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A little background: The moon landings were faked in an attempt to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

Sadly, I run into more and more younger people that absolutely believe this because there's so much of this on the internet. They happen to follow influencers that hold these types of beliefs, and that becomes their belief. This obviously leads into other discussions about disinformation, but after recently rewatching Insterstellar where Murph gets in trouble for believing in the moon landings, I can see where we are heading in that direction.

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Do we have lenses and cameras yet that are good enough to photograph irrefutable proof of debris/disturbance of the landings from earth?

Planted by subsequent unmanned missions.

The real proof is that the Russians had every incentive to call out a fake, and they didn't. And that can only mean one thing .......

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...... The Russians were in on it!

gotta love how many conspiracy theories required an absolutely absurd amount of people to be in on it with no real tangible benefit.

The lunar orbiter recently found the lander that was recently lost from China (I thin it was). So yes, we can see things on the surface. NRO says can read your license plate, so just keep that resolution in mind.

The internet is crack to conspiracy nuts. They can always find new half-truth tidbits to reinforce their whackadoodle notions.

If institutions want to be respected, they need to be respectable.

I am more sympathetic to conspiracy theorists, who are trying to make sense of a world that they know they are being lied to about.

In some ways complaining about them is doing the bidding of the deep state. Which does absolutely exist.

Again someone that refuses to accept the overwhelming preponderance of evidence. We brought things back from the moon. We've left things on the moon. I have family members that worked on the Apollo missions. I have other acquaintances that pulled the gold wiring through the capsule.

You say I'm doing the bidding of the deep state, while all your doing promoting unfounded nonsense gleefully willfully and moronically because you claim to be doing research but are just unable to accept the results because it doesn't fit whatever preconceived notions you have.

I'm not arguing for the moon landing being faked specifically, I just think you should be more empathetic when discussing conspiracy theories.

It's not just people peddling nonsense for no reason. The reason is very simple: a distrust in institutions.

I have very little time and patience for these conspiracies, but that’s because I spent several years working for someone that was into this. I’ve seen families destroyed because someone getting so overtaken that they lose connection with reality.

There’s a huge difference between healthy skepticism and questioning authority to believing George Bush is one of the Lizzard People and JFK is coming back to Dallas. Fake moon landing is right there in gone round the bend territory.

I wish you would have more patience with conspiracy theorists and less patience for the institutions that act in such ways that cause people to lose faith in them.

If only everyone diverted their attention to that direction, rather than blame the individuals, maybe we would have the political pressure to make them change.

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