moon landing is a hoax

Rebuttal 1: Flag Waving I can see now that my explanation of physics completely confused you. I will now explain it better, point by point. 1A: Gravity I was using gravity as an example of a force that causes objects to accelerate, not the actual force that caused the flag’s accelerated motion. Gravity is, as you said, the attraction between two particles which can be represented by A and B. With no other particles present, these two will be attracted at an accelerated rate. However, because there are trillions of particles in the Universe, and because they bond and form larger masses, it is not as simple as that. I used the Earth’s revolution about the Sun and the Moon’s revolution about the Earth as an example of gravity, because they are continually accelerating around the Sun. In your scenario about the knife and body, it is not gravity that attracted the two, it is the applied force of the hand that causes it to penetrate. Gravity is not strong enough to cause that kind of attraction. Note, however, that gravity is not the force that caused the flag to move. 1B: Inertia Let me explain Newton’s law again. Consider an object in a state of motion or in a state of rest. Newton says that these objects will stay in constant, unaccelerated motion or rest if nothing acts upon it. However, if a force acts upon the object, it will cause the object to accelerate. This can mean that either the object speeds up, slows down, or changes direction. However, objects have a natural resistance to changes in motion, and this is called inertia. So if an object is at rest, it will want to stay at rest unless it is overcome by a force, or if an object is in constant unaccelerated motion it will want to stay in this motion unless acted on by a force. Again, gravity is a force, and it is what continually accelerates the Earth around the Sun, but I only mean gravity as an example and not the actual explanation for the flag’s motion. 1C: Flag inertia Now that we have those explanations out of the way, I can move on to the flag. Remember that the flag is at rest inside the lunar capsule until it is acted on by a force (the astronaut’s hand) that places it on the surface of the Moon (an applied force by the astronaut’s hand). The force of the pole hitting the surface of the moon brought the flag out of its rest state and caused it to move. And remember, inertia keeps an object in motion (or rest) until another force causes it to change. This is why inertia caused the flag to stay in motion. Rebuttal 2: Landing Crater Oh, dear. No, I am not saying anything that is impossible on Earth is possible on the Moon. I said, “The Moon’s surface composition, gravitational pull, and environment are radically different from what you are used to. ” This naturally causes a change in the situation. For instance, because of the Moon’s lower gravity, the lunar capsule would not have had to propel as much to slow down as it landed. This is just one of the many reasons why the landing crater is not there. The craters on the Moon were formed after asteroid impact – this says a lot, because asteroids (of different size) must be going around 36,000 to 160,000 mph to form even a small crater.1 To put this in perspective, the lunar module was traveling around 1.7 to 2.7 km/s,2 or 3,083 to 6,040 mph, significantly less, as it was descending. It touched the lunar surface at a much lower speed. My opponent states statistics about rocket engines, but fails to take into account that a rocket had nothing to do with the lunar landing. The lunar capsule was the object that landed on the Moon, and I have already demonstrated how the lunar descent was much slower than my opponent anticipated. Your so-called “common sense” simply does not work when discussing actions on a literal astronomical scale. Additionally, my opponent wrote “source” but provided no source. Rebuttal 3: Different Light My opponent’s argument here is literally: “so what? in movie studio isn't still light used? ” Yes, artificial lighting is used in movie studios. Artificial lighting is also used in stadiums. That must mean the astronauts were in a stadium. It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim that since light appears in the photographs, and since light appears in cinematic production, the photographs must have been the product of cinematic production. Since you have completely ignored the actual argument here, that reflected light is still light and causes brightness, I will move on. Rebuttal 4: Lack of Stars Again my opponent uses this disbelief in the authority on the subject as a rebuttal. The camera carried on the Apollo 11 mission was actually a superior-quality camera for the time. “Despite the quality of the pictures, the camera was an engineering achievement in its own right. Due to limitations in size and weight, and the low bandwidth of the available data channel, it was constrained to produce only 325 scan-lines which reduced its resolution to half of the present-day norm. ”3 The camera was specially made to operate in extreme environments such as microgravity and the lunar surface. Rebuttal 5: Government Agency I have already explained how this point is irrelevant. NASA is a government agency, yes. You have only stated that it is funded by the Government, but have only used the slippery-slope fallacy, creating implications but offering no evidence to back this up. There is nothing to counter to here. Rebuttal 6: Medical Knowledge The Gemini Program was more concentrated on understanding health in space to allow humans to walk on the Moon. “Gemini was more focused on developing the procedures and hardware needed to get humans to the moon. Its major medical goal was to ensure that astronauts could survive and work effectively for the roughly two weeks it would take to get to the moon and back. ”4 While Mercury proved that humans could survive in space, considering microgravity and weightlessness, Gemini produced more in depth information about the wellbeing of the astronauts. “Space doctors were still exploring the implications for the long-term health and safety of astronauts and for their ability to carry out their duties…”4 Rebuttal 7: Space Race My opponent states his own theory but provides no sources, questions my argument but provides no explanation. Nothing to counter. 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