Obviously, there are a bunch of different answers to this question and, as someone who thinks the moon landing did happen, I'm not exactly the right person to answer this. However, two of the oddities that make people suspicious are that the original footage was deleted and one of the space walk photos was clearly an edited training picture that was taken in a pool.
We discussed this in the recent conspiracy theory post. My view is that some (maybe all) of the promotional material was faked. That might have been because they realized (or worried) that radiation (or some other technical issue) would mess up real pictures and video, but they knew the public demand for documentation was enormous.
So they couldn't leave one beacon or reflective surface or radio relay device up there that we could use to verify the landing site?
Plus they deleted all the telematic data and admit that the Van Allen radiation belt is a barrier?
I'm wearing a NASA shirt as I type this.
#OperationPaperclip
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I hadn't heard the point about the telemetry data. I'll have to look into it.
However, they did leave reflective surfaces there. A very common college physics lab exercise is to bounce a laser off of the corner reflectors on the moon and record the reflection.
How do you feel about the idea that only the pictures and video were faked? I think there's really good reason to believe that.
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“However, they did leave reflective surfaces there. A very common college physics lab exercise is to bounce a laser off of the corner reflectors on the moon and record the reflection.”
You sure about that? Is there a study somewhere that shows this? Would be a game changer for me.
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You sure about that?
No, but you can bounce a laser off of the Moon and that's the explanation we got.
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It's not the kind of thing that would have a study, since no one in academia has any doubts about the Moon Landing, but you can read a description of them here.
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