"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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