Current Events > Why is the whole idea of the moon landing being fake considered ridiculous?

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why does society shame you and treat you like a tinfoil hat for being open to the idea of the moon landing being fake.

Because at the time of the Moon landing,it would have been harder and more expensive to fake the moon landing than to actually just land on the moon.
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Do you have a good reason to believe that it was faked? One that hasn't been debunked 100 times?
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Asherlee10 posted...

When you hold an absurd belief, people will often ridicule you.

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The earth is indeed flat
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Because anyone too stupid to figure out how to google "Lunar Retroreflectors" and read the words right in front of them deserves to be mocked. Probably sterilized as well, but mocked for sure.
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Because, it would have been silly to then fake a moon landing five more times, and also faking a failed moon landing while doing so.

To add the Soviets would have exposed it.
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Asherlee10 posted...

When you hold an absurd belief, people will often ridicule you.

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but the flag was flapping in the wind and there's no wind in space
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The cool theory to believe in now tc is the flat sun theory
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The president can't bang an intern without everyone knowing it. Do you really think the government is capable of keeping the dozens, if not hundreds, of people needed to fake the moonlanding quiet?

Do you think Russia, a country that had never liked us, and at the time had every incentive in the world to prove we faked it, would have accepted the moonlanding of there was any reason to believe it was fake?
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Gheb posted...

The president can't bang an intern without everyone knowing it. Do you really think the government is capable of keeping the dozens, if not hundreds, of people needed to fake the moonlanding quiet?

Do you think Russia, a country that had never liked us, and at the time had every incentive in the world to prove we faked it, would have accepted the moonlanding of there was any reason to believe it was fake?

Russia was in on it too. America paid them off.
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The idea itself is worth mockery.

Those who give credence to the idea are same.
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Funkydog posted...

Russia was in on it too. America paid them off.

Right.
Russia "faked" incinerating and suffocating several cosmonauts, huh?

Tagged tc as moon conspiracy guy. no longer will take opinions of his seriously in the future
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Funkydog posted...

Russia was in on it too. America paid them off.

Right.
Russia "faked" incinerating and suffocating several cosmonauts, huh?

Obviously!

And that space shuttle that exploded? CGI.
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Funkydog posted...

And that space shuttle that exploded? CGI.

The first time was impressive as hell then, for crappy 80s CG.

Because you can see evidence of the moon landing from earth with a telescope. So people who believe the moon landing was faked are either stupid or too poor to get access to a telescope.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Funkydog posted...

And that space shuttle that exploded? CGI.

The first time was impressive as hell then, for crappy 80s CG.

The fact that people actually likely believe this stuff is pretty crazy. Just so much of reality they have to ignore to get it to work. Same with pretty much every "conspiracy"
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There is so much evidence that it did happen that it is incontrovertible
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Multiple countries including America's rivals were watching the broadcasts from the moon and it is easy to find their origin. Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get everyone in on it deserves to be mocked.

Because dumb beliefs that run contrary to ample evidence of an event happening derserve to be ignored or mocked if repeatedly brought up. Idiocy/intentional ignorance shouldn't be respected.
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You can literally see some of the landing remains with a good telescope.
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Rexdragon125 posted...

Multiple countries including America's rivals were watching the broadcasts from the moon and it is easy to find their origin. Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get everyone in on it deserves to be mocked.

While I agree, I think it takes an entirely new level of stupid to think the entire world can be in on a conspiracy that the Earth is actually flat.
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KILBOTz posted...

Because you can see evidence of the moon landing from earth with a telescope. So people who believe the moon landing was faked are either stupid or too poor to get access to a telescope.

Coffeebeanz posted...

You can literally see some of the landing remains with a good telescope.

No you can't.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

KILBOTz posted...

Because you can see evidence of the moon landing from earth with a telescope. So people who believe the moon landing was faked are either stupid or too poor to get access to a telescope.

Coffeebeanz posted...

You can literally see some of the landing remains with a good telescope.

No you can't.

If anyone can, I'd like one of those telescopes please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkaNqud_VxU" data-time="
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EvalAngell posted...

but the flag was flapping in the wind and there's no wind in space

Even with all of the proof that the moon landing did happen, it's amazing how quickly people dismiss this. The only thing I can figure happened was that they did land on the moon, but something went wrong trying to record it so they had some faked footage as a contingency plan that they showed instead.

WheezinEd posted...

it's amazing how quickly people dismiss this

Because it's as dumb as the rest of the questions they raise and has been explained a thousand times already.

The problem with moon hoaxers is they'll never concede a point, they're just throw dozens of claims, each of which may take a long and comprehensive understanding to explain and even if they a taught, they'll ignore it and bring it up again with the next person they're trying to poison. It's no different from religious apologetics in that regard.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

has been explained a thousand times already.

please explain why the flag was flapping
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EvalAngell posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

has been explained a thousand times already.

please explain why the flag was flapping

Because they shook the flagpole as thought would make a cool image.
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EvalAngell posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

has been explained a thousand times already.

please explain why the flag was flapping

Will you concede that the moon landing happened? And in my own words or will any of the videos or articles suffice?
And have you bothered actually looking into the explanations or did you go down the youtube conspiracy rabbit hole and self radicalize without looking outside the echo chamber?

What is your best* piece of evidence against it, there's no reason to waste my time with "but whatta bouts" as the goal post continually moves.
And also, how is a flag, made of special materials, specifically engineered for going to the moon, suppose to look, and how do you know it wasn't bumped or anything like that?
Generically, saying it doesn't look right when you don't know how it should act in that gravity and environment, is saying fucking nothing.
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Funkydog posted...

EvalAngell posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

has been explained a thousand times already.

please explain why the flag was flapping

Because they shook the flagpole as thought would make a cool image.

The moon does have an atmosphere, just not a very substantial one at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon

i'm not of the "it didn't happen" camp. I know we landed on the moon several times. I just want to know what the general explanation was for why the flag was flapping during the very first visit.
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EvalAngell posted...

i'm not of the "it didn't happen" camp. I know we landed on the moon several times. I just want to know what the general explanation was for why the flag was flapping during the very first visit.

Link to the specific footage that concerns you at least.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

EvalAngell posted...

i'm not of the "it didn't happen" camp. I know we landed on the moon several times. I just want to know what the general explanation was for why the flag was flapping during the very first visit.

Link to the specific footage that concerns you at least.

Here you go, along with a debunking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhab86KoVjU" data-time="

Questionmarktarius posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

EvalAngell posted...

i'm not of the "it didn't happen" camp. I know we landed on the moon several times. I just want to know what the general explanation was for why the flag was flapping during the very first visit.

Link to the specific footage that concerns you at least.

Here you go, along with a debunking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhab86KoVjU" data-time="

That video is disingenuous crap. This is the footage in question, timecode 2:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymwE1sNm82Y" data-time="

It's clearly not waving because it's being shook when planted, the astronaut hops by and appears to cause the air to wave the flag.

WheezinEd posted...

the astronaut hops by and appears to cause the air to wave the flag.

It's clear to me he touched part of the flag as he went by.
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That's already been discussed. Moon dust contains a lot of static charge, which pushed the flag. But no the tinfoil hatters jump to conspiracy before even attempting to think of a logical explanation.

Anybody with a modicum of critical thinking skills would realize the "explanations" for the moon landing being faked are full of shit, just like the Flat Earth bullcrap.
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Rexdragon125 posted...

That's already been discussed. Moon dust contains a lot of static charge, which pushed the flag. But no the tinfoil hatters jump to conspiracy before even attempting to think of a logical explanation.

I attempted quite a bit to think of logical explanations. First I thought maybe he brushed up against the flag, then I thought maybe when he hopped by it sent vibrations through the ground that were picked up by the flagpole which waved the flag. But nothing really lined up with what's in the footage. This static dust theory seems pretty good but I wasn't able to find anything linking it to the flag waving, so I'd appreciate a source where that's been discussed.

WheezinEd posted...

Rexdragon125 posted...

That's already been discussed. Moon dust contains a lot of static charge, which pushed the flag. But no the tinfoil hatters jump to conspiracy before even attempting to think of a logical explanation.

I attempted quite a bit to think of logical explanations. First I thought maybe he brushed up against the flag, then I thought maybe when he hopped by it sent vibrations through the ground that were picked up by the flagpole which waved the flag. But nothing really lined up with what's in the footage. This static dust theory seems pretty good but I wasn't able to find anything linking it to the flag waving, so I'd appreciate a source where that's been discussed.

The Coulomb force (aka, static electricity) would be pretty substantial in a place with weak gravity and negligible atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ZMvIXyvEc" data-time="&start=32

Paragon21XX posted...

Anybody with a modicum of critical thinking skills would realize the "explanations" for the moon landing being faked are full of shit, just like the Flat Earth bullcrap.

I refuse to believe that anyone legitimately believes it. I don't know what point the "believers" are trying to make, but they must have some endgame
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Lol this topic again.
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mattnd2007 posted...

Paragon21XX posted...

Anybody with a modicum of critical thinking skills would realize the "explanations" for the moon landing being faked are full of shit, just like the Flat Earth bullcrap.

I refuse to believe that anyone legitimately believes it. I don't know what point the "believers" are trying to make, but they must have some endgame

People believe in various religions and cults, but this is something you don't think anyone could legitimately believe in?
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WheezinEd posted...

EvalAngell posted...

but the flag was flapping in the wind and there's no wind in space

Even with all of the proof that the moon landing did happen, it's amazing how quickly people dismiss this. The only thing I can figure happened was that they did land on the moon, but something went wrong trying to record it so they had some faked footage as a contingency plan that they showed instead.

It's 'dismissed' because it literally wasn't flapping. It was vibrating because the flagpole was shaking.
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Asherlee10 posted...

When you hold an absurd belief, people will often ridicule you.

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@ssj-kenobi, your question has been answered with a thousand valid responses. So, updated thoughts?
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