This is one of the best arguments against the moon landings imo. Though I think/hope it was real.
You can look at it this way - when the US introduced the Space Shuttle, the USSR quickly made its own copy, improved even. It didn't use the shuttle's engine for launch, only the boosters, and it could also land on autopilot. They used it for exactly one flight, and then it was scrapped because it had no advantages over disposable carrier rockets.
The manned moon missions were kinda like that - great for bragging rights, decent for collecting samples and some other scientific purposes, but otherwise not too essential for the actual strategic goals of the space programs at the time - that is, making space guns. So it made sense to scrap the program once the novelty wore off.
Moreover, the landings date to the Nixon era - which explains why the then left-wing conspiracy circles (and the media supporting the left, as usual) would try to discredit them, as the achievements of the most eeevil president before Trump. Ironically, the only other nation capable of conclusively proving them as false - by showing radio signal triangulation data from the transmissions - was the USSR, which had every reason to try and discredit this American achievement, yet even they didn't force the matter.
Finally, nowadays there are even private observatories powerful enough to distinguish the landing equipment - lander, rover and all - so either the telescopes contain a magic invisible screen projecting Da Big Lie... or, sometime in the past fifty years, someone did go out there to put them.
Really, out of all the conspiracies to investigate, I've never gotten why the moon landings ever became such a big issue to begin with.
"Now, if the OP focus is to have your own echo chamber, nowadays you can actually create your own sub for that. Some guys already have. Sure, nobody else really visits those subs, so the "echo" isn't too loud, but you have the freedom to try anyway."
But keep giving yourself fake upvotes. It'll help the feelz.
You can look at it this way - when the US introduced the Space Shuttle, the USSR quickly made its own copy, improved even. It didn't use the shuttle's engine for launch, only the boosters, and it could also land on autopilot. They used it for exactly one flight, and then it was scrapped because it had no advantages over disposable carrier rockets.
The manned moon missions were kinda like that - great for bragging rights, decent for collecting samples and some other scientific purposes, but otherwise not too essential for the actual strategic goals of the space programs at the time - that is, making space guns. So it made sense to scrap the program once the novelty wore off.
Moreover, the landings date to the Nixon era - which explains why the then left-wing conspiracy circles (and the media supporting the left, as usual) would try to discredit them, as the achievements of the most eeevil president before Trump. Ironically, the only other nation capable of conclusively proving them as false - by showing radio signal triangulation data from the transmissions - was the USSR, which had every reason to try and discredit this American achievement, yet even they didn't force the matter.
Finally, nowadays there are even private observatories powerful enough to distinguish the landing equipment - lander, rover and all - so either the telescopes contain a magic invisible screen projecting Da Big Lie... or, sometime in the past fifty years, someone did go out there to put them.
Really, out of all the conspiracies to investigate, I've never gotten why the moon landings ever became such a big issue to begin with.
Luckily we all know why you feel that way. :)
Care to make an actual counterpoint - that is, why the moon landings are such an essential hoax?
Dude, you lost all standing with shit like this:
"Now, if the OP focus is to have your own echo chamber, nowadays you can actually create your own sub for that. Some guys already have. Sure, nobody else really visits those subs, so the "echo" isn't too loud, but you have the freedom to try anyway."
But keep giving yourself fake upvotes. It'll help the feelz.
Nope, we ALL know why you feel that way. :)
Well, that settles that.