25% of Brits do not believe that man landed on the moon ....

[naomi24]

... according to Stephen Fry on QI.

Can that be true? Does anyone here believe that man didn't land on the moon - and if so, why?

[hc4361]

I watched it live, too. It was fake.

[naomi24]

Ratter, I couldn't believe it was 25% either. I've seen it contested, but that seems to be a rather high proportion of the population.

[LazyGun]

I find it hard to believe so many would be so sceptical without reviewing the evidence and thinking through the implications of what they are suggesting, which should tell them how unlikely a conspiracy/scam actually is.

As to the questions often posed by sceptics in support of their position, such as shadows cast, rippling flags, blah blah blah - every single one of their objections or observations is has been answered and explained, often by simply restating basic laws of physics, which many seem so sadly lacking in.

Many of the most FAQs are answered here, at this rather useful site

http://www.clavius.org/

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

No Jayne, it didn't carry a laser, it carried a reflector. The laser is fired from earth, every day, to this day.

[shoota]

Some pics
http://www.iangoddard.com/moon01.htm:

[chrissa1]

So how did they get the 1000's of people to keep their mouths shut hc? Did they "bump" them off?

[hc4361]

As nobody has landed on the moon, nobody knows what the conditions would be like, so any rationale seems reasonable and logical.

[jomifl]

what conditions hc?

[bigbadmarty]

mike11111
How interesting, the OP questions why some people do not believe things we have only read about in books.

a lot of the people who claim to have witnessed these events are still alive and their testimony can be tested

but you can't test the evidence of people long since dead referring to bizarre events 300 years after they allegedly occurred

[craft1948]

I watched it live and believed it, having said that it was the year of my first marriage.

[Mick-Talbot]

Didn't the Russians get a craft to land there first ?
All be it crash land.

Landing on the moon was the easy bit.....
I think the bigger miracle was getting back to earth

[naomi24]

Jayne, //Because the American government say it did.

And governments never lie. //

If that were true, wouldn't the Russians, who at the time were in a 'space race' against the USA, have been the first to denounce the claim? They watched every move the Americans made - and as far as I'm aware, they have never questioned the moon landings.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Oh, and all spacecraft are flippy floppy tinfoilly things. Only the lander was like that btw. They didn't come home like jacket potatoes.
http://www.google.co....Nomc0AWbi-CoBA&zoom=1

[mike11111]

Just because a second rate TV programme host, on the basis of what is obviously a statistically flawed survey, quotes the above, you rush on here, incredulously believing that figure to be true and start asking whether or not one believes it happened. Life must be slow tonight in atheistland.

[hc4361]

I saw a magician make an aircraft disappear in front of hundreds of people. He made an elephant disappear, too.

[naomi24]

Marty, thank you. :o)

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I've met the Russians as it were. They know they went. Sorry to bang on but it's my pet peeve. :)

[joggerjayne]

Did they "bump them off" ?

A staggering number of people involved in the space programme met unfortunate, premature deaths. There were "car accidents", random murders in the streets, "heart attack" and buried really quickly, more "car accidents" ...

That'll teach them not to open their mouths.

[RATTER15]

mike11111, You really appear to have issues with Naomi, has she trodden on your toes?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Mike, this is science, not atheism. You're showing yourself up.