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	"Moon Hoax"
		There are two "Moon hoaxes." The first, sometimes referred to as the "Great Moon Hoax," was perpetrated in 1835 by Richard Adams Locke, a writer hired by the newly established New York Sun.
		The fact that the "Moon Hoax" was almost certainly nothing of the kind has been argued compellingly by Michael Crowe who cites an account of the affair written by William Griggs in 1852.
		The second "Moon hoax" is the more modern claim that the Apollo missions never landed on the Moon.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/MoonHoax.html (561 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
		When the discovery of men on the moon appeared Day was able to announce that the Sun possessed the largest circulation of any newspaper in the world: 19,360.
		Later stories told of the Temple of the Moon, constructed of sapphire, with a roof of yellow resembling gold.
		When the hoax was exposed people were generally amused.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refmoon.html (843 words)

	Great Moon Hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Great Moon Hoax lithograph of "ruby amphitheater" for New York Sun, 28 August 1835 (4th article of 6)
		The Great Moon Hoax was a series of six articles that appeared in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835 about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon.
		Two other men have been noted in connection with the hoax: Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, a French astronomer travelling in America at the time (though he was in Mississippi, not New York, when the moon-hoax issues appeared), and Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax (569 words)

	Great Moon Hoax of 1935: Article 1 of 6 in the Series
		It is impossible to contemplate any great Astronomical discovery without feeling closely allied to a sensation of awe, and nearly akin to those with which a departed spirit may be supposed to discover the realities of a future state.
		He found that the magnifying power of 6,000 times, when applied to the moon, which was the severest criterion that could be selected, produced, under these new reflectors, a focal object of exquisite distinctness, free from every achromatic obscurity, and containing the highest degree of light which the great speculum could collect from that luminary.
		Having witnessed the completion of this great lens, and its safe transportation to the metropolis, his next care was the construction of a suitable microscope, and of the mechanical frame-work for the horizontal and vertical action of the whole.
	members.tripod.com /~Str8AStoodunt/hoax/moon01.htm (2703 words)

	The Great Moon Hoaxes
		The second moon hoax refers to a group of people who believe that man never actually traveled to the moon, and that the photographs were actually faked.
		John F. Kennedy gave his famous moon speech setting the goal of reaching the moon by the end of the decade and the fuse was lit.
		One of the biggest anomalies that show on the Moon shots are the way in which shadows seem to be cast in totally different directions, even when the objects making the shadows are a mere few feet apart.
	library.thinkquest.org /03oct/00181/moonhoax-t.html (1970 words)

	The Moon Hoax Debate
		The hoax advocates usually reference this photograph [see photo] because the lights bare a vague resemblance to studio spotlights, however there are many photographs, such as this one [see photo], where the same lights seem to contradict this hoax claim.
		The hoax advocates' claim that an exhaust plume should be visible is due to their experience seeing launches of such rockets as the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle, where large columns of smoke and flame are seen trailing the vehicle.
		The failure of the Soviet Union to land a man on the moon was due to the failure of their N1 moon rocket, which was the USSR equivalent of the USA Saturn V. The Soviets attempted two test launches of the N1 in 1969, the first on 21-February and the second on 3-July.
	www.braeunig.us /space/hoax.htm (15341 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Great Moon Hoax
		People who are skeptical of the moon landing point out that even though the sky in all the moon pictures is fl, as it should be if there is no atmosphere on the moon (and there isn't), no stars can be seen.
		Skeptics argue that this was caused by a breeze on the set where the hoax was filmed because a flag cannot wave in a vacuum.
		Skeptics of the moon landing argue that an astronaut would get a lethal dose of radiation if he were to pass through the belts on the way to the moon.
	www.unmuseum.org /moonhoax.htm (1990 words)

	Moon Essay
		Even if we didnt know the exact distance to the moon by radio measurment, we could still infer that the moon is very near to us buy just observing the motions of the heavenly bodies in the sky.
		The moon itself then gives us a clue that it is indeed gravitationally bound to our planet by the simple fact that we see the full range of phases.
		A full moon, while the sun is directly opposite its position in the sky, and a new moon when on occasion it eclipses the sun.
	pages.sssnet.com /starman444/astronomy/moonessay.html (2311 words)

	Was The Apollo Moon Landing Fake?
		The Soviets, with their own competing moon program and an intense economic and political and military rivalry with the USA, could be expected to have cried foul if the USA tried to fake a Moon landing.
		Proponents of the Apollo hoax suggest that the Soviet Union, and latterly Russia, and the United States were allied in the exploration of space, during the Cold war and after.
		In early November 2002 NASA announced that it was cancelling publication of a manuscript by Jim Oberg that was intended to refute the claims that the Moon landings were a hoax.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/moon.htm (9408 words)

	The Great Moon Hoax
		The highpoint of the narrative came when it revealed that Herschel had found evidence of intelligent life on the moon: he had discovered both a primitive tribe of hut-dwelling, fire-wielding biped beavers, and a race of winged humans living in pastoral harmony around a mysterious, golden-roofed temple.
		Although the Sun managed to sell many copies of the moon hoax, it is not clear whether people at the time actually believed the story, or simply found it to be an entertaining topic of debate.
		"The Great Moon Hoax of 1835." The Griffith Observer.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /moonhoax.html (814 words)

	Moon Landing Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Experts in their fields expressed their conviction that the NASA moon landing in 1969 was actually a clever hoax, a sort of American Cold War public relations stunt of huge proportions filmed, according to those on the show, somewhere in a remote desert in the United States.
		Experts quoted on the show pointed out that the moon pictures were perfectly framed and exposed even though the cameras used had no viewfinder or exposure meter and were strapped to the astronauts' chests.
		According to moon landing skeptics, there are also numerous inconsistencies between the live TV record and the photographs that were published later.
	www.hknet.org.nz /MoonLandingHoax.htm (3441 words)

	Comments on the FOX special on the Hoax
		The program claims to "Let the viewer decide for themselves" about whether there was a hoax or not, but fails to present a balanced program of pro and anti hoax, giving the viewers a highly biased pro-hoax set of evidence on which to base their conclusions.
		The Hoax believers claim the LM descent stage used its full thrust of 10,000 pounds at lunar landing and that it should excavate a large blast crater under the LM.
		The hoax proponents exaggerate the thrust level of the engine during landing, claiming that it fires with a thrust of 10,000 pounds when in fact, the engine was throttled and only had to fire at a thrust level that nearly balanced the 1/6 gravity weight of the LM at the moment of touchdown.
	pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu /~jscotti/NOT_faked/FOX.html (4761 words)

	Lunatic Fringe - The Apollo Moon Hoax Theory
		To understand everything you need to know about the Great Moon Landing Conspiracy, you don't have to go back to 20 July 1969, the day that Neil Armstrong's celebrated moonwalk (or perhaps, given the territory we are entering, we should say purported moonwalk) was broadcast live to an awestruck world.
		As for the famed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts, one of them is marked with a tell-tale letter "C", suggesting the markings not of some alien life force but of a prop master who forgot to erase his handiwork.
		The Moon has no atmosphere, it's skies should be as clear at 'night' as in 'day' and the stars should be many times brighter, since they are not dimmed by layers of ozone, air and filth, since (in other words) it has no 'sky'.
	www.rense.com /general32/lunatic.htm (2739 words)

	[FPSPACE] The Locke Moon Hoax or the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
		August 25, 1835 marks the 170th anniversary of the famous Locke Moon Hoax or the Great Moon Hoax of 1835.
		This Hoax was perpetuated by Richard Adams Locke a direct linear descendent of the famous political philosopher John Locke.
		Here is some background information concerning the Hoax which I obtained from the following web site: http://www.xtec.es/recursos/astronom/ask/refmoon.htm Further links regarding this episode of 19th Century SETI and the whole series of articles as they appeared in the New York Sun are provided below.
	www.friends-partners.org /pipermail/fpspace/2005-August/017076.html (1082 words)

	Is it really true that man never really walked on the Moon...the picture of the American Flag (the one put there by the ...
		People that say that NASA faked the Moon landings say that proof can be found in some of the photos taken by NASA of astronauts on the Moon.
		The flag "waving in the breeze" on the Moon is just one example of the sort of evidence that some people have used to cast doubt over whether NASA actually sent men to the Moon.
		The photos of the two astronauts doing their work on the Moon's surface were taken by an automatic 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera (DAC), which was mounted on the Lunar module which had brought Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/kids_space/moon_flag.html (714 words)

	Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Because there is no atmosphere on the Moon, objects do not become faded-out over distance and thus far-away mountains can appear very close, as they do in the two photos FOX showed.
		The claim that these known and mapped Moon mountains that are viewed from myriad angles in Apollo photos [2] are really a fake backdrop that was accidently used in two staged studio sets on Earth is not a theory but an exercise in silliness.
		None of the alleged photographic anomalies presented during FOX's "Moon hoax" program are genuine anomalies and thus they are not evidence of photographic manipulation or a giant hoax.
	www.badastronomy.com /bad/tv/iangoddard/moon01.htm (1313 words)

	Moon Hoax Assignment
		The Great Moon Hoax Moon rocks and common sense prove Apollo astronauts really did visit the Moon.
		Moon Rocks -- Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo space flight missions brought back 382 kilograms (841 pounds) of rocks, sand and dust from the Moon.
		Nasa kids: The Moon Landing Hoax March 30, 2001 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969.
	www.ausd.k12.ca.us /dana/ghelmberger/moon_hoax/hoax.htm (491 words)

	US News & World Report and the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
		Subsequent historians, who relied solely upon O'Brien's work for their information about the hoax, figured that if the Sun was boasting about its circulation during the moon hoax, this must have meant that the hoax had caused a rapid rise in the paper's circulation.
		In fact, two weeks before the moon hoax, on August 13, 1835, the Sun boasted that its circulation was at 26,000, meaning that if you go by the Sun's own numbers, its circulation actually dropped during the moon hoax.
		But once the idea was established that the moon hoax immediately caused a meteoric rise in the Sun's circulation, it proved to be so compelling (because it provided a slightly scandalous angle to the birth of modern journalism) that no one ever bothered to check if it was actually true.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/weblog/comments/363 (697 words)

	Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark.
		So if you were to stand on the Moon and shine a flashlight at the surface, you would see a very bright spot where the light hits the ground, but, oddly, someone standing a bit to the side would hardly see it at all.
		They interview a Russian cosmonaut involved in the USSR Moon program, who says that they were worried about going in to the unknowns of space, and suspected that radiation would have penetrated the hull of the spacecraft.
	www.badastronomy.com /bad/tv/foxapollo.html (6888 words)

	The Other Moon Hoax - FT109
		During the mid-1830s, newspaper readers were transfixed by a series of articles in the New York Sun concerning alleged "great astronomical discoveries" made about the moon by one of the most famous astronomers of the day, Sir John Herschel, which were nothinnng less than fantastic.
		According to the reports, Herschel had seen details on the moon which included mountains, lakes, vegetation, animal and bird life as well as "a vast population of human beings", using a sophisticated new telescope.
		It seemed as ififf the world was on the verge of a new era.Unfortunately, the report was all a hoax.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/109_moon.shtml (584 words)

	The Great Moon Hoax
		Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon in 1969.
		McKay is a member of the group that oversees the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at JSC where most of the Moon rocks are stored.
		An average person holding a Moon rock in his or her hand can plainly see that the specimen came from another world.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/moonhoax.htm (1410 words)

	Definition of Great Moon Hoax
		The Great Moon Hoax was a series of six articles that appeared in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835 about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon.
		Locke later stated that his intention was satire rather than a hoax, to poke fun at scientists and what he considered their wild speculations.
		Herschel was initially amused at the hoax, noting that his own real observations could never be as exciting.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Great_Moon_Hoax (300 words)

	Redzero's Moonhoax - How Apollo moon landings really happened
		So it should come as no surprise that some of the equipment used was totally unheard of in the 1960s and, because it was designed to work in an alien environment, is still a novelty 30 years later.
		This lack of understanding is the source of many of the hoax theories.
		Rather than finding out how this equipment worked, many hoax proponents prefer to take a poor guess at how they think it might have worked, and then show how their own guess wouldn't work.
	www.redzero.demon.co.uk /moonhoax (340 words)

	G4 - Feature - Was the Moon Landing a Hoax?
		Sibrel even made a 45-minute video titled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon about the supposed hoax, using as evidence footage he found at Johnson Space Center.
		Plait says the biggest piece of evidence that proves we made it to the moon is the sheer number of witnesses to the event.
		Also, there are some 900 pounds of lunar rocks and material that astronauts brought back from the moon that geologists agree are clearly from the moon and not from this planet.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/40297/Was_the_Moon_Landing_a_Hoax.html (431 words)

	Manhattan User's Guide > Archives > The Great Moon Hoax
		The astronomer described seeing dozens of lilac-hued pyramids made of amethysts, temples with golden roofs, biped beavers that lived in huts, seas, forests, mountains, all described in plentiful detail.
		The real Sir John Herschel only later learned about his "discoveries"; the authorship of the articles is generally assumed to be Richard Adams Locke, a reporter on the Sun staff.
		On September 16, the Sun published an article that said that maybe the story was a hoax, but it didn't go further than that.
	www.manhattanusersguide.com /archives_content.php?contentID=011806&category=leisure (628 words)

	Apollo Moon Photos: a Hoax?
		Because there is no atmosphere on the Moon, objects do not fade over distance and thus distant mountains can appear very close, as they do in the two photos FOX showed.
		The claim that these known and mapped Moon mountains that are viewed from myriad angles in Apollo photos [3] are really a fake backdrop that was accidently used in two staged studio sets on Earth is not a theory but an exercise in silliness.
		Also reflective intensity and thus crosshair-knockout potential would be greater on the Moon with no atmosphere to reduce solar intensity.
	users.erols.com /igoddard/moon01.htm (1344 words)

	The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
		Explanation: This picture, taken as the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited the Moon in 1972, depicts the stark lunar surface around the Eratosthenes and Copernicus craters.
		Images of a Moon devoid of life are familiar to denizens of the space age.
		Contrary to this modern perception, life on the Moon was reported in August of 1835 in a series of sensational stories first published by the New York Sun - apparently intended to improve the paper's circulation.
	www.beachbrowser.com /Archives/eVoid/August-2000/The-Great-Moon-Hoax-of-1835.htm (1034 words)

	Commentary, February 23, 2001 - A Medium Well-Done, Naivety in Academe, The Great Moon Hoax, and a UFO crashes.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Commentary, February 23, 2001 - A Medium Well-Done, Naivety in Academe, The Great Moon Hoax, and a UFO crashes....
		A Medium Well-Done, Naivety in Academe, The Great Moon Hoax, and a UFO crashes....
		Having been overworked this week with a great day-plus-lecture at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana (hi, Jim and Nancy and Ruth and Ramon!) and two TV tapings, plus several hi-level meetings, I haven’t been able to get the time to write up the similar-triangles solution, but it’s really neat.
	www.randi.org /jr/02-23-2001.html (3162 words)

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