I assume they’re aware that rockets get launched on a regular basis
Witness
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percent@infosec.pub 49 minutes ago
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.
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
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.
zeca@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Looking at footage is among the weakest arguments against flat earth tbh
i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 12 hours ago
me too thanks
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
There are dozens of us.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
obligatory here’s the study that shows that people will not change their minds
kuunari@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Obligatory well, I still think it works
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Dude the flat earth people sent one of their leaders up into low orbit. When he came back and said the earth is round cuz he saw it, instead of believing him they just kicked him out. Some people are just beyond reason.
elbiter@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
C’mon, they are flat fuckin earthers… What did you expect?
cevn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Love that they have leaders, meaning people who have advanced more into idiocy than on average.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Bro, I’m a level 37 idiot, better show some respect!
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
One of the funniest conspiracy theories I’ve seen is that “flat earth” is a CIA psyop to make other conspiracies look bad by association. (This came from a moon landing truther)
flamingleg@lemmy.ml 45 minutes ago
yes flat earthers are used by the social designers to ‘poison the well’. What’s so funny? it would be strange if they didn’t exploit (and cultivate) the immense stupidity of the median person. It makes the job of lying to them easier (and cheaper)
criscodisco@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
That’s the thing with conspiracy theorists.
It’s conspiracies all the way down.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 18 hours ago
The biggest thing to me is that the Soviets congratulated us on it.
The Soviet Union chose to go along with the fake moon landing instead of calling the USA out is the absolute dumbest part of the whole thing.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, usually the Lizard people select world leaders from different clutches of eggs to ensure maximum competition and division among the human nations under them. Due to a malfunction in one of the incubators, Nixon’s egg hatched about seven years after Brezhnevs. During that time the same incubator hatched a separate clutch, among which Nixon was counted, which is why he was allowed to become the US president. Having not grown up together, they were still competitive, but little moments like the moon landing concession still occurred from time to time. Now that might sound unconvincing, but that’s only because I’m not an actual conspiracy theorist. I don’t have access to the deep lore and twisted logic therein.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No no, I’m convinced already.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Kubrick is that good a filmmaker
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Syncing the footage to real world events was a masterstroke
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
And of course even in this meme the ESA logo was omitted.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
ESA erasure is a crime.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Obviously fake launch picture. Have you ever noticed that our images of rocket launches increase in quality at nearly the exact same rate that our ability to simulate smoke on graphics cards increases?
It’s like they’re not even trying.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Yeah but Trump said these astronauts are going “farther from earth than anyone ever has before,” tacitly admitting that we never sent astronauts to the moon in the 60’s and 70’s
elbiter@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
At this point, whatever Trump said is anything but proof of anything…
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I know you’re making a joke, but it’s a farther flyby around the moon than we did before. It’s an asinine statement by an asinine human being.
Teppa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It doesnt matter whether you win by an inch or win by a mile.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 17 hours ago
You do not understand bow disbelief works if you think this is effective or even relative.
Yes, that does mean conspiracy theorists are fucking brainless morons.
Napster153@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Flat Earthers and anti-vaxxers really put into perspective the sorts of people the Scriptures talk about who are the same equivalent morons.
That being, people who are often dumb enough to get themselves annihilated despite ALL the evidence and warnings sent.
JoShmoe@ani.social 20 hours ago
The only way is to tie them to helium balloons and let them go uppie.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Exactly, and the so-called “exhaust” is just a fog machine and light effects.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 22 hours ago
Meh, I’ll skip this Trump admin propaganda show.
Bacano@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
expensive propaganda show
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
He’ll definitely take credit, but he also tried to cut the budget for NASA. Congress insisted.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 19 hours ago
He, and the GOP controlled congress, successfully cut budget for NASA an laid of tons of its staff, and he also insisted on launching new moon missions which currently isn’t even viable and Artemis II is nothing but a little airshow as they make a loop around in a big circle before returning.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Have you seen the fucking 'Murica ads before launch? They literally justified and propagated US Exceptionalism by name and talked about how all of this (which they were at least nice enough to mention was a collab with ~50 other countries) creates jobs in America.
It was a god damn propaganda show.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Pretty sure it takes a whole lot longer than a year to build a rocket.
This is a Biden rocket if anything.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
This moon program is supposed to be a step of the larger manned Mars program, which started during Obama. So t
Then IIRC Trump wanted to skip to Mars, despite reducing NASA funding and causing leadership issues in the agency during his first term.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 hours ago
First of all, Trump’s been talking about a return to the moon since his first term almost a decade ago.
Second, the rocket is one thing, the stated goals of the agency are another. They’re declaring the plan is a permanent human presence on the moon.
Stiggyman@ani.social 17 hours ago
I watched the launch.
America
Why the fuck does your space agency shoot worse video of a historic event then a YouTube channel celebrating 100K subscribers.
Denjin@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Cutting to the crowd at the moment of booster separation was peak live event directing.
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
My understanding was that it was a risky moment, they didn’t want to risk showing astronautes dying… But that doesn’t make sense since the same logic applies to most of the launch!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My headcanon backstory for whoever made that decision is that they got kicked out of the porn industry for only showing the guys’ faces
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I can’t get into details but I worked at a company that does video broadcast equipment and worked with NASA helping them update some systems. It was mostly garbage equipment. The company I worked for is the harley davidson of broadcasting equipment; was good in the past but modern competitors are objectively better but the brand recognition is still there from the old days.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 17 hours ago
You try getting video from something that, within 30 minutes, accelerates to 18000 MPH. Literally, it will change what frequencies you even have to listen to, let alone the crazy amount of interference experienced during the process of exiting thr atmosphere.
chunes@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That’s true but it doesn’t explain the black screen at liftoff and cutting to spectators during the booster separation.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Nobody: “I was unconvinced by seven crewed missions to the Moon, but if they do an eighth then I’ll have no choice but to accept all of them.”
Prizefighter@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
For April 1 I almost made a Flat Moon Society but I ended up playing Starfield and forgot about it. I wanted to see how far I could go with it.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Apparently not very far 🤣
Akh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I get the sentiment but they are not landing on the moon
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I won’t believe until I see live tik taks from the cheese world
cobysev@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
tik taks
As a middle-aged man who’s never used TikTok before, this is how I’m gonna refer to it from now on.
over_clox@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Bleh, whether the trip is a success or not, do they have two functioning toilets?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
well, one. and it clogged for a while today
but they do have two nonfunctioning instances of outlook, if that makes it better
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You could have just said two instances of Outlook
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
No joke. If I ever tour a Lockheed Martin facility, I’ll make sure to use the bathroom before I go.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The Moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick wanted to film on location.
zeca@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw