Moon Hoax Mythbuster

I’m always amazed to discover how many people there are who still think that NASA faked the moon landing. I’ve pointed out this guy’s blog before and it was recently picked up by the Discovery Channel. He did a long mythbusting blog a while back that is considered one of the better ones.

Apparently the Discovery channel has a Mythbuster show and in an upcoming episode they will be addressing the common “moon landing was faked evidence” that the moon photographs clearly show multiple light sources (as opposed to one sun) which proves they were done in a studio. Conspiracy theorists will say that this photo:

shows shadows going in different directions, so it was clearly done in a studio, not on the moon. The show will apparently recreate this to show how it happens (this blog does it fairly well)

I’m assuming that the new X-Files movie poster is a subtle reference to this part of the moon hoax conspiracy theory.

Really, I just like this Bad Astronomy post because he uses the phrase

I will give you a million bajillion dollars…