Quote: (04-11-2019 11:16 AM)Syberpunk Wrote:
So who put the retroreflector on the Apollo 11 site then? They faked the human landing but then did a robot landing to place the retroreflector, in 1969?
The Moon Landing Is Fake is on the same intellectual level as The Earth Is Flat: Moronic.
The Russians landed retroreflectors on the moon in an unmanned mission a year after Apollo 11. The tech was there, and it was much less risky and less of a propaganda win than a manned mission.
It's not moronic to float the idea that the Moon landing was faked in some way - for example, that the program went 90% of the way to launch, but it was deemed safer to fake the actual landing TV transmission and photographs than carry out a mission which may have had an unacceptable risk of failure.
It's something to consider as a thought experiment, and there is no need to straw man the hoax position.
The incredibly strong negative reactions to hoax allegations are off base to me, if you consider all aspects including the propaganda war of the Cold War and the capabilities and known programs of the intelligence agencies (of which NASA is one) at the time. Simply put, it was an unprecedented era of deception and convoluted propaganda programs.
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