We escaped earths gravity in 1969… 1969!, during the height of propaganda and was able to broadcast that to everyone on earth in real time.
except the soviets said “GGWP” when it happened, you’d think they’d have much to gain by denying it too.
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stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The moon landing is absolutely unbelievable, change my mind.
We escaped earths gravity in 1969… 1969!, during the height of propaganda and was able to broadcast that to everyone on earth in real time.
completely unverifiable to the layman except for fuzzy government issued film until years after when we have the technology to forge the whole thing.
Remember the average man was still subsistence farming until the last few decades.
It is not crazy to believe this is fake, I would go so far as to say, the only reason the majority of people believe it is real is because of completely irrational reasons and because everyone else does.
That’s not to say there isn’t completely rational reasons to say it really happened, but the same can be said about quantum physics.
The average man cannot be expected to believe it because the science technically exists, and you cannot call someone crazy for believing it.
It is completely rational to believe the moon landing was fake, it just happens to be wrong.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Maybe not but the USSR isn’t exactly around to verify that fact anymore so it still requires trust in the government.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’ve been on Lemmy for a little while now, but this is by far, without a shred of a doubt, the dumbest, most idiotic comment I’ve ever read here. Anyone with more IQ than a toaster knows we landed on the moon. There are literal transmitters on the fucking moon that every country in the world has access to pointing to and proving.
Christ fucking sake. It’s 2026. We’re literally fucking doomed as a species, aren’t we.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The average man is not a country, that is my whole point. Of course a country has the resources to prove we have landed on the moon but the average man does not, and guess what, that would require the average man to trust the government a government that might be lying about us going to the moon, not everyone wants the usa to get credit for it (looking at you Russia).
My point is not that it is impossible to prove we’ve been to the moon, my point is it is irrational for the average person to believe we have been to the moon, because the average person does not have the resources and time needed to prove we’ve been to the moon.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
So are you claiming that it’s irrational for a layman to believe anything they cannot prove themselves?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Is the moon landing just any every day occurrence that we take at face value?
No it is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence that the average man simply doesn’t have.
The fact that they could get it doesn’t change anything, we cannot demand the every man to verify everything and the moon landing is just one of those things that most people don’t take the time to verify because honestly it’s just not that important to everyday life.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
So you genuinely believe it is more likely that we didn’t land on the moon in the late 60s, but is in fact more believable that every government in the world since the late 60s have worked together in international unison, from turnovers of governments, left wing to fascism, to keep the wool pulled over the billions of regular citizens?
Geo-politically, some countries can’t agree that humans have a right to access to water. They go to war over petty disagreements. But they’ll completely work together to defend the global cover-up of the moon landing?
Fuck right off.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
I’ve seen the Epstein files that isn’t as strong of a claim as you think it is.
We landed on the moon, I’m not saying otherwise.
Bit You cannot hold people not believing such an extraordinary claim accountable
Unless they are teaching bit to others without doing the research.