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Its a long standing conspiracy theory which is hard to prove or disprove without actually being apart of the team that worked on the mission. I figure that even the people on the team might have doubts.

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Was telling my little kid that some people still believe the earth is flat. She immediately brought up: - haven't these people used aeroplanes? - we can see how the timezones wrap around - what happens if you go over the edge if the Earth was flat. - we can the Earth is like a marble when we look at it from space (e.g. a satellite)

It truly boggled my mind how the flat earth theory can be plausible in this day and age.

they say that you never fly over the edges because aeroplanes are a guided tour.

It should be easier to prove when other countries land on the moon and possibly find evidence of an earlier landing, perhaps China and India are next.

It's not a rational belief. Facts will not dissuade them from it.

It's not that hard to prove. Aside from having rocks from the moon, astronauts left evidence behind in the form of equipment, footprints and laser reflectors that can (and have) been verified by multiple independent sources.

When you try that, they'll tell you an unmanned probe could do all that.

OK, it's not that hard to prove to people who are capable of accepting proof.

If they were, they wouldn't be conspiracy theorists.

Corner cubes!

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