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[Bud Brewster]

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___ How Do We Know the Moon Landing Isn't Fake?


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[scotpens]

How do we know the moon landings aren't fake? Maybe because we're not delusional paranoids who've lost contact with reality.

BTW, is the post above meant to link to a website or a video? When I click on it, all I get is that same image.

[Bud Brewster]

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Oops, sorry. I fixed it.

Let me know if you find any more that don't work.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Brent Gair]

I like the conspiracy theorists.

They make it possible for us to do something that would otherwise be unacceptable...

They allow us to make fun of the feeble-minded.

[orzel-w]

All you need to read are the expos??s of the photos taken on the moon. They're obviously written by people who know absolutely zero about photography.
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[Rocky Jones]

But, hey, it had to be fake. The Earth is flat and the moon is a big piece of cheese.

We live in a society that reveres those who think or at least say things that are outlandish. Rationality is so boring. Well, not really. But we're sadly surrounded by hoards of science illiterates who find it so, and, thus, fall for such nonsense.

[Brent Gair]

To a certain degree, I have to blame those of us who dropped the ball on space exploration.

As someone born in 1958, I grew up in a world where the envelope was pushed everyday and we expected space science to advance at a break-neck pace. It didn't matter if we hadn't orbited a man in space...we were heading for the moon and we'd figure out all of that "orbiting, rendezvous, giant rocket stuff" one way or another.

And we did.

If something went wrong, we got right back on the horse. Apollo 1 burned in 1967...and we orbited the moon in 1968. We just kept going. We got better and smarter and nothing stopped us. That's the way we did it in the 1960s.

Under 40's have grown up in a world of extreme caution and timid leadership. They see in world in which technological advancement is measured by long feasibility studies and decade long development contracts which generally lead nowhere.

So if we tell this generation*, "Yeah, we started from scratch and went to the moon eight years later with nothing but slide-rules and chalkboards", they don't believe it. They look at what they have and tell us, "That's baloney...we have a million times more computing power than you guys had and we can't even put a guy in orbit unless he rides with the Russians".

In the 60s we expected that "impossible" problems would be solved the next day. Today, if people think something is impossible, they really believe it's impossible. If people today can't send men to the moon, they aren't inclined to believe that a bunch a cigarette-smoking nerds did it almost 50 years ago.


*This is not meant to apply to all people today, it's a broad an unfair generalization. But it does apply to those who don't understand the bold reality of the old days.

[Krel]

Over 400,000+ people, including our enemies have kept up a lie for 40+ years? Yeah, that's believable.

A comedy sketch that shoots the hoax theory down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

David.

[Bud Brewster]

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That video is very funny. But I still think they faked the Moon landing. How do we know that "massive rocket" wasn't just a huge inflatable prop, and they simply opened a big valve in the bottom to make it take off!

Kinda makes ya wonder, don't it? Yeah . . .
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Andrew Kidd]