It also supports my theory that the landings NEVER HAPPENED.

All of the stuff surrounding those images, still and moving, is shady. And now, we hear an excuse for covering a hoax: “original footage being lost” smacks too much of Bigfoot and UFOs to me.

Like NASA, perhaps the most scientifically and technologically advanced group of any government of its time, couldn’t get some video footage to come out right for broadcast. What a bunch of crap. “Pointed a camera at a TV to transfer footage.”

This article is like a bad joke. It’s citing evidence that NASA had a high-school level understanding of technology in motion pictures. But it presumes that NASA also had the best space and aeronautic technology of any group in the world.

Yep. NASA was able to send men to walk on the moon, but they couldn’t broadcast the same quality video as a soap opera or a game show. That’s real believable.

” … in retrospect, the murky images that got broadcast on TV were thrilling. Their strange quality just underlined that this was an unearthly event.

‘Walter Cronkite said, you know, it was really ghostly-like. It was really what it should have been,’ Lebar says. ‘If it was full-up resolution as standard television, nobody would have thought it was as great.”

I’ll go so far as to say that if it was full resolution, no one would have believed it, because many people would have seen through the studio tricks used to make it appear in “outer space”.

Before you write me off as a lunatic, consider this: which is easier? To do some camera tricks and photograph guys in suits that you can’t see through, pipe in some crappy CB radio sounds, and tell the world via TV that men really had landed, or to actually do it?

And, consider also who cared, really, whether they did land on the moon or not? No one was around to actually see them do it, and no one has ever gained or lost any material thing from it that couldn’t have been fabricated on earth.

The only practical benefit of the moon landing was to make the world think America had got there first. Therefore, there is no difference between the benefit of doing it and the benefit of convincingly faking it. There’s no other evidence to go on, besides moon rocks, and moon rocks are even easier and cheaper to fake.

If you’re still skeptical, think about how large the NASA budget was at this time to build all of those rockets. It probably went a long, long way in keeping people’s mouths shut. Most of them were military men, and military people aren’t immune to bribery.

Aside from the “did to’s, did not’s” Did you ever see The Blaire Witch Project. That movie creeped me out, I really found myself believing it, and It was only because of the cheep, crappy footage. And now the big T-Shirt companys find themselfs selling crappy printed T’s with warn crapped out logos. I can’t go anywhere without seeing these being sold.

Question:

What is our fasination with warn out, torn and tattered looking pictures and logos?

“Instead, I welcome you to shoot my logical stance full of holes. Go ahead, because I want to hear it. Prove to me that man has landed on the moon using genuine, irrefutable evidence before you accause me of being simple-minded.”

::ahem::

All that aside, these photos still make my heart swell. To see our physical entirety encapsulated in a single image gaves a dramatic and sudden sense of perspective. I’m saddened that we (as a nation) have drawn so far inward again, finding only the worst in our fellow man and bringing it to the forefront. But that view gives me hope, ironically.

Did we land on the moon? Well, whether or not we did, we continue to see the stars and the universe in new ways and with a farther reach, in no small part because we stretch our minds and bodies towards the unknown. Moon landing or not, we use satellite and orbital telescopic technology on a regular basis with great success. Though I admit, conspiracy buffs of the world, that I find it hard to believe that this was all farce. In the end, logic is only as good as its premise. If you refuse to believe the mass of data, testimony, and proof presented to the world until you grab the lunar surface with your own hands, so be it. We all find our faith somewhere.

Related: here are some high quality photos brought back, which are equally magical to me.

I’m sure I don’t know. I think either one is very possible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were in on it.

I mean, their meal tickets were sure to be paid for the rest of their lives once they all agreed to keep mum. There have been instances of much more dillusional people in prominent places in the last century than those men in the Apollo program. People in more influential positions I’m sure have taken larger bribes to keep quiet while some serious crap has gone down.

Really, my verdict is that no one has ever come close to landing on another celestial body, and that much of our currently accepted theory about what exists beyond our own sphere has been wildly exaggerated due to whimsical and reckless mathematical extrapolation and guesses without a sceintific basis consisting of empirical evidence.

These conclusions that scientists so proudly proclaim as fact boil down to fairy tales for the postmodern era. And John Q. Public is no brighter than he ever was at detecting these fantasies if they are presented as foregone conclusion and fact. No one wants to be on the wrong side of consensus opinion. No one wants to risk getting laughed at, even if he has a gut feeling that the truth is more important than opinion.

Well…almost no one…

… ahh yes. but you can see the lunar rover sitting up there… you just need a 24” or so objective lense… and a map. pretty neat really.