You have not presented any evidence to support this stance. How much thrust was the LEM producing at touchdown? How much dust would it have moved? How much dust was there to begin with, What pattern would this movement take under the conditions of a vacuum? You haven't considered any of these. Relying on "common sense" doesn't cut it. Too often common sense is just completely wrong.
If NASA wanted to fake it, they could just as easily faked a crater if one were required to maintain the hoax.
These footprints are "proof" of nothing. According to what? Your "common sense" interpretation of how it "should" look? The descent engine was mounted on gymbals so that the direction it pointed could be changed. Constant adjustments kept the LEm balanced the same way that you can balance a upended stick on the palm of your hand. On top of that, the ascent stage had attitude rockets that could be used to help maintain stability.
All of the rest fall in the catagory of assumed gross imcompetence on the part of the alleged Hoaxers.
As far as the photos go, you use the word "impossible" way too freely. How many Photos were actually taken? How many out-of-frame shots were just discarded? The astronauts also likely had quite a bit of practice with the cameras before the mission. It is also just silly to think that "faked" pictures wouldn't have been taken the same way as the real pictures were taken.
If NASA were have to faked it, you can be sure that they would have been thorough about it; everything would have been checked, double-checked and triple-checked. The types of mistakes that you point to as give-aways to a Hoax would have never made it through the screening process if that were what they actually were.
All very well said, Janus. I find it to be both amazing and amusing that people who claim to be thinkers cannot seem to think with any real depth or clarity and thus wind up accepting the absolute absurd.
Singularity, I honestly doubt you are old enough to have actually witnessed any of the Apollo missions. It was a simple matter of luck, but I along with many thousands of others had the privilege of seeing that very first launch in July, 1969. We were all standing on the mainland and could see the Cape clearly across the water.
While I fully realize the foregoing will mean absolutely nothing to you, the following should be enough to convince you how foolish your position on the matter really is.
The moment that craft rose high enough, every single country in the world - including the Russians - that was able to started tracking it. And they all knew
exactly where it went. Not only that, but they also used radio direction-finding to monitor the transmissions coming to the Earth form the Moon. There was no faking that, either.
And if there had been even the
slightest hint of a scam, the Russians would have SCREAMED bloody murder because they wanted very much to be the first there. But they immediately gave up their plans and never said one word about what the US had done. Do you know why? Because they observed it real time, KNEW it was real and knew that they had been beaten.
Regardless of all your photos and other arguments, it shouldn't take any more than the two paragraphs above to settle the whole issue.
