Moon Landing: Fact or Fiction?
I recently saw this story about a Nashville filmmaker who thinks the Apollo moon landings were fake. I’ve met two such people before; in fact, they were from Murfreesboro, TN.
They spent about an hour explaining to me all the evidence: how some of the pictures were suspicious, how the astronauts wouldn’t have survived passing through the Van Allen belts, and all kinds of stuff.
It still seems unlikely to me that it was a hoax. I mean, surely the Russians would have said something. Right?
So, yeah, I’m pretty sure our guys made it the moon. Or did they?
March 10th, 2004 at 2:47 am
One wonders why in the recent talk about returning to the moon that we are talking about taking 15 years to do what we had originally accomplished in 8. The most curious part of it all is that apparently most of the records on how to build the spacecraft were lost and aren’t reproducable.
March 10th, 2004 at 7:00 am
Lest any be deceived, one of the more complete debunkings is in the URL embedded in my name. Not that I’m saying anyone around *here* would fall for such nonsense, but you never know who might stumble on in a google search for “Green Cheese”…
March 10th, 2004 at 8:01 am
You know, when you mention Murfreesborons with cooky scientific ideas, there are a couple of names that pop to mind. They’re married. And I’m wondering if it’s the same couple of people who, when asked if they’d appear on a friend’s college radio show with which I was only loosely affiliated, asked to be paid….
March 10th, 2004 at 9:39 am
Tommy,
The people I met were a father and son.
March 10th, 2004 at 9:57 am
Oh okay. The ones I’m talking about were fairly big in that whole paranormal/Art Bell community. They ran a bookstore and an indie publishing house here in the boro, for a while. Nice folks, what little I interacted with them. But very sure of themselves, in the way that no view other than theirs is plausible.
I never knew if they had kids, so it’s plausible that we’re still talking about the same people.
March 10th, 2004 at 10:55 am
I read the article, and what’s confusing to me is exactly why he changed his mind.
The only paragraph that explains it says:
As a young man, he heard of the moon-landing hoax theory and initially decided against pursuing it as a film topic. Later, however, he began studying the Bible and experienced a religious conversion to Christianity that convinced him that he should investigate the hoax theory.
”When I finally decided to do what was right in my personal life — not sleeping around, not doing drugs — I went to a church that took sin seriously,” he says. ”I started thinking, ‘Yeah, there’s right and wrong, and there’s judgment. If they faked going to the moon, this is important, and they should be held accountable.’ ”
I applaud his conversion experience and am glad he turned his life around (apparently) but what exactly led him to believe this particular piece of history was false? We’re led to believe, either by him or the write, that it was a revelation from God. Now, I’m the last one to debunk someone’s religious experience, but…huh?
He somehow jumps from his conversion to doing business with $750,000 worth of investors? How much did he make off the deal? How much does he continue to make off video sales?
I think there are two kinds of Christians – one kind who actually has a religious conversion experience, and the other realizes they can make a profit off of people believing they did.
March 10th, 2004 at 1:15 pm
Manish,
I was wondering why it would take so long to get to the moon the second time around. Lost the records?
I figure that by having the date far in the future, Bush can take credit for the idea without having to spend any of the necessary money–see hydrogen car, non-funded Africa AIDS relief, et al.
March 11th, 2004 at 2:00 pm
Brian…From what I understand, a new mission to the moon would have to start pretty much from scratch as no records were apparently kept on rocket design, etc. to rebuild a space craft capable of going to the moon. They were somehow lost or something…could be more to it than that, but it does seem odd.
March 11th, 2004 at 2:31 pm
I bet the blueprints are in the same warehouse that the Ark of the Covenant is in.