Moon Hoax
This isn't (directly) about people who think that the Apollo Moon landings were faked. They're not (necessarily) irrational, just ignorant, gullible and too lazy to actually think about it properly.

I discovered that one of my work-mates was one of these poor deluded fools, but he was also someone who was interested in an intellectual debate over a couple of beers. I was happy to oblige, and told him to gather any supposed evidence he could find, so I could point out why it was invalid.

He duly turned up at the pub with some printouts from a website he'd found. I started to read it, looking for all the usual cliches - no stars in the sky (chuckle), flag waving (chortle), wrong shadow directions (guffaw). But it quickly became apparent that this was something different, and far stranger.

The website he'd found was claiming, apparently seriously, that the Moon itself didn't actually exist. The fact that we think we can see it in the sky was an illusion, a conspiracy perpetrated by the shadowy powers that control our lives. Yes, the Moon is a hoax. Clearly we can't have landed on it, since it doesn't exist.

I have to admit that I found it hard to know where to start with my rebuttal...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 11:10, 25 replies)

Link to the Moon-Doesn't-Exist Society website please!

( Fork Has lost his bash virginity!, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 11:46, closed)

this.
EDIT: This is quite fun:

www.revisionism.nl/Moon/
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:28, closed)

Oh how wonderful!
I fucking love this stuff!
( Fork Has lost his bash virginity!, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:51, closed)

Yes, that looks like the one
Even more batshit mental than I remembered.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 16:00, closed)

EPIC trolling

(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 16:20, closed)

there are tonnes.
They are all sarcastic in nature:

www.zippittydodah.com/2012/08/the-truth-is-out-there-is-no-moon.html
(yeswehavenopasties, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 2:54, closed)

Tides.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 11:53, closed)

Tides are due to the gravitational effects of Russell's teapot.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 11:58, closed)

Ah, but does it use leaf or bag?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:43, closed)

As a pastafarian I can assure you that it is leaf.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:51, closed)

I'm grotesquely upset by the suggestion that the Celestial Teapot be used to brew tea.
Heathens.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 13:22, closed)

This to win!
I'm deeply intrigued. How did the conversation progress?
(SimianKid internet faffer, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:00, closed)

It's only a picture. Like the Bat-Signal.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:05, closed)

I bet you're not even a real monkey.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:44, closed)

I bet you're not even a real paedophile.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:52, closed)

He smells like one,

(ringofyre, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 6:51, closed)

I can't smell anything over the smell of dogs anus on his finger

(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 15:38, closed)

wow just wow that is out there
but for the less insane ones

The best rebuttal to the normal(as far as they go anyroad) 'moon landing wuz faked' morons is one Stephen Fry said on QI "the reason why we know the Americans landed on the moon is because the Russians didn't think it was faked" Saves time proving all the usual flapping flag and all the other shite
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 14:04, closed)

and the Chinese have provided fantastic images of the landing sites and the space
mission debris. Oh, and I pretty sure that Stephen Fry had heard that rhetoric from lots of other people. I hate when Mr. Fry is attributed with original observations.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 18:41, closed)

Was it Julie Burchill who described Mr Fry as "the stupid person's clever person"?
I don't have much time for her, either, mind.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 23:19, closed)

I didn't say he'd made it up I just heard him say it
calm down dear
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 9:04, closed)

Well that argument just trumps everything doesn't it?
Sorry the (subject of argument) doesn't even exist anyway so I win.
(Panzerfaust, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 1:55, closed)

Actually, that's the only way I've ever found to shut God Botherers up:
Tell them you don't believe that the universe exists - it's all an illusion. Including the person attempting to convert you, of course.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 11:52, closed)