Moon Landing: The Ultimate Hoax or Greatest Achievement?

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[@fallingdream]

when I was at art school I overheard a fellow student say "it's a hoax, Neville Armstrong *never* walked on the moon!" and I thought well you're not wrong

[@schipperkesandhonoraryschi8515]

😂😂😂

[@treyjordan3168]

Who is Neville Armstrong? He related to the Legendary Astronaut Neil Armstrong or the Legendary Singer Louis Armstrong?

[@TommyXLourdes]

Mr Strong Alien: Neil Armstrong

[@12pentaborane]

​@@treyjordan3168I think he's the cousin to Lance Armstrong

[@treyjordan3168]

@@12pentaborane wouldn't surprise Me

[@joelellis7035]

Stanley Kubrick was hired to fake the moon landings. He was so devoted to realism, however, that he insisted on shooting on location! 😂😂😂

[@HelFrostKara]

I thought the same thing. Perfect. No notes. 🤭

[@miketobias1821]

That's pretty funny. 😄😄😃

[@joelellis7035]

@@miketobias1821 TBH, it's unoriginal. I heard it from someone else.

[@miketobias1821]

@@joelellis7035 i've heard it before too.

[@Hykje]

Didn't they know that Kubrick always did 500 takes of every scene?

[@vectorwolf]

My grandfather and father were systems engineers during Mercury and Apollo. I can personally attest to the reality... and my grandfather's assertion that for all the innovation and pluck involved, it's a miracle more men didn't die up there. They were inventing as they went in a lot of cases.

[@variaxi935]

It was many decades before another man-on-the moon project even began, even though related technologies advances by orders of magnitude... that's a testament to just how incredibly ballsy those involved in the original landing were. And you've got those same big balls in your DNA

[@SlackerU]

They were inventing b/c it was all fake. Not even 4 years on the moon, what a joke.

[@vectorwolf]

@@SlackerU

[@portfolio91]

@SlackerU All video was B&W and fairly low quality by modern standards. My dad let me stay up all night. The landing was something like 3 or 5am Eastern time. July 20, my 12th birthday. Here's what I remember (compare against the videos you can see on youtube.) Landing: Looking out of a LEM window, pointing down, after some seconds, see dust being thrown. Then the words "Picking up some dust". Some more seconds, and a complicated shadow comes into the picture. Out the bottom comes a rod (shadow of a rod), which senses if the feet touched the ground. Then, you see the shadow jam against something (out of sight). Then, the dust stops moving. LEM drop as the feet (can't see) jams against the surface. "Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed." Walk: Pretty dark, so mostly I see dark profiles against the bright background, with some detail in dark gray. Armstrong climbs down the ladder, stiffly because of the stiff suit. When he reaches the last rung, he sortof slides down the rest of the leg to the footpad. A pause. And Armstrong moves one foot off the pad, onto the dust. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". He'd intended to say "a man" but forgot. Given he was doing something many times more complicated than scuba diving, and also knowing he had tens of millions of people watching his every move, I don't blame him for the mistake. Apollo 12, the second landing, also happened on my sister's birthday. By coincidence. I also watched that landing and the astronauts on the surface. I also saw 14, 15, 16 and 17. I think by 12, they had a color camera, and a few landings later, that small 'car' they could use to drive around (cuz walking in that heavy spacesuit was tedious). They timed the first landing at either sunrise or sunset, to maximize the chances of success (-200° at night, +200° during day). Later landings had more ballsy schedules with the sun higher up. If you doubt Apollo 11, do you doubt 12, and 14 thru 17? Do you think that they'd fake Apollo 13, which was a big disaster that almost didn't bing the astronauts back? Why did they fake 12-17 if they'd done what they intended at 11? (Really: they had the hardware, technology, communication networks all set up - why not do some more until someone cuts the budget? It was prohibitively expensive. $17.6 just for the Apollo 1-17 spacecraft alone.)

[@portfolio91]

@@SlackerU "They were inventing b/c it was all fake. Not even 4 years on the moon, what a joke." It soaked up 2% of the entire US government budget. That's why it was only 4 years, and why everything was cut way back for decades, in favor of unmanned probes, which are far cheaper.

[@orterves]

At some point the conspiracies become so convoluted that they would have cost more than just actually doing the moon shot

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

Alex Jones was right more than you.

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

What a load of BS

[@steveallen1635]

What if you don't have the technology to go, but you do have the money to fake it! Just saying!

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

@@steveallen1635 you fake it and you are very happy of it since you don‘t take any risk of catastrophic failure. By the way, also the Russian have faked a lot. For example JFK was advised not to recognize Gagarin endeavor as many fishy things occurred. JFK didn’t listen and he recognized immediately

[@FrankyPi]

@@steveallen1635 There was no technology to fake it so convincingly and we still don't have it, so there's that.

[@gordondouglas2971]

I feel like the existence of a speech in the event that the mission failed is proof it wasn't faked. There's literally no reason for this speech to exist if it was all faked.

[@treyjordan3168]

I bet there are some segments of the Conspiracy Theory that state the Astronauts would have been wacked if the Module failed

[@ilionreactor1079]

​@treyjordan3168 That's the plot to the movie "Capricorn One" (1977).

[@mikejosef2470]

@gordondouglas2971 To start with, let me state that I am not a conspiracy theorist; the moon landings happened, and I assume you agree. Also, apologies for the length of this reply. My posts always get out of hand 😂 Now that that's out of the way... I would agree with you, but I'm certain that every major event, where there is the possibility of failure/tragedy, has two speeches written. Those involved in a hoax would do it exactly as though the hoax were real (of course), including contingency speeches and plans. I say this not because I want to shoot down your idea, but rather as an illustration of the fact (I believe it to be a fact) that there's really no way to declare that any type of behaviour, or actions, particularly on the part of individual people, mean that the moon landings did or did not happen. The contingency speech could mean it was real... or just a really thorough hoax. With no real weight in either direction, it's not really evidence of anything. Now, to the point of my reply... That's the trap of conspiracy theories; thinking that it's possible to discern truth by watching "stuff on the internet", through a filter of assumptions that the theorist believes to be unassailable. Again, I'm not placing you in any camp and certainly not attacking you... you do not make your statement with the ludicrous 100% certainty of a conspiracy theorist, which means, in my humble opinion, that you and I can have a meaningful discussion on at least this topic, and, I would wager, on any topic. A good example of the type of sleuthing I speak of is the argument that the lack of emotion shown by the crew of Apollo 11 in one of the post-mission interviews is evidence of a hoax. Deniers claim that no one who actually went to the moon could be so dispassionate about it, but it proves nothing. They were also pretty coldly logical while actually on the moon. They were highly disciplined men, with a mission to fulfil on the moon and, back on Earth, a thorough debriefing to deliver. They read prepared statements in a formal setting. It is said that even THAT proves they didn't go; why would you need a written statement to express the amazement you felt in that incredible situation? I guess for the same reason I wrote, in my dad's eulogy, near the end, that "I loved my father more than I can say."... I needed to make sure I said it and that I didn't "lose my sh*t" and ramble on for 5 minutes. Sorry for the digression 😂. I'm pretty certain that at parties and other celebratory events, the astronauts would have been pretty emotional at times, but, again, that's not evidence of anything. I think the best evidence that the moon landings happened is that there is so much documented evidence that they did, and that a hoax would have involved tens of thousands of people who have all remained silent for over 50 years... the behaviour and actions of huge numbers of people is completely different from individual behaviour and actions. The evidence for a hoax? Nothing other than the words and thoughts of people with pretty much nothing to back it up, based on flawed assumptions and a general lack of knowledge of how things work, from the behaviour of photographic film to radiation in space, with nothing that isn't easily debunked or explained. All the theories are simply "ideas" from people who do not know what they do not know... And who seem to think that the world of James Bond, with its villains pursuing "World domination" (whatever THAT is), and pointless control over everyone, is entirely reasonable.😂

[@mikejosef2470]

​@@treyjordan3168Have you seen the theories about the Challenger Shuttle astronauts? No wacking necessary... some of them have been found in various parts of the US. The reason it's a certainty that they're the astronauts? They have the same or similar names ("similar" meaning a different spelling of the same name). Because of course, when one needs to assume a different identity due to one's death in an exploding space ship, one does not change one's name. 😂

[@treyjordan3168]

@@mikejosef2470 I meant the Conspiracy Theory of "The Moon Landing being faked", how do You make people believe someone is dead if They're not actually on the Lander but partying in Vegas and got spotted?

[@DeliveryMcGee]

As a sometime professional photographer, my preferred way of wording the response to "Why no stars in the photos?" is that sunlit side of the moon is as bright on the sunlit side as it is on a sunny day on earth (even a bit more, what with lack of atmosphere to break up the incoming light). This is easily proven, as Simon basically said in a bit more convoluted way, by taking a photo at night with artificial lighting that gives you the same exposure as daylight on your subject, no stars.

[@DeliveryMcGee]

The Apollo 11 flag was blown over by the ascent stage's rocket exhaust as they left, the later ones were planted a bit further away from the LM, so they're still standing and bleached by the sun.

[@aleksandr6691]

My response is usually a bit more curt: "It's because it's fucking daytime"

[@kai_plays_khomus]

​@@aleksandr6691 Very concise, indeed. 👌😁

[@OzyMandias13]

Does that mean you’re a full-time, but sometimes unprofessional photographer?

[@kidShibuya]

That response would turn just about anyone into a non believer. Do you even realise you didnt answer the question at all?

[@astralshore]

My favorite argument was that, paradoxically, at the time it was technologically actually more difficult to convincingly fake the landing (in the way we saw it) than it was to just do it for real.

[@sspacegghost]

yes but youre not asking the right question. it erks me vids like this, NASA in 1960s wasn't a space program it was a propaganda tool. First and foremost. Secondly yes Kubrik did fake footage, there's plenty of leaks of it. Ive got a channel with some great examples of it. You can see the rings and wires of the edge of the backpacks clear as day. They faked footage because the moon missions were military missions. So they did stuff up there not for public eyes. So that footage was dropped in mid mission. So they could go do other stuff. When you wrap your head around that. It suddenly makes sense why that guy in Australia at the relay station saw the live feed four days before it happened. they also faked footage, because, they wanted to fake the moon gravity constant to stop other nations going there with probes. for about 15 years probes and satellites kept whizzing by and crashing into it until I think japan or russia finally published the correct constants. They deliberately sabotaged. played dirty. Then you add that there were people who went to JPL labs and actually had lunch with people whose job it was to air brush out stuff in the moon pics. looking back at those old pics you can see the smudges etc. They went to the moon to explore and do military stuff - as well as the stuff they showed us. Thats literally the tip of the iceberg.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

Part of the video we still have is fake. The original tapes are long gone and were partially restored. So uh....awkward.

[@sspacegghost]

@@xerodelacroix5552 does anyone really believe nasa taped over the VHS tapes of the apollo missions. The astronauts would all have copies of every single second in their own libraries.

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

​@@sspacegghostput the tinfoil away, bud.

[@sspacegghost]

@@griffinmckenzie7203 nice insult. Shame I can prove everything I say sweetie ...want me to point U at my playlist of this stuff.

[@garnetbelial]

If you just listen to the astronauts talk about the experience, these are either Oscar worthy actors who have NEVER broken character or people genuinely touched by this lifechanging moment.

[@davidjames579]

Or brainwashed? Threatened and coached These are other suggested theories anyway.

[@jsmmacdld3519]

Buzz first words there whatching us sir there huge parked on crater whatching us till they got cut off it was a ham radio picked it up but people don't realize they did land on moon and they did make a video of it to because they couldn't tell truth about what they saw Dr Greer said Buzz and his family were threatened if they said anything about what happened and saw

[@billblaski9523]

​@@davidjames579lol Neil Armstrong Neil A Neil A backwards is alien! He's an alien!

[@GB-vn1tf]

​​@@davidjames579I suppose the Russians were brainwashed also, the ones that tracked them as well as the other nations who have sent orbiters to the moon that photo'd the landing sites?

[@LGTGHOSTHUNTING]

Quick question though. Why did buzz aldrin refuse to swear on a bible that he went to the moon and then try punching the guy who asked him?

[@arfived4]

The thing to remember with the "no stars in photos" thing, is that they were taken during the day.

[@salty_ball2565]

And the light is so bright from the sun, the reflection of the moon itself would black out stars to. I like conspiracy theories but that one is just crazy... We went to the moon.

[@dilldowschwagginz2674]

Right. When temps on the lunar surface are well over 200 degrees Fahrenheit. It's amazing the film wasn't damaged by the extreme lunar climate

[@dilldowschwagginz2674]

@@cancermcaids7688 air is an INSULATOR because it's very poor at conducting heat. Anything the sun touches on the lunar surface is going to be 250 degrees. That includes astronauts and camera equipment. Look, I'm a realist so that means I roll my eyes at flat earthers and the like... It also means that I hold a very realistic view on the moon landing(s) and there are just too many insurmountable obstacles for NASA to have put men on the lunar surface in 1969. It would take a herculean multi-nation effort to do it today and that's why we haven't "went back" to the moon in the last 40 YEARS!!!

[@sanitarium017]

​@@cancermcaids7688radiation will heat it up

[@marksprague1280]

​@@dilldowschwagginz2674Remember that the lunar "day times" and "night times" are each about 14 earth days long, that the the surface temperatures swing from more than 200 below zero to 200 plus above zero, and that it takes at least a week for that temperature swing. NASA chose landing points and times that were early in the lunar "morning" when the temperature was still below freezing, and they left about 72 hours later, before the temperatures could reach dangerous levels.

[@PhDMario]

Why do people think that we never got back to the moon? There were six moon landings with crew, and many others without. Also, there was another (with no crew) moon landing in 2019, by the Chinese.

[@dansv1]

There was also three lunar sample return missions in the 1970s by the Soviets.

[@ryanspencer6778]

The main reason we haven't been back to the moon since 1972 is Nixon and the Challenger incident. Nixon canceled Apollo due to cost, replacing it with the shuttle. Shuttle wasn't as capable on it's own, and needed an expanded architecture to get a crewed spacecraft to the moon, and most of the cool things that they had planned for shuttle were canceled after Challenger.

[@bubblesculptor]

We could have kept returning if that was the priority. The Apollo equipment was barely sufficient for planting flags and collecting a few rocks. Terribly risky, we were very lucky to have had no fatal in-space accidents. There would be no point to simply replicate Apollo spacecraft today. The Artemis missions are planning for long-term visits, with ability to bring a lot more equipment, more comfortable habitat, and tremendously improved safety standards.

[@proto-geek248]

Not to mention that the USA, Russia, China & India all have photos taken of the landing sights from lunar orbit, which are all easily Googled. You can clearly see the landing stages, equipment, footprints & lunar rover tracks.

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

​@@bubblesculptorHow lucky? It must be a Nasa risk assessment document somewhere about apollo mission. Or they simply spent 4% of US GDP without the faintest clue?

[@GoGWiz]

I love that video of the conspiracy nut who got punched by Buzz Aldrin lol

[@proto-geek248]

Piss of Buzz at your peril.

[@LGTGHOSTHUNTING]

You mean the one who asked him to swear on a bible that he actually went to the moon? Shouldnt have been an issue unless....

[@SecretMagician]

r​@LGTGHOSTHUNTING Apparently, Buzz punched him because his mother killed herself over the initial public scrutiny over him going to the moon or not along eith with the overwhelming attention they all got. He hates moon landing conspiracy theorists for that reason.

[@Mr_Beaubles]

One thing: the rover wasn't brought on the first landing. They didn't have it till the later trips. My grandpa was a Boeing engineer in one of their think-tanks and helped design the mesh tires for the rover.

[@Foiled_Foliage]

This is why I love Simon. He loves a good story but understands some stories are just that.

[@slevinkolebra]

Yep that's why I wear a mask and get my shots cause billionaires and politicians know the most

[@AltonV]

@@slevinkolebra you misspelled scientist

[@Vaeldarg]

@@slevinkolebra Says more about you than them (since you're likely being sarcastic). They were there as they eradicated polio (until the grifters brought it back), it's not their fault for having that knowledge and not throwing it away because some attention-seeking liars want to disregard it. They have their own issues, but you have only yourself to blame when it comes to anti-vaccine/mask nonsense.

[@slevinkolebra]

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[@Robert_H_Diver]

@@AltonVbecause scientists are perfectly moral and can’t be bought and paid for….🤡🤡🤡

[@jezzter4293]

It happened, humans did walk on the moon. No-one would keep a fake that secret for so long!

[@treyjordan3168]

The Idea of a Faked Moon Landing is about as Bass-Ackwards as the Idea of a Flat Earth, no way that Big a Secret is staying one for long

[@billblaski9523]

I always thought the Soviet Union would have been the first ones to be all vocal about "THE AMERICANS NEVER WENT TO THE MOON, THEY FAKED IT!" lol but they never did anything like that

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

Exact same reason why I don't believe in Area 51/Project bluebook conspiracy stories. No way would they have been able to keep al that a secret for so long with only crackpots and unreliable sources 'revealing it' without any proper evidence.

[@mabusmistra]

Technically, aliens did come to the moon to collect moon rocks... It was us, but still alien to the moon

[@richardwilson8219]

We had a guy I worked with who insisted that NASA got Stanley Kubrick to direct the whole thing. We all went along with him for a while and then told him while he was correct that Kubrick did do it, he insisted on filming on location. I know we weren't the first ones to ever use this joke, but it was still funny and it got him to shut up for a few months.

[@starrywizdom]

Thanks for the chuckle!

[@scloftin8861]

Precisely my point ...

[@davidjames579]

He could have just said, Kubrick never leaves England.

[@proto-geek248]

We DID NOT go to the moon! Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Sheperd, James Irwin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Al Worden went to the moon, but WE didn't! 😁

[@SlackerU]

Jared Leto owns the bunker used to film the fake-landing. It's wild that people think America is truly so special as to be the only moon-walkers.

[@j.p.6932]

11:43 what is obvious but still weird to think about is the smartphones we carry around every day (that I’m watching this on right now) carry far more computing power than used to get to the moon.

[@scloftin8861]

Yeah, the first PC I used only had room for the operating system on board. Everything else was on floppy disks ... the big ones. The first main frame I worked with had less storage than the computer I'm working on now that is sitting on my desk and the first actual smart phone I had with 5GB of storage, also had more operating power ... It's amazing! And sooo cool. (Oh, 1983 and 1985 for reference ... I love computers.)

[@marksprague1280]

The mistake everyone makes is that they insist on calling the guidance systems on the Apollo. Craft "computers", implying the sort of general purpose computers that are common today. It would be more accurate to think of them as autopilots -- devices designed to perform specific tasks and nothing else.

[@j.p.6932]

@@scloftin8861 I totally remember those. My brother had a Commodore 64(c?) growing up. And a 28kb modem used to be fast.

[@j.p.6932]

@@marksprague1280 Very good point

[@marksprague1280]

@@Sean-Nemo And included the first supercomputers.

[@Murdo2112]

Seriously, if I have to read another "Kubrick insisted on filming on location" joke, I'm gonna feckin' kick off!

[@starrywizdom]

[solemnly hands you a pair of ear plugs]

[@TerribleTom113]

Did you know the U.S. government did TRY to fake the moon landing, but the guy they hired, a film director named Stanely Kubrick, was such a perfectionist that he insisted they film it on site??

[@ERSwanger]

My mother FIRMLY believes we did not get to the moon. She believes it's all a hoax.

[@hustler666100]

from everything ive seen - man went to the moon but some of the footage is nonsense and the original tapes conveniently dont exist now. Kinda feels like a feat of man this great wouldnt have been misplaced and erased

[@joshabernathy]

Have a look at the 60s black and white space walk footage. You won't have any doubt afterwards.

[@everettd2]

New channel idea: Simon Reads Speeches. Holy hell the way he read that eulogy was gripping

[@MountainCry]

When he mentioned it and started looking it up, I was hoping he'd read it. Thank goodness they didn't need it, but it is beautifully written.

[@techfixr2012]

He is younger than me and Leonard has passed. So I am in on him narrating my death.

[@ExperimentIV]

i wanna hear him narrate the clickhole version of the in event of moon disaster speech, which is one of the funniest things i’ve ever read. complete opposite mood to the real thing. i used an AI richard nixon voice on my channel to get him to read it and i’m gonna have to try it again when the technology gets even better

[@willmfrank]

Whenever hoax conspiracists say "But what about the Van Allen Belts? How did they get through the Van Allen Belts?!" I always answer "They waited until James Van Allen changed his pants; it's easier to get through Van Allen's belts when Van Allen isn't wearing them."

[@scloftin8861]

😁😁

[@proto-geek248]

We DID NOT go to the moon! Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Sheperd, James Irwin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Al Worden went to the moon, but WE didn't! 😁

[@billblaski9523]

​@@Joe-sg9lllol

[@occheermommy]

@@proto-geek248you said this on every comment I saw. I get it. It’s old

[@proto-geek248]

@@occheermommy It was on a few & a year ago.

[@siobhanrikan6428]

My father worked on the lunar module. I have his tie and lapel pins of the module and the Grumman logo which was one of the many contractors that worked on the program. Grumman moved us to Texas for the better part of a year for him to work on it. And he was just one of so many people working on it. Remember that we didn’t have computers then. They were sometimes called “those slide rule boys” by locals who didn’t know what they did. I still have that slide rule.

[@deviantoutcast]

A: That's one hell of an awesome family history you got there! The coolest thing, relating to the moon landing, I have in my family history is that Edvin - Buzz - Aldrin's paternal grandparents emigrated to the US from the same Swedish province as my dad was born and grew up in. And to be completely honest, that's pretty fucking lame. It's pretty fucking lame on its own, and when compared to yours? Well, it just kind of spontaneously combusts from shame and evaporates into the air - never to be seen again - as it rightfully should. B: While I _do_ understand what you mean by "we didn't have computers then", I'd be remiss not to point to the fact that computers back then didn't look like the ones we use today - or even the ones we used in the early to mid 80's - i.e. e.g. they weren't intended for personal or private use, they didn't have keyboards for writing, or mice for pointing and clicking on various ikons, and they didn't have screens for interactions with a user friendly interface. Nor did or could they do the same processes as the modern day computers can (and by that I mean from the early 80's onwards - even though the difference in computer technology from the early 80's to today is astronomical). _But!_ Computers did exist in the 60's - computers were around. They were slow, and performed very limed and specialized computations. Not to mention: they were gigantean monstrums taking up the space of an entire room. The reason I know this (because yes, I'm old, but not old enough to have been around in the mid 60's - by that time there were still more than a decade before I'd appear: a lustful glimt in the dark corner of my dad's steel-eyed gaze) is due to the fact that around 1966/1967 my dad attended the very first course in computer programming held at Uppsala University here in Sweden. He reportedly hated it, swore an oath to never - come hell or high water - have anything, what so ever, to do with computers ever again. .... Well, let's just say: That _Did Not_ Last - at all! So, that's that and there's that. It's not much, and I'd be a fool of epic proportions if for a moment expecting any of it to be of any semi-significant value - if that! - to anyone. But, I guess, I just felt a need for some second-hand interactions this high-summer Sunday evening. And, of course, taking the opportunity to express my awe regarding your family's history with the Moon Landing - Mankind's greatest, most significant, achievement since the invention of writing, or, on the technological side of things: the hand-axe. Cheers, and remember: Stay Safe, and Stay Sane! /Xenu approves this message

[@FichBJ]

My Dad too!! Grumman on Long Island. Got a letter from NASA acknowledging his work with the LM program.

[@siobhanrikan6428]

@@FichBJ I grew up on Long Island as well. They must have worked together!

[@ronwood7029]

To deny the landing is a disgrace to the memory of the brave astronauts who risk their lives and have Now died. The work that went into the design of the computer and programming it .think of the disgrace On America if ever found to be fake , no country or individuals would risk such a thing

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@siobhanrikan6428lol gotta love the internet sometimes huh?

[@MCsCreations]

Around 11 years ago I made the Portuguese titles for the Apollo 11 launch video. I didn't translated it, a friend of mine did it, I just created the str file, something like that. What I remember from the process is that I kept thinking the whole time... "Do those people really believe they would launch this huge and expensive rocket for a hoax? Really?"

[@proto-geek248]

7 times!?

[@MCsCreations]

@@proto-geek248 Exactly.

[@kevinarnold7923]

So many people think "government has incentive to lie" then just stop there and assume everything's a lie

[@starrywizdom]

Governments will lie about what they think they can get away with. How would the US have gotten away with faking the moon landing under the heavy Soviet scrutiny?

[@Lucius1958]

One of the greatest disappointments of my life was that I never watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. I was 10 years old, at summer camp on Cape Cod. They had a TV on in the main building; I watched and watched, but nothing seemed to be happening; so I went back to my bunk. Thus I missed that historic moment. 😞

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

I was 16 in 1969 and still had to wait for the footage to appear in the cinema, as there was no TV in South Africa at that time. Damn!

[@roguewarrior7217]

Nobody watched it if it makes you feel better..

[@stevegraham3041]

More truth in watching Star Wars

[@marcbeebee6969]

Shame poor boy 😂

[@SlackerU]

Not surprising as MSM is as fake today as it was then.

[@tamarrajames3590]

Thank you once again, for a much needed dose of sanity in a world gone mad for conspiracy theories. I watched the Moon landing as a teenager in high school, and though Canadian…not American, we followed the project and plans closely in school. It happened, and the men were retrieved from their capsule after it landed in the ocean…right where it was intended to.🖤🇨🇦

[@SkunkApe407]

That's one thing that, as an American, I love about Canucks. You guys celebrate our achievements like a little sibling, and it's infinitely endearing. It's awesome having our biggest cheerleaders just north of the border.

[@starrywizdom]

I'm jealous -- I was only a toddler, & my folks didn't have a TV, so I missed watching the Moon Landing when it happened, though I do have memories from that summer. I'm in the States, but most of my relatives are Canadian, & I salute my moose-riding, toque-wearing, syrup-sipping cousins to the North!

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@SkunkApe407 We share the world’s longest “undefended” border, and what happens in the USA affects Canada as well. We may indeed celebrate your achievements, and discoveries that benefit humanity and the world. We do not celebrate the sort of negativity and confusion that has been increasingly prevalent in your country of late. To us, the USA is a study in contradictions, and it didn’t use to be. It was a wonderful place to visit and vacation, but much has changed. We sincerely hope there will be a return to the kind of research co-operation that was seen when building the space station, when Canada contributed the Canada Arm, and so many countries worked peacefully toward a common goal. Watching America walk back so many hard won rights in an attempt to return to a romanticized version of the 1950s, that never really existed the way it is being “recalled”, makes many of us, (who lived through some dark times alongside you), worry on your behalf. I cannot believe that the current mess of intolerance and divisiveness is desired by the majority of our neighbours to the south. Wishing you, (and all of us) better days ahead, and a return to the kind of respect and appreciation for our allies that once made us all strong and proud.🖤🇨🇦

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@starrywizdom And we salute you back. The landing was cool, it was made special by the parents getting us all up around the TV, and we watched the whole thing…it was crazy to think we were watching something that had never happened before.🖤🇨🇦

[@cleverusername9369]

As an American who has visited and loves Canada, I'll thank your fine country for your indispensable contributions in WWI and the sequel. Y'all don't get enough credit, those conflicts couldn't have been won without the brave Canadians. 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇨🇦 glad to have y'all as friends, even if we're somewhat rowdy downstairs neighbors

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

The fact that the "we didn't land on the moon" crowd heavily intersects with the "the Earth is flat" crowd tells me all I really need to know.

[@heuvelke1065]

Only after death will you know because with thay attitude you will deny anything that doesnt match with your reality. You must think the vaccines for covid actually saved humanity.

[@acikusej]

and you forgot alien tinfoils

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

What a load of BS

[@wyldfantasies]

I'm just a guy who doesn't believe my own government... whose fault is that anyway? Lol

[@obmarte3803]

Yup. It's called RELIGION.

[@ken1352]

Russians tracked it, confirmed it and I think shown it on tv too.

[@RHCole]

​@@brainpolice1605And there's the antisemitism.

[@clevelandplonsey7480]

@@brainpolice1605stop insulting my people. I’m serious. Its getting irritating.

[@clevelandplonsey7480]

Oh, and I COULD report you and have you vanish, but it’s more fun to sit back in my rocking chair with my ice-cold glass and watch you get zero thumbs-up (except your own). Mazeltov, boichik. 😎

[@RHCole]

​@@brainpolice1605The best part of you spilt on the floor, boy.

[@johnoswald9143]

The Russians would of definitely mentioned it, they tracked the whole mission. Plus 2001 was a beautiful work of art but the Apollo 11 footage gravity has never been replicated to this day, they went to the Moon and Neil landed the craft manually because he was a hot shot test pilot with nerves of steel.

[@michaeld1889]

Exactly...if the landing was faked and Russia (at the time) could have proved it in anyway whatsoever, it would've been a huge coup for them and a massive blemish on the US

[@22987]

Not only did the USSR not question it, but the landing was shown on national soviet television stations and news of the event was printed in the newspapers. The USSR even congratulated the USA on the feat. (Though, IIRC, they did try to downplay it's significance a bit. Burying it a few pages deep in the newspaper, rather than front page)

[@DeliveryMcGee]

@@22987 I like the Mitchell and Webb skit where the shady government officials are talking about faking the moon landing. "Well, we'd still have to build the massive rocket, because otherwise people would ask how we got them there." "Okay, but we'd still save money by not going to the moon right?" "Well, the rocket's most of the budget, really the only other expense is catering."

[@SmithFriscoFamily]

Or it was filmed on the NASA base …. On Mars lol😅

[@MCsCreations]

Not only that, but he almost had to cancel the landing, because of the computer not being able to compute everything at the same time. It was freaking near...

[@echuck66]

When I was a kid, I always thought the hoax theories came out of the movie Capricorn One.

[@proto-geek248]

Me too, and probably had a hand in it. That was a good flick.

[@echuck66]

@@proto-geek248 well, considering the moon landing was in 1969, I think it more likely these conspiracies led to the movie instead

[@All_Good_Things]

The people who believe the moon landing is fake are the same people who believe the Earth is flat

[@RealSkoolmaster]

4 minutes, 200 views... Simon, your Fandom is real

[@christianshute1818]

Also, no stars because it’s day! How many stars do you see (besides our sun) during the day while on Earth?

[@Cristian_M_]

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[@zoeyswaniawski7306]

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[@vickia.weaver7488]

Wow, really. I was able to make my $25k on investment

[@kelseyeadelmarr6109]

​@@zoeyswaniawski7306 I’m looking for something I can venture into on a short term basis, I have $15k sitting in my savings

[@Brookeinda]

Assets that can make you rich *FX *Btcoin *Stocks *Gold *Real estate

[@thylda7877]

You’re right but a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance

[@feanacar]

My mother was a kid when they launched sputnik. She said it was very scary. Some people thought it was a new type bomb that was going to drop on the USA

[@FedoraMark]

Special effects supervisor Douglass Trumbull doesn’t get enough credit for faking the moon landing instead of Stanley Kubrick 😛

[@proto-geek248]

And Rob Bottin did all the monsters & grizzly death scenes.

[@pcplayer9193]

22:15 The flags being blown over even though there is no atmosphere is an accurate statement. At least one of the flags was blown over by the exhaust of the rocket blasting the astronauts off the lunar surface. There's a video somewhere of it happening.

[@jsmmacdld3519]

That's because they made a second video on earth because of what they saw on moon

[@micnorton9487]

The flag isn't "being blown over",, it's hanging from a rod because you can't tell what a limp flag looks like...

[@toddcox8923]

No shit, Sherlock

[@bruces1g]

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," Kennedy told the crowd at Rice University in Houston.

[@Dr_PCR_Ph.D.]

One of my favorite speaches ever!

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@Dr_PCR_Ph.D. What were the 'other things?'

[@TheGitWizzard]

The audio files of the entire mission are available on KZbin. It’s worth a listen - and makes calling it a hoax even more obviously absurd.

[@williammann9176]

@TheGitWizzard the site Apollo In Real Time is one location. Apollos 11, 13 and 17. About 50 channels of audio. They start at about 30 hours pre launch and go to the crews being on the carrier. They also sync up many of the photos and all of the cine and all the video shot on those flights. Great stuff. On KZbin Lunar Module 5 is a good channel for the as well.

[@damiandmb2092]

how long does it take to travel 226,000 miles......???

[@semaj_5022]

@@damiandmb2092 That depends on the speed you're traveling, obviously.

[@thepartysjustbegun5557]

That would be interesting, thanks for suggesting it 🧑‍🚀💫

[@DeliveryMcGee]

"It's probably like this!" It's a bit more than that, the distance between the two is thirty times the width of the Earth, so on the scale of the coaster, the Moon would be in another room (assuming the coaster is 6 inches/150mm, it'd be 15 feet/4.5m. He did get the size of the Moon itself surprisingly pretty close to scale, though! It's about a quarter the width of Earth, and the circle he makes is between a third and a quarter the size of the coaster, so only off by single-digit percentage. (and yes, I paused and measured with my finger -- the Moon just happened to be one finger-width on my screen, and the coaster about 3.5 fingers wide, I'm not breaking out a ruler or taking a screenshot and counting pixels, I'm not THAT nerdy. Just nerdy enough to halfass-measure to see if he was close.)

[@uttula]

My thought exactly when he said it; size ”definitely in the ballpark”, but way underestimated distance … people really have huge difficulty wrapping their heads around how far away the moon actually is :)

[@occheermommy]

Yeah I respect the nerdiness!!! I thought it was way further but wasn’t sure how much.

[@j.p.6932]

13:37 Yes, it was called Timeless, and it was fantastic and cancelled way too early. They did make a final TV movie to wrap up the story, but it should have continued.

[@Bethgael]

Yes. I loved this series, too.

[@snackbarqueen]

YES ! Such a good show ! I was so bummed when it was cancelled 🫤

[@j.p.6932]

@@snackbarqueen I know! There was enough fan support that they got the wrap up, but really wish it had continued.

[@kepanoid]

Then there's the 1977 movie Capricorn One, which tells a story of a faked Mars trip gone wrong. Maybe not the best pieces of cinema ever made, but it portrays some of the problems for these "fake" projects...

[@peggywoods4327]

I remember that movie! I was thinking of it also while watching this. I don't know if I've ever re-watched the movie since it came out? Might have to look for it for fun...

[@proto-geek248]

Starring James Brolin & O.J. Simpson.

[@joejohnson2478]

​@@proto-geek248In the sequel to Capricorn 1 titled Capricorn 2. O. J. Simpson kills the other 2 astronauts covering up the phony Mars mission.

[@everetsutton1377]

My dad was around 7 or 8 when the moon landing happened, and he loved space, so he asked his mom if he could stay up and watch it, and she said no. He stayed up all night anyway, and watched from around a corner where he could see the TV, and then in school they made everybody watch it again

[@erniemiller1953]

If the flags are now white, France can claim to have landed on the Moon.

[@starrywizdom]

Harsh, mon ami.

[@michaeld1889]

Not to plug another youtube channel (so I won't)...but there's another popular youtube channel that takes the approach Simon mentions at the beginning to great effect. They present the theory straightforwardly...then undo as much of it as they can. It's really effective.

[@Soma_109]

Why Files

[@willmfrank]

When Simon told that story, the first thing that went through my mind was "I wonder if this is where A.J. Gentile got the idea for The Why Files..."

[@AkiVainio]

"I'm Simon, I don't make beauty content." My immediate thought: "Yet."

[@diewaarheid9431]

NASA: "Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842lbs) of lunar rock core samples, sand, and dust from the lunar surface." "In addition, three automated Soviet spacecraft returned important samples, totalling 300 grams(?; grounds?), approximating 3/4 of a pound..." Also NASA: Z-i-i-i-i-p, **THUD**

[@Yaivenov]

While meager, the Soviet missions serve as an indepedent comparison proof that the returned Apollo samples are actual lunar regolith. So at least they got that going for them. 😅

[@timdunn2387]

Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar; now, tell me that's a coincidence.

[@Mrsgameandwatch_]

My dad watched the moon landing happen, and when my youngest sister talked to me for a half an hour about how she doesn’t believe in it (thank you tiktok), you KNOW I snitched to my dad about it immediately and the look on his face said it all

[@cleverusername9369]

Dear Dave Thank you for the excellent script, well done research, and your willingness to debate people in the comments. You're a legend.

[@charlayned]

I was 11 when the landing happened. I was so caught up in the space thing, even before I became a dedicated Star Trek fan, I watched every launch and every landing that I could (being in school with no DVR was a pain). My hope was to work for NASA. Since I'm not good at math, having dyscalcua (dyslexia for numbers), math and science were out. But I can write and was going to go into journalism and wanted to be in the PR department for Johnson Space Center, live in Clear Lake (suburb of Houston) and be close to the space program. Well, I changed majors for reason and then gave up the dream. Then I moved to Houston to be with my sister, met a guy who was at a science fiction convention I was at and we got married in six months of meeting---30 years ago this year. We're living in Friendswood, which is across the highway from Clear Lake and about 5 minutes from Johnson Space Center. My husband has done some computer work for them over the years. So, I almost made it. Oh the other hand, my father doesn't believe we went to the moon. Nothing I can say will dissuade him of that belief. He just doesn't believe we have the technology and we certainly didn't in 1968. Oh well. And: fun facts: we put a man on the moon for 5 cents from every person in America. That's it. And, your high school calculator had more computing power than the NASA computer main frames did back then--they were still doing calculations in Mission Control with slide rules. When they took out the Apollo program, there were a lot of businesses around here that failed. Restaurants, clubs, auto dealers, everything took a downturn for a while. It's back now, and thriving. And...due to the time to send out proposals for buying materials, the rotation for new computers at NASA takes 3-4 years. And, by the time they got it approved, it was out of date and the company my husband worked for had to go up on the internet to buy the laptop they ordered 4 years prior. The specifications and proposals take that long, and if they updated the specifications, it started the clock all over so they ended up with old equipment. Now, for the servers in Mission Control, they had to keep the parts in stock and had to be out within an hour to put it in. My husband went out one night at 2 a.m. to replace a hard drive that failed during a mission. He had to drive into Houston, grab the hard drive, and drive back down here and put it in.

[@spaceted3977]

Didn't computers use Reel to Reel Tapes in those days. Hard Drives appeared in the 1980s.

[@marksprague1280]

​@@spaceted3977Hard drives were around during the Apollo era, as were punched tape and cards, teletype, and refresh monitors. It was a time of transition.

[@kreiner1]

I have never heard that speech. It sent shivers down my spine. Don't give a shit what anyone else thanks I'm glad you read it.

[@starrywizdom]

I think it moved a lot of us, judging from the comments.

[@johnmellor932]

Damien Chazelle was convinced that it wasnt faked because he said getting the lighting right for the Moon scenes for First Man was too difficult even with modern cameras and lighting techniques, that theres no way they could have done it in '69.

[@jonsmith3945]

Magicians fake the impossible all the time. Just because you don't know how it can be done doesn't mean it can't be done.

[@mikeysrose]

I feel like people have commented on this before, but sometimes, especially in DTU, the volume of the background music competes with Simon's voice. I'm at 26:34 right now and I'm having to focus to hear him.

[@cozmothemagician7243]

Well OF COURSE Kubrick filmed the whole thing... But he did it in a studio on the Moon O_o

[@scloftin8861]

🤣🤣

[@StonerSmurfin]

As Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson says It was cheaper to film it on location than to take it on Earth. If the Earth was the size of a basketball and the moon a tennis ball, they would be about 25 feet apart.

[@einCAA]

It wasn't cheaper to film on the moon. It was impossible to film it on earth. We didn't have the technology to fake it.

[@facetubetwit1444]

@@einCAA i am pretty sure that's what @StonerSmurfin meant.

[@StonerSmurfin]

That's exactly what I was saying or rather what Neil deGrasse Tyson was saying.

[@gianni300rpm]

do you know who tyson works for?you expect tyson to publicly tell us that the moon landings were fake ? he would be out of a job,

[@tristanmichael45]

​@@einCAAwe didn't have technology to put some astronauts on wires in a movie studio but we had the technology to go to the moon

[@Caranig]

8:36 Re: "A feat that has not been repeated:" Multiple missions have gone to the moon, and so far, 12 men have walked on it (all from the US).

[@showtime2629]

Most of the theories are based on what things would be like if they happened on EARTH. They ignore that the moon is NOT earth and many factors would not necessarily be anything like Earth.

[@sceema333]

"these large rocks are evidence for... large rocks!" - ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor.

[@starrywizdom]

I'm so glad to hear the floor isn't lava; now I can stop jumping from the sofa to the coffee table!

[@ktkt9982]

On a completely different subject want thank Simon for introducing me to Vessi shoes. They are brilliant! Love all the channels! Thank you Simon and team. 🎉

[@jmm8476]

He’s not your friend, it wasn’t an introduction, it was a sales pitch. “Thank you for all the wonderful commercials you show me!” Strange stuff.

[@PumaTwoU]

I once had a college student in my class tell me it was faked. My response was: "Well, we could SEE the Command Service Module orbiting the moon with a telescope, so I know for sure it was not faked."

[@dansv1]

Well, you were wrong about that.

[@angelitabecerra]

That failed moon landing speech that never needed to be was fucking genius. Very well written.

[@dansv1]

Written by William Safire.

[@beagleuk3233]

Whats the official version of events regarding Dannys escape from the Blazement? #dannyisfree

[@DuDe3810]

Not even 1 full minute into the video and Simon is already on his soap box about how "it's statistically impossible that X amount of people could've kept a secret this big for X amount of years without it getting out" Never change Simon. 😂

[@eadweard.]

​@@brainpolice1605You'd need to be more specific really.

[@RHCole]

​@@brainpolice1605Found the Jordan Peterson fanboy!... I almost have my conspiracy theorist bingo card filled out!

[@TheUltimateWriterNZ]

@@brainpolice1605bahahahahahahaha

[@looneytoons2878]

Why did they lie about being halfway to the moon when you can see through the spacecraft porthole that they were still in earth's orbit, i know the camera was not up against the porthole like they said it was because you can see someone or something move in front of the camera

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

Such a wrong approach. Whatever the majority think is true it must be true by definition (consensus)

[@LanceMan]

There's an awesome movie about a fake trip to Mars called Capricorn One. It shows an effort to fake the trip that blows up in the end.

[@proto-geek248]

and stars James Brolin & O.J. Simpson.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

In addition, in August 2009 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter began to send back high resolution photos of the Apollo landing sites. These photos show large descent stages of the six Apollo Lunar Modules which were left behind, the tracks of the three Lunar Roving Vehicles, and the paths left by the twelve astronauts as they walked in the lunar dust. In 2016, then-U.S. preaident Barack Obama acknowledge that the Moon landing was not a hoax and publicly thanked the members of the television show Mythbusters for publicly proving as such in season 6 episode 2.

[@oliviaralston1]

Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life❤

[@thylda7877]

The thing about been successful is working toward it and not going the other way round

[@hamidu_-]

You are right. Been thinking of going into gold and cyptocurrency

[@zoeyswaniawski7306]

It's obvious everyone is doing this online Investment

[@kirstenraedmund7346]

​@@zoeyswaniawski7306I totally agree with you it has been an eye-opening experience for a lot of people

[@eileengardner5462]

Investment is the key to achieving success with the current pandemic slowing down so many businesses aww

[@patriciaposthumus6684]

If you haven't seen it yet, you must see the movie "Hidden Figures". It's all about the women geniuses who worked for NASA that helped get the men to the moon. It's a true story. In fact, the math genius woman just passed away this year. It's a must-see. Also, Kevin Costner is in it as well. Also, the guy who played Sheldon Cooper in " Big Bang Theroy" is also in it.

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

No please don't see that film it is a load of nonsense. The book tells the full story while the film makes up a bunch of stuff, and focuses mostly on Katherine Johnson rather then many of the other people mentioned in the book. The book really shows how impossible it was to fake the NASA space missions because there were so many people involved both in Virginia and Texas.

[@michellejones5541]

That is a fantastic movie I've watched it several times I'd definitely recommend people watch it

[@GamingNinja132]

Sounds like another diversity remake, like the little mermaid

[@scloftin8861]

@@GamingNinja132 Except that this diversity was known in the community long before they finally got their due in this movie tribute to the women who helped get us to the moon.

[@GamingNinja132]

@@scloftin8861 if it was so well known, how come the movie is the first thing to.. Make it known. Checkmate. Also, don't roll my eyes again.

[@scottm5425]

Ask yourself this - If it was decided that landing on the moon would be so impossibly difficult that they would have to fake it. Why then repeat it, a further 6 times?! and then just make it even harder, for the last 3 trips take cars along and drive over 56 miles all while filming it on movie cameras?? Faking it to that crazy extent would have been much harder than just going there.

[@evelyntodd9946]

My grandfather did not believe we went to the moon. He grew up in a time that the average person didn't believe would fly. So sending someone to the moon was beyond what he could accept. He died around 20 years ago. His disbelief I can understand. What is the reason for the kids, those under 60, excuse for not believing?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:35 - Mid roll ads 4:45 - Back to the video 6:00 - Chapter 1 - The space race 8:40 - Chapter 2 - Getting to the moon 21:00 - Chapter 3 - The flag 24:35 - Chapter 4 - The deadly van allen belts 28:00 - Chapter 5 - Actual physical evidence

[@starrywizdom]

Your dedication inspires me.

[@schifferfoto8659]

Hi Simon! Thanks for all your and your writers' work! How about a video covering David Grusch? Would love to hear your point of view - is it really never aliens...? (On a sidenote - I have not seen any and if I had, a CO detector would be high on my priority list. Regardless the stories he and others from the Intelligence community are telling are quite intriguing to say the least.)

[@levilandes1719]

People make a lot of money selling horseshit with legitimate credentials to back their word. It's the new printing money. Turns out around seventy million people in just this one country are full blown morons, so that's a good bit of money to be made.

[@peterkirby1753]

While NASA's funding was increased by 500%, it never exceeded 4% of the US US federal budget. Today NASA's funding is 0.5%of the US federal budget. (makes you wonder what they are actually spending the rest on? 🤔)

[@cocoachaos1321]

It is July 28, 2023. If you believe in fate. It was fate that you posted this today, because four hours before this video was posted. Someone tried to tell me that we never went to the moon.

[@thesweetermonster3453]

I’ve owned a telescope for 4 years now. I have it set up and peer into it almost every clear night that I can. I have countless hours looking at the moon and countless photos of it too. Not once have I seen the American flag or a single footprint, that according to the entire internet are still there. I used to believe in the moon landing before I got a telescope and looked for myself. Just some food for thought. Sometimes taking things into your own hands shows the way

[@yassassin6425]

Surely this is satire?

[@papalegba6796]

Funny how a scientific instrument shows no evidence of the moon landings. Almost like they're unscientific 😂

[@yassassin6425]

@@papalegba6796 An amateur earthbound back yard telescope? Could you explain why it should?

[@papalegba6796]

Can you explain why there's no scientific evidence that the moon landings happened? No you cant, chatbot 😂

[@thesweetermonster3453]

@@yassassin6425 nope. And my telescope isn’t some amateur backyard scope. I spent thousands of dollars on it and i get some insane views of not only the moon but other planets too. So once again can u explain why I haven’t seen any of that

[@geofff.3343]

We go to the Moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard!

[@andyhanks7105]

The quickest and easiest way to resolve the whole issue of the fake moon landing would be to simply ask Mr Gorsky if he got laid.

[@petesmee]

STANLEY KUBRIC FILMED THE MOON LANDING ... but he was such a perfectionist that he insisted it be done on location.

[@brianlhughes]

NASA visited our high school in 1976 and I was chosen to wear an Apollo space suit in front of the student body. I distinctly remember the softness and depth of the insulation of the boots and how they rocked on the ground at the ball of the foot. My schoolmates didn't manage to get a picture of the event in our annual. One theory that was omitted was that only the first trip was faked, that it was too difficult to navigate the entire trip with the current tech of the day. Come on NASA, not a single attempt to view stars and the milky way without the atmosphere or a picture of the sun through a solar filter? Telescopes are heavy bulky fragile things. Also not mentioned was the pictures of the landing sites taken by the LRO.

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

Telescopes are heavier than the silly rover?

[@brianlhughes]

@@nicolagianaroli2024 a standard one is and requires a heavy tripod with an even heavier counterweight to keep it balanced. They also require a small clock motor to keep it pointed at the same place while the moon rotates. But I get you, not one single picture of space ever after what 3 trips?

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

@@brianlhughes considering Apollo 8 the trips have been 7

[@anthonypelchat]

"Come on NASA, not a single attempt to view stars and the milky way without the atmosphere or a picture of the sun through a solar filter?" 🤦‍♂Really? Why is that even a question? They are going to the moon. Why would they waste any resources or even limited film taking pictures of the stars that can be done better on Earth? Not to mention that they DID send telescopes and other systems into space to take pictures of the stars. There is simply no reason to waste resources during the Apollo missions.

[@roelbrandsma8512]

The hoax has been seriously debunked several times over. I fondly remember a great Mythbusters Special from back in the day. There was also the documentary series The Truth Behind the Moon Landing on Discovery Science.

[@shaider1982]

Adam Ruins everything also did an episode on this.

[@Erol-no9tj]

You can see the wires on in the astronauts suits

[@roelbrandsma8512]

So it wasn't Kubrick after all. It was Ed Wood! [Mind blown]

[@jsmmacdld3519]

It's not that they didn't land on moon they did but because what they saw and what happened they made a video on earth that's why the flags moving and other things when you hear Buzz first words there hear there huge parked on crater whatching us he sounds pretty scared excited at same time then nasa cuts feed off Buzz and rest of team had to swear there lives away if they ever said what they saw and what happened then and there family's would be removed so they made a second landing on earth somewhere when they landed they were told not to ever come back I believe Dr Greer says same thing they did land on moon Buzz and his team were never the same

[@danilicious2308]

​@@Erol-no9tjseems you need to clean your glasses

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

The moon landing was staged by Stanley Kubrick. Being Stanley Kubrick, he insisted that it be filmed on location.

[@mikekeating]

If the earth was the size of a basketball. The moon would be 30 feet away. For context. The space station is the thickness of two dimes away.

[@MrSparky4101]

@9:36 the enterprise landed on a planet once... didn't go well, but it landed.

[@nanoglitch6693]

I'm just glad George Lucas wasn't an option in that decade. Imagine if he had made the moon landing vids, we'd probably have gotten dozens of remakes/new director's cuts of it and now Disney would probably own it 😂 Also I love the cute little bunny hops Kubrick used to simulate "walking" on the moon 🙂🐰

[@PewPewPark]

Oh gawd...imagine in 2001 he cgi'D Jar Jar into a "special editon."

[@starrywizdom]

I was thinking he'd have Ewoks running out to greet the astronauts.

[@PewPewPark]

@@starrywizdom giant teddy bears would be ok.

[@JETWTF]

Lucas wouldn't be bad, imagine JJ Abrams doing it, a lens flare here, a lens flare there, here and there and everywhere a lens flare. And people claim he is a good director but having lens flares is a sign of bad camera work.

[@lindseyt240]

I’m just saying… if we’re pulling people back to film this… M. Night Shyamalan.

[@BleedingBasco]

Kevin messed one part up. Aliens DID go to the moon to mine/collect rocks. The only problem is those aliens are humans from Earth.

[@verifiedbadvibe8124]

the editor never included the photos of the "vehicle tracks" made by rocks on the moon, despite simon and the writer encouraging him to do so smh ;(

[@StacyBaldwin-qv5cj]

I remember seeing those tire tracks, I asked my mom how they could be there if man had never been on the moon before.

[@ToaArcan]

It was genuinely impossible to fake it with the technology of the time. It would actually be cheaper and easier to do it for real than fake it, which is outright insane.

[@ToaArcan]

@@Joe-sg9ll It is absolutely true. For one thing, the most expensive part of the mission was the Saturn V itself. If they wanted to fake it, _they still had to build the rocket._ Then they'd have to actually pay an entire film crew, as opposed to doing it real, where they had three guys who were already on their payroll, and could train them to use the cameras. Then there's the decades and decades of hush money they'd have to pay, not just to everyone who worked on the project, numbering in the thousands, but also to everyone else looking at the night sky, including literally anyone with a powerful enough telescope to see the LM descent stages still on the lunar surface, but also to an enemy superpower that had a very vested interest in embarrassing the Americans on the world stage. Oh, and they'd have to do all of this nine times, counting the orbital Apollo 8 and 10 flights, the abortive Apollo 13, and the successful Apollo 11-17 landings. Or, alternatively, they could just do it for real. It happened, dude. The enemy of every conspiracy theory is logistics, and frankly I don't think the US government is secretive enough to hide a giant conspiracy theory. The US government couldn't hide a cumstain on a dress, it wasn't going to be able to fake nine lunar missions over the course of five years, and it definitely wouldn't have been able to convince the Soviets to play along when they were still gunning for their own moonshot at the time.

[@st0rmforce]

You'd never be able to convincingly recreate the low gravity and vacuum of the moon. The other thing is that the signal was 100% coming from the moon, it was tracked by everybody who was capable of tracking it, so you still had to send something there. At this point, you have to belive they did absolutely everything required to walk on the moon, except walk on the moon... because you want to believe they didn't

[@jonasga]

The lack of visible starlight in moon photos is even simpler than shutter speed issues. It's hard to see stars from the surface of the moon for the same reason it is hard to see stars during daylight on Earth. The light reflecting off the surface is many thousands of times brighter than starlight. It is day light bright on the moon, but it doesn't have the atmospheric chemistry to tint that light blue so the sky looks a bit different. Any light sensor, be it eyes or cameras, will struggle to see a star while on the surface of the moon. It doesn't make any sense to think you could see stars while standing on the moon because it is very obvious that you would not be able to.

[@chuckmesser2202]

Inspector Gregory: Is there any other point to which you wish to draw my attention, Mr. Holmes? Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Colonel Ross: But the dog did nothing in the night-time. Sherlock Holmes: That is the curious incident. And *that* pretty much sums up the fact that the Soviets -- who finally admitted shortly before their fall, that they tried and failed to put cosmonauts on the moon -- never, ever called the USA on a supposed Moon Hoax.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

In one of their later season, the mythbusters did a special episode on the Moanlanding is a hoax conspiracty theory. They tested an exact replica of the flag and (mechanically) moved it around in a vacuum chamber and it moved very similar to how the flag in the Moonlanding video moved. They also tested a host of other things like the foto's not showing stars. I highly recommend doubters to give that video a watch.

[@preschoolenglishwithtumtum4283]

They never will because people who believe in discredited conspiracy theories don't like seeing any evidence showing them to be wrong.

[@jonsmith3945]

What Mythbusters did was prove that it was possible to replicate Apollo footage right here on Earth.

[@preschoolenglishwithtumtum4283]

@@jonsmith3945 Sure, if a vacuum chamber big enough to house the entire alleged sound stage existed, which it doesn't and didn't.

[@jonsmith3945]

@@preschoolenglishwithtumtum4283 The Apollo footage was shot in various locations including an indoor sound stage, out doors at the landing site recreation for training, and in NASA'S 100 ft diameter vacuum chamber.

[@marksprague1280]

​@@jonsmith3945Proof? Of course not. You clowns never have proof -- just paranoia.

[@schipperkesandhonoraryschi8515]

YES!!! Full length video of DTU!!! I love Decoding The Unknown - my absolute favourite of Simon’s channels 🤩

[@charlesboudreau5350]

Conspiracy theorist : meticulously observe and pull apart every possible detail of the moon landing footage, looking for any and all signs of a hoax Also conspiracy theorist : uses a clip of Kubrick as evidence without meticulously observing the footage and fact-checking with Kubrick for signs of a hoax

[@steppyrose7166]

I was told by a history teacher that Kennedy’s speech was originally going to promise getting to Mars, but he was told to dial it back a little.

[@interwebspirate]

Sometimes I get annoyed by Simon's instant dismissal of any theory, but this one I absolutely dismiss just as quickly, with prejudice. If someone thinks the moon landing is fake their critical thinking skills are very low.

[@fritzidler9871]

@@Joe-sg9ll Meaning what, exactly?

[@fritzidler9871]

@@Joe-sg9ll Never mind.

[@interwebspirate]

@@Joe-sg9ll Acting like people don't have telescopes, we watched it happen in real time. Did we not watch the challenger blow up? Did we not see the launch and reentry? Would Russia allow us to fake it?

[@fritzidler9871]

@@Joe-sg9ll I'll be honest. No, I did not watch it. Why would I? I watched it happen live when I was 9 years old. And no, don't you dare try "Okay boomer" on me. You could be one, for one thing. But you and this stupid movie are shitting on a whole country and one of its proudest achievements. Not of boomers, but of the greatest generation. Call them the liars and fraudsters. They will give a much deserved punch in the mouth. You have no idea how big an event this was. Or the memories. I even got a detailed model of the Apollo rocket from an uncle for my birthday that me and my dad built together. It even came with a lunar lander that was stored in one of the rocket stages, that could be removed, after swinging open the wings protecting it like a flower. Just like the real thing! Me and my brother both got Major Matt Mason dolls for Christmas. Our mom bought Tang orange juice and Space Food Sticks. I asked all the usual questions about the whole thing. Like, how is it possible parts of the lander are made out of foil? It was just too fantastic to believe. But the grownups all assured us NASA and its engineers knew what they were doing. Because it only had to be functional on the moon, not on planet earth. So, again, no. I did not watch it, or intend to. Do you watch 3 hour documentaries about how the earth is really flat? I don't. What I did do though was check the reviews at IMDb. Here are some samples: "I was appalled at the lies and deception in this documentary. Every bit of it can be debunked. More egregious bits include not revealing 380kg of moon rocks were brought back, and that rocks from Antarctica are impossible to pass off as coming from the moon. Proposed that a laser bounced off lunar soil gives the same result as bouncing off a man-made reflector. (I assume this means that is not true) Implies wires can be used for videos... using CGI which was not available at the time. Proposes rear projection was used by selecting only the images that suggest this, ignoring hundreds of others where this would have been impossible.... Provides outdated information about the Van Allen Belt, including not showing a letter from Van Allen stating that the radiation did not pose a danger. Ridiculed the lunar module construction when probes today use similar materials. Fails to show the 2014 Chinese lander picture which showed no blast crater, backlighting effects like the Buzz Aldrin photo and wet looking soil, essentially destroying these arguments. Implied because sometimes exhaust flames are visible in space, that they are always visible, that one picture of non-parallel shadows is evidence despite dozens of others showing parallel shadows, and to top it off, he showed poor quality photos which had their contrast altered to imply spotlights had been used..." (Just my words for this next one. The film used the same debunked stupid flag argument that morons never seem to understand)... and on and on.... But wait, there's more! From others: "In 2008 Massimo Mazzucco started recommending cancer patients, that they should intravenously inject sodium bicarbonate (baking powder), as an alternative to their medication. He did on the back of the research of his buddy, then doctor Tullio Simoncini. He was of course stripped of his license and charged with manslaughter. Anyways. This baking powder wizard, is suppose to teach anyone, what's Up and Down in the World? Don't watch this crap." A little convoluted that one, but an interesting tidbit. And one more: "It is a horrible one-sided trash film with the most far-fetched and ridiculous misconceptions about the moon landing. It is an insult to the 400,00 thousand people who were involved in the Apollo program. While most of their "arguments" were debunked way back in the 80s, they are blatantly repeated here." Insults I got plenty of too, simpleton. But since the topic here are movies, how about some of my favorites? How about "Apollo 13"? Better than any documentary about it. Or better yet, "From the Earth to the Moon." One of Tom Hanks passion projects, produced by HBO. Why don't you tell Tom Hanks, another boomer, about what a liar or sheep he is? Or Ron Howard? Yes, I know, Hollywood are just a bunch of Satanist pedohiles. But boy, did they use to know how to make movies before politics poisoned their brains beyond recognition. And how about "Hidden Figures"? About 3 Afro-American women (I assume they were real women), using their brains and education to breakthrough the prejudice's of the time. Tell them they are liars or conwomen, or easily fooled sheep. So.... what were you babbling about again? I do not eagerly await your next irrelevant reply.

[@proto-geek248]

We DID NOT go to the moon! Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Sheperd, James Irwin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Al Worden and four other guys who I can't remember at the moment went to the moon, but WE didn't! 😁

[@darienspinks1798]

I love Simon's rational reasoning and how he uses his big brain to explain the commen sense some people just don't use anymore. Love your videos! Thanks Also love the good energy he puts into these videos!

[@tlozfreak888]

My favorite conspiracy theory about it is "we didn't film it on the surface of the moon. We filmed it in an underground base on the moon, because the astronauts were too busy fighting aliens on the surface." It's just... so extra. It's taking an insane theory and going way, way beyond. It's like the Olympics of convoluted theories.

[@Sevo-]

Back in elementary school we got to do a radio communication with the ISS in highschool tech had advanced enough for us to do a full video call to the ISS. It was so cool to be able to see and talk to Cmdr Hadfield. As a Canadian its a huge point of pride for me! That is easily the coolest story I have from school

[@laszloilles5663]

I think apollo 11 crew was on the moon but why was their first public interview so weird?

[@proto-geek248]

They were moonstruck.

[@nickwilliams7628]

They were scared shitless from aliens watching them every second they were there. Or....it was fake and they were depressed from getting credit for something they didn't do.

[@proto-geek248]

@@nickwilliams7628 😆😅🤣😂 Good one!

[@Ruda-n4h]

After splashdown the astronauts were transferred to the mobile quarantine facility on the aircraft carrier Hornet. After washing and shaving they spoke to President Nixon and their families, where you see them elated, smiling and waving. After this they went through extensive debriefing in isolation and by the time they appeared at the press conference on August 12th, were tired and bored after the grind they had been through and the comedown from such a high. Stoic military men born in 1930 were also not natural performers on TV and answered questions in this stilted manner. If you watch the whole press conference it lightens up a lot and they start smiling and joking. Armstrong was an awkward public speaker - watch his press conference after the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. He was much more relaxed during his interview with Patrick Moore on 18th November 1970 which is available on You Tube.

[@daltonking6956]

The flags that fell over did fall over do to wind, at least sort of, in Buzz and Neil's case at least they planted the flag very close to their lander (their mission specifically didnt allow them to go very far, being the first two people to walk on the moon and all), I believe it was Buzz that said he watched the blast from their accention stage blow it over as they left the moon.