• Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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    10 hours ago

    My best friend recently told me :

    “Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake”

    I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.

    I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.

    But I feel sad because it’s obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.

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      6 hours ago

      Conspiracy theories are fun to listen to, but you have to be careful not to believe them. I grew up on Bigfoot and UFO stories (being near Mendocino and having farm family does that to you) but, well aside from the family Bigfoot pranks we were very clear it was all make believe.

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      7 hours ago

      It kinda does look fake especially for then. But it also was unlike anything ever done before using technology basically at science fiction level for the 60s. It looks like fiction because it was so advanced for the time it was borderline science fiction. Still amazing evertime I think about it.

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      6 hours ago

      I wouldn’t put it past the US government to pull some shenanigans, and I certainly wouldn’t rule out the possibility that some aspect of it was a lie. That being said, I have yet to see any evidence that it was faked that isn’t simply a misunderstanding of the science.