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10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax
by Josh Fox, December 28, 2012
The theory that the moon landings were hoaxed by the US government to assert their victory in the space race
over Russia, is something which has grown in popularity over time.
Recent polls indicate that approximately 20% of Americans believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon.
After the Apollo missions ended in the seventies, why haven’t we ever been back? Only during the term of
Richard Nixon did humanity ever land on the moon, and after Watergate most people wouldn’t put it past Tricky
Dick to fake them to put America in good standing in the Cold War.
In this list I have presented some of the proposed evidence to suggest that the moon landings were hoaxes. I tried
to include NASA’s explanations to each entry to provide an objective perspective.10
The Waving Flag
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The claim goes as follows: had NASA really landed us on the moon, there would be a blast crater underneath the
lunar module to mark its landing. On any video footage or photograph of the landings, no crater is visible, almost
as though the module was simply placed there. The surface of the moon is covered in fine lunar dust, and even this doesn’t seem to have been displaced in photographic evidence.
Much like the waving flag theory, however, the lack of an impact crater has a slew of potential explanations.
NASA maintains that the module required significantly less thrust in the low-gravity conditions than it would
have done on Earth. The surface of the moon itself is solid rock, so a blast crater probably wouldn’t be feasible
anyway – in the same way that an aeroplane doesn’t leave a crater when it touches down on a concrete airstrip.
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Multiple Light Sources
On the moon there is only one strong light source: the Sun. So it’s fair to suggest that all shadows should run
parallel to one another. But this was not the case during the moon landing: videos and photographs clearly show
that shadows fall in different directions. Conspiracy theorists suggest that this must mean multiple light sources
are present -suggesting that the landing photos were taken on a film set.NASA has attempted to blame uneven landscape on the strange shadows, with subtle bumps and hills on the
moon’s surface causing the discrepancies. This explanation has been tossed out the window by some theorists;
how could hills cause such large angular differences? In the image above the lunar module’s shadow clearly
contradicts that of the rocks in the foreground at almost a 45 degree angle.7
The Van Allen Radiation Belt
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In order to reach the moon, astronauts had to pass through what is known as the Van Allen radiation belt. The belt is held in place by Earth’s magnetic field and stays perpetually in the same place. The Apollo missions to the
moon marked the first ever attempts to transport living humans through the belt. Conspiracy theorists contend
that the sheer levels of radiation would have cooked the astronauts en route to the moon, despite the layers of
aluminum coating the interior and exterior of the spaceship.
NASA have countered this argument by emphasizing the short amount of time it took the astronauts to traverse
the belt – meaning they received only very small doses of radiation.
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The Unexplained Object
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One compelling argument for the moon landing hoax is the total lack of stars in any of the photographic/video
evidence. There are no clouds on the moon, so stars are perpetually visible and significantly brighter than what
we see through the filter of Earth’s atmosphere.
The argument here is that NASA would have found it impossible to map out the exact locations of all stars for the
hoax without being rumbled, and therefore left them out – intentionally falling back on an excuse that the quality
of the photographs washes them out (an excuse they did actually give).Some photographs are high-quality, however, and yet still no stars are shown. Certainly eerie, considering you
can take pictures of stars from Earth in much lower quality and still see them.3
The “C” Rock
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The two photos from the Apollo 15 mission shown above clearly have identical backdrops, despite being
officially listed by NASA as having been taken miles apart. One photo even shows the lunar module. When all
photographs were taken the module had already landed, so how can it possibly be there for one photo and
disappear in another? Well, if you’re a hardcore conspiracy theorist, it may seem viable that NASA simply used the same backdrop when filming different scenes of their moon landing videos.
NASA has suggested that since the moon is much smaller than Earth, horizons can appear significantly closer to
the human eye. Despite this, to say that the two hills visible in the photographs are miles apart is incontrovertibly
false.
Bonus
The Stanley Kubrick Theory
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