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MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Most people I’ve brought it up to think the moon landing was fake. I usually point out a few examples to explain away the their arguments. Also I add that thinking it was fake is a huge slap in the face to all the skilled people who made it happen.
I feel like I’m going crazy. But everything I’ve looked up are credible sources, unlike some stupid YouTuber pointing to the the flag and saying “there’s no wind on the moon, how do you explain that sheep!”
They put a fucking pole through the top of the flag to keep it straight, because they also realize there was no fucking wind. A kindergarten could work out how to do that.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
The real cover-up about the flag is so much more fun. The astronauts were sworn to secrecy for decades.
Then decades later, some scientists were taking high resolution photos of the moon that weren’t quite good enough to see the flags themselves but did show the shadows of them. But they couldn’t see a shadow for the Apollo 11 flag, and then NASA had to come clean.
When they took off from the Moon, Buzz Aldrin saw the thrust of the spacecraft blow the flag over. When he told NASA about it in the debriefing they told him “you can never tell anyone this.”
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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