The moon landing happened; shut up about it

I am aware of how much the US government lies to its people and the world. But one thing they did not lie about is the moon landing. Everyone always claims the moon landing had to be fake for a variety of reasons. Here's me blowing it all out of the water.

The flag was waving when they were planting it...there's no air on the moon so this is impossible.

Yes, it is true. There is no air on the moon. That is why the flag waved so much. See, when they were planting the flag, this created a lot of movement in the flag's fabric. There was no air to stop the flag from waving. Thus, it waved. Plus, do you really think NASA is that stupid...

There were no stars in the photographs...no atmosphere means you should have been able to see the stars

Uh, have you ever noticed that in pictures of the ISS, there are few stars? That is because the cameras were not sensitive enough to detect the stars. The sun is plenty bright, but the stars are relatively dim. Remember: the nearest star is 4 light years away. It doesn't seem like much, but it is truly an unfathomable distance (3.78421136 × 10^13 kilometers, in fact. Hardly a walk in the park). If you still aren't convinced, take a shitty point-and-shoot camera and try to photograph your favourite star (even your point and shoot is better than what they had on the moon). Remember not to do this with any special time lapse or whatever (a film frame isn't a 15-second exposure). You will notice that there are no stars to be found! Lo and behold.

But...but...there wasn't any dust on the landing foot pads!

Ah, there was not. And for good reason. Dust on the moon went flying away from the craft after the engine blew it all out of the way. See, the moon has less gravity. Dust behaves differently there. It flies farther away when you "blow" on it. The engines would have easily pushed most of the dust out of the way. Speaking of engines...

Why wasn't there scorch marks on the moon's surface from the engines!

Yes, those engines are pretty hot. Butheat doesn't cause scorch marks, it's the soot. And considering your average rocket engine doesn't create soot (the materials it burns turn into gases and not solids, aka soot), you wouldn't expect scorch marks.

Radiation would have fried the astronauts!

Not really. They weren't exposed to it long enough. Now, actually living on the moon would have been an issue. But they spent 6 days going there and back. Considering radiation levels on the moon are about 1 rem, and the lethal dose is 25 rems, the astronauts would be fine.

But why haven't they taken pictures of it with the Hubble or such?

Simple mathematics shows that the lunar lander would be way way way too small to spot via an ordinary telescope:

Take into account the size of the lunar lander. Let's just say say 10m square. The distance between the Hubble and the moon: about 350, 000 km. This works out as a visual angle of (10m)/(3.5 x 10^8m) * (180/PI) = 1.6 x 10^-6 degrees = 6 milliarcseconds. The best telescope on the Hubble has a 800x800 pixel of a 35 arcseconds field of view with a pixel scale of 46 milliarcseconds. (The actual resolution is lower than this. Meh.) Thus, the Hubble cannot see the lunar lander. It could, however, see it if it were 7 times bigger. Even then it'd be just a dot. Simple, eh?

But the shadows! They all weren't parallel!

Same thing on Earth too, thanks to terrain differences. They never are. Maybe if you got out more you'd see that... Also, the sun's rays aren't parallel either.

I could go on and on dispelling these myths. But I won't. Have some real solid proof.

For example, there are some folks who routinely shoot laser beams at the moon to see precisely how far away it is. I know several people who have gone to see this in action. I don't think these people would make it up.

There's also the fact that the Russians would have exposed it as a fraud if it were. Remember: the moon landing was motivated by the Cold War. Russia had a shitload of spies in America at the time. If anyone would have known if it were a hoax, it would be them. They would have exposed it instantly.

There's also Apollo 13. You know, the moon landing that never was? Do you honestly believe NASA would have made that up? I mean, it was a huge embarrasement to NASA (just imagine how much the Russians would have laughed at that).

Really, if you think the moon landing was fake, please take off your tin hat, take the $drug pipe out of your mouth, and get some sense. Thank you.