QI - QI Versus Moon Landing Conspiracies REACTION

[@TheDarkhorse1947]

If the world was flat , our cats would have pushed everything of the edge.

[@watchreadplayretro]

^ Brilliant! =)

[@shauntempley9757]

Plus, our dogs would have dug to many holes.

[@mana3735]

Not heard that one before!

[@MrGoldie1976]

Not passed the big ice wall they wouldn't 😂

[@js0988]

Also, I would see Mt.Everest from my porch!😄

[@CatholicSatan]

(David) Mitchell & Webb have a fantastic comedy skit about conspiracy theories including the Moon landings. Well worth a watch.

[@vaudevillian7]

Seconded

[@watchreadplayretro]

Nick & Jodie have already reacted to that one, about 10 months back

[@leohickey4953]

Yes, their whole series on conspiracy theories was very good.

[@HankD13]

Born in Italy, his father was the U.S. military attaché there from 1928 to 1932. Collins' mother was of Scottish descent, and his father's family hailed from Ireland. I watched and listened to Apollo 11 and remember it all very vividly. My dad bought us tape cassettes of the conversations between them and Mission Control - and later the Apollo 13 tape. Been an avid fan of space exploration ever since. The Mythbusters did a Moon Landing episode that covered all the usual dumb stuff in beautiful detail.

[@AlanKenny-y8e]

Michael Collins was also the name of an Irish revolutionary in the early 20th century, hence Al Murray's comment "as played by Liam Neeson" when he was talking about the astronauts.

[@reallivebluescat]

Should probably also add that Liam Neeson also played him in a movie, starting the IRA

[@markedmonds8694]

Man you guys are hysterical, love the handshake Nick. Appreciate you guys doing these endless videos even when sometimes you might not be feeling it.

[@johnharrison154]

'I'd expect to meet the soup dragon', that's a British culture reference right there.

[@deano2506]

That no-one under the age of 50 gets.

[@williamburnham3659]

The Clangers were brilliant 😊😊😊

[@coot1925]

Whoops....dropped a clanger. If the clangers want a Sunday roast they can whistle for it. God I'm old! 😂😂😂

[@renejean2523]

I was more of a Hector's House kind of a child. And the Wombles.

[@ethelmini]

Clangers live on a small planet, far, far away - just sayin

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

History cannot be changed only the future. People try and change history to fit their own narrative It’s happened, learn by it

[@adz_b]

Loving the QI reactions, thank you 👍👏🏻👏🏻😁🇬🇧

[@michael6401]

I’m English and 60yrs old, one of my greatest memories was 1969 my dad got my brother and I out of bed in the small hours and we watched man landing on the moon live ! Anyone who doesn’t believe we went to the moon is insane !

[@brushe8025]

Born in 64 our entire kindy class watched the landing on a crappy black and white tele . Even then it was amazing .

[@vinnywarren2144]

Michael Collins father was from Irish ancestry and his mother British.Its like saying Harley was from northern England and Davidson's family came from Scotland.But in the end they are American.

[@renejean2523]

Michael Collins wrote arguably the best autobiography by an astronaut.

[@IUsedToBeSomeoneElseX]

03:58 - Patrick Moore was a well respected astronomer who, for years, hosted a show for BBC TV called, The Sky At Night, which, sadly, carries on without him. Unfortunately, the BBC is not what it once was!

[@dazediss6629]

Yeah. Nowadays they only employ a few pedophiles instead of hundreds.

[@andrewmills509]

We all have our “bad histories” where we wish we had done things differently. The first moon landing was a world event I was only 11 years old when it happened I was super excited and wanted to stay up to watch it as in the UK it was shown in the early hours of the morning but my dad wouldn’t let me as it was a Sunday ( I think) and I had school the next day. My dad stayed up to watch it though and remember he bought a national newspaper with the headline about the USA landing on the moon he kept it for years. Certainly something the Americans can be proud of it captures your pioneering spirit and can do attitude. I can’t believe 25% of the UK population think they were fake it just shows we all have our share of crazies 😊

[@happilyeggs4627]

As a young English boy, at the time of the first moon landing, I cared very much, along with many other boys. Not just boys but families. The moon landing, which took place in the middle of the night in the UK was watched by one of the biggest audiences of the year. Everybody stayed up to watch it.

[@simongeoghegan9842]

The Director Peter Hyams made a great movie in the 1970s called Capricorn one staring Elliott Gould about America's first mission to Mars. A must watch all about conspiracy theories. Merry Christmas 👍☃️🇬🇧

[@renejean2523]

Tens of millions of people in the United States believe the Earth is between 6 and 10,000 years old. Go figure.

[@simon3745]

With rocks and coal being found encased around human belongings and human footprints found within rock. It's pretty obvious the millions/billions of years isn't sound science. Add to that the fact science has created fossils in 24 hours, again casting doubt on the millions of years to create a fossil. I'm not saying the 10 million people are right but the evidence isn't exactly stacked up against them either.

[@sigmaslaughter1441]

I know right?.. the dinosaurs are rolling in their graves..

[@simonwinwood]

❤ loved Nick's teacher joke at the end

[@Martyntd5]

The problem with common sense is that everybody forgets about it when it comes to religion.

[@garyneedham3961]

After your Golden Balls clip yesterday and Sean Locke (RIP) the man in the purple shirt in this clip, you could link them both with "Carrot In A Box" which was another tense psychological battle to win a carrot.

[@mossyman65]

You are so right Jodi, we have the same problem here in the UK with not wanting to talk about the bad parts of our history. Deal with it and learn from it, don't just sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it never happened.

[@AlistairForsyth-y9o]

See Al Murray's "All jobs are terrible" where he covers the moon landing including Michael Collins. You'll love it.

[@JEFF-ft6qm]

Of course they went to the moon. I do find it inexcusable though that they didn't bring a load of cheese back. 😀

[@AB-ku4my]

They didn't have the boot space, so they had to eat it all.

[@greygreen5610]

the reference about the soup dragon. there used to be a children programme in the UK called the clangers, the soup dragon lived on the moon, as did the clangers. i watched the moon landing at school s a 10 year old, black and white tv

[@sameebah]

My parents moved the TV into their bedroom, and had myself and my little sister (all of 4 years old) in bed with them to watch it live . . . My mother is one of those who still has doubts. My sister slept through it, and I remember it clearly even now.

[@renejean2523]

In the UK it was the middle of the night when Armstrong stepped out. What were you doing at school?

[@AB-ku4my]

@@renejean2523 Many, many schoolchildren stayed up late that night. I was one, along with both my older and younger siblings. It was a major talking point the next day, and many weeks after, at school, in and out of lessons.

[@greygreen5610]

it was the first all-night broadcast on British television, with both BBC1 and ITV remaining on air for 11 hours from 11.30 p.m. on 20 July to 10.30 a.m. the following morning. which was a monday which i assuming i saw it, i was only 10

[@supernovaleftover1812]

Micheal Collins. He was American by the way. We've had 12 british astonauts so far, the first I think being Helen Sharman and the most recent being Tim Peake. Micheal Collins took the greatest photo of all time, encompassing the whole earth and every other person on it as he orbited the moon while his mates were messing about collecting rocks.

[@Edders574]

hi i think your talking about the earth rise photo if so that was apollo 8 and taken by william anders, but i'm sure collins took loads of cool photos too

[@supernovaleftover1812]

@@Edders574 I meant the one including the approaching lunar module with Earth in the background, but both are amazing.

[@Edders574]

@@supernovaleftover1812 cool will have to look that one up..there is a good recent one with orion (new lunar module) moon and earth thats nice too

[@Edders574]

just saw it very nice dont know how i have never seen that one thanks

[@jamesgill218]

The lunar module astronauts were th😢e furthest any human being has been from planet Earth.

[@rickb3645]

David Mitchel has some very funny spoof sketches from... "That Mitchell and Webb Look"... Involving Conspiracy Theories... And funnily enough the Moon Landings is one of them... Check them out guys. 👍

[@BusstterNutt]

Watching Master Fry is always a education,but in a fun way.

[@marcuswardle3180]

Michael Collins was the guy in the Apollo craft when they landed on the moon. He was told what he had to do in the event of the landing being a failure or Buzz and Neil couldn’t get off the moon surface. He wrote in his biography that he didn’t fancy returning to earth on his own.

[@supernovaleftover1812]

Some great insight on his one, it's good to know you're not nutters.

[@rickashtray]

Was your washing machine going during recording? towards the end (when you are talking) I can hear a washing machine spinning. I thought ours was going or is it the sound of the Moon lander?

[@alabama1413]

I strongly recommend if you want a good laugh watch ‘Carrot in a Box’, a segment from one of our quiz shows, ‘8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown’ & involving team captains Sean Lock & Jon Richardson. It’s a game of bluff & there are a total of three to watch. Best wishes for Christmas 🎄

[@binaway]

At my school, in Australia, our teachers brought in TV's. I watched Armstrong descend the later on a 12inch black and white TV at about 1pm on 21st July The Signal was received at Parks radio telescope in Australia and transmitted to NASA in the USA and from NASA to the world. Technicians at Parks watched it on a small screen making them, be a fraction of a second, the first people to actually see it.

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

Dude. If THAT woman complements you, accept it. NEVER motivate her to stop! 👋

[@davidbaxter8575]

Really like watching your responses. I'm also disturbed when people say that they don't want to talk about our history. In the UK as with a number of countries, we sadly have a very chequered history. Ignoring history means that you fail to learn the lessons from it. It disturbs me greatly that people are not taught more about the first and second war and man's inhumanity to man. There are so many parallels with Putin firstly annexing Crimea and then invading Ukraine. If people believe he would stop with just conquering Ukraine they are very deluded. Putin's claim is that he is removing fascism from Ukraine. Which of course is utter nonsense. But he's also spent the last decade teaching kids in Russian history classes that Poland started the second world war, because he says they were the fascists. What he's doing of course is laying the justification to invade Poland etc and re-establish the Soviet Union. The lesson from the second world war is clear. Appeasing a dictator doesn't work

[@sagan666]

I've known about all three of them since I was about 5. My dad was a fan so that's probably why. No judgement.

[@danc1897]

I was the cameraman who filmed Neil Armstrong land on the moon 🤣

[@darrylglynn1557]

There was also a Russian craft (Luna 15) followed the Apollo 11 MISSION, AND CRASHED INTO THE MOON A DAY LATER.

[@richardjames3022]

Eratosthenes of Cyrene a Greek mathematician proved the earth was round in about 240 BC

[@renejean2523]

Galileo demonstrated that it wasn't the center of the universe. Not that it did him a lot of good!

[@pikricky]

So good to see the amazing Sean Lock who sadly passed away a couple of years ago 😢 he was hilarious,you should check him out on 8 Out Of 10 Cats or anything else he has done,you won't regret it,so funny

[@bennyfactor1]

I can understand the who cares if it was an American view; although its badly expressed. Many nations were involved in the project and the key man a German. But having lived through that event it was never the world watching as America went to the moon, more the world watching as we went to the moon. Similarly with Apollo 13. The world was watching and we were all holding our breath. One of the very few occasions the world was largely as one.

[@VXGaming]

To carry on from this try What was the first words spoke on the moon.

[@MetalMonkey]

I highly recommend the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, it's hosted by the researchers from QI.

[@Ometecuhtli]

It was probably because people cited constantly how we could always remember the 1st person to do it (Magellan to travel the circumference of the Earth, which isn't true by the way, or Columbus the discoverer of America, again not true, not even the 1st European), and said you could only remember Neil Armstrong as the one who first set foot on the Moon. Who was the second? Buzz Aldrin. And Michael Collins orbiting the satellite in his re-entry module. Take that, "common knowledge".

[@michaeldowson6988]

Jethro Tull wrote a song - For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me. I used to work in navigation & mapping - I did the Math - and the earth is definitely round. You can't see the Great Wall of China from the moon, only from a low earth orbit.

[@jokepy4230]

Take a look at the movie "Capricorn One". It's main plot is about whether or not some astronauts went to Mars.

[@Erulin68]

Glad you guys discovered QI... It funny and you learn stuff from it.

[@keithbemrose3876]

Mike Collins is one of a select group of astronauts who have travelled the furthest from Earth because he flew around the back of the Moon in the command module.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Have you checked out That Mitchell and Webb Look - Moon Landing Sketch with David Mitchell

[@victordevonshire807]

Why didn't they go back? How did they get through the radium field? And how did a set in America fit exactly the same as on the moon.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Certainly lives up to quite interesting . I remember getting up at a ridiculous time of the morning to watch and remember most of the details well after all these years , memory is pretty much all I have to rely on as the BBC coverage was wiped , along with many great programmes in the 70's and reused as an economy . If only someone had foreseen home video . I always wondered what Michael Collins must have been thinking of something went wrong . Patrick Moore was our go to expert on astronomy and there was a worldwide involvement in planning the mission . I do think a lot of people regard polls , especially on the internet , as a bit of fun rather than serious hence some of the fact results .

[@55tranquility]

The moon landings were an amazing achievement, quite unbelievable really - an amazing feat of which the US should hugely proud. NASA achieved precisely what JFK set out in his famous speech, to the letter.

[@simon3745]

Yep and NASA have failed George W Bush Snr, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jnr, Barrack Obama andDonald Trump by failing to return. 40+ years the Presidents have been telling us we're going back to the Moon and NASA still can't get out of low Earth orbit.

[@DavidSimmons-kt4rc]

Apparently the Flat Earth Society held their annual general meeting at "The Globe" pub.😀😀😀

[@dalewyatt1321]

Michael Collins.

[@steviekeane]

Jack dee 9/11 conspiracy clip is worth a look . Sensitive subject but he puts them in their place .

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

Gabes favourite conspiracy- "match fixing!"

[@smithpm81]

michael collins

[@Mr_Fahrenheit]

In the 70s I saw a book of photos from the aftermath of the holocaust that a friend of my father had taken during the occupation, they weren’t copies they were original photos and even had the negatives with them, they were horrific.

[@marcuswardle3180]

The ultimate proof that we went to the moon was when we took a Lunar Rover there. It was filmed going along and the film showed the moon dust flying out the back. Scientists showed that the pattern of how the moon dust settled back onto the lunar surface differed from when a car on Earth did a similar manoeuvre. The difference was due to the gravity between the Moon and Earth. Therefore it would be impossible to create the way the moon dust is expelled and settled from a Lunar Rover as the gravity is less than on the earth.

[@InstantDesign]

Pretty sure a lot of flat earthers are just trolling.

[@renejean2523]

I agree. I find it very difficult to accept that people would believe something for which there is so much overwhelming evidence against, and zero evidence in favor that survives any scrutiny. I don't buy that they're buying it.

[@mehallica666]

The vast majority are deeply religious creationists who have interpreted the bible as saying such. The trust in their faith depends on them believing it's flat. And since when did the religious care about evidence (or lack thereof)? Some are lying, preying on the religious and those with no comprehension of basic science to make money. Some are just generic conspiracy theorists who will jump on anything. Some feel special, believing they are holders of secret knowledge that the world's governments don't want people to know. Some are just glad to feel accepted in a like minded community. I'm sure there are a few trolls, but not as many as you'd think. I've had countless interactions with them over the years. They are seriously deluded and at times, exhausting.

[@renejean2523]

@@mehallica666 - You're probably right. Nevertheless, it's still a of denial of demonstrable facts and a lack of critical thinking skills that is hard to comprehend.

[@mehallica666]

@@renejean2523Indeed.

[@NZWarriors1995]

I was born in New Zealand and am 49 years old....at 9 years old I knew Michael Collins was the third astronaut.

[@MillerWright-mb1ob]

When the lander leaves the moon, we have a shot of it taken from a camera left behind, OK, but the camera tracks the lander, how, given the technology available.

[@joaocreature]

I know nothing about what you just said but I'll give this a go. It was probably a very wide angle lens and the footage was edited to highlight the important part

[@sociallyferal4237]

I am not an engineer or anything but I could have a guess (before I bother to check what Google might list about it) How about a simple spring/cog/ratchet on a timer. Click the launch button, the lander goes up at a known speed, and the mechanical bits just turn up at the set speed..? Heck - your fridge can turn on and off a light by a simple button. I think a billion dollars can by a super good button. . .

[@joaocreature]

I have looked it up and I was wrong. The camera placement was preplanned so that preset movements could capture the lift off. Basically they'd already programmed all the movements the camera needed to make so they just had to time it right with the launch.

[@renejean2523]

Practice. It was set on Earth to start panning up a couple of seconds early so it would respond on the moon as the land blasted upwards. They had already mistimed it on one or two earlier missions, I believe.

[@mehallica666]

The camera was mounted on the lunar rover. It was mis-timed the first time they tried it. Got it next time. Apollo 11 didn't take a rover, hence no footage of take off.

[@mikexcity]

I feel the same about religion.

[@4Kandlez]

The same as what?

[@dannyspelman1468]

That astronaut was Irish American. His name was Michael Collins

[@567891100]

Exactley, You can not learn from mistakes if you forget the mistakes. Some people are idiots.

[@brucedickinson12]

Al murray has a bit about it all jobs are terrible

[@stevenappleman]

Anytime you see the unsolicited Context Box, you know someone is telling the truth!

[@LordRahl1975]

For All Mankind is a brilliant speculative fiction show on Apple TV. All about how the world would be different if the Russians had beaten America to the moon. It is very good.

[@renejean2523]

I haven't seen that yet. Sounds interesting. Long before that series, in 1989, For All Mankind was a wonderful documentary using footage from all the Apollo missions to depict the whole non-fiction adventure as a single mission. Also very good.

[@LordRahl1975]

@@renejean2523 I suspect that is the reason behind the choice of the name but don’t know for certain.

[@renejean2523]

@@LordRahl1975- A plaque on the lander of Apollo 11 says that the astronauts came "For All Mankind", so I guess that is the true origin.

[@cbcdesign001]

Yes its very good.

[@AB-ku4my]

If it had not been for Michael Collins (very much an American) in the command module, the others would not have got back to Earth. And any moon mission would have been far more difficult.

[@mefw]

Michael Collins

[@alpine_newt]

My great grandad went to his grave believing no one went to the moon. He also liberated a Nazi concentration camp and was shaken by it.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

Michael Collins was the third

[@renejean2523]

The third what?

[@ripplesinthefield]

You guys are teachers? Obviously not history teachers.

[@petecaulton9271]

Thing is why would they bother to hide the earth is flat. The earth could be banana shaped and I’d say “ok” and get on with my life the same way knowing it’s round. Plus like that the Russians would want to conquer the edge of the flat earth just to prove they took a picture first 😂 should send people who think the earth is flat into space and leave them there 😂 😜

[@mehallica666]

They say it's to turn people away from God.

[@waynejones1054]

As Einstein said, the difference between stupidity and genius - genius has its limits.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

Michael Collins? I know his name. No I did not google it.

[@Fwhole]

Which nation landed on the moon first is obviously a big deal. Al Murray was joking. However he also was taking gentle aim at the concept that it was a race. No other nation was actually trying to land on the moon at that time.

[@markbell-j6q]

Not a single question about the Soup Dragon comment 🙂

[@alabama1413]

The ‘flat Earth’ theories are easy to debunk based on observation & physics. Anyone who’s flown on Concorde at 55,000ft can attest to the curvature of the Earth.

[@steddie4514]

"flown on Concorde"? Ah, yes a lot of us have done that....not! 🤪

[@renejean2523]

@@steddie4514 - I've flown on Concorde. Went from Heathrow to Heathrow. They used to do joy rides in the late nineties to try to make the plane pay. Out over the Bay of Biscay to go up to 57,000 feet and Mach 2, and then back home again. An hour and a half...nine hundred quid. My friends thought I was crazy, and I certainly couldn't really afford it, but I don't regret it now.

[@simon3745]

Yet Neil deGrasse Tyson states that Felix Baumgartner couldn't see the curve from 128000 feet. Either your wrong (which you are) or the very famous Astrophysicist is.

[@cbcdesign001]

0@@simon3745 All the Concorde pilots will tell you they saw the curvature of the earth so either Felix Baumgartner has been mis-quoted or mis-understood. Most people can see the curvature of the earth at 50,000 feet.

[@simon3745]

@@cbcdesign001 plane windows have distortions, that is a scientific fact and it's inescapable due to it being a result of the glass making process. Merely understanding the light is hitting the surface of the window, then travelling through the glass and then through to your eyes, we all know what happens to light travelling through a medium. Ever wondered why we wear glasses to correct our vision? The glass adjusts the real image to provide an identical image to the wearer. Even looking out your house windows or the car windscreen will show you outside, but it's not exactly as it really is. Obviously the windows on todays planes are to a certain standard, let me reassure you 100%, that standard isn't an horizon 700 odd miles away, it's a runway a few miles ahead or another plane 10 miles away or so.

[@danielkarlsson258]

More QI please!

[@dave_h_8742]

There was no British guy in Apollo 11

[@scouseofhorror104]

Hang on, it's late, my brain isn't functioning, I've downed my first (ahem!) refreshment 😅 ...Soup Dragon.. from 1970s The Clangers ( pink knitted ETs that lived on the moon) Guys maybe if you can find a classic UK children's TV shows video to watch?!

[@strayhound3842]

What if they did land on the moon, but also made some fake photographs just for better images?

[@Erulin68]

You should look up David Mitchell going off on the Flat Earth Movement on the Graham Norton show in an episode with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. It's quite hillarious. They both fell for his wit and for the fact that he's one of the characters in Peppa Pig, which Chelsea's kid is a huge fan of it seems. :)

[@brushe8025]

The Russian argument is the clincher lol .

[@claff88]

David Mitchell on graham norton talks about the flat earth society. Short video well worth a watch

[@musiclover9361]

12 men have walked on the Moon. They were all American.

[@StephenNoname-h4t]

Of course they went to the moon, I once met a family of bigfoots and they invited me into their cave and made a me an espresso and then called me a cab when I wanted to go home

[@victordevonshire807]

They send rockets way out into outerspace but they won't go back to the moon. Space stations. Why not put one on the moon?

[@ConnorEllisMusic]

My first issue is you googling "Who was in the Space Shuttle in Apollo 11" Space Shuttle didn't exist yet.

[@richardpoynton4026]

Of course the Earth isn’t flat! It’s not even level (mountains are the clue, there!). - Al Murray

[@rogerbarrett8744]

I hope you both are starting to realise that the Brits love a bit of comedy and knowledge wrapped up into one tv series.

[@pomerau]

I was a boy of 10 in a big family watching the landing on Irish TV. Michael Collins (the astronaut, not the Irish Revolutionary Leader) instantly became my greatest hero for staying on his own for so long and who was essential to linking up again and getting all three back home (OK each of them were essential). As a 64 year old in London, I have to say "You take that Back!" 🤨🤯😭

[@danmayberry1185]

Wasn't "who cares" at the time. The Space Race influenced car design, children's toys, fashion prints, books, movies, TV, music, presidential platforms ... the Americans won.

[@daveworrall1151]

Here's a question for you then @BoringReviews to test if you should care that Americans were first to land on the moon: What would have changed in the grand scheme of things if you hadn't? A great achievement is only great if you do something with it.

[@davsav]

Good joke at the end.

[@True_Heretic]

The only real conspiracies are the one's we don't know about.

[@maxmoore9955]

I've never heard anything about Michael Collins being British. Obviously his Ancestors came from Europe.

[@ajkgordon]

He wasn't. Trolls will be trolls.

[@zerogo40]

Its down to education, please help do your best teachers of the world.

[@kevanwillis4571]

Who doesn't know who the third astronaut was? 🤣😂🤣 Everyone knows except you! Although Michael Collins was British? Never heard that.

[@watchreadplayretro]

The actual landing was filmed just up the road from me, I wasn't born back then, but my uncle chatted to the photographers setting up and said they were wonderful and super-smart people. My uncle to this day says that chat about astrophysics Vs getting the grey paint to stay on the sand without making it sticky changed his life. He was 3 years old at the time. Oh and come on, everyone knows that the earth isn't round!! It's a triskaidecagon flattened out! :D

[@markgodwin1777]

You should read Michael Collins book, it is brilliant,

[@AgentOccam]

"Poor guy"? He has one of the most famous names in history! How is he a "poor guy"?

[@corbuzchristi365]

6 percent of the American population is still 3 million more people than 25 percent of the UK population, just so people are aware. 😂