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The moon hoax is a great idea because it saves you lots of time at parties. You see someone, you talk to someone, ask them if they think we really went to the moon. If they say no, it's all a hoax, i saw this really interesting programme...etc then you know that they're an idiot and you don't have to waste anymore time talking to them ever again. This also works with aromatherapy.
There are always people who want to denegrate the achievements of our species. How we couldn't possibly be clever enough to have build stonehenge etc without help from gods or aliens. How microwave ovens are reverse engineered from that saucer that crashed at Roswell. Perhaps these people have brains with such low wattage that because they could never have worked out how to move big stones around without supernatural intervention they can't imagine how anyone else could have.
These people i think want the world to be far less wonderfull than it really is. They want everyone to be mired in cynicism, they can't believe that the United States really has achieved great things. They never believe that Gargarin didn't really achieve orbit for example. There have been great hoaxes, sure - the moon hoax is a great hoax. People will buy books about it so books are written about it. The shamefull acquiesence of the media in this should always be highlighted, but they also have horoscopes in newspapers, 'mediums' on TV, we shouldn't be surprised.
Most people in the world think in supernatural terms. Most people believe in some form of god for which there is absolutely no evidence at all. The so called evidence backing up a moon hoax has been comprehensively dismantled. Thinking about it for a minute renders it ludicrous. It would be a lot harder to pretend to go to the moon and carry off this gigantic con than it would be to actually just do it. I think the lack of real progress in manned space exploration since the moon landings provides a fertile breeding ground for this nonsense, if we had astronauts en route to Mars right now then everyone would be too interested in them to fill their minds with this garbage.
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I still think the funniest thing about the moon hoax is that NASA isn't stupid enough to make as many mistakes as the hoaxers claimed they did. Damn, it would be harder to friggin fake the landings than actually go to the moon in the first place. There were too many people on the project to get them all to keep the secret, so NASA would've had to con them. That would be bloody insane.
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