re: So if the moon landing were real...

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1960s I took off from this planet with what someone claimed had less processing power from technological standpoint that a cell phone

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What's one thing got to do with another? "Processing power" is speed. Amplification is range. Radio waves we started emitting in the early 19th century is still headed outbound - yeah, it's getting weaker, but FFS people had brain power.

You know the atomic bomb was done by guys with chalkboards, slide rules and extremely limited access to very early mechanical computers.

Ask the fine folks of Hiroshima if that actually happened.

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So I'm to believe that the technology invented as a by product of the moon that appeared well before the 1990s in a wide ranging scale involved keeping the broadcasting technology under wraps until Dish and Directv while allowing Velcro and duct tape to hit the shelves?

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No - the technology for satellites was available WELL before the 1990s - folks with money had large analog dishes in their back yards in the 1970s. Radio and television stations were using satellites heavily by the early 1970s - look up the Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii special if you want some examples. The closed circuit boxing market of the 1970s was also fueled by this technology.

I get that you're young and you don't want to "believe" all of this, but I'm old - I was there. I seent it.

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how did they broadcast the landing from the moon with the technology in the 1960s?

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The same way they broadcast TV from the station to your house in the 60's: antennae. Unless you think you had a line that ran directly from your house to the stations.

WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!!

Some people should not be allowed to vote.

Better question for the conspiracy theorists: why would you fake Apollo 13?

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that you're young and you don't want to "believe" all of this, but I'm old - I was there. I seent it.

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Can I have your autograph John Glenn? You're a great actor.

And the logic is sound. Everything we see on TV is nonfiction.

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Processing power" is speed.

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Ok. So we'd still be waiting for the broadcast from the moon given it's not fast.

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You know the atomic bomb was done by guys with chalkboards, slide rules and extremely limited access to very early mechanical computers.

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And it's verifiable the atomic bomb was invented. Because it was dropped on Japan.

Here, we have a TV broadcast from the moon. And you can argue technology all you'd like, but there's another variable. Technology is somewhat dependent on the environment it's in. Like the human body.

Sattelite signals are interrupted by rain.

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Sattelite signals 

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Jesus christ, why did I even bother.

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Here, we have a TV broadcast from the moon. And you can argue technology all you'd like, but there's another variable. Technology is somewhat dependent on the environment it's in. Like the human body.

Sattelite signals are interrupted by rain.

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Good thing there aren't clouds in space. Ever thought of the use of redundant sites on earth?

The signal was transmitted to 3 different locations

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The signal was sent from the LM’s antenna to the tracking stations at Goldstone, Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra, and the Parkes Radio Astronomy Site in New South Wales, Australia. NASA used a scan converter to adapt the image to a broadcast standard format of 525 scan lines at the higher 30 fps rate. Then, the tracking stations transmitted the signals by microwaves to Intelsat communications satellites and AT&T landlines to Mission Control in Houston at which point they were broadcast to the world. The translation process left the image significantly degraded, but it was still live footage of man’s first steps on the Moon.

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And weather was a factor at a location due to wind:

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When Buzz Aldrin switched on the TV camera on the Lunar Module, three tracking antennas received the signals simultaneously. They were the 64-metre Goldstone antenna in California, the 26-metre antenna at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in Australia, and the 64-metre dish at Parkes. In the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals being received from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality picture.

A little under nine minutes into the broadcast, the TV was switched to the Parkes signal. The quality of the TV pictures from Parkes was so superior that NASA stayed with Parkes as the source of the TV for the remainder of the 2.5 hour broadcast. For a comprehensive explanation of the TV reception of the Apollo 11 broadcast, see "The Television Broadcasts" from the report "On Eagles Wings".

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m not arguing either way, but how would he know if someone rode his rocket to the moon?

Did he ride up?

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The saturn ivb rocket engine is a 2 stage fire rocket engine... absolutely must be done manually. Kinda requires a human to complete those 2 burns, while circling in for translunar injection.

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Actually that part is true, ask any Direct Dish TV user.

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I lose mine when there is a lot of "energy" in the atmosphere directly over my house but during light rains I have no problems.