 33% of the poll participants are bonk-tards...

 

[twistedshadows]

Yes, I believe we did.
Watch the moon landing Mythbusters episode.

Edit: Aww, you changed the poll after I voted.

 

[MailOrderClone]

I'm a bit concerned that we haven't been making regular trips up there. Really, by now, we should have a space station up on the moon. But NASA got cold feet after Challenger and have been relegated to a glorified taxi service ever since.

If we're ever going to actually start a manned exploration of space, then putting a space station on the moon has to be a goal. And at this stage, I don't think that it's a logistical impossibility.

 

[thiosk]

Also, at the time we were fighting a cold war with russia. Russia had very good tracking capabilities and intercepted every single transmission sent by those spacecrafts. They also had a vested interest in making us look bad.

If it was fake, they would have known it, and would have called us on it, big time.

I'm a bit concerned that we haven't been making regular trips up there. Really, by now, we should have a space station up on the moon. But NASA got cold feet after Challenger and have been relegated to a glorified taxi service ever since.

If we're ever going to actually start a manned exploration of space, then putting a space station on the moon has to be a goal. And at this stage, I don't think that it's a logistical impossibility.

The problem is with the space policy of the entire agency. Routine orbiter means no travel to the moon-- shuttle can't go. Routine orbiter means smaller payloads, smaller ships.

Look at the new moon capsule design; they've been testing the new rockets. Gigantic apollo rockets-- its pretty awesome.

She shuttle is an enormous financial black hole that should have been scraped in the 90s. The only worse black hole is the ISS-- WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. That space station is USELESS. It is inneffective even as a stopover point for a new moon mission.

Every pound of material we've taken up there will be deorbited into the pacific ocean.

Waste of time, money, and resources.

Ugh. Pisses me off.

 

[Blanks]

We were on the moon, heck MythBusters proved all of the conspiracies to be false, it was all real and backed by science

 

[meatsplash]

Also, at the time we were fighting a cold war with russia. Russia had very good tracking capabilities and intercepted every single transmission sent by those spacecrafts. They also had a vested interest in making us look bad.

If it was fake, they would have known it, and would have called us on it, big time.

I've never looked at it quite like that, but I think that is going to be my new favorite line when debunking the conspiracy nuts! haha... awesome.

 

[BakaSmurf]

The fact that 33% of the people that have participated in this poll actually believe that the moon landings were faked dispite all the hard evidence that proves otherwise chills me to the very core. Honestly, how can people be so stupid?

And no, I'm not going to apologize for that either.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Shoot. Misread the poll answers. Pretend I voted "Of course not" instead of "Of course they were."

I thought I was answering "Of course they were real."

 

[Calatar]

you are there now, but not necessarily the first time in 1969. im not saying they did fake it, but it is possible
*readies flame shield*

Do you think it more likely that a huge group of government-funded engineers managed to keep a closely held secret or managed to launch humans onto the moon using a huge rocket?

Personally I think the conspiracy fails just because of the sheer number of conspirators needed. I'd bet if you told a secret to several hundred people, it would probably get out at some point, yet we have no NASA people claiming that any of the landings were a hoax.

 

[MailOrderClone]

Shoot. Misread the poll answers. Pretend I voted "Of course not" instead of "Of course they were."

I thought I was answering "Of course they were real."

That may be the reason that the answers are so close. People are just getting a bit mixed up.

 

[irishdelinquent]

No, we landed on the moon. Case Closed. All those who ague have tin-foil-lined hats on.

 

[SonicKoala]

No, it wasn't faked. That's ridiculous. There is mountains of evidence to support that we did, in fact, land on the moon.

 

[thiosk]

Also, at the time we were fighting a cold war with russia. Russia had very good tracking capabilities and intercepted every single transmission sent by those spacecrafts. They also had a vested interest in making us look bad.

If it was fake, they would have known it, and would have called us on it, big time.

I've never looked at it quite like that, but I think that is going to be my new favorite line when debunking the conspiracy nuts! haha... awesome.

You can use the same logic for the Roswell incident, and UFO coverups.

If aliens were approaching earth, we would have built defenses to protect ourselves from interstellar incursion.

We only built defenses against Russian bombers and missiles.

There are no alien visitors.