Do you believe the US landed a space ship and astronauts on the moon? (Limbaugh, Iran)

[calmdude]

Originally Posted by 313Weather

Wow, this thread actually has 29 pages?

I am surprised also. I thought the plan was to tow the moon to earth by 2015 - a beloved leader said so:

Kim Jong Il Announces Plan To Bring Moon To North Korea | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network

[LaTrang]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Pretty simple question, do you believe the NASA moon landings were real or fake?

Of course it was real. No thinking person doubts it. The evidence is overwhelming that we did, and non-existant that we didn't.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Pretty simple question, do you believe the NASA moon landings were real or fake?

America used to make good washing machines, but that's about as far as it goes.

[LML]

How did this country come to embrace ignorance as a badge of honor?

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Pretty simple question, do you believe the NASA moon landings were real or fake?

Sooooooo, if it wasn't real what do you think NASA did with the money? Used it to keep working on the Roswell aliens in Area 51?

[Canaan-84]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Pretty simple question, do you believe the NASA moon landings were real or fake?

Yes, I believe we did land on the moon.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by LML

How did this country come to embrace ignorance as a badge of honor?

The problem lies in drawing the line between healthy skepticism and conspiracy thinking. Someone formulating the question "How could they bend their limbs in a pressurized space suit?" should be encouraged. Constant-volume joints make for an awesome little piece of engineering, and one might get a refresher on partial oxygen pressure as well. So thanks to people like DifferentDrum, I got the impetus to read up on Apollo in a big way a few years back. Amazing what humans can build.

However, the idiot asking "Wharr the STARS in the photos? Wharr?" isn't willfully embracing ignorance, he's just bolstering up his self-image. He gets to feel he's in the know and that the rest of the world is deluded.

So where is his motivation to learn a little bit about exposure times and f-stops? Taking in a small amount of photographic knowledge will only serve to make him feel that while he now knows a little bit more, the people who built something big like Apollo were thousands of times more knowledgeable.

Acquiring actual knowledge makes the conspiracy theorist feel smaller. So he fights it.

[legalsea]

Originally Posted by LML

How did this country come to embrace ignorance as a badge of honor?

Indeed, I love the saying by Scott Adams (Dilbert) "When did ignorance become a point of view?"

[Lone-Ranger]

*Passes everyone a tinfoil hat*

Err yeah, i think they made it up.

*Takes off the hat*

Wtf are you on, drugs?

[Tantalust]

These hoaxers on here are FOS and just playing games, they know damned well it wasn't faked.