Moon landing conspiracy theories

United States and the entire globe. The historical achievement of landing successfully on the moon and leaving footprints, sparked a change in technology, knowledge, and society for the better. This achievement took place on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins successfully landed on the moon, creating history by taking the first steps on another planet (Loff). The astronauts brought back samples of the moon, amongst other things, expanding America’s knowledge. Therefore

opinions and theories to life and everything in it. The question is, which of them are real? Conspiracy theories have been around since the early 1790’s and never have really gone out of style since then. There are many different stories, videos and articles about conspiracy theories, all of which really make one think. One of the most shocking conspiracy theories came around 1972, a little after NASA had conducted the first moon landing. Many people believed that this moon landing was fake and it

that took place in the United States on September 11, 2001 were a conspiracy. There is no denying this when, by general definition, a conspiracy is “a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal”, (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, n.d.). For the purposes of this paper, it is more beneficial to use Sustein and Vermeule’s definition which states that an idea can be considered a conspiracy theory if it is, “an effort to explain some event or practice by reference

perspectives. Quickly we come to conclusions, which turn to rumours, theories… Ideas have been built up, until they are towering conspiracies, quickly turning to turmoil under the media’s sharp wit. I have been absorbed in theories on the deepest oceans, deaths, murders, untold truths that have been hidden away deep down. Conspiracy theories are capturing, they make your mind buzz with intense thoughts. The world of conspiracies stretches out on smooth marble paths for miles, branching out on every

plays, William Shakespeare did write all the plays under his name. This crazy conspiracy of the plays of William Shakespeare being written by the 17th Earl of Oxford was started by one man, Thomas Looney. Published in 1920, Looney’s book Shakespeare Identified tells all about how Shakespeare could not possibly have written the plays due to his lack of education and instead, the Earl of Oxford wrote them. This Oxfordian Theory has been the

I would have loved my title to be “There is Still a Final Frontier” or something on the side of the conspiracy. However, all theories I found (way too many to include in the research paper) were pretty firmly squelched. I was also planning to stay away from photography, as I was apprehensive about adding photography to my research paper as I didn’t want it to shift

EmDrive is the product of British Scientist Roger Shawyer. In 1999, Shawyer based his project on the theory of special

that could magnify images about twenty times and through which he could see the craters of the moon, the phases of Venus and sunspots, and four of the satellites of Jupiter (now known as the Galilean moons). These observations marked the beginning of an era in which man could come and look carefully for the first time the universe that surrounds it. Galileo's observations supported the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, raised a century earlier, and at a stroke disrupted ideas of theological cosmology

Sixteen years ago, on a late-summer Tuesday morning on the North East, some said you could see miles out from the highest buildings. In New York specifically, the day was like every other for most people.New York’s mayoral elections were being held that day, Jennifer Lopez’s new hit,“I'm Real”, was sailing the charts, the movie, “Hardball”, just released to moderate acclaim, and an economic recession was coming to an end. Millions were on commute around the country, and for people in New York City

my interest in conspiracy theories. Although I definitely do not believe all of them, they are fun to look into and are good tools for procrastination. Falling deeper into the hole that is Wikipedia, I spent a large amount of my free time “researching” them. It got to the point where I had to force myself to actually work on homework instead. However, I am not one of those crazy conspiracy theorists; I am only interested in ones that seem legit. All interesting conspiracy theories have similar qualities