Proof We Landed on the Moon: It's In the Dust

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[buick]

If we hadn't gone to the moon, the Russians would have been saying that since 1969.

[rosebud]

the real question isn't did we land on the moon? The real question is why haven't we gone back?

[davidholman]

The way lunar dust moves has been conspicuously ignored by conspiracy theorists. Even in a vacuum chamber it can't be replicated. As for stars not seen in photographs, try taking pictures of stars in the daylight here on Earth and see how far you get. The Moon, having no atmosphere, reflects the sunlight more brilliantly than on Earth causing camera apertures to shut down. Photographing both the lunar surface and the stars was, and is, impossible. The "waving" flag is made of metal and was tossed about as it was planted. And when the LEM took off, the exhaust tossed it about as well. The exterior shot of the module lifting off from the Moon was shot by a camera operated remotely from Earth. Think about Occam's Razor: All things being equal, the simplest solution is very likely the correct one."

[margaretjohnson]

Thank you for this channel!! I love space history. I was 14 when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon! I remember the Apollo fire n the loss of three fine men. I remember Gemini but not mercury, tho I’ve studied it since

[razor]

I miss your episodes, I hope you are doing well.. If you start again you will have my full support.

[MrMarco]

If you wanted to fool people you shouldn't have used a high school kid.

[jasonlockhart]

wow thank you that was just awesome keep up the great work

[legit]

We didn't have the technology to fake it.

[Jenny-whrt]

In the U.S. in the 60's, people studied and worked hard, built things that worked, and made great accomplishments.  Today, people sit at their computers and accuse their predecessors of accomplishing nothing.

[ZachBillings]

Lol. Amazing how many dislikes there are on this video. I'm all for conspiracy theories when there's something to base them on... We landed on the moon people... Get over it.

[davidyaconis]

This evidence is EASY to disprove with just a sprinkling of willful ignorance.

[Cynosure]

Should show clip of earth dust in similar scenario. Math + Observation

[edgeeffect]

Oh damnit! I've watched a "proof we DID go to The Moon" video!
Now my YouTube suggestions are going to fill up with "Fake Lunar Landing Conspiracy" vids.
Dag nabit!

[decodeddiesel]

The issue with this serving as "proof" is that someone would have to at least have a rudimentary understanding of physics in order to understand the phenomenon shown with the spinning "rooster tails". Anyone with such knowledge probably does not require "proof" of the lunar landings, while people without such knowledge would not be able to comprehend what they are seeing well enough to realize that there is no way the phenomenon could have been replicated on Earth...and the circle of stupidity and ignorance continues.

[Sassy]

Another one I'm hearing is, "If we landed on the moon, Why didn't we brag about it?" lmbo! This must have come from someone born in the last decade or so.

[KlunkerRider]

Amy your using LOGIC, logic doesn't work on conspiracy nutballs, they'll just counter with some absurd elaborate theory about tiny fans hidden under the wheel tracks holding the dust up in the air or that the dust is a Hollywood special effects or some other absurdity. Seriously sometimes I think the only way to open their minds requires a hatchet.

[Ubermensch]

I just don't understand why some Americans themselves are so hell bent on disproving their own achievement. It's baffling.

Edited: some Americans (not THE Americans)

[dantyler]

Many people are not aware of lunar orbiters placed into lunar orbit in 2012-2014 by the US and India (completely separate programs).
Both orbiters were in lunar orbit for completely different reasons but were able to, completely unexpectedly, resolve several Apollo landers. Even resolving tracks left by rovers.
And, it is easily possible from those lunar orbit images to see the exact same features photographed by Apollo astronauts on the moon's surface from lunar orbit.
I have brought this fact up on a few Apollo denier sites and never heard back from any of them.

[Iceslab]

Even with solid evidence, the stupid fight on.

[torjones]

I love anything that disproves the Hoaxers... :)

Now if only this could also shut up the Flat Earth Society...