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Rick K
@RickK101
Lucky husband to wonderful wife and father to amazing children. Lover of facts and defender of reality. Liberalism and diversity are what make America strong.
New England Katılım Mart 2013
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@PCSetaram Wow, really?
How many people were in on it? The Russians watching the mission with their radios and telescopes? The space agencies from other countries that published pictures of the Apollo landing sites? The amateur radio operators that eavesdropped on Apollo?
All in on it?
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It was the biggest hoax in human history. The flag fluttering. The shadows are all the tell tales.
Min. Diego González González@diegodelacurva
No soy de dejarme llevar por teorías conspiranoicas, pero que en 1969 se haya logrado transmitir en vivo por televisión la llegada del hombre a la luna, y ahora se les corte a los informativos un móvil desde las criollas me hace sospechar un poco.
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@Markmcc21 @NASA I believe the English word you’re looking for is “you’re”, as in:
“… the English language you’re now speaking …”
Just trying to help.
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@Markmcc21 @NASA I’ve no idea what your point is. Every Apollo from 8 onward went around the Moon. I think you’re operating with some very basic misunderstanding, but I don’t yet understand it.
Please make your point in other words and I’ll try to help.
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For all you highly moronic moon conspiracy theorists...
The moon landings happened. Here are four bulletproof reasons why the hoax theory collapses under its own weight.
1. We brought back 842 pounds of moon rocks and geologists worldwide have been slicing them open for 55 years
Apollo 11–17 crews hauled back samples that scream "lunar origin" in every isotope, crystal structure, and chemical signature. These rocks have zero water content (Earth rocks almost always have some), solar wind particles embedded from billions of years of unfiltered space exposure, and microscopic glass beads formed by ancient meteorite impacts— stuff impossible to replicate with 1960s tech. Independent labs in the Soviet Union, Europe, Japan, and China analyzed them and confirmed: same age (3.7–4.5 billion years), same exotic minerals like armalcolite, same lack of oxidation. If NASA faked it, they'd have needed a secret lunar rock factory decades ahead of its time. Conspiracy theorists never explain how we pulled that off while simultaneously "faking" the tech to get there. These samples are still studied today in museums and universities— you can touch (protected) pieces yourself.
2. Laser reflectors are still on the Moon, and anyone with the right equipment can ping them right now
Apollo 11, 14, and 15 crews placed corner-cube retroreflectors on the lunar surface. These are passive mirrors (no batteries, no moving parts) that bounce laser beams straight back to Earth. Observatories like McDonald in Texas, Apache Point in New Mexico, and facilities in France, Italy, and Australia have been firing lasers at them daily since 1969 and measuring the round-trip time to millimeter precision. The data proves the distance to the Moon (about 384,400 km) and how it's slowly receding (3.8 cm/year). China’s Chang’e missions and India’s Chandrayaan have imaged the exact landing sites, including the hardware and tracks. If it was faked, the hoaxers would have needed to secretly land mirrors on the Moon— or convince every laser-ranging scientist on Earth to lie for half a century. Spoiler: they didn’t.
3. Modern orbiters from multiple countries have photographed the landing sites in high resolution—footprints and all
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has snapped razor-sharp images of every Apollo site since 2009. You can see the descent stages, rover tracks, astronaut footprints, and even the exact paths they walked. Japan’s SELENE, India’s Chandrayaan-2, and China’s Chang’e-2 and Chang’e-3 orbiters independently confirmed the same shadows, hardware, and disturbance patterns. These aren’t blurry NASA photos from 1969, they’re crisp, multi-spectral images taken decades later by rival space agencies. The geometry matches perfectly: the flag is still there (Apollo 11’s fell over during liftoff), the rover is parked where they left it, and the blast craters under the landers are exactly as predicted. A studio set on Earth couldn’t survive that level of global scrutiny from space.
4. The conspiracy would have been bigger, dumber, and leakier than the actual mission
Over 400,000 people worked on Apollo. That’s engineers, technicians, contractors, secretaries, and janitors across dozens of companies and universities. Not one deathbed confession, not one leaked memo, not one whistleblower with hard proof in 55+ years? That’s statistically insane. The Soviets were tracking every second of the missions in real time with their own radar and radio telescopes— they hated America’s guts and would have screamed "fake" at the first glitch if they could. Instead, they congratulated the U.S. and kept quiet. Faking it would have required inventing better special effects, vacuum chambers, and propulsion tech than what actually existed while hiding it from the very people who built the real rockets. Occam’s razor doesn’t just cut here; it eviscerates the hoax.
The footage, the rocks, the reflectors, the photos, the tracking data— they all line up perfectly because the landings were real. The moon is still up there, waiting for the next crew. The evidence isn’t "believable", it’s undeniable. If you’re still on the fence, go look at an LRO image of Tranquility Base or bounce a laser off those reflectors yourself.
Remember: conspiracy theory is the sophistication of the ignorant.
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@Markmcc21 @NASA “yous”?
Are you this unserious in real life, or is this just an attention-seeking persona you play on social media?
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@NASA Did yous forget the last hoax?
Apollo 11 apparently circled the moon before landing meaning they’ve went just as far to land 😂
Remember a few days ago your astronaut said they’ll be the first humans on the moon, must have stepped into marvel’s multiverse and forgot buzz 🐝
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@GerrardJud46398 @pbeisel I have a theory about how you stole money from your parents and killed your cousin. If I obsessively talked about it on social media and put money into an influencing and amplification campaign, I could get a lot of people to believe it.
How much grace will you grant my theory?

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@pbeisel A lot of conspiracy theories have come true just lately. Give some grace.
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@clifford_big1 @pbeisel They are not members of the Reality-based Community. They are driven by psychological needs, not facts.

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@mollymcmato @ophello @Freedom2speak17 @ManaByte Ok “Molly” - how many people were involved in the Apollo Hoax? Let’s hear your version.
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@RickK101 @ophello @Freedom2speak17 @ManaByte @TFMetals Why do somehow educated people simp for gov scams psyops and have no critical thinking skills?
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@LysergicAim @72daystar @Dysthyman_1948 @GodlyAction Typical Twitter Christian.
Reply and block.
Gotta preserve that bubble of fantasy and protect it from the reality-based community.
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@LysergicAim @72daystar @Dysthyman_1948 @GodlyAction Jesus as a wandering philosopher is fine.
Jesus as the divine son of a deity is.. Tooth Fairy.
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@LysergicAim @72daystar @Dysthyman_1948 @GodlyAction Your desire to feel proud of yourself for unearned reasons blinds you.
You saying you're doing God's work is like me saying the fairies love me and will give me eternal life. Meaningless.
Your God is to us what the Angel Moroni or the gods of the Hindus or Maori are to you.
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@72daystar @Dysthyman_1948 @GodlyAction I can't choose to believe to fly, but i can choose what I want to eat .
Your desire for sin blinds you, it's a great mechanism really. You get to enjoy sin in ignorance if you like
Don't be daft on purpose.
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@novusolus @Cat_Brah @SolBrah Not all.
Just the impossible ones, like Apollo Hoax, Sandy Hook, Flat Earth, etc.
And not all conspiracy believers are narcissists. Some are just sheltered, or ignorant, or have only ever viewed the world through a screen.
It's narcissists that call other people sheep.
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@mollymcmato @ophello @Freedom2speak17 @ManaByte @TFMetals I’m curious - how does narcissism affect your offline life?
theconversation.com/why-do-educate….
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@ophello @Freedom2speak17 @ManaByte @TFMetals Cool story, the Soviets never lie and neither does the US. Greatest tax payer laundering theft in the history of the world, even bigger than Ukraine
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@novusolus @Cat_Brah @SolBrah Apollo Hoax belief is no different than Flat Earth belief or Sandy Hook hoax belief.
It’s all driven by the narcissism of un-special people needing to feel special.
theconversation.com/why-do-educate….
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@OGSpiceGhost @k_AnthonyxVR @AkiraMiles1 @astro_reid @NASA @NASAArtemis The major personality characteristic found in promoters of impossibly grand conspiracy theories is narcissism.
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@k_AnthonyxVR @AkiraMiles1 @messiah_07 @astro_reid @NASA @NASAArtemis Other nations are well aware of the hoax. The Chinese do extortion for space ship parts, Soviets secured massive bank loans, Indians put NASA into a humiliation where they had to confirm a 90s CGI was a real mission... It all stems from Apollo being a hoax.

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@JoelSchamber @RedpillDrifter I mean, Apollo is concretely proven to be a hoax...
So, forgive me if I don't trust NASA on another moon mission.
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@mumusicpromoti1 @Black_Pilled My question:
How many people must have been in on the hoax?
Astronomers and radio operators - amateur and pro - who watched and eavesdropped on Apollo, scientists who studied Moon rocks - all in on it?
1000s of people, and not one signed a big book deal to reveal the hoax?
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@Black_Pilled Kaysing-1976 seed text, Sibrel-2001 hoax vehicle, with Kubrick lore layered on top. The real test is falsifiability: site photos, lunar samples, independent tracking, and laser retroreflectors are hard to fake all at once: Apollo sites, retroreflector evidence from LRO/NASA.
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@Filmsanddogs They are fact immune. Flat Earthers, Apollo Deniers, Sandy Hook Hoaxers… they don’t care about being factually right.
They are un-special people who want attention and to feel special. On average, the dominant personality trait of grand conspiracy promoters is narcissism.
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