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Bill Nye takes down a moon hoaxer

Posted by / September 1, 2016

Besides teaching kids about the wonders of science, Bill Nye has also become something of a pseudoscience debunker. Here he is taking down one of those people who think the moon landing didn’t happen.

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  • How many weirdos can we gather into one place at the same time? Let’s ask Trump.

  • Jim Meade

    The lunar orbiter has taken pictures of the landing sites. These photos are irrefutable evidence of the astronauts being on the moon. People still trying to make money on these conspiracy theory should get a life.

  • I wasted 8:40 of my life watching this.

  • Look up the definition of a burned out light-bulb and Nye’s mug will hit you square in the face. No one buys his drivel any more. So why does yahoo still give him the attention he so desperately craves?

  • How many idiots live under one roof? Let’s as MICHAEL-IDIOTS.

  • Joe

    Bill Nye, the non-scientist, atheist, gay, idiot? Hope he dies today.

  • Joe

    MICHAELEDITS is an idiot, just like Nill Nye.

  • Rick

    Joe I think you are the idiot in the room.

  • Tim Romano

    “How many weirdos can we gather into one place at the same time?”

    I dunno. How many members are there in the Clinton Foundation?

  • Punching that guy in the face was the second best thing Buzz Aldrin ever did!

  • MOON HOAX??? REALLY… see planet.infowars.com to find out even the director for the NASA archives got shot down… the truth however will shock you… we did go to the moon, and NASA did not show nothing of it to the public… thats why there is fakes in the archive simple as that… look in the science section to find out what tipped everyone off… HAY BILL WANT TO DEBATE? bring it on… you will see it too

  • jabbadonut

    “pseudoscience debunker” – which make perfect sense, given Nye is a pseudoscientist.

  • Brad A

    Bill Nye might be a lot of things but a scientist is NOT one of them!

  • BruceR

    Joe is clearly the idiot in the room. Nye has a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell and has lived his lived doing scientific pursuits. Since the definition of “scientist” is a bit loose I’d say Nye is in the ballpark. Nye considers himself to be agnostic. And it would appear that he is not gay, having been married, but you never know. The fact that Idiot Joe thinks calling Nye gay somehow denigrates him shows how dumb Joe is.

  • Truth

    I hope JOE and his entire family gets cancer

  • Why doesn’t NASA send a satellite around the Moon while they send it around the solar system?Swing it around the Moon and have it take pictures of the landing area on its way to parts unknown.

  • Van

    Lots of angry haters out there. Hillary loves it when we fight each other. Gives her a reason to take our rights away so keep it up haters.

  • Van

    Lots of haters out there. Hillary loves it when we fight each other, gives her excuses to take our rights away from us so just keep hating, it’s way easier than trying to understand one another.

  • I see a lot of pseudo Christian posting hateful comments, the fear science.

  • I have also noticed that a growing percentage of Americans think the Viet Nam War was faked and the Sinking of the Titanic was just a movie. Something is wrong with our minds rather than our science.

  • How Christian of you, truth, and you wonder why they used to feed you to the lions?

  • People who really don’t have anything positive to contribute can make money by trying to diminish the accomplishments of others. For some reason, they find an audience that wants to believe that everything that they are told is false. What is even more curious is that many of these people are religious. Cognitive dissonance is a weird thing.

  • The ONLY thing Nye can “TAKE DOWN” is his panties when some Leftist Warming hoaxer offers cash

  • Do we really think Russia would have let us get away with saying we were the first to land on the moon? Also, we never colonized the moon because of the price tag and the reality of space radiation makes it not practical.

    If there was tons of gold and platinum then I am sure we would have colonized the moon but until there is something to actually extract with some value it is not a necessary step for mankind.

    Please, someone has to tell me how thousands of people who would be involved with a mission to land on the moon would have kept their big mouths shut for so long. It is just not possible.

  • Rivera has to be the worst interviewer ever. He asks a question, then talks over the guy’s response, and then cuts the guy’s answer short, and he never gives opposing views equal time.

  • David Tucker, why would NASA which has no money to do their own rockets would build and launch a 250 million dollar satellite just to show you the landing site? Are you high on Denver Gold?

  • This is right up there with the clowns who think the 9/11 WTC debacle was a controlled demolition by the Bush WH. It amazes me at the pure ignorance of people in this country.

  • William Clapie

    Joe? insecure much? and yes, Bill Nye is a scientist. tho i freely admit to not remembering in which field. as to gay or atheist. so?

  • Pete

    “Why doesn’t NASA send a satellite around the Moon while they send it around the solar system?Swing it around the Moon and have it take pictures of the landing area on its way to parts unknown.”

    Because it’s a waste of time and money, that can be spent on serious matters. Trying to convince neanderthals like Sibrell and Idiot Joe of anything is hopeless – they will always find a way to twist things to fit their lunacy.

  • tyler

    Jim Meade, link those pictures. I think it’s probable that we went, but it should be something easily proved, and easier than the first time repeated. We have a booming economy, let’s do a repeat, might draw us closer together.

  • Bill not is not a scientist

  • patrick

    Welcome Joe and the morons with the small hands, I mean brains.

  • Joe Runciter

    You mean Geraldo is still alive! This conspiracy theorist is a disgusting jerk.

  • urmumisfatme

    A news reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal witnessed as a ham radio operator received the unencrypted portions of the astronauts communications from the moon, using home-built equipment. The radio enthusiast, Larry Baysinger, found it “disappointing” that the messages he heard did not vary from the public broadcasts, which included Buzz Aldrin’s and Pres. Nixon’s comments.

  • Interesting that, of all the people that would surely have been required to stage this “hoax, no one has spoken up. in 40 rears.

  • Who gave Bill “The Science Guy” nickname? He is an engineer, not a scientist.

  • John

    After watching these idiots…i now know why Trump has supporters.

  • Snarf Jabroni

    Pretty funny….a faux “scientist” and GloBULL Warming hoaxer, debunks a moon hoaxer.

    Get your popcorn ready….

  • Brandon

    I don’t believe the moon landings were fakes, but what I find completely uncompelling is Bill Nye. He did nothing to “take down” the hoaxers. Heck, he couldn’t even get the facts straight. NASA in fact erased all of the footage, not just one tape.

  • Stabilizer

    Nye shouldn’t pick on morons. It’s cruel.

  • I didn’t bother watching the video. There’s nothing difficult about refuting a “moon hoaxer” — what’s next, are we going to see a little girl ride a tricycle?

  • Stabilizer

    I find it interesting that commenters imply NASA intentionally hid facts – by not using technology which didn’t exist at the time.

  • Jodse Xym,,ttreuujnnvcrtcz

    Bill Nay: The (non) science gay!

    • William Clapie

      so. you have met him and can confirm this opinion?

  • Jerry Shook

    Jerry here. I believe we did go to the moon and I was not even born yet. I have ideas how we could go again. The problem with nasa. Is that they are scared after what happen to Apollo 13. and trying to making the same mistake. Well it take Edison a thousand fails to create a light blub. But that did not keep him from his success. I think we should look for other planets to live on. So that our species could live on.

  • Nye is a hack. He should stay in engineering.

  • larry brewer

    Why would having the orig tapes be of any consequence to these POSs? They would simply say they were “fake tapes”. Jeraldo is just a little bit worse than Bill Nye when it comes to debating these guys. I once took on Bart myself and left him in ashes. D Tucker asks “Why doesn’t NASA send a satellite around the Moon”.. Well David they did. They took pictures. They show landing sites. OK? We clear on that?

  • Moe

    Are we somehow not realizing that this is a video that was posted a year ago and is of a show from 7 years ago??? Why is this news now?!?

  • bj

    Bill Nye comes in at 6 minutes.

  • No stars in the videos? Who are these morons??? They didn’t take video cameras to the moon. They took small hand held film movie cameras, so of course there aren’t going to be any stars. You would have to leave the apertures open for about 40 minutes to see any stars on film, and long before that time came up, the film would be destroyed by the direct sunlight that they were in.

  • jerrystr

    Nye is a left wing nut and Geraldo convinced me he was an idiot when he explained he feels for immigrants since he remembers his father immigrating from Puerto Rico to the USA. Huh? Puerto Rice is a US territory and his father and everyone born in Puerto Rice are born American citizens!! How does an American citizen immigrate to America?

  • Not believing the Moon landing happened is Not pseudoscience, since no one is using science, authentic or otherwise, to try to debunk it. This is an attempt by Nye, et als to try to lump together these wackos and holocaust deniers (though not 9/11 “truthers” who are mostly on the left) with Climate Skeptics.

  • JERRY SHOOK they went back to the Moon 4 times after Apollo 13. They didn’t go back to the Moon, because Nasa has limited resources it can spend money on. They went with the shuttle program, which was a lot more costlier than which they first thought it would be.

  • Mike

    America fakes everything then pats itself on the back or retaliates in some way to convince Americans that we are a superior country which we’re not. Simple as that.

  • Nye is the PERSONIFICATION of pseudoscience.

  • For those of you asking about a satellite to take pictures of the Apollo landing sites. They already did, look up Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • Is simple to see that they never went to the moon. The shuttle that landed has a huge rocket thruster. No where on the moon, do you see evidence of the rocket thruster disturbing the moon dust at any time. When it landed it should have left behind a nice crater size hole. That alone should be evidence enough that shows they never went to the moon.

  • It would take an incredible amount of people to conspire to keep this such a secret that its almost easier to go to the moon than try to keep it hidden! Think about it…can anything be kept secret within a few hundred people? let alone thousands! These deniers have nothing as proof…only wafer thin conjectures.

  • Where is the science morons? “We didn’t go because the tapes were erased?” or “We didn’t go otherwise there would be colonies on the moon?” Wow, that’s compelling. Bill Nye does not say he is a scientist. It clearly says he is an engineer and educator. I will bet my left nut that he is 10 times as knowledgeable as all you nuts combined. And to call him gay as an attack on his credibility? You are either trolls or morons, or both.

  • Bill is completely right and all of you wack job anti science Christians who call him gay and other words you think are derogatory, those are the reasons that Christians were fed to the lions until the lions complained it gave them indigestion from the thick heads.

  • With the entire world watching, the Russians in particular, we somehow faked going to the moon? If we did fake it, I’m sure the Russians would be all over it. They were monitoring our spacecrafts, our communications, the video feed, everything. Even they say we went.

    You conspiracy nuts are incredible. You ignore facts simply because they don’t fit your agenda. We went to the moon, a few times. Deal with it.

  • Billy is a mechanical engineer according to his earned degree, not a scientist. So therefore he is not qualified to make any statement regarding science.

  • Every single factoid used by moon hoaxers is readily dismissed if one has enough of mental rigor to research them.

    The Russians would have alerted the world to the fact that we’d only parked in earth orbit. They didn’t.

    Too many people to keep the entire thing a secret.

    Photographs taken by the lunar reconnaissance of all the landing sites complete with human footprints have been published:
    http://www.universetoday.com/113359/what-does-the-apollo-11-landing-site-look-like-today/

    Transit through radiation belts was a couple of hours and flight profile took astronauts on path through narrow part, spacecraft was rotated to provide shielding (yes the radiation has a direction of travel.) Astronauts do suffer deleterious effects of space travel like nominally higher rate of cancer and heart disease. A couple of hours of increased radiation won’t fry the astronauts any more than satellites that spend years in high earth orbits have their electronics fried.

    And so on and so forth…

  • Some people just need more proof than others. The science guy doesn’t have to condescend that just lessens his argument. Stick with facts and this will all work out.

  • Very odd, there is so little gravity on the moon they almost float. We’re talking about a 180 to 200 pound man with gear, maybe more. But! Watch the moon dust off of their boots fall right back to the surface??? Same with the video of the moon car! Let me guess, moon dust is heavier than a 200 pound man? How about the pic of the lander with the car all packed up? With a tire track in the pic? They never re packed the car only to unpack a,2nd time to leave it? Or the video of the nasa guy talking about how they have to overcome the van Allen radition belt to be able to go to mars?? Come on Bill or was it Hillary……..

  • Hugh

    I cannot believe there are this many truly ignorant people running around. We went to the moon. We brought back rocks. We do not go back due to costs. ($10000 a pound to exit Earth orbit.) If you have a decently powered laser, you could bounce it off the mirror left on the moon. Scientists do this all the time. Amateur astronomers do too. The dust falls faster than the jumper because the jumper applied an upward force on himself. The dust did not. But alas, the truest thing I could say is that it is impossible to convince the stupid of the truth.

  • Bill Nye is an entertainer for kids and he uses some very basic science experiments to show results, when it comes to adult science creation, global warming and moon shots (not the kind out of a 69 Camaro either) he us as useless as and expert as I’m a brain surgery. And believe me I’m no Brain Surgeon,I agree with the gentleman who said this should be easy to prove and it is not. I watch the apparent moon walk live and in 1969 it was hoaky feeling and very animated.

    I have no idea whether we did or didn’t, but I love to leave doubt when it is brought up to hear all of the BS in defense for going. What I have learned since 1969 about our government is that they are not very transparent or truthful most of the time and they will use propaganda at the drop of a hat.

  • Greg Allen that was compelling but still proves nothing. It is just a picture with some notations on it. I could pull up a PDF of bubbling caramel candy enhance the picture and put some notes on it say that what the site looks like.

    50 years ago I took 4 battery powered Christmas lights and mounted them to the underside if a Frisbee, took 20 rolls of 110 Instamatic film and got half a dozen shot that look light a UFO. But guess what that was some 10 year old boys jacking around. And people thought we had seen a UFO but we had to fess up because people took it serious.

  • Drew questioning the reality of events does not constitute a conspiracy it is called doubt. And I agree this should be easy for NASA to prove and it is not. That sir is not a conspiracy it just means that we have questions that have not been addressed. Love my country I just don’t trust my government. They are proven to be untrustworthy, transparent and use propaganda at will.

    And yes I agree, by now we should being able to make this journey with a takeoff from JFK daily but we don’t and are not even close to being able to.

  • Many many times, Bill N has been asked to debate with Kent Hovand, and has declined, because Hovind would tear him to bits, as he has many other atheists. Nye is a psuedo-scientist and knows nothing other than what he has been told by the ‘acceptable’ scientific community. He is only on the bandwagon to fill his pockets and his ego.

  • I challenge any of you idiots that do not know what a scientist is, to run down to a college and get a degree in scientist….see how quick they laugh you back to your trailer park. Plenty of Engineers are scientists. Your telling me chemical engineers who work in laboratories are not scientists? People today……

  • gavin

    If the moon landing is a hoax then the Earth is 10,000 years old

  • Ray Thorne

    The salient point is that Bill Nye did NOT “take down” or “shut down” ANYONE. His points were actually very few, fairly tame & didn’t BEGIN to disprove the central thesis of the guests– that “losing” a majority of the original tapes of 1 of the most historic events in history– not a single tape, as Nye said, but in fact MOST of them– is very suspicious.

  • Vic

    How can 6 trips to the moon that involved thousands of people to put them together and make them happen be fake and not a single whistleblower comes forward, let alone Russia, the watchdog rival?!

  • Adlai Armundsen

    The MOON IS A RED FLAG OPERATION! WAKE UP PEOPLE!

  • Glen Hill

    As usual, a 8:40 minute news video does not allow anywhere near enough time to show either side of this. Geraldo is not the right person to conduct this anyway, but that’s an aside. Bill says only one tape was lost; the other guys say many were lost/erased. Right away we have a disparity. Prove which claim is correct.

    The skeptics say if we went there in 1969-1972, we should have bases there. Why? It wasn’t all that easy to go, and only today did I see a news report that a private company is planning to go to the Moon for mining nearly 50 years later! PRIVATE company, not a government-funded operation (which gets a very skimpy budget in the first place). So, was it really all that easy? I say no.

    There’s a YouTube video floating around from a major filmmaker who knows movie and camera technology from the 60s and 70s. He explains how many skeptics think Stanley Kubrick did the moon hoax filming, but that the technology needed to do that kind of quality was nowhere near what was needed.

    Mythbusters also showed several videos that disprove skeptics’ claims, about things like Armstrong’s footprint being so clear, about the flag waving, about the shadows and “missing” stars, about the jerky jumping movement of astronauts as they ran, etc. THEY were also able to enlist the help of someone who had the technology and expertise to shoot the laser and measure its reflection from the Moon. I would have to see what the skeptic put together to replicate that.

    Last point. In this news clip, one of the skeptics says Russians had reflectors on the Moon, and it was them that reflect lasers. Is the existence of Russian equipment proven?

    I’m willing to listen to skeptics, but the preponderance of evidence is very thin, a lot of it is just conjecture, and they don’t seem to be very open to disclosing their evidence.

  • He is a dumb scientiest i think…

    • Well, BD CRIC, typos aside (“scientiest” vs scientist), I’d have to say you offer nothing to support your point. Pretty juvenile all around.