Lies So Dumb, Even NASA Laughed
If you ever want to experience secondhand embarrassment powerful enough to rupture an organ, just spend five minutes listening to a Moon landing denier. It’s like watching someone proudly announce they’ve outsmarted gravity by falling down the stairs on purpose.
The Moon landing hoax theory is the apex predator of stupid ideas. It demands that you believe the United States — a country that can’t consistently pave a highway without fourteen lawsuits and three environmental scandals — somehow staged and sustained the greatest conspiracy in human history without a single credible leak for over fifty years. Amazing what you can accomplish with duct tape, classified memos, and mass hallucination, apparently.
Believers will show you the famous photos and shout, “No stars in the sky!” as if professional photographers have never heard of exposure settings. They’ll wave grainy footage in your face and shriek about the flag moving in the vacuum, ignoring the minor detail that, in the absence of atmosphere, a jostled object keeps moving for a while — you know, Newton’s First Law, taught somewhere around third grade. Assuming you attended third grade, which many of these theorists apparently skipped in favor of YouTube University.
The best part is their alternate explanation: that Stanley Kubrick, noted perfectionist and cinematic genius, was hired to fake the landings — and then decided to film them badly on purpose, because reasons. Right. That’s the ticket. A man who once filmed 148 takes of a single dialogue scene decided he’d be fine with shoddy stage lighting and visible crosshairs on the backdrop.
And let’s not even get into the logistical nightmare. Thousands of engineers, scientists, radio operators, and ground control personnel were involved. Do you think all of them were paid off? Silenced? Killed? Hypnotized? Please. The government can’t even keep the location of the good office coffee machine a secret, let alone orchestrate a global fake Moon mission.
If you believe the Moon landing was staged, congratulations. You have successfully lost an argument with a rock.