was the moon landing a hoax?

(previous ile thread here)

A few months ago I went looking for conspiracy websites, and as a joke, started telling people I believed the moon landing was faked. The more evidence I gathered, and the more I talked, though the more I started to think that it could have feasibly been a hoax. There are several things - most of them photographic inconsistencies - that make a pretty good case.

But no, I don't think it was faked. But it wouldn't be unreasonable or 'crackpot' to believe it was, especially in light of America's reputation as xenophobic and irrationally competitive. My mind's open.

...but none of this changes the FACT that Lennon & McCartney were the genetic offspring of Anglican royalty and aliens who have lived beneath the surface of the earth since the Bronze Age.

We're through the looking glass here, people.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/AS17-143-21837.jpg

http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Conspiracies_files/image030.jpg

http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Conspiracies_files/image016.gif

this is my favorite conspiracy theory. my favorite version is that we did land on the moon but bc of technical limitations (alternatively: top secret discoveries) the cinematography failed and so we had to re-stage it to win the propaganda war. the US hired kubrick to re-stage it, and he used the technology and funding he developed on this secret program to direct 2001: a space odyssey. this is why the moon landing video shares stylistic/technical similarities to kubrick's front screen projection expertise in other films. i love this theory so much that despite tremendous intellectual opposition to the narrative, it's aesthetically compelling enough that i now tell ppl that this is what i for real believe happened.

things that make you go HMMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU

yeah mordy i just watched that room 237 film where one guy says the shining is full of references to him working on the moon landing footage

including the redrum kid wearing an apollo 11 sweater in one scene lol

it blows my mind that we could put people on the moon with technology from 50 years ago. we have tablet computers now that look like something out of old sci-fi novels and yet the idea of going to the moon still feels ambitious with current technology.

maybe that's just because we haven't continued doing it though

Yeah, we started going to the moon 45 years ago and stopped 42 years ago. Most of the life of NASA has involved sending things up to orbit the earth at a distance of 100 miles or so.

maybe that's just because we haven't continued doing it though
― ciderpress, Friday, September 5, 2014 4:00 PM

coupled with the fact that we never did it in the first place

It was 100 years between Columbus and Jamestown - don't see how this is any different