Moon Landing Poll

[onehandle]

Did we?

Edited to add a little data:

Recent Gallup and Time/CNN polls show that around 6% of Americans have doubts that we went to the Moon.

A 2001 Fox TV show called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" says it's 20%

[Atman]

1. You're joking, right?

:eyes:

[onehandle]

3. Just following tonight's theme.

:crazy:

[Emperor_Norton_II]

4. You'd be surprised.

Horrified, but surprised.

[Atman]

7. I grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

My stepfather was part of the program. I've been in the blockhouses and witnessed every moon launch from my back yard. I lived in a town which was literally dredged out of a lagoon just to make room for housing for the engineers, scientists, etc. Now, does this mean I saw the LEM actually land on the moon? No. But as much as I might like a good conspiracy theory, I think even our crazy government could not have been so nuts as to build entire cities and employ hundreds of thousands of people just to fake us out. That's absurd to the nth degree.

[Beam Me Up]

8. Melbourne HS graduate, 1966 here!

:hi: Remember watching the Saturn launches before they got there.

[Atman]

11. Cool!

I still kinda look back at my childhood in amazement. I remember in high school, when kids in other towns got jobs at Burger King during the summer, kids in our town got jobs gluing heat tiles on this thing called "the Space Shuttle." The best, though, were the night launches that had to be blown up because they were going off course. The most spectacular sight I've ever witnessed!

[Beam Me Up]

18. I lived in Melbourne Beech and know exactly what you're talking about.

The other thing I'll never forget was when the sea-foam would glow at night due to the plankton.

[Emperor_Norton_II]

12. You're right, it's absurd. And yet it endures.

Honestly, I couldn't tell you why.

Very depressing.

[IChing]

16. I saw 3 moon(one night) shots and lived in Titusville at the time.

Let alone 2 shuttle shots.

The saturn was a massive rocket that the sound wave shook the house, the shuttle never did that.

maybe the poster should see this video

http://www.911busters.com/911_new_video_productions/MOV/Painful_Deceptions.html

[Atman]

I was on the lawn at the press site for the first shuttle launch

It literally blew our clothes. The sound was un-believable. Like standing in the middle of a thunderclap. Since it was the first one, they weren't sure what would happen. We had to sign releases that we were warned that shit could fall from the sky, and the sulfur fallout from the solid rockets might eat the paint off our cars. They actually had tarps available at the press center if you wanted to place one over your car. Surreal!

[IChing]

24. My Dad was working in the back yard and saw it blow up.

I was not living in FLA at that time
but I went to Florida Technological University,
we had to take engineering courses even though it was not our major,
now known as CFU, back in those days of the last Saturn flights.

[Beam Me Up]

22. Thanks for posting that link, IChing.

Hadn't seen this one. Looks good.

[crizzo5137]

2. uhm..

:tinfoilhat:

[Stand and Fight]

5. Just gonna back away from this thread right now...

By the way, YES.

[Wilms]

6. I believe we did.

But, I can't prove it.

[Ediacara]

9. With 100% certainty, I say yes

The Soviets could see everything we put up into space. If we faked the Moon landing, this would be an obvious oportunity to embarass us. The fact that the Soviets didn't scream, "THEY'RE FAKING IT!!!!!" speaks volumes, at least in my humble opinion. In fact, we still have stuff up there that we can see now (reflectors, seismic monitors, the landing platforms, etc). In fact again, we've taken rocks from the Moon and brought them back to Earth and studied them. They're similar to terrestrial basalts, but not identical. In other words, you can't find a rock of the exact same composition as the Moon rocks anywhere on Earth. Except in NASA's vaults :-)

[onehandle]

10. Yep. nt

[Richard Steele]

13. I am convinced we did. However, I STRONGLY SUSPECT....

...that we had some elaborate stages and props
standing by as a contingency, in case the REAL attempt had failed.

[Atman]

20. nonsense

double nonsense.

[Richard Steele]

26. No idea what you are trying to tell me, Atman. nm

[ArbustoBuster]

14. I wonder...

Why isn't one of the options "Of course we did, you lunatic"?

[onehandle]

19. In some polls (like this one), Yes reads exactly like that. nt

[struggle4progress]

15. But .. but .. I met a lady at the State Fair in the fall of 1969 who told

.. me all about how the Apollo astronauts met aliens on the moon and the TV broadcast had to be censored. Unfortunately, being young and not very interested in conspiracy theories at the time, I didn't try to learn as much as I could from her but instead spent the next ten or fifteen minutes trying to figure out how to get as far away from her as possible without letting her know that I had some concerns about her stability. So I can't remember much of what she said. But her story DOES provide some independent evidence of a lunar landing, which I expect will be new to many people here at DU. :)

[Cocoa]

17. we've been on Mars since the 50's

[jus_the_facts]

21. DU RULES.....

Posts about so-called "conspiracy theories" are not permitted on Democratic Underground, except in the September 11 forum.

[onehandle]

23. Oops. I was just kidding anyway. nt

[EST]

25. Can't this ignorant, republican,

"don't teach science in schools, teach imaginary bs, instead," hogwash be given a rest?
If you want to get hold of NASA, you can get the exact location of the laser target that was left behind, on the moon, that allows us to determine the exact distance to the moon, to a tolerance of, as I remember, less than one centimeter. If you want to get elaborate enough, you can bounce a laser signal off it yourself.
If you have enough money and pull, you could probably get one of the larger telescopes redirected and look at the trash left behind by the explorers.
I'm sure there are many other ways to confirm history, but, what's the point?

[EstimatedProphet]

27. Yes. I have an uncle that worked on the program in Houston

[FuzzySlippers]

28. I bet in the Fox poll, it was Fox viewers they were polling.

That would explain the result.