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                                             November 23, 2013

   Given just a glimpse of the thinking of the
   "moon landing was faked" crowd, I think I
   can fill-in an outline of the theory:

   The cold war moon race turned out to be
   a tough problem to crack on time, so          They claim that the
   the decision was made to just fake it:        backgrounds of the lunar
   release some blurry slowed down films         photography look wrong:
   shot in Nevada, and call it done.             stars should be visible.
                                                 But direct sunlight on the
      Your first objection is likely to be       moon would be *really*
      that this conspiracy would require far     bright-- I have no trouble
      too many people to be in on it.            believing that stars
                                                 wouldn't show up on the
      But consider that the claims are           images-- but then, I have no
      somewhat adjustable, and can be            direct experience with this,
      narrowed down to reduce the scale          do I?
      of the deception somewhat.

      If you object that your Dad went down to
      Florida to watch a Saturn V launch, the
      adroit C.T. can concede that Saturn Vs
      were real, and that the space mission
      hardware worked up-to-a-point. Perhaps
      the Apollo 8 mission (just orbiting the
      moon and returning) was the real deal,
      but the actual landing was too tricky to
      pull off reliably, and rather than risk
      it, they simplified the program for Apollo 11
      and just made it another Apollo 8, with
      faked the telemetry for part of the mission.


          If you think about it at all, you need to
          concede that it's certainly true that any
          evidence we have for the Apollo 11 moon
          landing is fairly indirect (except, of
          course, for the crew who actually did it).


          The interesting thing here (if anything is) is:

          (a) why haven't these people realized before
          that this is true of almost everything?
          Indirect evidence abounds, direct experience
          is rare.

          (b) why is it that the moon landing is the
          historical event that they've seized on to
          apply their radical skepticism?





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