Debunking moon landing conspiracy theories | QI - BBC

Why do people doubt the moon landings? 🧑‍🚀 #QI #iPlayer

Stephen Fry asks unanswerable questions about hoaxes, with Sean Lock, David Mitchell, Danny Baker and Alan Davies. #QI #iPlayer

[marycanary]

the best argument is honestly that the soviet never even bothered to call it fake

[lhfirex]

My favorite conspiracy is the US government tasked Stanley Kubrick with faking the moon landing. He was so dissatisfied trying to create it in a studio that he opted to shoot it on the moon itself for the most accurate depiction possible.

[davidmartin]

Worth mentioning that Buzz Aldrin was very polite to that man until the man called him “a liar and a coward” whilst positioning his face within punching distance.

[grampsinsl]

I watched Apollo 11 take off from Cape Kennedy (as it was then) and so I know that the launch part was absolutely real. There are people (including every last person running the service desk of my local hardware store) who mock me for believing that rockets can work in a vacuum, which they say proves that space flight is impossible, therefore the moon landings couldn't have happened. It's the old nonsense about "there's nothing for the exhaust to push against" and they just laugh if you try to explain about conservation of momentum because "that's book-learning, why would you believe those lies when your own common sense tells you it's wrong, you sheep?" Idiots!

[JagoHazzard]

The incident of Buzz Aldrin punching a conspiracy theorist is worth watching - it wasn't just that he was tired of these people, but the guy in question (Bart Sibrel) came up, yelling and insulting him while he was with his daughter. I think it was less a case of Aldrin satisfying honour, more self-defence against a guy who appeared to be crazy and possibly violent.

[dhbsvszvhsjs]

It's simple if Soviets accepted the moon landings it isn't fake.

[ddirtdid]

That's Tremendous, I have always felt compelled to pursue knowledge and power in order to contribute to the betterment of humanity. Been seeking a means to be influential and find out more knowledge about the human race and about the things not everyone is destined to know. I wish to fulfill the goal of enlightenment passed down by our forebears~

[xgzbebn]

During WW2 if the French resistance could only use a radio for more then a couple of minutes or the Germans would locate it. I think the Russians would be smart enough to tell whether the video broadcast was coming from a film studio in Texas or the moon.

[nigelliam]

Half the conspiracy theories say they faked it, the other half say they had to air brush the aliens out of the pictures.

[nicholascrow]

"We are in trouble as a species if people would refuse to believe in things that they couldn't actually do themselves", wise words, good narrative on the source of pandemics, vaccines, and the entire Trump circus as a whole...

[katlehoyantlheptyltd]

The Soviets in 1969: How the hell did Americans land on the moon?!

American scientists in 2021: How the hell can we land on the moon?!

[Party]

There were six manned moon landings (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17), not just one. Each mission brought a different pair of astronauts to the lunar surface; each mission required the launch of a huge and very expensive non-reusable and impossible-to-fake Saturn V rocket; each mission placed scientific instruments along the lunar surface and brought back to Earth ever-increasing quantities of lunar rocks; each mission was covered by the media and could be monitored from the ground by independent observatories and radio amateurs, including the Soviet ones. This is enough to close the debate and understand, once and for all, that man really went to the moon.

[jamescameron-clarke]

David Mitchell himself did a sketch about faking the moon landing. If you're going to have to launch the massive rocket anyway, then... you might as well just go? Everything else is mainly catering. (That Mitchell and Webb Look - Moon Landing Sketch)

[tjjones]

Confusion about space and a general mistrust of anything government is a symptom of an indoctrinated mind, usually because of falling for the flatearth prank.

[Dragonfly-]

Conspiracy theorists are just stoners with too much time on their hands.

[felipeandrade]

The laughing is characteristic of those who try to ridicule people who have brains and question things in life. From the BBC, I only expect lies.

[wisteela]

Also amateur radio operators were able to listen to the communications.

[BigGordon]

I saw another scientist point out that the TOTAL cost of faking EVERYTHING to do with that landing, eg designing the rockets, drawing the plans, building everything, etc, would have far exceeded the cost of actually sending the three astronauts there and back

[NotJanine]

Two examples of why we never went to the moon:
One.
It’s impossible to have a vacuum (space), next to a pressurised system (the earths atmosphere) without a physical barrier separating the two. This is a law of physics and cannot be broken (and don’t give me any rubbish about the ‘theory’ of gravity being able to magically side-step the fundamental laws of physics).
Two.
If we somehow in someone’s dream did manage to break the above law of physics, how is it possible for a man in a pressurised space suit to remain and look perfectly normal as though standing on earth when he is in a vacuum? The suit would expand like a balloon and he would look like an over inflated Michelin Man. The astronauts look like they are just walking across a park in their Sunday best - no sign of any effects of a pressurised suit fighting against the 100% vacuum of ‘space’.
The only people who believe we went to the moon are those that have never bothered to look beyond what their governments and propaganda arms (TV and news papers, etc), tell them.
QI, in this instance, is the perfect example of this. The renowned brain box, Mr Fry, is here telling you why we went to the moon without having any means of backing up his comments other than hearsay from other sources. You are expected to believe everything he says without question because of his reputation. I suspect that Stephen knows the truth but part of his job is to make sure you don’t.

[martinwood]

If they really went to the moon, how come their boots weren't caked in cheese?