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Anyone know if they flew over the site of the Apollo 11 lunar module landing?

Surely they'd do it just for the publicity and ability to shut up Joe Rogan and the other nutjobs that consider that landing fake.

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Would it? Surely they'd just claim that this new company is themselves "in on the hoax".

No, we didn't fly over any of the Apollo sites for BGM1. We flew pretty close to the terminator line.

There have been plenty of pictures of older landing sites. Most of those people have a part of their identity tied up in contrarian ideas, and would find a way to call it fake, even if you personally flew them up to the landing sites to have a look.

Theres no level of evidence they will accept. They have thought terminating cliches for everything.

Rogan hasn't believed that for nearly a decade because he learned more about the physics of the Moon and the engineering of the time. Since you have an interest in truth and honesty, I'm sure now that you've been informed you won't spread this misinformation anymore and will do some reflection on how you ended up holding this view for so long past when it no longer was true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmlmxamw_k

Rogan has questioned the moon landing again just five months ago. Here is him having a conversation with Matt Walsh about it from episode 2204 of his podcast: https://youtu.be/xGoQcOIONVs?feature=shared

His wording is specifically "I think there is a less than zero chance that we did not go to the moon", i.e. he's not 100% sure but pretty sure we landed on the moon.

I think you are being quite generous to him here. He is not saying there is a non zero chance that it didn't happen similar to how there is a non zero chance your entire existence is the dream of a child who is about to wake up. He spends the next fourteen minutes weighing the supposed reasons for why it might have happened and why it might have not happened. Seven years ago he clearly stated that he believed in the moon landing. Here he is actually sowing doubts about the event.

Take it as you will. OP responded to another user saying maybe if there was fly-over video evidence it might convince someone like Rogan as clearly he is not entirely convinced yet. I think that's a fair assessment.

They did, they flew over the same set at Area 51 (/s???)

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