I always think the fake moon landing conspiracy is funny because it believes in humanity’s intelligence and ability to coordinate vastly to construct and perpetuate a lie for generations, but no, we’re not smart enough to land on the moon

When people talk about government conspiracies, I remember that in the 50s the CIA installed a man in the Vietnamese President’s office who not only didn’t speak Vietnamese, but wrongly assumed the President didn’t speak English when his anti-communism conversation starters were ignored.

My argument against most conspiracy theories is simply: that many people can't keep a secret. Imagine how much a story like "We faked the moon landing, here's proof" would go for. Especially pre-internet, when everyone got their news from the actual news.

That’s just all government conspiracy theories in a nutshell, really.

Wait, are you expecting conspiracy theorists to use common sense and basic logic? 😆 No way!

Nasa: smart enough to create tons and tons of fake evidence to keep us believing we’ve landed on the moon Nasa: too dumb to land on the moon That’s always how it is with conspiracy theories, the little things can make sense but it all relies on at least 1 giant piece of nonsense

It would be easier and cheaper to fake the moon landing on the moon 😋

The most challenging thing about going to the moon was metallurgy and creating a small enough flight computer. Beyond that rocket science is mostly plumbing.