Proof they faked the moon landing?

I have been criticized quite a bit on not doing so, so I will try to the best of my ability to prove my opinion on this. Not necessarily PROVE they faked it, just prove why I believe they faked it. Alright, here it is folks. And please don't just respond with personal attacks or 'you're an idiot'. At least prove your argument so you don't come off as just another bored tire kicker.

Motives
Several motives have been suggested for the U.S. government to fake the moon landings - some of the recurrent elements are:
Distraction - The U.S. government benefited from a popular distraction to take attention away from the Vietnam war. Lunar activities did abruptly stop, with planned missions cancelled, around the same time that the US ceased its involvement in the Vietnam War.
Cold War Prestige - The U.S. government considered it vital that the U.S. win the space race with the USSR. Going to the Moon, if it was possible, would have been risky and expensive. It would have been much easier to fake the landing, thereby ensuring success.
Money - NASA raised approximately 30 billion dollars pretending to go to the moon. This could have been used to pay off a large number of people, providing significant motivation for complicity. In variations of this theory, the space industry is characterized as a political economy, much like the military industrial complex, creating fertile ground for its own survival.
Risk - The available technology at the time was such that there was a good chance that the landing might fail if genuinely attempted.
The Soviets, with their own competing moon program and an intense economic and political and military rivalry with the USA, could be expected to have cried foul if the USA tried to fake a Moon landing. Theorist Ralph Rene responds that shortly after the alleged Moon landings, the USA silently started shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of grain as humanitarian aid to the allegedly starving USSR. He views this as evidence of a cover-up, the grain being the price of silence. (The Soviet Union in fact had its own Moon program).

Proponents of the Apollo hoax suggest that the Soviet Union, and latterly Russia, and the United States were allied in the exploration of space, during the Cold war and after. The United States and the former Soviet Union today routinely engage in cooperative space ventures, as do many other nations that are popularly believed to be enemies. However, this suggestion is challenged by the impression of intense international competition that was under way during the Cold War and is not supported by the accounts of participants on either side of the Iron Curtain. Many argue that the fact that the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc countries, eager to discredit the United States, have not produced any contrary evidence to be the single most significant argument against such a hoax. Soviet involvement might also implausibly multiply the scale of the conspiracy, to include hundreds of thousands of conspirators of uncertain loyalty

 

the regolith (moon dust) has an incredibly high concentration of weapons grade hydrogen (tritium) there is no reason to fake that. it would be incredibly hard to fake, and it would be incomprehensibly expensive to fake at a time when we needed all of it to build H bombs

 

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/28dec_truefake.htm

but it can be done ^^^

Also the photos which were taken there...the background has stayed clear while the men, ship, and anything else in the foreground, as well as the stars have faded to look like ghosts. I will try to find a link or proof of this

 

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ok, so they had several motives to fake it. i have motives to commit murder, but that doesn't mean i'm going to do it.

the grain thing is odd, but there could have been any number of reasons for it.

 

read through the link I posted. This could be a slow process

 

alright yea that flag thing. Thats just wrong. I don't know how ANYONE could really believe they could see a flag there

 

you copy/pasted your post

 

this link is also pretty good

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/luna/esp_luna_30.htm

 

that doesn't really prove anything though. sure they can fake moon dirt. that doesn't prove that they did. according to the link, they figured out how to do it in 1993 or something.

the second link actually gives arguments for your cause, some of which are kind of interesting. but then again i know very little about the moon or photography so i can't really say how accurate those arguments are.

 

with modern technology they can fake it.

they couldn't have then

you're suggesting tht it was too risky to land on the moon with their tech then, well, I suggest that their tech then was insufficient to make regolith.

 

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/11jul_lroc.htm

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html

You haven't posted a single fact supporting the claim man didn't land on the moon. Simply reasons it would be a good investment, and things theorists postulated.

That's not proof.

 

Why have they not gone back since? Waste of money? (I am just curious)

 

Okay. Read through the pages I posted. Don't just scan them then come back so you can state your opinion. I highly doubt you even give a shit about the topic seeing how many of your posts lack content and just consist of you stating your opinons which are actually just insults poorly disguised. Besides, you didn't even prove your point. You think my material on the subject is wrong or sucks, then prove it.

"just prove why I believe they faked it" this is what I said I was going to do in my OP and this is what I'm doing. That just proves you haven't been reading.

 

because the whole point was one-upmanship...getting there before the russians...they were humiliated due to Sputnik

 

nasa saw massive funding cuts and change in direction, the shuttle program was born because single use seemed like a bad idea to politicians at the time, turns out, it's a pretty damn good idea.

there is very little more science to be done on the moon right now, when we get some fusion reactors going, it'll be a good idea to go back, until then, it's a waste of time.

 

er, you're an idiot.

 

They went back.

They just haven't after the cold war because it's ludicrously expensive.

And we're going back again in 2018. With the idea of setting up sort of lunar bases. We have a pilot base in Antarctica right now.

 

I'm gonna let that slide only because the irony of it was obvious

 

Thats what I figured