Ik heb nog maar even een paar concrete voorbeelden vd tegenargumenten opgezocht:
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/News/2001/News-MoonLanding.asp
A Waving Flag
Everyone has seen the video of astronauts planting a US flag on the Moon. You can see the flag flexing and rippling. How can that be? There's no breeze on the Moon. But then, there's no atmosphere, either. When the astronauts planted the flagpole they twisted it back and forth to sink it into the lunar soil. On the Earth, that would have made the flag "wave" for a few seconds, then stop. But that's because the flag pushes against air as it flaps, and the air slows it down. On the Moon, there was no air to stop the flag's motion, so it continued, just as Newton's First Law of physics says it should. So of course the cloth flag waved and rippled beneath the metal rod holding it out.
[ het was dus geen wapperen maar 'uitslingeren' wat die vlag deed (en dat stopte uiteindelijk door wrijvingsweerstand in het materiaal vd vlag zelf). ]
(...) For instance, Russia, China, East Germany and other cold-war enemies of the USA closely monitored the lunar missions. It was easy to tell whether the Apollo radio signals were coming from the direction of the Moon, and whether the time delays in conversation matched the distance the signals had to travel. If anything had seemed wrong, surely these unfriendly countries would have loudly shouted to the world that the USA was pulling a hoax! Yet none of them ever questioned NASA's accomplishment.
(...) "Moon rocks are truly unique, and differ from Earth rocks in many ways," says Dr. David McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center, one of the people who run the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility where most of the Moon rocks are stored. "Several museums, such as the Smithsonian and others, let the public touch and examine rocks from the Moon," says David.
Dr. McKay says that faking a Moon rock to fool scientists around the world would be next to impossible. "It would be far easier to just go to the Moon and get one!" he says.
[ Maan-stenen worden gekenmerkt doordat het oppervlak bedekt is met inslagkratertjes van micro-meteoriten. (micro-meteoriten die op aarde neerkomen verbranden in de atmosfeer).]
En tenslotte wordt hier nog stuk voor stuk op de veel gehoorde argumenten vd hoaxers ingegaan, oa op de foto's en tv beelden, maanstof, de lander, etc:
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/sites/ExternSite.asp?url=http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/
een paar quotes:
- If the sun is the only source of light on the moon, why do lots of the photos, like this one, show shadows at different angles and lengths? Doesn't this show the use of more than one spot light?
You can see in the photograph above that the astronaut on the right is much longer and at a different angle to the one on the left. This isn't at all strange if you consider the slopes on the landscape. There is a dip in the surface between the two figures. The shadow on the right is sloping downhill, the shadow on the left uphill.
- Why can we see the astronaut in this picture when he is in the shadow of the lander? Shouldn't he be in the dark?
This is a question posed about a lot of the photos taken on the moon. What needs to be realised is that the sun, while being the only source of direct light, was not the only light source. Light reflects off everything around the astronauts and because this is very bright light, the reflected light can be very significant.
- Photographs show no crater beneath the lander. Shouldn't the rockets have made one? Doesn't this prove that the lander never really landed there?
Here's NASA photo AS11-40-5921 taken by Aldrin of the ground directly beneath the lander. Note the discoloration caused by scorching and how it is relatively dust free. You can also see a groove caused by one of the probes beneath the LM's feet as it came down and skidded across the lunar surface.
The descent rocket used by the lander had a maximum thrust of 10,500lbs. That may be enough to cause a crater in softer surfaces than the moon's surface, but it doesn't matter in this case anyway. The lander's rocket was not at full thrust when it landed, Armstrong throttled it back all the way down as the lander approached the surface.
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[ Het maanoppervlak ter plaatse was dus te hard om er een krater in te branden; rots met een laagje stof, het stof werd wel weggeblazen, en de rots eronder werd 'aangebrand'. ]
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Probleem met complot theoriën is dat twijfel oh zo makkelijk gezaaid is, en meer dan twijfel heeft zo'n theorie niet nodig. Om de verdachtmakingen te weerlaggen moet je én vertellen waarom het niet zo is als de complot theorie beweert, én je moet vertellen hoe het dan wel is, en waarom.
Dat wordt al snel een langdradig verhaal (waarvan hierboven slechts een klein stukje), en is lang zo spannend niet (want geen complot). Daarin zijn veel mensen niet zo geinteresseerd. Daarom kunnen complot-theorieen zo hardnekkig zijn.
Tenslotte: het is goed om skeptisch te zijn tav wetenschap en techniek - maar het is ook goed om sceptisch te zijn tav complot-theorien en verdachtmakingen.