Did mankind land on the moon?

[flobadob]

It's was accepted in 1969 that it happened case?

[R1Geezer]

I don't know anyone who doubts Global warming jake, barking up the wrong tree there.

[grasscarp]

I had a long chat with the commander of Apollo 14, Edgar Mitchell. Although he went to the moon he orbited it and did not land. His was a very interesting and personal account and I do not think for a minute that he made it up. I was working for the BBC at the time and he was there to comment on a later moon landing, which was in progress at the time.

[andy-hughes]

Hoax theories exist and grow because people quite like to think that the 'powers-that-be' are deceiving them.

A gentle non-threatening feeling of paranoia is appealing to a large number of people - most of whom have too much time on their hands - and thus, conspiracy theories abound.

Psychologically, we feel more comfortable with momentous events if we can debate their veracity, which is why the majority of long-running CT's are about such hige events as moon landings / 911 / death of Diana, and so on. People find it hard to accept that these things did actually just happen, so we ponder the alternative that we are being duped. It's built into out psyche, and exploited by CT debaters around the world.

You need think no further than this - given the massive number of people (hundreds of thousands) involved in the massive logistics of a space programme, and the likelhood that every single last one of them would refuse the fame and millions that would arise from debunking such an event - and you can see that there is simply no possibility that the moon landings were faked.

OK, my work here is done ...

[jno]

andy, I'd suggest most conspiracy theories don't claim events didn't happen (as this one does), they just try to prove that things that did happen were *planned* - Diana's death, for example.

But sometimes they're right - Watergate, for instance. Sensible people couldn't believe the president of the USA and lots of his underlings could have planned a burglary then gone to extraordinary lengths to cover it up. But that's basically what happened and the conspiracy theorists were right.

[andy-hughes]

A fair point jno - and an important distinction to be accepted.

I remember a psychologust interviewed about 911, and he said that some events have such an enourmous impact, that people try to make some sense of them by proffering the argument that they were indeed planned - as in, by the US government, rather than by terrorists.

Know the media as i do - i keep a very very open mind about what i read in the papers - never let the truth get in the way of a good story.