moon landings

That was a subtheme on a recent re-run of "Just Shoot Me" that I saw. Until that, I'd never heard of such a thing!

Too big of a conspiracy required to cover that up.

Eventually more humans will travel to the moon and it'll get settled. But yea, I'm quite certain we went to the moon.

I was wondering if the world was still flat and carried about the universe on the back of a tortoise.

I think there is no such thing as a conspiracy too big to cover up...

But I do believe we went to the moon. I've seen all the arguments for both sides and I don't think NASA faked it. I'm sure those footprints are still there...

If it were to be a hoax it was bigger than NASA.
Australia was facing the moon at the time of touch-down, so it was our radio-telescope that received the images, and then relayed them to the States.
Apparently the relay lag was used for the kill-switch...if it all went 'bad', then the transmission was to be cut to the US and the public would be spared the horrors, though apparently Australia got it without the 7 second delay so we'd have been privy to the result, good or bad....

I always thought that when the first hoax 'theory' was bandied about it was as a promo for the Movie....bit of free publicity.....but if people are calling it a hoax now, in another hundred years there will have been enough time for the bull-shit quota to get high enough to discount all sorts of things....Hitler was a Jew....but the Jews fealt un appreciated so they took it upon themselves to self-immolate for public sympathy.

Elvis was an advertising ploy to get kids' minds off drugs...he didn't exist....or he IS that guy in the Burger Joint....you know, the fat one in the White flared jump-suit....and kangaroos are in fact just mice photographed with a zoom lens.....I could go on, but I won't...

'fealt'?....where'd that come from?....

It's the filter. And Elvis isn't dead, he moved to Tasmania.

Do you believe???????

Check out this link:

http://www.moonmovie.com

BTW, If anyone here purchases the video, I would like a copy, please...I haven't laughed in a while

I don't believe the moon landings were fake.
I mean thousands of people were there to witness the first shuttle launch, and if the landings were fake, where did that shuttle go then?

I tend to believe a lot of conspiracy theries:
More then one gunman killed Kennedy
The goverment knows alot more about UFO's then they are telling us.
Clinton had ties to drug money.

Not going to the moon? That is a little too far fetched for me.

Hehe. As odd as it sounds, I agree with Griffinme.

/me has seen way too many X-Files episodes.

Gawd... not again?
There is no conspiracy. No, the government isn't trying to kill you. No, Kennedy was't killed by the CIA. No, the US government doesn't have secret meetings with the Martians.

Oh and no, the moon isn't made of cheese.

/me wait until something interesting and 'current' is talked about here

...Mars??

The Black Helicopters are after me!!!!!

In a survey a few years ago it was revealed that 12% of Americans believed they had at some time been kidnapped by aliens, and 65% believed some part of the moon was made of cheese.

I rest my case....

Maybe it's 12% of Americans are made of cheese and 65% of the moon was kidnapped....

The moon is made out of cheese. Trust me, I've been there.

http://www.lostcosmonauts.com

This is one of the more entertaining conspiracy theories. It says that the Russians had quite a few failed space flights, and that Gagarin wasn't actually the first person to come back from space alive. There's been a PBS documentry on this topic, it presented the information like it was the undisputed truth. Like I said, it's entertaining.

One time I did a presentation on the history of space flight for a high school class. I brought this up and all but one person accepted it as the complete truth. It's kinda sad, really. I could have told them anything I wanted and gotten away with it.

The revelations about the Soviet space program came from documents and individuals actually IN the program. After the Soviet Union broke apart a lot has been learned that was otherwise kept secret. Don't confuse information with speculation. The worst thing you can do is turn off your mind to the truth. Here's a big surprise for you... the government does not tell you the truth about almost anything. Right now, they won't even disclose the truth to congress.

It's not easy to get an informed opinion about conspiracy theories. The US gov't recently admited there has been a massive dis-information program going on for over 40 years and continues more pervasively than ever today. They purposely spread a false story with a few tantalizing facts so the whole story (and the person telling it) can be easily discredited.

Some people have experienced some of the conspiracies first-hand. Those are uusually the best sources of information. Anyone who says there are no gov't conspiracies is making a proclamation without investigation. The millions of man-hours of investigation into various aspects of twentieth century history have produced tons of verified and accepted facts (history) that to this day are laughed at and dismissed by some "experts" who have spent little or no time at all learning the facts or doing their own investigation.

The other problem is that if you truly research the 'other side' of Capitol Hill it gets too scary and too disgusting for most people to handle. It's much easier to say 'this never happened' and continue believing what you want than to dig deep enough to peer with open eyes at the seamy underbelly of politics.

Don't believe everything you are told, truth can only come from your own efforts to find it.

I only believe what the TV tells me. Good old TV, it takes care of me...

so... a Jeep Cherokee will allow me to drive to the top of a column mesa in the desert... and if I'm eating Mentos at the time, then a girl will run up and kiss me... yes, TV is much nicer than truth...

I only believe what the large green alien on my sofa tells me....or was I reading Dr. Suess again and that's actually a Bofa on my Sofa...well I wish he wasn't there....

I don't believe in any conspiracy. It's a whole conspiracy designed to get our mind off the real truth...

Err... Wait...

No, seriously, I am always amazed at how Americans don't trust their governement. Don't take this as an insult, it's not. I just find it interesting and I don't quite understand it. Why would your governement make up whole stories? And how could they since the governement changes every 4 years or so.

Yes, I am sure there are topics that are top secret for National Security reasons. They sure won't make public some information they have about certain terrorist groups, or where they will launch the next bomb in the Afgan or Irakese desert.
For sure, the welfare of the American public make it necessary keep the general public from knowing anything about certain things. But to say there is a conspiracy?

The US is one of the few free countries in the World, why do a lot of Americans think they live in the ex-UUSR or something?

TV...