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Today we have an investigation slash documentary video
In regards to the moon and the conspiracies that surround it.
Did we land on the moon? Does the moon even truly exist?
Today we examine the arguments for and against these theories and at the end of it
You can make your own independent conclusions.
So what are the moon conspiracies? Well to be honest...
There are so many it is impossible to cover it all in one video.
So the 2 we will focus on today are, did we land on the moon?
Is the moon real? The reason why it is these 2 is because they go hand in hand.
For example if you believe there is no moon...
By default you have to believe we never went to the moon.
Because if it doesn't exist how can you visit it right?
So by establishing if we went to the moon or not...
We can potentially solve the second theory. Well then...
Did NASA land man on the moon? The straight forward answer
Would be yes! We have videos, photos,
It was live on TV and they went there back again multiple times.
Why would you not believe it right? That's where the conspiracy theorists come in.
Some theories say we did land, some say we didn't.
But what these all have in common is that something was faked
To some degree. Some say we landed but the footage
And pictures are fake and some flat out deny we ever went
near the moon. So the question is why? Why would it be faked?
As the theories go, it was due to the power struggle between the Soviet Union...
Better known as Russia,
And America in the space race during the 1960s.
That NASA decided to fake the landings to declare supremacy.
The alternate version is we did land on the moon,
But we faked it to cover up what was really there.
Spaceships, structures, proof of advanced life on the moon.
So now the question becomes what proof is there it was all faked?
What proof is there that we found intelligent life on the moon?
One source and origin of these theories comes from the movie
Dark side of the moon. The premise of the movie is about Stanley Kubrick.
A famous film director and his involvement in shooting a faked Apollo 11 moon landing.
It is important to note that this movie along with these theory claims.
Were made after Mr Kubrick had passed away. As the theory goes...
Stanley Kubrick was approached by NASA to direct a fake moon landing
After they had seen the visual effects used in the movie
2001 - A Space Odyssey. The theory
Is fueled even further with the conspiracy theorists suggesting that
Stanley Kubrick hinted towards the moon landing hoax in his movie
The Shining.
Subliminal messages could be found throughout the movie which according to
The theorists was Stanley Kubrick's way of telling humanity the secret he promised to keep.
Let us quickly look at some of these supposed subliminal messages.
The Apollo 11 sweater. Danny Torrance is wearing a sweater with the Apollo 11
Rockey knitted into it
The room 237 which was originally 217 in the novel was changed to represent
The distance from the earth the moon.
The carpet pattern references the Apollo 11 launch pads.
The line all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is actually read
As A11 instead of all.
6 cases of 7-UP drinks corresponding the 7 Apollo missions of which only 6 landed.
The drink Tang can be seen on the shelf which NASA astronauts drank in space.
The key in the room 237 has Room No on it.
Which can only spell the words moon and room.
The other conspiracy theory revolves around alien life
On the moon. That NASA knew there were structures on the moon.
Proof other life and because they could not show it to the public...
They hid the truth and presented false information. So...
what do the conspiracy theorists present as proof
They present NASA imagery as proof claiming there are flaws
in the images that show it was the result of human manufacturing.
Also the anomalous structures people purportedly find on Google
And other image sources of objects that don't make sense to be on the moon.
So these are the conspiracy theories surrounding the supposed
Fake moon landing. Now let us look at the counter arguments.
Dark side of the moon. The film is a French mockumentary released in 2002
Which examines the moon landing hoax theories. Some of the witnesses are completely fictitious.
There is a blooper reel and even the director himself stated it was just
Made to entertain.
Yet there are those who claim it was subliminal messaging.
That it was a serious film disguised as a mockumentary.
However the director has stated that the movie was made with the idea that...
One must not believe everything that one is told.
That witnesses can lie, archives can be tricked.
Any subject can be twisted by misleading subtitling or dubbing.
Regardless of the blatant lie the movie is
Some people cling to it and still use it as a source of proof for these theories.
And The Shining. Yes, Danny Torrance was indeed wearing an Apollo 11 sweater.
Leon Vitali who worked with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining has said the
Apollo 11 sweater was not a reference to faking the moon landing.
"That was knitted by a friend of Milena Canonero
The custom designer" Mr Vitali said. "Stanley wanted something that looked handmade.
And Miley arrived on the set one day and said
"How about this?" It was just the sort of thing that a kid that age would have liked"
237,000 miles is not be accurate distance between the moon and earth.
The average distance is actually 238,900 miles.
While the perigee is it 225,622
And the apogee is at 252,088 miles.
The carpet patterns are hexagonal
While the Apollo launch pads wear octagonal.
The proverb, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" existed as early as the 16th century
And means without time off from work a person can become bored or boring.
There was actually 17 Apollo Missions.
12 of which were manned missions.
9 were missions to the Moon.
Of which 6 landed men successfully on the moon.
The drink Tang was indeed used on space flights by NASA.
But only for the Gemini missions. Apollo 11 had no Tang on board.
Moon and room are not the only words you can spell.
Ironically you can also spell the word Moron.
And as far as alien life being found on the moon?
There is no evidence to support such claim.
No definitive evidence. We all have access to telescopes
And we all can see what is on the moon. There are no cities or people living on
The moon when you look through them.
But what we can see is limited. Unless we ourselves go up to the moon
We cannot answer that question for sure.
Yes there have been astronauts who have claimed to have seen strange things in space.
And yes we have seen images from space with strange anomalies.
But how much of it is just selling a story and how much of it is the truth.
Most of these sightings have been explained by science
Or as the result of misidentification. For example...
For over 30 years this object was believed to be a UFO caught in outer space
During the Apollo 16 mission.
Often cited in TV shows and by famous ufologists.
However in 2004 NASA finally identified the object as the floodlight/boom
And presented evidence to support their findings.
Unfortunately even today some people still refer to this as an
Unidentified alien object although it has been definitively proven to be just a floodlight
And a case of misidentification.
While the possibility of ET life on or around the moon is not completely out of the question...
So far there is no clear evidence to tip the scale in favor of extraterrestrial life on the moon.
The claims regarding NASA using front projection effects to create
The moon landing shots in a Hollywood studio and subsequent claim such as,
The impossible shadows,
The waving flag and so forth, have all been busted on the Mythbusters show
Episode 104 in 2008.
Without the use of video editing, the team successfully recreated photos from the
Apollo 11 mission which were deemed impossible to have been captured on the moon,
And also stimulated vacuum conditions to prove that a flag can indeed flap on the moon.
And as for the anomalous structures people find on the moon?
Remember there have been 6 missions which landed men on the moon.
during this Six Nations there have been numerous EVA's with different types od equipments.
All these equipments were left on the moon. Some were left intentionally
Such as during Apollo 15, Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflectors were placed on the moon
So NASA could reflect lasers off them from earth.
While America is the only country to land men on the moon
Other countries have send rockets and rovers to the moon and unless you
Keep count of every man made machinery that has landed on the moon
It can be unnerving experience
When viewing pictures of the moon and seeing objects that do not belong there.
We must also remember that in the 1960s there was a huge space race
That would surely have affected the power struggle between the Soviet Union and America.
Had NASA faked the landing, Russian scientists and politicians surely would have spoken out against them.
Since they possess the technology to confirm or deny such claims.
And if NASA did fake the landings and we never went to the moon...
Why would they risk exposure and do it again 5 more times?
Surely if you pull off the biggest hoax in human history
You do not attend it again 5 more times and risk getting caught.
There are millions of photos from NASA and other space agencies.
Video evidence, physical moon samples.
Amateur and professional astronomers with powerful telescopes who can view the moon.
Satellite imagery, the list goes on. The evidence is overwhelming.
While the conspiracies and theories do not count as evidence.
But then again evidence only holds its value if you believe in it.
And all that leaves us with is, is the moon real?
Do we even need to go into this debate?
Since doing so gives such a ridiculous question credibility.
However, we will humor those theories briefly for the good of public knowledge.
As some conspiracy theorists claim, the moon is not real.
It is a hologram.
Unfortunately for them, they have not made up their mind on why or who is causing it.
Is it NASA? Is it aliens?
The more important question would be why?
Well one thing is for sure, it is not us.
Well not NASA anyway. Since people have been seeing the moon long before America even existed.
So who is it?
Who created this hologram? It has to be someone from out of space right?
To destroy us? To spy on us? To use as a pit stop?
Let us lay this theory to rest with one simple fact.
Remember earlier in the video it was mentioned that during Apollo 15
We left Lunar Laser Ranging Retroflectors on the moon?
Well, if you visit the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-Ranging Operation
Or shortened to Apollo, you can fire off lasers at the moon.
Not you but the people who work there of course.
Nothing will happen until you fire it off at these retroflectors we left behind on the moon.
The laser pulse will reflected back to earth which scientists can then use to determine
The orbit and distance of the moon.
You can see this in action in the Mythbusters episode 104 mentioned earlier.
So there you have it.
Of course I do not wish to impose any beliefs on you.
But what I do wish for is that you accept the evidence that is in front of you.
And then make an intelligent choice.
Thank you for watching.