{"id":506,"date":"2012-12-13T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/?p=506"},"modified":"2012-12-13T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:13:19","slug":"did-we-land-on-the-moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/2012\/12\/13\/did-we-land-on-the-moo\/","title":{"rendered":"Did We Land on The Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided against watching the Did We Land on The Moon? documentary last night, and reading the posts on Twitter makes me very glad that I didn&#8217;t. There is no question that man went to the moon. From equipment left at the launch site to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment\">mirrors which have since been used in important scientific testing,<\/a> there are tons of man-made objects on the moon &#8211; which is enough to prove that we did on its own. Any suggestion that we didn&#8217;t is based on a misunderstanding of the basics of photography, a misunderstanding of basic physics and an inability to do even the most fundamental fact checking about the Apollo missions. For anyone who still needs convincing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bad\/tv\/foxapollo.html\">Phil Plait did a most excellent breakdown of a similar Fox program from a few years back. <\/a>I&#8217;m guessing the arguments made were largely the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided against watching the Did We Land on The Moon? documentary last night, and reading the posts on Twitter makes me very glad that I didn&#8217;t. There is no question that man went to the moon. 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