Myths of the Apollo moon landing

It only took 8 years for the Apollo program to achieve its goal of taking people to the Moon. It was announced in 1961 and by 1969 there were already humans playing with the dust on the lunar surface. For 3 years, six ships took 12 men to the moon and they arrived there with computers as powerful as the microcontroller found in today's toasters. Now, almost 60 years later, with all the technology that has been developed since then, for some reason it seems too difficult to return to the Moon.

I have published several times about the missions to the moon and the question always arises, haven't we returned in this time? And it is a very valid question, we know much more, we have more efficient and better materials and manufacturing methods and computers are much more powerful. The phone in your hand is millions of times more powerful than the computers that first took humans to the moon. Shouldn't it be much easier and cheaper to visit our beautiful natural satellite? And if so, why haven't we returned?

This is one of the most popular arguments among people who believe that we never actually went to the Moon and that the images we know about the moon landings are montages made in a top secret way in film studios with special effects like 2001 Space Odyssey. In fact, one of the myths is that Stanley Kubrick, commissioned by the US government, created the videos and filming of the Apollo moon landings in a top secret way, of course, so top secret that you had probably already heard. this.

Conspiracy theories are attractive and exciting, much more entertaining than reality and that is why they are so accepted and widespread, there is a lot of content of people analyzing images and videos of the Apollo missions who point out things that, according to them, show that the images are false, things like, why can't you see the stars in the sky? Why is the flag flying if there is no wind on the moon? And why don't the footprints in the lunar soil match the soles of the astronauts' boots?

It's true, the stars are not visible in the photos, but any photographer could explain why, the astronaut, the flag and the lunar soil are being illuminated by sunlight, which is much brighter than the stars, photographers know that you cannot see both things at the same time, if you expose your shot so that the details of the lunar soil, the white astronaut's suit and the flag can be seen, you lose the stars because they are too faint in comparison and if you expose the shot to see the stars, everything else would be completely overexposed.

The ground, the astronaut and the flag would be a completely white spot, in fact, even then you wouldn't be able to see the stars, because the brightness of everything else would flood the inside of the lens with bounces of light, dazzling the shot.

Why is the flag flying? The flag is not actually waving in the wind, if you look for videos of the Apollo moon landings, you can see how the flag has a stick that extends it horizontally, precisely designed so that it is visible and noticeable that it is that of the United States and the flag only waves when the astronaut moves it, this is because it has a loose corner and swings with movement, when he stops moving it, the flag stops swinging and remains static as it has been for almost 60 years.

By now, the sun's ultraviolet light should have completely broken down the blue and red pigments in the flags the astronauts placed at each landing site and they should now look completely white, like peace flags. Ironic.

Why are footprints in lunar dust different from the soles of astronauts' boots? The answer is that they are not, the astronauts on the Moon wore shoe covers with this sole design to improve grip and make their steps safer and to avoid getting so much abrasive lunar dust into the interior of the return ship.

But if you still have doubts, the most compelling proof that we went to the Moon, and when I say we went, I say it as if to say our species, but it is clear that it was the gringos, is that the Soviets would have been the first to deny the news if they could, but they couldn't, because any radio technician with a large enough antenna could point his dish at the moon and hear the voices of the astronauts, that is something you cannot simulate or fake.

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