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Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

My brother believes the moon landings were faked and filmed on a giant soundstage.

He cited all sorts of “evidence” including the flag flapping in the “wind”.

I asked him why, after going to all the trouble and expense of trying to convincingly fake the moon landings, would NASA install fans.

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halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s even simpler than that. The Soviet Union was the biggest US enemy at the time. They obviously would have tracked the flight from launch to landing. Why would they go along with a US conspiracy? Wouldn’t they be the first to say it was fake?

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- Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “They’re in on it”
  
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  - halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The greatest adversary of the US, literally in a cold war using space as a proxy for active fighting, with every reason to expose any lies… Were in on it.
    
    If they believe that they’re a lost cause. They can go back to their tin foil hat.
    
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    Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh he’s absolutely lost.
    
    Fortunately he at least still believes vaccines are essential for children’s health, which is good as I have young nieces and nephews.
    
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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
The Van Halen radiation belts rock too hard though.

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  By now, I really hoped Elon Musk would be in orbit around Uranus.
  
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trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The moon landing was fake. NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to stage it, but that perfectionist bastard insisted on shooting the exterior scenes on location…

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Nah man, it was Quentin Tarantino. That’s why the astronauts are all barefoot.
  
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Get him to watch The Dish

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GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just tell him small-minded people can’t comprehend big things and see if he even gets it. Which is true, but also a dick thing to say like that if he is smart enough to understand the slight.

Sadly, apparently bouncing a laser off the moon via the reflectors left up there by Apollo missions isn’t hard exactly, just expensive to get the right equipment to do it right.

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