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Ok. That FOX thing? Absolute bullshit. A bunch of cooked up nonsense. Ill try to adress some of its claims off the top of my head.
First: About the astronauts appearing lit even though they were in the shadow of the spacecraft. How can this be? There can only be one source of light right? Thats the sun! But wait a sec... how do we see the moon at night? The very simple answer to this is that the materials in the moon dirt are extremely reflective. The light bounces off the moon straight onto the astronaut.
Next, the issue of the module not kicking up a huge crater when it took off. The rocket has something like 10,000 lb's of thrust, but leaves a tiny crater after it launches off. Simple, theres no atmosphere on the moon. There is no air or anything else to displace, which would make no wind that could kick up dust or leave a huge crater. With no atmosphere, that thrust is limited to the area directly under the rocket. When you divide that thrust into the area directly under it, it comes down being a very small amount of force (dont know the exact math). Theres little gravity on the moon too, so the escape velocity is very small.
About the video appearing to have been taken in the same spot, this has to do again with the fact that there is no atmosphere. Standing and looking, you wont be able to tell if your seeing a 20 foot wide rock a mile away, or a mile wide rock 20 miles away, because theres no haze of the atmosphere to judge it on. This all comes into play somehow, I forget exactly how.
Theres more to disprove the fox show, but im tired and cant think of the rest right now.
Two more things tho:
The moon landing was at the height of the cold war. The Russians and Americans probably had radar and whatnot everywhere. The russians most likely followed all the USA moon missions carefully. Dont you think they would have made a gigantic stink about it if they even had the slightest thought that the landings were faked?
There is a reflector on the moon, that had to have been hand placed. There would be no way to drop it remotely into its spot. It reflects a laser shot at it back to earth constantly. Thats how we figured out how quickly the moon is moving away from us (forget just how quick).
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