Why do some people in other countries think the landing on the moon was faked?

Sorry.... this is just wrong.... "That doesn't take away any of the achievement. It doesn't tarnish the proof or shame the participants who labored hard to reach their goal. '.... it most certainly DOES!.... there were people who DIED in this endeavor!.... some who thought they were GOING TO die.... some who worked hard to see it accomplished,but passes away before it actually happened.... they put in long hours and blood, sweat and tears to bring the US to the Moon.... and they DID IT!.... the pride of accomplishment that goes with that is so real to those of us who saw it all happen..... and I am just about done with the fools who try to discredit what all those 400,000 people did.....sure, they're entitled to their opinion on the subject...... and I'm entitled to my opinion on their intelligence!

It isn't so much people in other countries. When it comes to superstitious brain-dead ignoramuses, America always takes the cake. These people live in a psychotic, twilight world of fantasy and secret meaning in which they are the representatives of "Good" and there are dark, sinister forces controlling the world they live in that are "Evil."

The people who believe that the moon landing was a hoax are the same people who believe that Baby Bush secretly blew up the World Trade Center, that Elvis is still alive, that Bill Clinton is a rapist, and that Barack Obama is a Muslin terrorist who was born in Kenya. (Notice there are already no less than four answers to this question from conspiracy nuts, and you can tell they are not joking. They actually believe the moon landing was a fake.

This is why Republican wing-nuts have such an easy time seizing political power in this country. Psychotic people often vote. ).

As was already said here, it doesn't matter 'what other countries think,' or all those Conspiracy Nuts either. There's a huge number of scientists who have been poring over and analysing fragments of moon rock who can verify that the moon landing was not only genuine, it was an astounding American achievement. Also, the huge number of people involved in the actual project could not possible be brought together and told 'keep your mouths shut..! This is a fake trip and we all are going to keep quiet about it...!' Yeah, right...! Some of the biggest gossips in the country are working for NASA and they couldn't keep quiet about something like that if their lives depended on it, so obviously the moon trip happened and equally obvious, the conspiracy bugs came out of the woodwork immediately.So what else is new..?

It's not just other countries. It's generally one of two things--the idea that "if I don't understand how it happened, it must be impossible", combined with "I never really paid attention to that dull science junk", or it's people who, because we don't teach people how to think, don't know how to tell the difference between real evidence, and fake evidence. 40 years after the last landing, we're still hearing the same crap "proof"--"There aren't any stars in the pictures!" "The flag is moving without anybody touching it!

" The don't stop to think about the fact that since the astronauts were photographing the surface (which was lit up by the sun), the cameras were set for what are basically "daytime" photos. If you take a camera today, set it for daytime photography, and shoot a picture of the night sky (the only time we see stars here on earth), guess what? You don't see any stars in that picture either.

That simple experiment that anybody with a camera can do never occurs to these people. They just blindly accept what they've been told by some whack-job website. The flag moving is also easy to explain.

When you see the video on one of these sites, sure enough, it's moving without anybody touching it. Of course, they don't show what was happening one second before--that an astronaut _was_ touching the flag.It's like taking a picture of a burning tree right after it's been hit by lightning, and claiming that it's proof that the tree burst into flames all by itself. They also don't show you the videos where astronauts pass within a couple of inches of the flag without touching it, and it _doesn't_ move.

But they really don't want people thinking too much.

If that's what they want to believe then let them! There will always be pessimists and optimist among us. You will not change them, they believe what they want to believe!

The old story of a mother that had two children, one was an optimist and one was a pessimist. She could not change them at all, She went to a psychiatrist and he said for Christmas give child that is a pessimist all he could possible desire, and the child that is an optimist , give him presents that give no hope of something good. So she gave the child who was a pessimist a pony and when he seen it , his comments were its the wrong color , its not big enough , its etc... all wrong.

The other child she gave a big pile of manure, an hour or so later she was surprised to find that child digging down into that pile of manure, he was so happy! S comment was with all this horse SH** there is bound to be a pony in here somewhere. You can't change them!

I live in the U.S. and I question whether it really happened. I was 7 when Neil Armstrong was supposedly the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon thinking that by now almost 2012 we would already be sending manned missions to other planets and would already have a state of the art colony already built on the moon. None of that has happened and it's been over 40 years.

Something's wrong.

It's just an opinion and people are entitled to believe what they want to believe. That doesn't take away any of the achievement. It doesn't tarnish the proof or shame the participants who labored hard to reach their goal.

Jealousy. We did something no one else could do. It's been nearly 50 years now and no other country has even tried butting people on the Moon.

We need another good space race. So come on Scotland. You have the technology and the courage.

Shoot for the Moon!

Tell your Scottish friends my late father, a retired NASA photographer from Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA, took pictures of those moon rocks with his capable hands.

Some people will deny anything they didn't witness in person.

Conspiracy theories are a great passion for some.

I know lots of people who think that. That's crazy and I never could figure out why they thought it was fake.

Im canadian and I believe it was faked. Ever see the landing video? There is no atmosphere on the moon, therefor no wind yet the flag still moves in the wind.

I knew it from the first available footage that something wasn't right. I thought everybody saw it? There were documentaries later that validated my suspicions.

Physics people!

No atmosphere means you could see many many stars but in the videos no stars, at one time they ask buzz how did the stars look from the moon he dint answer.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.