Interesting how the poll had to be created differently to the one proposed.
Even more interesting how roughly 30% of those who have voted are CERTAIN that the lunar landings were faked.
Which makes me wonder what percentage of the public are in some degree of doubt?
I have had the chance to re-acquaint myself with the detail of the subject, and have been watching some footage that troubles me for many reasons. Some scientific, some more intuitive.
Scientifically, it is the footage the Earth which was filmed IN COLOUR from the darkened window of the spaceship as it was on its way the moon.
The astronauts said that they had the camera pressed against that window, and nothing could come between it, as the Earth got apparently smaller and smaller.
In fact, on numerous occasions, an astronauts arm was clearly visible, which meant that the camera was just being moved further from the window, to make the Earth appear further away.
On close-up, you can see that the Earth actually fills the entire window at all times, and the land masses which are visible are only small parts of continents, and not entire continents as you would expect.
It seems clear that the Apollo 11 mission never got much further than the low orbit that the Space Station occupies to this day.
Also, I stress that the astronauts had COLOUR cameras.
But the momentous filming of the lunar landings was in appalling quality black and white over the entire time they were 'on the moon'
The US and worldwide TV networks were banned from having any live footage, and they were given only the delayed footage from the US Federal govt control room.... not from NASA itself.
Finally, it seems very odd that following such a momentous achievement, the astronauts gave only one, very bizarre and controlled press conference, and rather than being elated, they were jittery, nervous and disjointed when asked the very few questions which were allowed.
I would even use the words 'cowed' and 'downbeat' to describe their body language.
I will try to upload a link to that press conference.
Following this, they gave very few interviews on the subject every again.
When they did, it was always seperately, and they even contradicted themselves on what had originally been said.
(Why were there no stars?, the BBC's Patrick Moore asked) ... Neil Armstrong said he couldn't remember.
Michael Collins said he didn't really know if they had seen any!
Years later when asked, oddly, he remembered the stars much more clearly.
It took until the 25 year anniversary of the landings, for Neil Armstrong to make a public speech on the subject.
In that speech, he referred to how 'layers of truth' may be peeled away in the generations to come.
A cryptic thing to say in my opinion?
I will now search for the press conference footage, some days after the 'splashdown', I would be interested see what people think.
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