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Fly Me to the Moon (And Then Deny It Happened)

by Thurston Penwick III

There is a special place in my cold, shriveled heart reserved for the Moon landing hoax crowd — the true believers who, against all available evidence and common sense, have convinced themselves that humanity’s single greatest technological achievement was faked on a soundstage somewhere in the desert by Stanley Kubrick, the CIA, or whichever shadowy … Read more

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Thurston Penwick
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