The answer is obviously “YES”,

And yet… the dupes will engage in every form of mental gymastics, and come up with every excuse why the answer is “anything BUT yes”

Why do they do this?

Its abnormal psychology for sure, but why do they do this? What is the root cause of these persistent delusions?

After many years of careful observation, my guess is that these dupes are required to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of “up” in order for the moon landing hoax to work.

Its like, in order to believe in Superman, you also have to believe men can fly if they have a cape, or were born on an exotic planet.

So what do the dupes believe?

They believe that if a rocket goes fast enough, it can achieve “escape velocity” and then “escape gravity”

Is this possible?

No!

But the dupes are required to believe it, in order to believe astronauts went to the moon.

So in the mind of a dupe, if a rocket is able to go fast enough, somehow gravity would cease to have any effect on the rocket,

and so the rocket would effectively be traveling thru FLAT SPACE where neither the gravity of the earth, or the gravity of the moon, had any effect on the rocket.

And thats why astronauts DO NOT have to go “up” to get to the moon.

Thats why the dupes will argue until they are blue in the face that in order to get to the moon, an astronaut could have to travel any other direction other than “up”

Because if they were ever to acknowledge that astronauts do in fact have to go up to get to the moon, their entire science fiction construct falls apart.

I have heard these dupes make arguments that are basically like, if the moon is low enough on the horizon, then its not “technically” up in relation to where you are observing the moon.

So apparently a Saturn 5 rocket only goes “UP” for a short while during liftoff, but as soon as it gets over the horizon, its into FLAT SPACE,

or even DOWN, if the moon is on the other side of the earth…

So lets ask these questions…

1. if one man was standing on the north pole, and another man was standing on the south pole, and they both jumped “UP” at the exact same time, would both men actually go “UP” when they jumped?

2. if there was a 3rd man standing on the equator, and he also jumped at the same time as the other two men, would he actually go “UP” when he jumped?

Most people understand that all 3 men would in fact go “UP” even though they moved in the opposite direction of each other…

Most people understand the concept of “UP” in everyday use of the word.

1. the man walked UP the stairs

2. the man climbed UP the mountain

3. the airplane went UP in the air

4. the man filled UP his cup with water

5. the man got UP out of bed

6. the baby threw UP his formula

7. the man lifted UP the hood of his car

So while none of these examples describe a scenario where “UP” is strictly 90° to the surface of the earth, we all intuitively understand what going UP stairs means…

And yet, when it comes to answering the question of,

“Do astronauts have to go UP to get to the moon?”

The dupes suddenly get very particular about their own personal definition of “UP”, and will insist that the astronaut not only DOES NOT have to go “UP” to get to the moon, but in fact the astronaut CAN NOT go up to get to the moon.

Not only are they obviously WRONG, but they get VERY UPSET about the entire conversation, and start having a mental breakdown as the debate goes along.

Often times, they start talking about Kerbal and imply that playing this video game makes them a rocket scientist,

Or they flat out LIE, and start talking about how their uncle was a NASA engineer who personally built the Saturn 5 rocket with his own two hands, and shame on me for calling his uncle a liar.

Or they even claim to be some sort of rocket scientist themselves, which is especially funny, given that these supposed engineers cant even grasp the concept of a rocket going UP to get to the moon.

They have obviously never actually gone to the moon, and they obviously never will, but in their deluded minds, thats just a minor technicality.

For me personally, asking “do astronauts have to go UP to get to the moon?” are some of the most enjoyable debates ive ever engaged in, because they get so pissed off about the whole thing.

Its also worth noting that i have never actually changed anyones mind about this question, which suggests to me that Carl Sagan was right when he said,

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back”