I found an interesting theory - many believe the moon was originally made of cheese, but the moon-men, when they realized that we Earthlings were about to land, they converted all the cheese into some kind of lunar rock and self-destructed leaving behind no trace of themselves or the cheese. It seems their primary fear was that we would dig the moon and start carrying back tons of cheese to Earth to feed our mice and put in our little mouse-traps. In fact, cheese prices would have dropped to a minimum and tens of thousands of cheese traders would have gone out of business. A disaster indeed, if it had happened.

Not 100% sure where I read this though. Interesting theory...

The real problem I always have with conspiracy theorists, is that they rarely actually understand the subject they are talking about. With the 9/11 conspiracy theorists you hear loads of information about how the plane that hit the pentagon didn't react the way it should have done. The problem with that though, is that the people making these points don't understand what should have happened.

The same thing happens here. Conspiracy theorists complain about how the dust particles act, about being unable to see the stars in the photographs, or however many other points. The problem is that the conspiracy theorists themselves dont know how dust would react out there, because they have this desire to think its "not quite right" isn't proof of anything.

Those that are highly educated on these subjects tend not to be conspiracy theorists. It is usually the highly insecure people who dont understand the subject that complain about it. I don't understand anything about how these things work in space, but at least I have the decency not to question things that I dont understand.

The key to knowledge is to constantly ask questions and challenge existing ideas, theories and practices... if Mankind accepted everything that was put in front of them we'd still be thinking that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth.

The fact is asking questions is a good idea because it makes us think.

And one of the key elements in most conspiracy theories is precisely that they DON'T accept critical THINKING.

Most conspiracy theories are built a LOT like the creationist/intelligent design arguments. If you accept a body of work as complete, unchallengable truth, then the rest of the "theory" follows. However, it also requires ignoring, and not thinking about, the prepoderance of evidence that suggest the "theory" is in fact bogus and rests on either mistaken assumptions or the uncritical acceptance of some body of work.

The idea that nobody landed on the moon is based on the uncritical assumption that the US government is an evil organization bent on decieving its own population, and that of the world. It furthermore rests on the uncritical assumption that the US government is CAPABLE of infinite deception without detection. The fact of the matter is that the US space program employed thousands of people from all walks of life over several decades. If the thing had been a hoax, the odds of ALL of them keeping quiet is infintessimally small. Recent history shows that much, much smaller programs run by people sworn to secrecy could not be kept secret.

We landed men on the moon and safely returned them to Earth. Get over it.

Well today most of us still believe earth is going around the sun. That's crap, none of the planets (8 now) go around the sun, both sun and all the planets in it's system go around a point that is inside, but not in the center of sun.

Back to business: I don't believe any man has yet landed on moon before I can prove it myself. Any "evidence" that is represented on videos or images or quite anything delivered by NASA or some other group/person can and possibly is edited, so I don't see there is any reason why we should believe anyone has landed on moon. Technically it has been possible for a long time, but so is going to mars, and nobody has done that yet (or not told about it, at least).

On the other hand, I have no reasons to believe humans haven't been on the surface of moon. It's just that I'm unsure and that's it hopefully I'll be able to walk on another planet myself..

EDIT: I hope somebody launches a flag with a penguin on it, to moon. That would be a news story.

Don't be silly. Of course the Earth is flat and anyone can see the sun goes around it.

That whole round Earth thing is a government plot to deceive the public.

Agreed. I still think the moon is cheese converted to lunar stone though...

Actually don't drag me into the "did we land on the moon issue". As far as I'm concerned it's a non-issue and if you see my responses in this thread, I've been a pretty amused, neutral observer.

GO me!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to google, the moon is made of cheese indeed:

http://moon.google.com

Try to max the zoom and you will see

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While I agree with what your saying, thats not exactly what I meant. What bothers me with conspiracy theorists is that they dont search to find the answers and learn about how it all works, they merely try to find anything which could be classed as evidence for something they have already decided on.

Almost like religion at times

Not only that, but for some issues the questions asked are downright offensive. There was a thread on LQ regarding 9/11 for example with someone telling everyone the pentagon was hit with a US missile and not a plane. When there were people on the thread itself saying that they were actually there and saw it, or lost friends/relatives, they were merely told to be liars.

*sigh*