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Really compelling arguements here about all the little things that seem to suggest that we never got to the moon.

However I have one really big question -

They talk about dust. Dust on the moon. If i'm not mistaken there's not gravity on the moon. How can dust even be on the surface? Surely there would be no dust at all never mind when the rocket landed? The astronauts needed weighted boots to be on the ground. But dust particles can land after being kicked in the air?

I don't know much but I'm only going by what I've been told and what i've seen. That to me is common sense.

So is there gravity on the moon or isn't there?

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The gravity on the moon's surface is about 1/6th of that on the earth's surface. This is easily enough to cause dust to fall, and the astronauts neither need nor have weighted boots.

Perhaps you need to learn a bit more basic science before you swallow the arguments in this film. Far from being compelling, they are easily explained by a little knowledge of physics, photography and aerospace engineering. This website is perhaps the best of those set up to debunk the hoax theory:
http://www.clavius.org/

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The astronauts seem to have liked 1/6 gravity better than zero gravity. In the documentary The Wonder Of It All, John Young said that he enjoyed being able to carry heavy things easily on the moon and that unlike zero gravity, if you put an object down in 1/6 gravity, it didn't float away. There are also some instances in the Apollo transcripts where the astronauts laugh about how far they can throw things on the moon.

Flyingswan is right about Clavius. It's very informative.

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Any object that has mass has its own gravity field. As small as the Moon is compared to earth, it's still a pretty big chunk of rock.

Where on earth--no pun intended--did you hear that the Moon has 'no gravity'?

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"Really compelling arguements here about all the little things that seem to suggest that we never got to the moon."

There is not one piece of even remotely compelling evidence that we never got to the Moon. They are all a product of a limited or completely absent understanding of science. I admit when I saw this program on TV, it gave me a little doubt about the Moon landings. But upon reading documentation about the physics of space travel, that doubt was quickly removed.

"If i'm not mistaken there's not gravity on the moon."

You ARE mistaken. The Moon's force of gravity is about 1/6 that of Earth, since the mass of the Moon is about 1% of Earth's mass, but you are 1/4 the distance to its center (the Moon has 1/4 the diameter of Earth). Gravitational force is proportional to mass, so the 1% mass causes a 1% gravitational pull. But gravitational force is also inversely proportional to the SQUARE of the distance to the object's center. So a 1/4 distance to the center of the Moon (when on its surface compared to the Earth) causes 16 times the gravitational pull. So the net gravitational force is 16% of Earth's gravity. 16% is about 1/6. Everything, including the astronauts themselves, felt 1/6 the weight they would on Earth. So a 200-pound person would feel like he weighed about 33 pounds. With all the gear on, he would weigh more, maybe up to 50 pounds. But that's still enough weight to make him fall downward.

"The astronauts needed weighted boots to be on the ground."

They didn't need or have weighted boots. And if there was no gravity on the Moon, the weighted boots wouldn't have mattered. Without gravity, all objects, no matter how heavy, are weightless and would just float around. The boots could have weighed a ton (literally) and they still would not have helped the astronauts stay on the Moon if there was no gravity there.

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