Wow, I am so glad I have DVR. I just got a new episode of MythBusters last night and I know this would be one I'd miss. The answer is clear, but I'm glad MythBusters is going to clarify it for the non-geeks.
GJ said 43 minutes later
The show is awesome, period. No other show EVER has gotten so many people plugged in to what science and research really is. One can only hope it gets more people thinking critically, unlike that scary lady who thinks metallic oxide salts oozing from the ground are causing rainbows to appear in lawn sprinklers.
I only wish I was kidding about that.
GJ said about 1 hour later
For those of you who wanted to see the stupidity I referred to above, check here.
Geoff said about 1 hour later
That sprinkler lady can't be real. That is the real hoax here..forget the moon. If there is any remote truth to that sprinkler video, that lady should be quartered.
GJ said about 20 hours later
Go look up dbootsthediva's channel on youtube, or go just look up dboots on google. She's been drinking the kool-aid for some years now--she's paranoid about HAARP and blames everything on it, even if she doesn't have a clue what she's analyzing. She's also been trolling physics discussion sites since at least 2006. It's not a hoax--she's a true-believer.
How can shadows go in two different directions? Easy. Two light sources. You think they forgot to bring lights with them on the spaceship, or on their cameras?
How does the flag "wave?" Well, in minimal gravity, it's going to keep moving when it's forced to move. By moving the flagpole around, the flag is going to be forced to wave. Do you think the astronauts would want a picture of a flag just sitting limp? Heck no, so I'm sure they manually made the wave flap a little bit. In the little bit of gravity up there, it probably could continue to flap for a while once it's manually started.
And who says there is no wind up there anyway? No wind at all? Nothing? Not even the slightest? In 1/8th the gravity of earth (IIRC), it wouldn't take much wind to make the flag flap.
Is it that hard to believe that we landed on the moon? Don't you think if it was truly a hoax, the Soviets would have called us out on it?
GJ said about 22 hours later
Multiple light sources is why they claim it was done in a movie studio.
There is no wind on the moon, as there is no atmosphere. Not in the slightest.
It's not hard at all to believe we landed on the moon. Simply, it'd be far beyond our capability to pull off a ruse involving so many people. You'll find a lot of people who ignore this basic fact and do the following:
1. Find some "evidence" that appears to show an element of a claim is incorrect (or, in their interpretation, created to deceive the masses).
2. Declare the entire claim to be not only false, but a sham to (again) deceive the masses.
3. Make up reasons for why the Man is out get us.
Moon hoaxes do this; 9/11 truthers do this; pretty much any conspiracy theorist uses this method. And these are not a few kooks among us--a great many people believe that moon landings were faked. That's frightening--especially when so much of modern communications technology that we use every day was directly contributed to by the space program.
