Because it was hard, you fools
Mar. 3rd, 2008 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mikailborgBy an odd coincidence, I've had to deal with the "No, we didn't land on the Moon!" claim three times in the last few days. My views on it ought to be pretty obvious: if you really want a conspiracy theory, there are far more plausible ones than that.
My current favorite argument against the Hoax: There were thousands, if not millions, of Very Very Smart people involved in the Apollo program. Either they were in on the secret or they weren't; if they were in on the secret, then it wasn't much of a secret, really. It's like the "we test unusual stuff at Groom Lake" secret - the details may be foggy, but the whole world knows that it's a government testing base.
If they weren't on the secret, then you have all these Smart People being well paid to develop what they honestly believe will be a moon rocket - to the tune of several billion dollars. These people all think they succeeded, and they aren't idiots - they would have noticed things like "Hey, there's not enough radiation shielding in our design." So, since all these people think we have a moon rocket, and we spent the money to make it, why just go ahead and make the landing? Hmmm?
As an aside - the Soviet Union at the time definitely had the technological ability to detect whether we really went or not - they were quite close to managing it themselves. If we didn't really go, the Russians of the late 1960's really didn't have much motivation to help us cover it up. Unless you believe that the One World Government was already up and running by then, and the Soviet space establishment was also ordered to lie; in which case, I will choose to bow out of the discussion at this point and move on to another World of Warcraft post of some kind. Circy's level 60 now! Woo!
The essential Moon Hoax links:
Quick and simple: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
In-depth and pretty: http://www.clavius.org/
My current favorite argument against the Hoax: There were thousands, if not millions, of Very Very Smart people involved in the Apollo program. Either they were in on the secret or they weren't; if they were in on the secret, then it wasn't much of a secret, really. It's like the "we test unusual stuff at Groom Lake" secret - the details may be foggy, but the whole world knows that it's a government testing base.
If they weren't on the secret, then you have all these Smart People being well paid to develop what they honestly believe will be a moon rocket - to the tune of several billion dollars. These people all think they succeeded, and they aren't idiots - they would have noticed things like "Hey, there's not enough radiation shielding in our design." So, since all these people think we have a moon rocket, and we spent the money to make it, why just go ahead and make the landing? Hmmm?
As an aside - the Soviet Union at the time definitely had the technological ability to detect whether we really went or not - they were quite close to managing it themselves. If we didn't really go, the Russians of the late 1960's really didn't have much motivation to help us cover it up. Unless you believe that the One World Government was already up and running by then, and the Soviet space establishment was also ordered to lie; in which case, I will choose to bow out of the discussion at this point and move on to another World of Warcraft post of some kind. Circy's level 60 now! Woo!
The essential Moon Hoax links:
Quick and simple: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
In-depth and pretty: http://www.clavius.org/
