Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Wacky Wednesday--We Didn’t Go To The Moon

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~Why haven’t we gone back in the last 40 years?
~As many as 20% of Americans believe the moon landing was faked.
~There are no stars visible in the background of the photos.
~The flag waves in the wind, but there’s no atmosphere on the moon.
~There was no dust from the landing or during walking.
~The extremes of day and night temperatures weren’t accounted for.
~There are all sorts of lighting discrepancies, especially the famous picture of the astronaut in front of the sun, his mask reflecting the lander and the flag. He should have been a black silhouette.
~Two different pictures show the lunar landar both present and the missing with the exact same mountain range in the background.
~The crosshairs in the photos are sometimes behind the images and sometimes in front of them.
~There’s no blast crater where the module landed, but that’s a pretty powerful rocket engine.
~Radiation in the VanAllen belts would have roasted any of the astronauts who tried to cross it. This is why trips to outer space always stay well under those high limits.
~The Hubble telescope can see things ridiculously far away in space, why not a photo of the moon lander as evidence?

Links:
Pro: Did we go to the moon?
Pro: Fox TV and the Apollo moon hoax

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