If you were taught about Christopher Columbus and/or Ferdinand Magellan in school, then you were officially introduced to FLAT EARTH THEORY during the course of your "compulsory education"...
Theres nothing "fringe" or "extreme" about learning about CC or FM in school,
And these two particular aspects of FLAT EARTH THEORY are 500 years old, so they are nothing new, and have been around a lot longer than most other "conspiracy theories" like JFK or 9/11...
So, lets stop pretending that anyone who talks about FLAT EARTH is some kind of weirdo who is into "fringe" ideas... because FLAT EARTH is in-fact a standard part of every Americans so-called "education".
EVERY American grade school graduate knows that CC sailed in the year 1492.
But what is weird about FLAT EARTH, is how EMOTIONAL people get about it.
Like, i can bring up 1,000 other contentious issues, from Ford vs Chevy, or Chiefs vs Eagles, and most people will have a mild opinion, but they won't have a meltdown.
BUT there are certain topics, like VACCINES, where people get oddly EMOTIONAL,
And when people get oddly emotional about a certain topic, it always catches my attention, because i always know theres more going on under the surface, and i want to know what it is...
So for me, my interest moves away from the nuts and bolts of which truck is better, and toward the psychology of why this man is so oddly emotional about it.
And what i have discovered,
Is that people have 2 very distinct brains,
one brain that is highly logical,
and one brain that is highly ethical.
to illustrate what i mean, lets use the following example:
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its highly LOGICAL to invest your money in a savings account, and get 5% INTEREST on your savings.
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however, its highly UN-ETHICAL to engage in USURY.
therefore,
we ALWAYS talk about INTEREST,
and NEVER talk about USURY!
because if we talk about USURY, we are using the ETHICAL part of our brain,
and if we talk about INTEREST, we are using the LOGICAL part of our brain.
So, what needs to happen is, we need to START talking about USURY,
Every time INTEREST comes up!
Anyway, this DUALITY of the mind exists in many other dimensions,
And so the powers that be, who always dictate the pop culture from the top down,
frame every issue in a way that appeals to one way you think,
at the expense of other ways of thinking of an issue.
Fake shootings on TV.
We all know the drill.
Next comes "common sense gun controls"
Every time they need a distraction from Jan 6 revelations, they have a fake shooting,
With VACCINES, we all saw the CULT LIKE BEHAVIORS
There emerged TWO very distinct groups of people,
Those who GOT vaccinated,
and Those who DID NOT get vaccinated,
And it was a very EMOTIONAL situation,
and it cost of a lot of friendships,
and caused many family problems.
How many people do you know who lost a friend over vaccine debate?
And Then Theres The MOON LANDING HOAX duality,
There are people who believe that white men have walked on the moon,
And there are people who believe that this story is a hoax.
But why do people get so EMOTIONAL?
And the moon landing hoax is usually lumped in with flat earth,
And both issues get people very emotional, to the point of losing friends,
Something very strange going on at greatawakening.win
https://conspiracies.win/p/16b6N4CAnl/something-very-strange-going-on-/c/
Corner reflectors are pretty cool gadgets.
except they aren't proof of men being on the moon. The Russians put some on the moon with a rover, so their presence, if it could be proven by a laser bounce, would not be proof of men being on the moon.
The Apollo ones have not been proven to be there experimentally through laser ranging. A meta review was done on all experimental laser bounces off the reflectors published since they were allegedly put there and only one time, in 1963, was the return photon signal the strength that would be expected when a laser bounces off such reflectors. All other times the signal was always equivalent to just bouncing the laser off a flattish area, perpendicular to the signal, on the moon. The one time the signal was stronger, in 1963, would not have utilized Nasa reflectors, but Roscosmos reflectors placed there by unmanned rover.
https://www.aulis.com/laser.htm
https://www.aulis.com/PDF/lunar_ranging2.pdf
https://www.aulis.com/jerry-wiant.htm
Before reflectors were ever placed there, by either ROSCOSMOS or NASA, they were able to bounce laser off the moon and get a useful reflected signal. The reflectors were simply meant to improve the margin or error of such an technique.
Anyway, the TLDR is they are either they are there, but have been broken or covered in dust the whole time (in which case they are not proof of men being there), or they are not there at all.
To add to / restate what u/clemaneuverers said, differently, it's worth noting that, given the amount of space dust and the lack of a dense, protective atmosphere, a mirror placed over 50 years ago would certainly not be usable today, especially given that it is a corner reflector, meaning that it would be the perfect place for dust and other debris to aggregate.
What all this means, I don't precisely know, but what I can tell you, for certain, is that we cannot trust NASA or any of the "science" establishment, because they have provably lied about all manner of subjects.
It wouldn't surprise me if there was never any corner reflector there and they were simply fabricating the data, etc. For example, have you, yourself, seen shines a laser on the Moon and observed a return? I haven't. Maybe I should turn on the TV and trust what it tells me. Then, I'll have the correct understanding of things.
Surprisingly, the mirrors are reflecting only one tenth the signal they were reflecting in the beginning.
This is one of those things that anyone with money to buy a strong laser can test for themselves.
The moon has no atmosphere, moron. There's no "dust" to get onto anything. And these mirrors are provably working. I have personally been to the NASA's Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at the McDonald Observatory in Texas (back when I was a CNN journalist, we covered this).
Lastly, Japan's "moon sniper" probe, called SLIM, recently imaged the Apollo landing sites. YOU COULD STILL SEE THE TIRE TRACKS. For example, it imaged the descent stage of the Apollo 11 lunar module, the descent stage of the Apollo 17 lunar module, and even the footprints left by the astronauts.
You people are too fucking stupid to live. One day you're going to need people like me that grow gardens and stock food to survive what's coming. Swear to God, I wouldn't give you a glass of piss.
Precious.
The moon not only has an atmosphere, but is surrounded by electrostatically levitated dust.
You probably already knew that + more fun facts.
Where 300,000,000,000,000,000 (three hundred quadrillion) photons are sent out and 1-5 (one... to five) photons are returned...
I wish I was smart enough to believe.
I have plenty of food storage and drinking water, and we'll be planting an acre... so it'll be a few years before I come for a glass of pee. Will you still be around?