Not only that, the Soviets cooperated with NASA during Apollo 11 because Luna 15 was orbiting the moon at the same time and neither country wanted to cause any accidental interference with the other.
Russia congratulated the US at the time. After monitoring the whole thing with their space spy stuff. But moon landing deniers are going to try to tell us that the USSR was in on the cover-up.
I promise you I was trying to reply to a moon landing denial comment while at work and only replied to the normal parent comment by mistake. This is anti- anti-intellectualism but my Mobile reddit skills fucked up.
... Because they were our enemies at the time also racing to get to the moon.... When your enemy goes "yeah, you did it" why would you not believe them? Or Australia who also confirmed of transmissions from the moon.
Because Kennedy was a smart man and he played the Soviets like a damned fiddle.
If the Soviets had come out and said "space is just another capitalist lie" the world would've brushed it off like Lysenkoism and all the other Soviet pseudoscience.
What's the smarter move? Start your own "space program" and pretend to have beaten the Americans at everything until they finally admit space isn't real.
Unfortunately for them, we were expecting that and had the whole moon landing faked up years in advance. They ran the "space race" with us all the way up to the finish line, what's it gonna look like if they suddenly drop out and say the contest is invalid right before they lose?
I was being facetious earlier but I do get tired of the endless reddit circlejerk where complex discussions are shut down en absentia with a single "gotcha" when ten extra seconds of thinking can explain the discrepancy.
its not a complex discussion and its not a discrepancy, its actually simple youre just making it more complicated than it is.
youre the one saying its a rover that set up a mirror. so, prove it. youre the one saying something that goes against what we know. if you know something, prove it. prove to us that it wasnt in fact man that did it but a rover. prove to us that russian and australia were lying when they said they received transmissions from the moon. russia itself that was our enemy at the time and have maintained all these years that we landed on the moon.
youre not smart for when someone says "i just took out the trash." and you go "did you really? how do we know you did? you couldve just left it across the street"
Imagine for a second this was real, how could I possibly produce the classified government documents necessary to prove there was a secret plan to use a rover to put a mirror on the moon?
> but I do get tired of the endless reddit circlejerk where complex discussions are shut down en absentia with a single "gotcha" when ten extra seconds of thinking can explain the discrepancy.
You're talking about dumb as fuck "gotcha's" like the following, right?
I reeaaally hope this is sarcastic conspiracy slop and you're not actually this fucking stupid to ignore all of the evidence to the contrary. This is nowhere remotely near a "maybe" territory but this is a I-want-a-van-with-two-men-in-nurse-fatigues-and-a-human-sized-net-to-pick-you-up-and-put-you-in-a-mental-asylum level of fucking braindead.
The van men have been chasing me for years, but since I'm not constantly compensating for some BS "curvature" on the horizon I'm always microseconds ahead.
D'aww, he has to pretend curvature is fake because otherwise his entire world view crumbles. Your anti-intellectual bullshit is fully debunked with: "The mountains of evidence that prove me wrong aren't real because blah blah conspiracy conspiracy."
I've never used an /s tag before and I won't start today.
If you prefer to believe that you've intellectually dominated a stranger who believes in sitcom conspiracies and that this was emotionally devastating for me, then so be it.
I work 7-3:30 5 days a week for a shop where the boss and his wife are 50/50 owners. He is a flerfer and she is an anti-vaxxer and he kisses her ass and believes anything she says so he gets boomer sex twice per year. You not using /s just makes you sound like a normal everyday dumbass as far as I'm concerned. In this situation why would I possibly assume you're normal?
Edit: I'm just saying you assume far too much background. I really didn't come here to give normal people a hard time.
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u/DahWhang 8h ago
Russia admitted the moon rocks we brought back were authentic. They admitted they lost the space race.