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BroodingSonata Apr 1, 2026 +1

You're assuming (wrongly) that what gives oxygen to conspiracy theories is the presence of any rational credibility, rather than profound ignorance and stupidity, the Dunning-Kruger effect and the psychology of it being attractive to think you're in on something that the "sheeple" are not.

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

So you’re saying they’re mistaken, right?

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gfyans Apr 1, 2026 +1

I think they're saying they're morons

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Tiglath-Pileser_III Apr 1, 2026 +1

Is it even a mistake if it's not based on any logic to begin with?

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VisitingUranus Apr 1, 2026 +1

Conspiracy theorists are crackpot nutjobs.

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j_b_6969 Apr 1, 2026 +1

You're assuming logic has ever dissuaded a conspiracy theorist.

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Haha yeah I guess. That's why I still don't understand why people still keep questioning it.

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bussysniffer3000 Apr 1, 2026 +1

It's just pure stupidity and nothing else

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Wildhaus Apr 1, 2026 +1

People are desperate to have knowledge that others don't. All conspiracy theories boil down to "I'm smart and everyone else is stupid"

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Mmm yeah, I never thought about that. But the Dunning-Kruger effect could be the real reason then.

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Wildhaus Apr 1, 2026 +1

Everyone thinks they are "in the know" that there is secret knowledge only a select few can have and they are one of those people. In reality, as George Carlin put it "It's a big club, and you ain't in it"

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Big club xD

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nat_in_a_hat Apr 1, 2026 +1

The same that keeps flat earthers around

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Tiglath-Pileser_III Apr 1, 2026 +1

Not necessarily. I don't believe Apollos 12-17 were faked, but if they were, other countries might be in on it too.

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

But just think about the amount of convincing to do.

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Tiglath-Pileser_III Apr 1, 2026 +1

There's only so many countries who would actually have in on it. Angola and Laos wouldn't, but former Soviet republics, Western European countries, etc. might be. But there's no evidence for this. Conspiracy theories are almost universally an argument from ignorance.

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Few_Pipe_6285 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Flat Earth is alive and well today, and they'll argue the fact with geologists and astronomers.

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ThisOneForMee Apr 1, 2026 +1

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ThisOneForMee Apr 1, 2026 +1

It was obviously sarcasm

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UnconstrictedEmu Apr 1, 2026 +1

The Soviets acknowledged the moon landings. If there is a conspiracy it’s that there never was a race to the moon. However in 1989 some American aerospace engineers visited Moscow and saw the Soviets’ would-be lunar landing craft.

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Professional_Let5127 Apr 1, 2026 +1

You have to admit there are some curiosities though -The film surviving through the Van Allen belt - The fact that their computer on board only had 64 kB of storage - and weird anomalies in the photographs - also check out the press conference from the astronauts afterward they look like something is bothering them

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IllustriousAction404 Apr 1, 2026 +1

How?

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Apollo 11 left over 100 items on the Moon in 1969, including the Lunar Module "Eagle" descent stage, scientific instruments (seismometer, laser reflector), an American flag, cameras, and waste bags. Other nations, including rivals, confirmed this via independent tracking and, later, imaging by India's Chandrayaan-1 and Japan's SELENE.

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IllustriousAction404 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I mean how would foreign countries expose it? Don’t get me wrong I’m not on either side of this moon landing stuff, but I’m just asking - if it were faked how would the rival country get the information and enough of it to concretely expose things one way or another? Even with spies, what would it take to sway the us public?

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MasterMagneticMirror Apr 1, 2026 +1

Either take a picture of the landing sites with enough resolution, prove that there are actual video anomalies in the video recordings, obtain lunar rock samples from NASA and show that they were not taken o the Moon, or show that there something in the Apollo spacecraft or Saturn V couldn't have worked. If Apollo was faked, doing any of that would be trivial, as faking these kinds of things would have been almost impossible. The fact that no one managed to do it is sufficient proof that Apollo was real.

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Tiglath-Pileser_III Apr 1, 2026 +1

The Soviets had a lot intel on NASA.

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ImpressiveBath3 Apr 1, 2026 +1

It's because there hasn't been a moon landing ever since the first one

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Entire-History6514 Apr 1, 2026 +1

There were like 6!

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Fritzkreig Apr 1, 2026 +1

Yeah China and the USSR would have been all over that; or maybe they were but covertly sowed that sentiment into the zeitgeist!

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What keeps the Moon landing conspiracy alive even today? Wouldn’t rival countries have exposed it by now if it were fake?

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