TV Alert: Mythbusters and the Moon Hoax Myth
Written by Nancy Atkinson
Mythbusters. Credit: CollectSpace
On Wednesday August 27th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT in the US, the famed "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel will take on one of the biggest myths ever: the belief the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Some folks who lived through the 1960's never believed the moon landings actually happened, and some how this belief persisted. In 2001 the Fox Channel aired a show "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" and the belief grew. But now the Mythbusters take on the HB's (hoax believers) who say they have scientific evidence the moon landings were faked. Adam and Jamie will fight bad science with their usual good science. The results? We'll have to wait and see until tonight. But here's a preview:
I can't wait!
For more info:
Mythbusters website.
Article on CollectSpace about the show, includes quotes from Phil Plait
Phil Plait's Review of the show and links to his previous articles about the show
Phil's debunking of the Fox moon hoax show
Filed under: Science
August 28th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Would you eat the moon if it were made of spare ribs?
August 28th, 2008 at 1:37 am
The arguments I read so far are: the USSR WOULD have noticed…
I DOUBT vissual effects would have been possible….
how could you fake a rocket liftoff…
is this your evidence that it is 100% true? you CAN fake the liftoff and NOT go to the moon.
Personally I think they went to the moon.
Wheter or not the told everything they discovered remains a mystery.
The problem with Mythbusters is: the only proof we need is an ACTUAL photograph of the landing site. Like the photo taken of the Phoenix on Mars (where you can see it descending and on the ground). When you can make photographs like that on Mars, you can also make that resolution pics of the moon. Only I have not seen those.
So the programm is not going to help debukn this, because they are trying to let us see if they COULD faked it, and Mythbusters will show no actual proof.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:26 am
One small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind
I would say somthing like this if I was the first men to land on the moon.
I dont think anybody can say something like this when they are in a place or situation that makes your heart beat like never before.
Instead you coldn't find words and would go like this.
wowww this is amaizing, so big, I can't believe i'm walking on the moon, incredeble,… simple things lake these
But to come up with a shakespear, is probebly a studies script, just like in the movies.
But im not saying i believe but i'm also not saying i don't believe.
If I know mankind good enough from history, we should be living on the moon by now, because when we set foot somewhere where never befour man passed. We like to concour it asap and in the years to come. we build a city on it.
Whats on the moon today?
August 28th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Okay, no wind in space means no flag blowing in the wind. They say that there were metal poles in the flag to help it stay up, but when the Apollo took off from the surface, the flag flapped like mad as if there were no poles in it. And the Apollo brings up another point, they ran out of fuel landing on the moon. So if this is true, how did they get back off of the moon?
August 28th, 2008 at 5:33 am
So…NASA was and is I guess in the business of making movies, then showing them to the world in real time. Like that kid said how do you fake a rocket lauch? And..what happened to all that money they spent? If this was a hoax, it is the best pull off ever. Even Hollywood should be jealous of it. Oh bye the way Elvis isn't dead, he is in Joan Rivers and trying to get out.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Joe M-
The thrusters on the Apollo ship blew the flag — even in a vacuum, thrusters thrust and create a force — that's how the ship lifed off, and that's what blew the flag. As for the fuel, there were two separate fuel tanks — one for landing and one for lift off. That way they couldn't deplete all the fuel just on landing — which would have meant there would be no way to leave the moon.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Drat! I am really …upset. The article that notified me of this TV show came out on the August 28 issue of Universe Today. I just read it, at 8:15, August 28, 2008. I really, really would have appreciated seeing this show, not because I don't believe in the Moon landings, but because there are sooo many who do and this would bone up my arguments when I discuss the issue with them, I would have loved to see it. Is there going to be a repeat performance? Someone please email me at John a m darnell Att gmail dot commm. (Please remove spaces and change obvious words to their respective characters and/or correct spelling.)
August 28th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I can't believe that this urban legend simply won't go away. In my view it should be lumped into these other nutty society collections:
Jim Morrison (of the Doors) did not die.
Adolph Hitler survives to this day on a mountaintop villa in the Andes
Elvis did not die and has been seen flipping fried sandwhiches at a remote diner in the Ozarks.
Michael Jackson is a human being.
Paul McCartney of today is a faked double.
President Kennedy survived having his head blown apart but was shipped out of the country for unknown reasons.
The moon landing fake crowd has an insatiable desire to eat up bad science and endless X-files "what if's". It is just sad and pathetic in my view.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I can't wait till they go over the bible on that show. I can only hope that that murderous deity of the bible Jumps the Shark in my lifetime.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Are the moon landing conpiracy theorists in the same group of people that think NASA is trying to turn Saturn into a second Sun?
I hate being associated as a human being along with those theorists. Dullards!!!! Dullards, I tell you!!
August 28th, 2008 at 6:58 am
How many folks believe we didn't go to the moon? 18? 36? Maybe 120 at the outside? With so much else going on in science, is this a wise use of TV time?
August 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am
How inconsistent that it is not claimed that Apollo 8 or the Surveyors were fakes also! The landings can be considered the last steps in a development including the Surveyors landing on the moon and Apollo 8 orbiting the moon among many others. Every prior step made the next one possible. Steady progress since disastrous Apollo 1 makes clear that every next step was a consequence of the prior one. It makes no sense to doubt Apollo 11, if the Apollos before are not doubted also.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
For anyone who missed the show last night, its on again tonight at 10 pm EDT, according to this link: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=1.13056.24704.3913.x
August 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Bill: Well, as with most things, "TV Time" is allocated according to viewer ratings and advertising dollars. A show dedicated to Moon Hoax Conspiracies doesn't seem that weird for a show that also showcases the unrealistic aspects of pirate and heist movies.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Ha, Everyone knows the moon is not REAL….. That thing you think you see in the sky is just part of the conspiracy….. They have faked that too…..
October 27th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I encourage everyone to really take a little bit of time and investigate whether we really landed on the moon. There is plenty of web sites dedicated to this topic on the net. I believe all of you will be surprised with what you find and what you can easily conclude. Those spacecraft never left low earth orbit (~200 miles above earth). If you still believe otherwise, you are in deep denial.