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WolfishMusings
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So many logical and factual errors…

1) The flag is waving in the wind. There is no wind on in the moon.

The flag didn’t wave. It moved when Armstrong and/or Aldrin moved the pole it was attached to.

2) Any slight degree of deviation of target in 238,900 miles, would result in missing the moon by hundreds of miles. There was no such powerful computing power in 1969 to do that. A cell phone today has much more computing power than a computer the size of a large building had in 1969.

You are correct that today’s computers are far better than what they had in 1969. But so what? How does that prove it was impossible to do in 1969?

That’s like saying today’s ovens are much better than they were a century ago, so my great-grandmother must not have been able to bake a cake.

3) Every video tape today of the first moon landing is proven to be a copy, not the original tape. If cutting and pasting was actually done (to produce a forgery,) it can only be proven on the original. The original is gone. Nasa says they accidentally taped something else over the original video tape. What was this? Someone’s bar mitzvah video that someone accidentally taped a football game over it?? It cost 355 million dollars, and billions in today’s money, and they weren’t careful???

I don’t know if this is true or not, but so what? Because someone may have done something stupid with the tapes after the fact proves that it didn’t happen?

If I tape over my wedding video to record a football game, does that prove that I was never married? After all, who would do something so stupid?

4) President Kennedy vowed to beat the Russians and that the USA would land on the moon before the end of the decade. They had to show something by 1969. The pressure was enormous.

So, the argument here goes: Kennedy promised something, they had to get it done, there was pressure to get it done, so therefore it wasn’t done and the whole thing is a fake???

5) They were no where near the technology in that time to do this.
This is a repeat of the argument above in #2. And completely without evidence.

6) Everyone involved in this hoax on the world, including the 3 original astronauts, could never ever reveal it, without becoming the most hated charlatans in history.

So, the proof of the hoax is that no one ever snitched?

One would wonder, however, if it were fake, why didn’t the Soviets scream it to the heavens? Or were they in their arch-rival’s scheme?

7) There was never evidence found of a USA flag post left on the moon.

I don’t know what evidence you’re looking for. None of the landing sites have been revisited, and none of the satellites in orbit around the moon can resolve an object as small as a flag.

However, satellites in orbit have been able to resolve larger items, such as lunar rovers that have been left on the lunar surface. In addition, mirrors attached to the lunar surface by Armstrong and Aldrin are used regularly by scientists.

The Wolf