Asinine Conspiracies

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[Steve19]

I particularly liked the green screening of the launch in Florida. First class. You never would have guessed it wasn't real.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

It's almost understandable as a 20 or 30 year old to believe the original moon landing was fake....if you ignore the fact that nobody benefits from faking a moon landing, so why would anybody go through all of that.....because you think of 1969 as 5 billion years ago, and you think they wouldn't have the technology to be able to actually do it. Which.....is obviously wrong, but I could see where a 27 year old moron would think that.

But now we're pre-debunking present and future moon missions? Why? You're living and seeing the proof that we do have WAY better tech and can actually accomplish this. Why doubt your own eyes? Because you had so much fun thinking you were poking holes in a thing that happened almost 60 years ago?

 

[Zurp]

It's almost understandable as a 20 or 30 year old to believe the original moon landing was fake....if you ignore the fact that nobody benefits from faking a moon landing, so why would anybody go through all of that.....because you think of 1969 as 5 billion years ago, and you think they wouldn't have the technology to be able to actually do it. Which.....is obviously wrong, but I could see where a 27 year old moron would think that.

But now we're pre-debunking present and future moon missions? Why? You're living and seeing the proof that we do have WAY better tech and can actually accomplish this. Why doubt your own eyes? Because you had so much fun thinking you were poking holes in a thing that happened almost 60 years ago?

I'm going to try to stay away from politics here, but I think I can explain why people are so headstrong about politics now, as well as believe in crazy conspiracy ideas.

Basically, my thought is that we are taught to think we're always right. In school, a teacher takes points off this essay for whatever reasons... rather than the student using it as a learning moment, he goes to the teacher to argue his point more. The presidential candidate I liked didn't win? Well, the other side must have cheated. They're all idiots, because they don't agree with me. You'd think the world revolves, sometimes, around whether ketchup should go on a hot dog. Who gives a fuck what one nerd does with his own hot dog. For cripes' sake...

Anyway, these 20 or 30 year olds you bring up... they believe the moon landing was fake. Why? Maybe the earth is flat, or the moon is an illusion. I think I heard someone once mention that space isn't real. Ha. So they had to fake the moon landings from 55+ years ago. And nothing has changed, since, so they have to fake them today, too. Maybe it's easier to contradict what we all agree is true than to admit that there's a chance that they were wrong all along.

However, I do have to disagree with you on the "no one benefits" thing. Let's just say for a second that we DID fake the moon landings 55 years ago. (For the record, I am not saying that I believe any of them were faked.) I can think of two benefits: first, our government just embezzled hundreds of millions, billions... more? dollars from the taxpayers. Sure, a bunch of that goes to hush-money. But expensive people who need to be hushed might find some strange accidents. This was the 1960's and 1970's, afterall. Second, if the Russians want to "keep up", they'd have to also spend billions... And that's money that they didn't have. A conspiracy theorist might believe that faking the moon landings was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.

 

[calibuck]

Wasn't there a movie way back when, believe it had OJ in it, that showed the government cover-up that the moon landings were fake? As opposed to all the other movies that showed Matt Damon being abandoned on the moon.....where's Elon and his sleuths when we need them?