[Misc] Moon Landing, are YOU are conspiracy theorist?

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Did the moon landing happen?

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Flounce

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Never questioned it myself but recently I have spoken to younger people who are CONVINCED it never happened.

Up there with the flat earth society for me :shrug:

You?

As a boring random fact, My family emigrated to Spain in 1969 and we reached the French/Spanish border as it was happening. Customs were glued to their tiny black and white tvs and we were just waved through with no checks at all.
 




Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Flounce said:
Never questioned it myself
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I have questioned it. And the answer to my question was that it obviously happened.


Flounce said:
but recently I have spoken to younger people who are CONVINCED it never happened.

Up there with flat earth society for me :shrug:
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Yep, they're idiots. They would vote Trump.
 


Flounce

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Triggaaar said:
I have questioned it. And the answer to my question was that it obviously happened.




Yep, they're idiots. They would vote Trump.
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Not true, some of them are pretty bright….normally. Are there bright Trump supporters?

I should have added age related options in retrospect
 


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I remember watching a documentary about it on the TV about 20 years ago and was moved to tears. It was an incredible moment in history.

There are countless reasons why it wasn't fake.

1. If it was fake, how come all those jubilant actors on the set of NASA were 1000s of times more convincing than all the much more famous and well-paid actors in every other adventure movie, ever?
 


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Flounce said:
Not true, some of them are pretty bright….normally. Are there bright Trump supporters?
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Bright has many shades of meaning. In this instance we are thinking about being able to use available information and judgement to make a reasonable conclusion.

Lots of people who can do sums and write well have the sort of mind that finds it more pleasing to believe what provides the most amusement. Fact.
 




Flounce

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Bright has many shades of meaning. In this instance we are thinking about being able to use available information and judgement to make a reasonable conclusion.

Lots of people who can do sums and write well have the sort of mind that finds it more pleasing to believe what provides the most amusement. Fact.
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I am guessing you work with intelligent people who do this, so I bow to your first hand knowledge
 


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Flounce said:
Never questioned it myself but recently I have spoken to younger people who are CONVINCED it never happened.

Up there with the flat earth society for me :shrug:

You?

As a boring random fact, My family emigrated to Spain in 1969 and we reached the French/Spanish border as it was happening. Customs were glued to their tiny black and white tvs and we were just waved through with no checks at all.
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...and Interpol still haven't caught up with you 😳
 










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Hmmm ..... a bit like the 'When did you stop beating your wife?' question - basically unanswerable, because whatever your answer you're either admitting you used to beat your wife, or you still are.
So, if I say 'Yes', is that saying yes, the moon landings did happen, as per the poll - or is it saying yes, I am a conspiracy theorist (as per the thread title)?
So I'll just go for No Yes, and leave it up to you to decide what I'm agreeing to!
 








Flounce

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GT49er said:
Hmmm ..... a bit like the 'When did you stop beating your wife?' question - basically unanswerable, because whatever your answer you're either admitting you used to beat your wife, or you still are.
So, if I say 'Yes', is that saying yes, the moon landings did happen, as per the poll - or is it saying yes, I am a conspiracy theorist (as per the thread title)?
So I'll just go for No Yes, and leave it up to you to decide what I'm agreeing to!
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I’ll put you down as fence and challenged in reading then :lolol:
 






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Flounce said:
I am guessing you work with them, so I bow to your first hand knowledge
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I work with some people who will pursue a hypothesis even though they have worked out that it is false, simply because they can easily raise research funding to 'test' it, and publish papers on the topic, milking it for shits, giggles, promotion, and the opportunity to raise more grant income as a reward for all their good work (the money raised and the papers published). These people are not interested in 'the truth'

The genuinely bright people want to test a hypothesis properly, and are clever enough to thnk of a killer experiment which more often than not will show the hypothesis is incorrect. Allowing them and others to move on.

People can easily find 'reasons' why the moon landings were fake if they cherry pick camera angles, coincidences of events, and so on, from the millions of such items available, and use them to construct a perverse narrative. I am guessing people do this to attention-seek and/or monetize the fake controversy.
 








andy_lee007uk

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It's an interesting subject. America were desperate to get there before the Russians. Would they have gone to such lengths as too fake it though?

Then there's the 'van allen radiation belt' that they would have to have passed through. People question why they haven't gone back since? There's not much there would be my reply.

Also I'm sure I read somewhere that NASA lost all of the research and technology for the first moon landing? Although I stand to be corrected.
 


Westdene Seagull

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oh bollocks, wrong option. who writes a question in the headline then the opposite question on the poll? probably a setup to skew the result :moo:
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Likewise. It's like Mrs WS who asks two opposing questions in the same sentence - I never know how to answer.
 


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