To be fair, I can sympathise a bit with the Moon Landing conspiracy theorists.
I absolutely believe that the Moon landing took place, but it's at least somewhat plausible as far as conspiracy theories go. The USA absolutely had motive to fake it if the mission was unsuccessful, and 2001 more than demonstrated that we could reasonably fabricate the footage especially considering there was an unlimited budget.
Obviously, the human factor is what makes the whole thing complete bobbins. There's no way that absolutely everyone involved in faking it would have kept quiet for the last 50-odd years. Total fucking impossibility. But it still holds a fuckload more water than Flat Earth and the 5G Covid bollocks.
(, Wed 25 Aug 2021, 19:36, Reply)
His main argument for the moon landings
is that when the big rockets launched, they didn't go up to space, they flew sideways.
When I explained how orbits work he got frustrated and claimed the world is flat and the edge is to be found at Antarctica, where the nations of the Earth patrol with fleets of warships to prevent people going there and learning the truth (that there's a big wall that stops all the oceans and atmosphere falling off the edge).
When I explained that there are research stations there, that passenger planes fly over Antarctica, that you can buy an Antarctic cruise and sail around the whole thing, and that nobody ever reports anything of the sort, he moved on to aliens or whatever.
It's just endless bullshit. Save your sympathy for those who didn't opt into demonstrable stupidity, I say.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 25 Aug 2021, 21:36,
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Well, I mean, I've never seen Antarctica in person, have you?
And even if you say you have, you might just be one of them.
(, Wed 25 Aug 2021, 21:44, Reply)