To back track a little and look for proof...
First up, there are several people who walked on the surface of the moon. Ask them, they'll tell you they did it. It would stand up in a court of law.
Ask the hundreds of thousands of people who made it possible. The hundreds of thousands of scientists who have advanced their theories and works based on the results of the visits. Doctors studying the returning astronauts who can see what the effects of a moon landing have on the human body.
There is so much evidence it happened, but not enough to convince somebody firmly believes "it was all just made up". It's hundreds of thousands of small proofs that could not exist if it didn't happen. No evidence yet has proven it didn't happen, every piece has been shown to be wrong, or demonstrated by self-confessed "experts" who are in a vocal minority.
Of course, this photo taken by the lunar orbiter also wont convince anyome:
The problem is, a lot of the "theories" occurred before NASA proclaimed they were returning to the moon. The lunar orbiter is doing detailed studies to work out the best place to land and make a permanent base. It's also taken shots of the original landing site (above).
Of course, that could well be photoshopped, but as with all these things, you then have to look at Occam's razor. Does the theory you posit cause more questions to be asked than it answers? Is it harder to support the alternative theory, than it is to support the "truth"?
In this case? Absolutely...
40 years ago, a lot of people were involved in the moon landings. Let's say it was faked... Over the last 40 years, this has continued to be covered up by every new employee that joins NASA.
"Hi, I've come to start work on the HD camera module for the new Lunar Orbiter. I've calculated the exposures and timings required to take shots of the lunar landing site. When do we go?"
"Sorry young Fred, but let me take you in here where we can be alone... See, we are paying $200,000 a year to do this, but you've just got to pretend... The landings never happened you see... You can't complete your task and we've got a 14 year old on Photoshop right now knocking it up instead. However, for 40 years we've paid people millions upon millions to sit at NASA doing nothing because nobody wants to admit it was faked... Even the opposing parties won't go against it, despite the fact it could rock their opponents to the core. Nope, sorry Fred, but your job here is just to keep quiet. We can trust you can't we Fred? After all, in the last 40 years, hundreds of thousads of others like you have kept their word... So shush eh? You know it's for the best".
"Of course sir, why would anybody want to out the biggest secret in modern history? It's completely beyond me!"
When NASA return to the moon, and they visit the original sites, it STILL wont be good enough evidence. NASA will STILL be setting up a fake landing site for the tourists to visit because it wasn't real. People taking photos that match the originals in terms of shadow and angles will ALL be faking them. All of a sudden, everyone who visits the moon will be part of this conspiracy, over 50 years old. Nobody originally involved will be alive any more, nobody will care if it was faked or not, but the faked landings will perpetuate another thousand years of lies and deceit... Or not, because to even keep it covered up for 40 years through a multitude of different government offices, programmes, scientists, agencies, cleaners, etc, etc, etc is absolutely impossible.
The fact there is no actual "empirical" proof it didn't happen, is all the proof you need that it did.
First up, there are several people who walked on the surface of the moon. Ask them, they'll tell you they did it. It would stand up in a court of law.
Ask the hundreds of thousands of people who made it possible. The hundreds of thousands of scientists who have advanced their theories and works based on the results of the visits. Doctors studying the returning astronauts who can see what the effects of a moon landing have on the human body.
There is so much evidence it happened, but not enough to convince somebody firmly believes "it was all just made up". It's hundreds of thousands of small proofs that could not exist if it didn't happen. No evidence yet has proven it didn't happen, every piece has been shown to be wrong, or demonstrated by self-confessed "experts" who are in a vocal minority.
Of course, this photo taken by the lunar orbiter also wont convince anyome:
NASA said:High-sun image of the Apollo 16 landing site showing the lunar module descent stage, various pieces of equipment, and disturbed lunar soil (seen as darker lines and areas) which marks where John Young and Charles Duke traversed in the spring of 1972. The labels on the image are for the Lunar Module (LM), the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) that powered the ALSEP, and a line of geophones (devices that take seismic readings) that extended west by northwest from the ALSEP station. LROC image M109134835L, 296 meters across (about 971 feet). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
The problem is, a lot of the "theories" occurred before NASA proclaimed they were returning to the moon. The lunar orbiter is doing detailed studies to work out the best place to land and make a permanent base. It's also taken shots of the original landing site (above).
Of course, that could well be photoshopped, but as with all these things, you then have to look at Occam's razor. Does the theory you posit cause more questions to be asked than it answers? Is it harder to support the alternative theory, than it is to support the "truth"?
In this case? Absolutely...
40 years ago, a lot of people were involved in the moon landings. Let's say it was faked... Over the last 40 years, this has continued to be covered up by every new employee that joins NASA.
"Hi, I've come to start work on the HD camera module for the new Lunar Orbiter. I've calculated the exposures and timings required to take shots of the lunar landing site. When do we go?"
"Sorry young Fred, but let me take you in here where we can be alone... See, we are paying $200,000 a year to do this, but you've just got to pretend... The landings never happened you see... You can't complete your task and we've got a 14 year old on Photoshop right now knocking it up instead. However, for 40 years we've paid people millions upon millions to sit at NASA doing nothing because nobody wants to admit it was faked... Even the opposing parties won't go against it, despite the fact it could rock their opponents to the core. Nope, sorry Fred, but your job here is just to keep quiet. We can trust you can't we Fred? After all, in the last 40 years, hundreds of thousads of others like you have kept their word... So shush eh? You know it's for the best".
"Of course sir, why would anybody want to out the biggest secret in modern history? It's completely beyond me!"
When NASA return to the moon, and they visit the original sites, it STILL wont be good enough evidence. NASA will STILL be setting up a fake landing site for the tourists to visit because it wasn't real. People taking photos that match the originals in terms of shadow and angles will ALL be faking them. All of a sudden, everyone who visits the moon will be part of this conspiracy, over 50 years old. Nobody originally involved will be alive any more, nobody will care if it was faked or not, but the faked landings will perpetuate another thousand years of lies and deceit... Or not, because to even keep it covered up for 40 years through a multitude of different government offices, programmes, scientists, agencies, cleaners, etc, etc, etc is absolutely impossible.
The fact there is no actual "empirical" proof it didn't happen, is all the proof you need that it did.