I made a fun film exploring the idea behind 'the faked Moon landing'. This idea is always a hot button issue with some in the UFO community. Some are completely convinced there was a big cover up and faked so we could beat the Russians, and others who just as passionately say we landed on the moon (for the record I do think we landed on the moon, but there is some things that some talk about the moon landing that you do say 'hmmm').
Yea I have a couple friends, rather intelligent really, who see the whole thing as a conspiracy. They cite as "proof" various websites that all seem to be run by other conspiracy types. The sites usually have all sorts of cover up stuff, ranging from Bob Marley and John Lennon being killed by the FBI to 9-11 being an "inside" job so the US cold invade Iraq and get all that precious oil.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that they cannot answer (though it does not change their points of view) is that no denouncement of the lunar landing have ever come form a government body or respected scientific community. If there was evidence the landings were fake surely the Soviet Union or the Royal Academy of Science would come forward, or somebody other than a "former employee" of NASA or something. No country's government has ever challenged the landing. Only these fringe elements.
Conspiracy thinking is an interesting topic to explore. Cool site.