The whole thing was a PR exercise to get one over on the Russians. Why not spend 5% more for a backup strategy to “document” the event
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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Opinions of the guy aside, I recall it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who made the argument that it simply is cheaper and easier to go to the moon than to fake it and maintain the coverup.
Like, we can’t keep secrets for shit, but that’s the one that stays kept?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But it didn’t stay kept. We’re talking about it now and it’s synonymous with famous conspiracy theories.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They are already claiming that the Artemis mission was fake due to cuts between the camera shots on the livestream ಥ_ಥ
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
but artemis was fake. it didn’t grow on a tree. we had to build it.