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Feel free to leave comments! However, if you're skeptical, may I suggest you check out the three "moon hoax" websites I listed above in my "Websites" and links section (including MythBusters). They have a lot more information for you.

  • shreeve21 May 22, 2012 @ 1:48 am | delete
    I am a total physics and math nerd and I LOVED this lens. Really well done!
  • derryod May 9, 2012 @ 7:39 pm | delete
    A very well put together lens.
    Pity I can't zoom in to see if my lost socks are anywhere to be seen :) (Quest completers will get that joke)
  • NickyT May 8, 2012 @ 4:30 pm | delete
    This is an extremely interesting lens. Well written and full of facts and photos. Well done! Nick :)
  • bloomingrose Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:25 pm | delete
    Okay - I am convinced. But I was anyway, so I was not a tough audience. Pinned to my board "This I want you to Know" so that others can see the information.
  • physics-boy Apr 6, 2012 @ 4:21 pm | delete
    No doubt the tin-foil hats will make these out to be 'evidence of alien bases on the moon. OMG.' Love this lens, wrote my own a few days ago, so it sits quite pertinently! Thumbs Up!
  • davies86 Mar 26, 2012 @ 8:51 am | delete
    very interesting lens. enjoyed reading it but the pictures are not quite so clear to make things out.
  • jercow75 Mar 26, 2012 @ 7:25 am | delete
    Wow, someone needs to learn some points on providing constructive criticism. I think your page is laid out very well. In the allotted space, you do a great job of illustrating the facts showing the moon landings were not a myth. Love the Mythbusters video at the end too. And why do we have to question everything that's happened? Great lens. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
  • TapIn2U Mar 25, 2012 @ 3:57 am | delete
    So many reports of a cover-up have come out. The people deserve to know the truth! Fantastic lens! Sundae ;-)
  • Zarathustra Mar 24, 2012 @ 2:49 pm | delete
    To Greekgeek: it is funny to see a student of mythology write about science with so much self assurance of knowing the answers. It is no wonder that you keep repeating the fact that you are the daughter of a microbiologist and a rocket scientist - because these are the only credentials you have to give some validity to your arguments. I guess you did pick up some basics from your parents while roasting marshmallows and looking at the stars.
    About the moon landings; I am not fully convinced by the moon hoax theories, but there is some believable arguments that we never landed on the moon. Even some of today's NASA astronauts admit the possibility we never made it to the moon. But with your experience in mythological studies, you unequivocably came to the conclusion that we must have landed on the moon.
    I think you are very selective about the posts you decide to answer. Dave asked a valid question how come NASA made a detailed picture of a crater with 20 m in diameter, yet the lunar landing pictures have such poor quality. Although you spent a great deal of work on building this website and answering the easy questions, you decided to ignore this one. I guess answering Dave,s question would require some quantitative research and analysis. What happened? Couldn,t you think of an analogy in the NASCAR world or cardboard experiment?
  • Greekgeek Mar 24, 2012 @ 6:56 pm | delete
    As noted in my article, the lunar landing gear is 9M across.

    The photo Dave was talking about --
    http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/24/5173227-see-the-moons-marvels-in-3-d

    features a natural bridge 20m across, and it's pretty fuzzy, not "detailed."
  • Richard3331 Mar 22, 2012 @ 4:28 am | delete
    This could be proof if the pictures did not come from NASA i suppose - I love to play with the hoax theory - The Japanese are surveying the Moon so that should give final proof
  • Greekgeek Mar 24, 2012 @ 4:08 pm | delete
    The Japanese imaged Apollo 15's landing site in 2008; see the links at the top of this article. However, their optics aren't quite as good as the LRO.

    The Apollo landing sites don't get imaged all that often, since the goal of these probes is to explore/study the moon -- NEW things -- not take pictures of places we've already visited.

    Note also that every day, various astronomers are bouncing a laser off the reflector left on the moon by Apollo astronauts to measure the distance between Earth and the Moon (since it changes). That bounce is easy enough to measure. It wouldn't work if the astronauts hadn't placed a reflector there and positioned it correctly. (See the Mythbusters episode above for a live demo of such a test.)
  • Chabon Mar 4, 2012 @ 2:36 am | delete
    Great lens, very interesting!
  • Edutopia Feb 14, 2012 @ 1:21 pm | delete
    Great photos and hopefully these will just add to the already existing mountains of evidence that the hoax conspiracy nutjobs can finally admit to being legitimate but much more like they will just plug their ears and double down even harder.
  • cffutah Feb 9, 2012 @ 10:29 pm | delete
    Awesome article! Love learning about things like this... *blessed!*
  • cmadden Jan 22, 2012 @ 6:23 am | delete
    Great lens! Personally, I'm still hoping to receive a functional starship for Christmas one of these days.
  • thesuccess Jan 5, 2012 @ 12:32 pm | delete
    Angels Blessings to add your Moon Dust
  • davespeed Jan 2, 2012 @ 3:25 pm | delete
    Very cool! I didn't know these pictures existed. These pictures certainly provide rock-solid evidence that the "moon hoax" crowd is wrong.
  • Q Jan 2, 2012 @ 1:09 am | delete
    Why would you park the lunar roving vehicle so far from the lunar lander and then walk back to the landing site?
  • Greekgeek Jan 2, 2012 @ 3:10 am | delete
    Goodness, 200 meters isn't very far!

    I don't know, but as you can see from the film above, the rover couldn't have been much closer, or it would not have been able to film the lander's blast-off and return to the command module. The camera didn't have a huge field, and of course it had to pivot to track the lander's lift-off. Try filming a NASCAR on the far side of a racetrack, as opposed to catching it in close-up when it zooms past you only a few yards away, and I think you'll see why this was more convenient.

    Frankly, I'd be worried if our astronauts couldn't even hop 200 meters in the moon's wimpy gravity.
  • waldenthree.net Nov 29, 2011 @ 7:20 pm | delete
    Valuable and inspire for next step forward. I am going back to moon for space solar power for earth ! Thanks.
  • skiesgreen Nov 26, 2011 @ 6:12 pm | delete
    Nice lens on a tricky subject, There is a lot of confusion especially about things like why was the flag fying when there is no wind there, and so on. I tend to believe what I saw at the time of the moon landing. It was a great step forward and there is no way they could have scammed all the moon landings. Hugs.
  • Greekgeek Nov 26, 2011 @ 6:36 pm | delete
    The Mythbusters vids I linked to above exploded most of the common questions like that. They tested a flag like the one set on the moon in a complete vacuum. Sure enough, it waved. The reason is because it's a sheet of tough material (plastic, mylar, can't remember which) hanging from a stiff strut across the top of the flag like a shop sign. Adjusting and moving the flag while putting it into the ground caused the hanging part of the flag to sway and wave. There is no air friction on the moon to slow down that waving, so it took much longer than on Earth for those waves to slow to a stop after the astronaut finished fiddling with it. Like I said, mythbusters tested it by trying to set up the exact same kind of flag in a vacuum chamber, and it waved around for quite a while in exactly the same way before --eventually-- stabilizing.
  • Srimera Nov 5, 2011 @ 9:41 pm | delete
    is it just me, or are the shadows created by the lunar lander in every photo pointing the wrong way ?, the pictures show the moonscape casting shadows astho the sun was shining from the right of the picture, yet the luner landers shadow is cast the opposite direction, astho the sun was shining from the left of the picture ? very curious as to why, im a firm beliver than men went to the moon, but i also belive the photos have been edited, why is this ?
  • Greekgeek Nov 6, 2011 @ 12:18 am | delete
    No, the photos have not been edited; you're just not understanding what you're seeing. Here's why you're confused: The shadow is on the right side of the moon lander, yet the shadows in the craters are on the left side of the craters around it. How can that be? Because the moon lander sticks up, and the craters are HOLES. Think about it.

    The moon lander sticks up, and its shadow shadow is streaming off to its right. Whereas the shadows IN the craters are being cast by the high walls of the left side of the craters. The crater's left hand wall is casting a shadow to its immediate right. That shadow does not reach all the way across the crater wall, so the right side of the crater is in sunlight and is brighter.

    Got it?

    If you're having trouble visualizing this, try an experiment at home. Get a cardboard box or a styrofoam food carry-out container. Using the butt end of a ballpoint pen underneath the lid, twist and turn until you've pushed up some bumps that stick up. Then push some bumps that stick DOWN, forming craters. Now carry your "moon surface" to one side of a light source. You will see that the shadows are on the far side of the light source, on the bumps that stick up, and on the inner wall closest to the light source, on the "craters" that go down.
  • Oct 28, 2011 @ 1:08 am | delete
    Well done! Can't believe there are moon landing hoaxters out there.
  • lisadh Oct 13, 2011 @ 12:42 am | delete
    If I were a skeptic, I'm not sure these photos would convince me. But now that I've taken a close look at that Google maps image, you've convinced me that all the morning commute traffic is obviously a hoax. I can't see any cars in that image, so obviously they must not exist. Thanks for clearing that up. :-)
  • samsaradakini Oct 2, 2011 @ 2:04 am | delete
    Very nice lens!!! It looks like you put a lot of work and research into this. I am bookmarking it for all of my moon landing reference needs.
  • ChrisGray Sep 18, 2011 @ 11:24 am | delete
    I especially like the Astronaut's footprints
  • anilsaini Sep 14, 2011 @ 3:27 am | delete
    nice lens with nice information
  • William Joseph Sep 10, 2011 @ 8:26 pm | delete
    Hi Dave!
    There are in fact very detailed photo's of the lunar landing sites! They even show dark bands indicating the trails where the astronauts walked. This is ofcourse (in case you wonder) because there is no wind on the moon, so they trails stay perfectly intact. Unless ofcourse dust from a meteor impact was to cover them. And if you wonder why it took a moon satellite to take these photos and why Hubble couldn't, I suggest you study optics a bit more. Have a nice day!
  • Greekgeek Sep 10, 2011 @ 10:19 pm | delete
    I explained all this on the article above, but Dave couldn't take the time to read it, so I doubt he'll see your comment.

    I'd love to ask some of these people, "If you can't see the answers to your questions on a webpage in front of your nose, how do you expect us to see tracks on the moon 200,000+ miles away?" But again, they'd probably miss the question, as they have missed the answers.

    But thank you for trying. :)
  • darciefrench Aug 20, 2011 @ 3:21 pm | delete
    I liked the way you opened - it had never occurred to me the potential for a moon hoax.
  • RenaissanceWoman2010 Aug 14, 2011 @ 10:22 am | delete
    I have always been a believer, but this is a great website for anyone -- the doubters as well as those who appreciate space exploration. Thanks!
  • Dave Jul 17, 2011 @ 11:15 am | delete
    If NASA's moon orbiter can photograph, with detail, a spot on the moon 20 meters (65 feet) across and roughly 8 meters (25 feet) wide why is it so impossible to get better pictures of the equipment on the surface? http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/24/5173227-see-the-moons-marvels-in-3-d The bridge is about 20 meters (65 feet) across and roughly 8 meters (25 feet) wide. Based on interpretations of the slanting shadows, the depth of the chasm ranges from 6 to 12 meters (20 to 40 feet).
  • Janet21 May 26, 2011 @ 12:17 pm | delete
    Gorgeous photos and great information! I have featured this lens on my new Space Birthday Party lens. :)
  • efriedman May 22, 2011 @ 2:36 pm | delete
    Great lens about a great topic. Beautiful images, and I especially love the earth-rise image. Thanks for the information and for helping to clear up confusion about the moon landing, one of human-kind's giant achievements.
  • CruiseReady Apr 3, 2011 @ 7:20 am | delete
    No doubts here. We live about 15 miles from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral...
  • Heard_Zazzle Apr 2, 2011 @ 2:32 pm | delete
    I never doubted, but it's fun to see additional info. Cool lens!
  • JeremiahStanghini Mar 30, 2011 @ 4:17 am | delete
    Had never heard about the pictures of the moon from space... puts things in a different light.

    With Love and Gratitude,

    Jeremiah
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Mar 25, 2011 @ 7:23 am | delete
    Apollo and here we are in the Squidoo Sratosphere! Wow
  • michael coller Mar 18, 2011 @ 2:35 pm | delete
    I can safely say. yes they did, i know they did because they suggested that people go out and look at the moon and you will see a bright light coming from the moon, i did and i saw it, a light leaving the moon and started to head for the orbiter, they di it and i can vouch for it as i was a witness.
  • DinosaurEgg Mar 10, 2011 @ 2:54 pm | delete
    Well I'm a skeptic ... about the hoax theories. Moon landing - plenty of evidence!
  • glockr Feb 26, 2011 @ 7:14 am | delete
    Really cool lens. I remember watching the Apollo launches on TV when I was a kid. I just got a 1/24 scale model of the Mercury Redstone. The same company makes a 1/48 scale model of the Saturn 5. If I remember where I put the link I'll send it to you.
  • Moonwalk Feb 20, 2011 @ 2:19 pm | delete
    I'm not skeptical, just curious!
  • LabKitty Feb 14, 2011 @ 8:04 pm | delete
    Calling the Hubble "far sighted" is a great two-word explanation for moon landing denier whackadoodles who don't understand why it can't be used to image the Apollo hardware.

    Another great lens, GG!
  • Greekgeek Feb 14, 2011 @ 9:29 pm | delete
    Unfortunately, some of the whackadoodles have demonstrated that they have great difficulty reading the text on this page, even the large type and short sentences in big black boxes.
  • kitty222 Feb 7, 2011 @ 10:41 pm | delete
    Awesome! One of these days, I'd like to see the Moon hoaxers raise the funds to recreate the Apollo 11 flight. Whenever I need a laugh, I just watch that video of Buzz Aldrin's left hook...Classic.
  • Mark Feb 3, 2011 @ 1:07 pm | delete
    first of all those pictures are too far to see exactly and I can doctor up that kind of stuff using my photshop program, meanwhile as the astronauts take off who's zooming out the camera on the moon and panning it up!!!
  • Greekgeek Feb 3, 2011 @ 8:59 pm | delete
    It was taken from the rover's remote control camera, like it says right on the caption. ;)

    Sure, you can photoshop anything... NOW.

    But how about all the live footage that was streamed from all the different Apollo missions in the 70s? Do you know what computers were like back then? No photoshop. No hi-res graphics. Barely any color. Photo manipulation, let alone live video manipulation, would've been akin to magic.

    Whereas we had the technology to go to the moon by the end of WWII, and submarine technology advanced enough to transport humans.

    Getting to the moon was difficult, but it simply required a lot of resources.

    FAKING getting to the moon... all those hundreds of hours of videos, of lunar rovers bouncing over the landscape, of the video above of that guy falling down in a way you can't do on earth... pretty much impossible.

    But also, of course, there's a very easy test that's been done for decades. One of the missions left a mirror behind on the moon. Many observatories bounce lasers off that mirror which reflects back to earth. They use it to measure the distance between the earth and the moon more accurately.
  • joanv334 Jan 23, 2011 @ 9:11 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing!
  • Dish-Network-HD Jan 9, 2011 @ 4:45 am | delete
    amazing. how a man can walk on the moon...
  • KokoTravel Jan 7, 2011 @ 7:52 am | delete
    Excellent... Nice photos from space!
  • thesuccess Jan 4, 2011 @ 1:31 pm | delete
    Most excellent work!
  • ViolinStudent Dec 23, 2010 @ 10:00 pm | delete
    I had not seen these. I grew up in the Sixties and the Astronauts were my heroes. I've always been amazed by the Lunar Landing Conspiracy folks. I just didn't make sense to me! This is some excellent information and fabulous photos! Thank you!
  • GrinningFool Dec 8, 2010 @ 5:30 am | delete
    I never saw these. I would hope that they would put a end to the moon landing was a hoax thing. I have little faith in that though. These could have been faked, they will say!
  • pumpnut Dec 7, 2010 @ 9:55 am | delete
    Really cool lens. Interesting photos. Hadn't seen a couple of them yet. Thanks!
  • Nightowl_John Dec 3, 2010 @ 7:20 pm | delete
    This is such a fascinating lens, I had to come back with my new Angel wings to bless it!
  • javrsmith Dec 2, 2010 @ 5:51 pm | delete
    That makes sense, we should be able to see something. Fascinating!
  • MisterJeremy Nov 30, 2010 @ 8:25 am | delete
    "Twinkletoes!" Can't believe I'd never seen that video! Blessed.
  • JDJ Nov 28, 2010 @ 6:41 am | delete
    nice info - I've not seen these pics before!
  • Nightowl_John Nov 18, 2010 @ 10:30 am | delete
    This is super-interesting! Thanks for putting this together!
  • WordCustard Nov 6, 2010 @ 9:42 am | delete
    This is very interesting, particularly having seen a moon landing hoax documentary that presented a lot of evidence to the contrary. Naturally, all the evidence was stacked in favour of disproving the landings so they didn't show any of these images! :)
  • Greekgeek Nov 6, 2010 @ 11:13 am | delete
    If it was the FOX Special, take a look at the links above. There was an amazing amount of selective editing and distortion in that thing.

    I imagine they also skipped over the inconvenient fact that while telescopes are too far-sighted to sight something on the moon in great detail, a number of observatories around the world employ lasers, and it's a simple enough matter bounce a laser beam off the equipment the astronauts left behind and get an increase in light when the beam bounces straight back at them. Rock does not bounce laser beams, as you can test with a laser pointer on your patio. It takes a highly-polished metal surface or a mirror. The mirror left behind by Apollo 11 is used to measure the distance between the earth and moon precisely and monitor the tidal tug and pull between them with far more precision than otherwise possible. it was one of the things the Mythbusters tested...yep, get a big enough laser, know exactly the right coordinates for the mirror, and you'll get a flash off it!

    I'm sure hoaxers would have a rationalization for that as with all else, but the problem is, every time they come up with a rationalization, they have another batch of stuff to deny. See the Myth Busters vids above for a few other things the "hoaxers" pick at (e.g. the footprints, the flapping flag, the astronaut movements they claim are fake) which they haven't actually tested and compared in both lunar and earth conditions.

    As someone who grew up with an astronomer grandmother and a Dad who worked on the shuttle program-- I know that the technology required to fake a moon landing was utterly beyond NASA's ability, whereas the technology to get somebody up on the moon just requires a very large and expensive rocket, and some airtight compartments comparable to the technology we use all the time in submarines, which the hoaxers never (I hope) claim are fake.

    In fact, I think even the CGI used by films like Avatar isn't quite up to faking a convincing moon landing. They would have made mistakes. Simple mistakes like the hoaxers make all the time.

    Another common hoax claim is that there should be stars in the black sky, when that doesn't even make sense. Take a photo in daylight with a camera and observe how long the shutter has to stay open and how long an exposure you can take before the picture gets washed out by too much light. Then try taking a photo of stars at night using the same exposure you have to use to film in daylight. They're too dim; they don't show up. There's no atmosphere on the moon so no blue sky (and the sunlight is even brighter), but despite the black sky, the astronauts were working in daylight!

    Yet in most of those documentaries, hoaxers point to the black sky in moon footage and say, "See, no stars! It was filmed on a back lot!" because apparently they've forgotten how things work right here on planet earth.

    Every single one of the claims I've seen and heard rests on faulty logic like that.

    It troubles me that hoaxers would disrespect the men and women who sacrificed so much to get there. It disrespects the 3 astronauts who died in Apollo I. (They never get mentioned do they? Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury astronaut veterans in "The Right Stuff", Ed White, and Roger Chafee). To me, it's like claiming that D-Day or Pearl Harbor never happened, because you weren't there to witness it... it's more than just being a skeptic, it's denying the people who lived through it any credit and spitting on the graves of those who died. I'm not patriotic by the standards of "real" Americans, but as a decent human being, I would not have the arrogance or confidence to deny the reality of D-Day, Pearl Harbor, or any other huge event witnessed, participated in, and experienced by thousands of people.
  • kitty222 Oct 18, 2010 @ 11:25 pm | delete
    Gosh, they're so tiny! Pretty cool though.
  • stevenho128 Sep 16, 2010 @ 4:17 am | delete
    Thanks for the fantastic info on this unique topic :>
  • AlaskaHydro Sep 13, 2010 @ 12:46 pm | delete
    This lens blows the conspiracy theory out of the water. Very informative.
  • TeamSTM Aug 31, 2010 @ 9:13 am | delete
    I have always wondered how Apollo 17's camera footage was controlled! So Rover are not new from NASA, I find this fact very interesting! Thanks for solving that mystery for me and I Really enjoyed reading this Squidoo Lens!!
  • Andrew Aug 31, 2010 @ 2:27 am | delete
    We have Google Earth, why can't we have Google Moon?
  • Greekgeek Aug 31, 2010 @ 3:37 am | delete
    Actually we do...it's been up for years!
    http://www.google.com/moon/

    But the imagery is from about the time of the Apollo missions. Hopefully soon it will be updated with the new data from the LRO mission.
  • Random earthling Oct 22, 2010 @ 9:17 am | delete
    Andrew... http://www.google.com/moon/ ... ;)
  • spirituality Aug 30, 2010 @ 7:14 am | delete
    Golly, I had no idea there were so many people doubting the landing on the moon. I mean - it's not exactly the toughest science to get there (was going to say not rocket science, but it obviously IS rocket science).
  • girlfriendfactory Aug 30, 2010 @ 1:20 am | delete
    Terrific job on this! I was born right near Cape Canaveral in April of 1969 and my grandfather worked at the VAB building as an engineer dealing with rocket fuel. He also manned one of the consoles at Mission Control when several of the Apollo rockets were launched. At one time, he had special patches and other souvenirs that were only given to people working on the missions. Unfortunately my whackadoodle grandmother destroyed, trashed or gave away most of their possessions. The information he had from that him is my saddest material loss as he spent a considerable amount of time showing them to me when I asked as a kid. It is what it is though. However, I know that if these never took place, he would have told us before he passed, because that's the kind of person he was, so all the hoaxers and debunkers can bite me. :P
  • Greekgeek Aug 31, 2010 @ 3:42 am | delete
    Aww. very hard that you lost that stuff-- amazing! And the VAB is one of the most incredible buildings. It's so BIG.

    I've only been to the Cape once to watch an early launch of the shuttle, and that was one of the things that impressed me most, along with the giant crawler they set the rockets on top of to trundle them out to the launch pad.
  • Shri Aug 21, 2010 @ 6:07 am | delete
    The photos dont prove man to be on the moon, the flg - vechicles & instruments even if true, can be implanted by land rovers on the moon, dosent need a man to go on there... So, again it happens to say No Man Ever Went There...
  • SHINLERS BITCH Jul 4, 2010 @ 1:42 pm | delete
    there may be a huge difference in distance but a satellite point at the moon doesnt have to deal with atmospheric disturbance that the earths atmosphere causes.... im callin bullshit on those photos... until i see a legit photo of the landing site from a satellite ... im still gonna be weary about what is really on the moon. i dont deny we ever went to the moon though. that would be retarded.
  • Greekgeek Aug 24, 2010 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    "until i see a legit photo of the landing site from a satellite"

    These ARE satellite photos. Obviously, nothing is going to convince you other than going there yourself and touching the landers, and even then, a "Hoaxer" could claim that we put all that stuff up there, including the flags and footprints, using robots.

    BUT WHY?

    The amount of technology we'd need to commit the hoaxes people are claiming happened -- couldn't be done even today... have you SEEN how the Mars rovers get stuck on any old rock?

    Getting lunar landers to the moon and having people do this stuff is much easier. Men are still more capable than robots, despite the video of that astronaut fighting Moon gravity.

    It's funny. We have ten billion times more evidence of the moon landings than Christopher Columbus had there was a New World when he went back to Europe and said, "Hey, I found something!" If people back then were like the doubters now, the Native Americans would've had another 500 years of living without any invaders, because the Europeans would still be claiming that Columbus was lying.
  • PeteChapman Aug 24, 2010 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    @ Greekgeek
    Thanks.
  • PeteChapman Aug 24, 2010 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    @ Greekgeek
    Thanks.
  • Greekgeek Aug 24, 2010 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    "until i see a legit photo of the landing site from a satellite"

    These ARE satellite photos. Obviously, nothing is going to convince you other than going there yourself and touching the landers, and even then, a "Hoaxer" could claim that we put all that stuff up there, including the flags and footprints, using robots.

    BUT WHY?

    The amount of technology we'd need to commit the hoaxes people are claiming happened -- couldn't be done even today... have you SEEN how the Mars rovers get stuck on any old rock?

    Getting lunar landers to the moon and having people do this stuff is much easier. Men are still more capable than robots, despite the video of that astronaut fighting Moon gravity.

    It's funny. We have ten billion times more evidence of the moon landings than Christopher Columbus had there was a New World when he went back to Europe and said, "Hey, I found something!" If people back then were like the doubters now, the Native Americans would've had another 500 years of living without any invaders, because the Europeans would still be claiming that Columbus was lying.
  • PeteChapman Jun 2, 2010 @ 10:33 am | delete
    I have joined Squidoo solely for the purpose of thanking you for the great job you've done here. Again thanks.
  • Tipi Dec 13, 2009 @ 6:32 pm | delete
    You have done a very good job creating a great site here.
    I'm usually looking for the unusual sightings in pictures from space.
    This is very interesting ~ Blessings!
  • aj2008 Dec 11, 2009 @ 5:02 am | delete
    These pictures are fascinating - I wonder when or if they will ever go back to the moon?
  • mysticmama Dec 10, 2009 @ 9:29 am | delete
    I love this lens, but then I was obsessed with Bat Boy sightings for years just for the sheer hilarity of it... I think that the more outlandish the conspiracy theory is, the more fun it is... but then my hubby and I made tin-foil outfits & hats on December 31st, 1999...so we could ring in Y2K in style!... Great lens & Blessed!
  • Greekgeek Dec 10, 2009 @ 7:42 pm | delete
    Thank you!
    And you're right -- the mythology of conspiracy theories is actually very interesting. I actually had to look up Bat Boy -- I recognized the image when I saw it, but somehow I hadn't been paying that much attention to the tabloids to register the meme! It's a pity -- gossip/scandal dominates our checkout counter reading now far more than haunted juke boxes, bat boys and bigfoot. I miss the myths.
  • mbgphoto Dec 10, 2009 @ 7:48 am | delete
    Very interesting.
  • GroovyFinds Dec 9, 2009 @ 10:55 pm | delete
    Great lens!

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