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Apollo Zero
October 13th, 2009
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Think about this: to date, only three countries have been able to put a man merely in Earth orbit – the United States, Russia, and China. That speaks to how difficult it is just to get into orbit. Next, consider how far away the moon is from the Earth: 240,000 miles. Since the alleged moon landings, no country even claims to have gone more than 400 miles from Earth and that was in the Space Shuttle. The International Space Station orbits at 200 miles above Earth. There is a big difference between 240,000 miles and 400 miles. Why can’t anyone make it more than 400 miles from Earth today if we could make a 480,000 mile round trip in 1969?

NASA further asserts that three men were loaded into a rocket, flew 240,000 miles to the moon and then achieved lunar orbit. They say the spacecraft separated and two astronauts flew 60 miles to the surface of the moon, in a vacuum and 1/6 Earth gravity. They then hung out on the moon for up to three days in 250 degree heat, hit golf balls, rode a moon buggy — but what powered their life support and equipment? They say BATTERIES.

They then supposedly blasted off the surface of the moon, docked with the third man going around the moon at over 4000 miles per hour, and made it 240,000 miles back to Earth. They re-entered Earth’s atmosphere going 25,000 mph, but parachutes assured a safe landing in the ocean.

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  • Ibiza Dave

    I’m all for a good conspiracy, even if I don’t believe in it – I think they make the world a more interesting place and I like to hear conspiracists’ reasonings. But this documentary is just godawful, I couldn’t even make it to the end.

    All the reasoning has absolutely no evidence behind it and is based on complete rubbish like “Look! The astronauts aren’t jumping about like kids in the press conference! They DIDN’T go to the moon” and “we haven’t been as far since so that PROVES we haven’t gone that far AT ALL!”

    If you’re reading this before watching the documentary, don’t bother. There are far more interesting and thought-provoking places to have a good read about the moon landing conspiracy.

    Also, just my opinion here, but the guy in the documentary is a complete tool.

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  • Davej

    Haven’t y’all got something better to do with your time and energy than this?  Sheesh

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  • Paulfurness

    Wouldn’t we be able to see traces of activity on the moon from a high powered telescope? Like the lander, that must be visible?

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  • Maurice

    Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to watch this video beyond the first installment. However, I spent some time reading your comments and I think it’s only fair that I comment on that.

    The real problem, as I see it, is that we have a gap concerning empirical evidence. It is said, “he who is slow to believe everything and anything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.” I applaud all of you for making your opinions known, but I have yet to read a comment that does not show a personal bias of some kind.

    Is the sun real? Is it a construct, perhaps a plant? Are we real? Can anyone hear me? Is anyone actually reading this, or are all of these comments manufactured for my benefit by an agency charged with doing such?

    These are questions we might consider.

    I will not claim to know that we have visited the moon. I will not claim to know that we have not. Our problem, my fellow primates, is that none of us possess the skills to make a concerted claim one way or the other, given the evidence that we possess empirically.

    My suggestion to all of us interested in lunar exploration, myself included, is to gain the skills that we require to debate this intelligently. Learn mathematics. Learn physics. Let us discuss whether landing on the moon was a concrete possibility, and why we would indoctrinate ourselves to a lie if it were not. Both possibilities possess vectors that lead in the same direction. We all look up at the moon and wonder why it is there and why we wonder. We owe ourselves to do more.

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  • Get a brain

    I am incredulous that people actually believe this garbage. If you believe in this ludicrous conspiracy theory you’re intellectually stunted. The so-called arguments put forward are pathetic and nothing short of embarrassing. Every piece of ‘evidence’ can be dismissed by anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of the subject and an ounce intelligence. What intrigues me most is why people wish to participate in such deception. What do they hope to gain from it? I assume it’s simply an attention seeking exercise by those with little intelligence and little achievement in their lives.

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  • yoyo

    To say that governments do not lie to their constituents is a conspiracy theory easily debunked.

    This documentary is does not provide top journalistic and unbiased analytical data. Yet if one analyzes the political context of the time, as well as the technological limitations of that era (including the present one), the most logical consideration is to doubt the truth presented as the Apollo moon landings.

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  • JackCool

    Look @ 4.20, module has been taking off, but then, ups.. they forgot to pick up the cameraman from the moon surface. So this footage has been taken. Then I guess, they remembered that they are one man down, so came back and pick the poor guy up, so now the footage has been brought back to Earth, just for our pleasure and proof that man has been so advanced at the time to undertake landing and taking off and coming back again to the Moon, just like that. I hope that all of you see the point, (and this particular sequence), so please cut back this silly debate for now. Just look ahead, eyes open please. Thanks. Feedback expected :) , but please explain footage on 4.20 if you are so into expertise, 60-70 technology and scientific advancements in space. I feel that I do not need more proof than this.. what do you think ?

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  • Ryan C.

    Dear Paulferness,

    I hope you get a chance to read this in response to your comment. If astronauts landed on the moon, they would have left some evidence of where they landed. What did they leave behind? A flag and a vehicle right? Did they leave anything else?

    As a matter of fact they did. Apollo 11 astronauts left behind reflective mirrors on the moon as well. These mirrors allow for lasers from earth to travel to the spot where the mirrors were left and then return to earth. The time it takes for the lasers to return can be measured and used to calculate the distance the moon is from the earth at that instant.

    Without the mirrors on the moon, the laser system would not work. And more interestingly, NASA does not conduct the measurements. The University of Texas in Austin has the rights to the system. Speaking from personal experience of actually seeing this system in work, I can confidently disagree with this video and all others expressing claims to the contrary. I would be interested to see evidence of the fake moon landing, but I have not come across any.

    Hope this clears up a little bit about the moon for you. It’s actually retreating from its orbit and getting further and further away each day by a few centimeters fyi.

    Sincerely,

    University of Texas Alumni

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  • Dexter

    This guy jumps to conclusions faster than a flea jumps to my cats ass.

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  • Dan

    You all have the seen the photos sent back by the new lunar orbiters right? The ones that actually show the old Apollo landing sites?

    Jeez, how can anyone still believe this lunar conspiracy theory stuff? Face it non believers… we’ve been there and done that.

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  • pete

    What has to be asked isn’t why hasn’t anyone been back to the Moon, but why would anyone bother? It’s astronomically expensive, and the only drive for it was the Cold War – to demonstrate the superiority of American technology and engineering over the Soviets. It’s very noticeable that after the first Moon landing the American public, the American government, and even NASA themselves lost interest. They struggled to find reasons to go back to the Moon and in the end the program was quietly cancelled – because it’s utterly pointless. Until we’re in a position to exploit the Moon for industry, there is absolutely no point going back, unless China or India want to demonstrate their technological and engineering prowess for geopolitical reasons.

    I haven’t yet heard any conspiracy theorist explain why we ever *would* have gone back. If it’s sometimes hard to justify even sending men into low Earth orbit, it’s even harder to justify the breathtaking expense of sending a few men to the Moon.

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  • Bijan

    Did anyone notice the sleigh of hand in the Bill Clinton part ?
    what he said had nothing to do with the moon landing he was simply saying that ” Those fellers ” in Washington can make you believe things that never happened , he was referring to the duplicity of the government propaganda . Apparently those who made this video are practicing what they pretend to be fighting . And one more issue , how many people were involved in the Apollo project ? like 10
    thousand ? and not a single one of them ever decided to speak out ?

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  • Hairy

    You people are idiots. It IS rocket science! The initial calculations for trips to the moon were worked out before World War II. The equipment left behind IS visible exactly where NASA mapped it on the moon. In fact, some equipment is still operational & used to measure the distance between the earth & the moon. See: http://physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/basics.html

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  • Conspiracy from Uranus

    Some of you peeps were asking why there was no evidence left of landings on the moon. NASA has these photos of the landing sites and artifacts (e.g. lunar rover) left behind: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
    Enjoy!

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  • Dave

    To the creator of this, I hope you have read through these comments then watched your “film” again.

    I am not saying you are wrong but I believe your little project is nothing but detrimental do your cause. If you are going to put yourself out there put something together that has some substance and if you believe it is substance then you really need to reassess your approach.

    I’ve always been open to the idea that this was a hoax given the time (cold war) and nothing like it never being attempted before but I also believe in mankind’s desire to explore and further themselves.

    I hope you make a better attempt next time.

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  • Tgraham

    I enjoy conspiracy theories, if anything they are just fun to listen to and see how people back up their claims. This is one I never could get on board with. The main argument that I can’t get past is the whole “we’ve only gone 400 miles since”. Yea fair enough, but take the ocean for example. James Cameron just went down and filmed the deepest part of the ocean for the first time, does that mean that now since we’ve been there we must travel that far every time hereafter. I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but does the space between the Earth and the moon vary that much? It’s not like if we go past that 400 mile barrier towards the moon again we might discover a new planet. Perhaps the only business/experiments we have dealing with space at the moment only requires us to go 400 so miles away. The moon is amazing, but there isn’t any form of life and differing climates or raw material that we really need to be up there studying. So why spend more money on fuel to go 50,000 miles away from earth to float around in space, when you can do it just 400 miles away?

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  • mrorange

    This is the same kind of crap as denying dinosaurs ever walked on earth

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  • georg wachberger

    get over it. we landed. end of story.

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  • me

    I we never went to the moon…then explain how we got that stuff from the autobots ship that crashed there?
    Ha…I thought so…

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  • Elletriller

    Well… if they got pictures it proves nothing – they just made it. Like the lunar missions. Got better though, colours and everything, when they went back. Six tries to make it look really real.

    Measuring – and have even seen it with own eyes – or just the program simulating this.

    Perhaps China will send back pictures – but this won’t proof anything! Or, it actually will proof the existence of New World Order, those Bilderberg-meetings is quite a ‘give-away’. Well, I guess the Babylonian Brotherhood had to meet somewhere.

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  • Jon

    Those claiming that we never landed on the Moon suggest that there is nothing concrete to prove its true. You can’t trust video or photographs, apparently.

    But here is how you CAN know that we did it: On the moon, there are a series of reflectors that have been placed there by various missions. There are laser experiments conducted using these reflectors in order to determine the distance from the earth to the moon (which increases every year).

    You, yourself, can rig up a laser system and shoot a laser at the moon and have it reflect back at you. Its proof that people were up there, putting these reflectors in place.

    So the only way one can argue that this is not legitimate is to say that the entire Moon is not real. But its real.

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  • monkey

    @JackCool – The camera filming the take-off @ 4.20 ….

    Watch the documentary “From the Earth to the Moon” (Tom Hanks and Ron Howard doc on the Apollo missions).

    The last episode.. number 12, deals with how the TV camera *on the rover* was panned up, showing the ascent stage of Apollo 17′s LEM (LM) blasting off. Due to the delay caused by the distance between Earth and moon, the camera’s earth-bound director/operator had to start the camera move about six seconds before blast off.

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  • Michelle

    @Maurice. Perhaps some of the commenters are in fact educated in math and physics. I have undergraduate degrees in both and am currently getting my doctorate in Physics. I can assert with confidence that the moon landing actually occurred. I could spend a lot of time giving technical counterarguments to each of the conspiracy theorists’ misconceptions and flawed basic physics, however, the most compelling evidence is purely physical.
    As one of the other commenters pointed out, we CAN in fact see the lunar landing sight with high-power telescopes, and we do still make use of some of the operational equipment there. You’d think that would effectively shut down the conspiracy theory.

    To the common question of why we haven’t gone back: despite the oft-repeated joke that NASA can’t decide on a system of units to use, we do still have the capability to make a lunar landing. But why? We’ve brought samples back already, we now have ways to study the moon remotely from earth or low-earth orbit, and it’s an astronomically expensive undertaking for almost no return. We’d do better to mine asteroids. And speaking of mining asteroids: http://www.planetaryresources.com

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  • newq

    ARGUMENT.

    FROM.

    INCREDULITY.

    That sums up this “documentary”.

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  • Mike

    If you had lived through the 60′s and followed the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs you would never question the fact that we landed on the moon. The idea that the thousands of people who worked on the program all kept the secret that “the moon landings were a fake” is absurd.

    Sadly, the written comments from people who believe the moon landings never happened contain misspellings and are poorly written. The writers seem to be poorly educated…the same people who buy into conspiracy theories.

    Sometimes the lack of intelligence and gullibility of people like this make me worry about the future of our country.

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  • Peanutaxis

    Just watch the mythbusters episode on this. They absolutely DEMOLISH every argument here.

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  • georg wachberg

    reality of our species seems to be:

    1. every story that can be told, will be told.
    2. every story that is spread far enough will find
    believers.
    3. the more time you spend believing something
    the more you will stick to it no matter what.

    there is no way you talk a 911 conspiracy theorist
    out of it. there is no way you talk a moon hoaxer
    out of it. this is the reality of our species. the only
    thing one can do is discussing it so that newcomers
    will at least see that there is controversy about these
    points of view.

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  • Marc

    Funny we now have pictures of the luna landers from an moon orbiting probe. Just because people don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.. I guess we don’t have Mars landers or close up pictures of Saturn from a deep space probe either.. Yes we went to the moon.

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  • Dawid Nowak

    broken video – doesn’t work

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  • Schmucks

    Anyone who believes the moon landing(s) didn’t happen is an idiot.
    The crew saw extra-terrestrial vehicles (ETVs) on the moon and there was no way NASA was disclosing the real footage to the world, so what they released to the world was a staged/edited version.
    The truth is stranger than fiction schmucks.

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  • Mauricio

    I want to bring 2 arguments that I don’t see on the comments about why I know that we DO go to the moon in a manner way and successfully land on it.

    First one “Common Sense”: of course that for every argument about the manned moon landing somebody can come back with something else (400,000 people involve -> just 10 of then should know the true; moon rocks -> fake it on earth and so on..) …but people tend to forget “common sense”, if I going to fake something as hard as this with so many risk to get caught, why?, why in hell I going to fake it 9 TIMES!!! going to the moon and 5 TIMES!!! landing???, that doesn’t have any sense!, I can fake it just once and then make any excuse like: it was to risky to go again, or the opposite: was to easy and now we want mars, or engines begin to fail, or there is nothing worth on the moon to go again…, or WHEREVER, why in hell I going to fake it 5 TIMES, that’s is simply absurd….

    My other argument came just from this year..do you know the GLXP contest?, is a competition for private funding teams all over the world to get back to the moon with a robot as soon as possible (it is a competition :-) and its end in 2015), the competition had a $USD30million in prices like travel 500mt and send video to earth (20millions), sourvive the moon night (1million) and so on…One of the goals is to go to an archeological site and take pictures…that’s right, there is a price to go to any landing site like the ones from the Apollo missions…I know all this because I’m chief robotic development of the Angelicvm Team participating in this contest…but that’s not all…

    Currently we are 25 teams and at least 3 of them are seriously going as soon as in 2014 (they are totally funding teams and they already have almost all hardware ready and 2 of them already pay for SpaceX rockets launch and one of them have an agreement with a China rocket facility), but there are also five or ten teams that are also serious but still having hardware difficulties of looking for fundings …so lets say that between 3 to 10 teams are actually going to do at least 1 attempt to go to the moon and win some of the prices…most of them want to land in a near Apollo site to try several awards like the one for traveling 500mt and also be able to take some cool pictures…

    So, don’t you think someone in NASA or in the USA government would be at least a little nervous about this?, the answer is NOT AT ALL, absolute the opposite, this year NASA put a couple of guys (all NASA guys) to work WITH US to actually MAKE POSSIBLE TO LAN AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE OF ONE OF THE APOLLO LANDING SITE, we are meeting with this guys every 6 months or so and of course they are worry about not crash over the landing site or that our robot don’t go over the Neil footprint, but they are VERY supporting to actually go and take as many info as we can from landing sites. They are very interesting into see stuff like how materials act after decades on moon and how corrosive act on components of Apollo vehicles, etc..that’s very important to design long term space components and so on…

    Well some stupid joker could say that we at the GLXP contest are actually part of the hoax and our robots are going to actually put evidence now on the moon surface, perhaps the MoonExpress robot is going to deploy a flag and the Astrobotics robot is going to assemble a Apollo landing vehicle…May be our Dandelion robot from Team Angelicvm is going to fake the Armstrong footprint…that would be cool :-) …or may be NASA forget the hoax today and send us a couple of guys that don’t know the truth…or even better, those guys are slowly poisoning us to kill every guy in every team on every country that is going to try to go to one of the Apollo landing site :-)

    but come on, just use common sense…

    Best regards,

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  • youloosers

    You moon landing deniers are STUPID AS FUCK. Get a fucking LIFE you dumb as shit hicks. The only thing you’re denying is the EVIDENCE. You just want to get attention, little fucking kids go play with your dicks and keep your bullshit to yourselves.

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  • AL_Nemesis

    China, India and Japan are all planning missions to the moon. Conspiracy theories will probably not be put to rest should any of these nations put people there – they’ll all just deny it ever happened. Funny thing is how these theories ignore that we can take photos of objects we left on the moon from earth orbit (and have).

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  • gtrip

    The claim is that we landed on the moon 6 times during the Apollo program. Are you trying to convince me that all 6 were staged? Also, we left a bunch of garbage on the surface, do you think we just sent a rocket propelled dumpster? personally I more so believe where there are humans there is garbage, and there is garbage on the moon.

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  • ICE

    Explain…..why would NASA, The US Space progarm..The Soviet Space Program and indeed all those in the world who aspire to travel into space and too the moon and other relatively close planets…create and spend trillions and trillions of dollars to put a space station into orbit in an unfixed floating environment unable to study virtually anything at all of their surroundings…instead of spending that same money for sending more missions to the Moon and building The International Space Station directly on the surface of the Moon?? They could have a massive complex in place by now…along with a launch system to return shuttles and missions from the Moon to earth and they would be set up right there IN THAT envornment in an absoulte and virtual scienctific treasurehunt of new studies at their doorstep and financing from the entire world of interested space travellers already donating generous massive amounts of financing to the ISS already?? It makes absolutely ZERO sense to not have followed this course SINCE the Moon Landings if in FACT they actually occured?? Its very funny how NOBODY has EVER addressed this issue which is so obviously flawed rather than the actual qeustion of the landing!!! Explain??

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  • vejer

    to all those that think the moon landings were a hoax?man go clean your underwear,,or eat whats in them,,utter non-sense,,of course we did,,and,,one day,,we will again

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  • peanutaxis

    Think about this: Even a back-of -the-garage program like Mythbusters absolutely DESTROYS nonsense such as this ‘Apollo Zero’.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wym04J_3Ls0&playnext=1&list=PLD86463F52CD8507D&feature=results_main

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  • Durandal

    The internet seems to be a growing echo chamber of stupidity as these conspiracy idiots shout their insanity and it reverberates, growing, combating scholasticism, skepticism and other benefits of education.

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  • KhanSing

    What a load of rubbish. Get another hobby, please. You are wasting everyone’s air otherwise.

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  • Vivotchka

    Wow. Terrible. Provoking those old men. Shame on this film maker. This is slanderous.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/colin.macdonald.35977 Colin Macdonald

    No truly valid points here True or False, this doc is pretty poor.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/lsiden Larry Siden

    Publishing and featuring drivel like this conspiracy documentary and others like it cannot possibly help the credibility of this otherwise fascinating website which otherwise contains much good content.

    Sure I endorse freedom of speech and ideas. People who believe in this exploitative nonsense are free to create their own site to promote their “ideas”. If the Flat Earth Society published a “serious” documentary promoting their point of view, would this site’s editors feel obligated to display it?

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  • Bill O’Reilly

    This ‘documentary’ is hilarious. It’s also quite scary how many of you people will believe anything said in a youtube clip. Do you people understand what critical thinking entails at all?

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  • thatguy

    i like bananas

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  • http://twitter.com/seqretsquirrel secret squirrel!

    There are robots on Mars. How far away is that?

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  • chubby chaser

    first off has anyone touched the center of the earth to prove it’s what you say it is?
    make a theory out of that…
    second the moon isn’t that cool, so why would you make it up?

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  • What a joke

    Yikes,

    I’m surprised people still believe this stuff. I would have thought that in a supposedly educated nation, people would see that there was indeed was a moon landing. After watching this so called “documentary”, I see that there is no real evidence of a fake moon landing, just some really stupid people yelling the word conspiracy.

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