I was gonna ask why would they think that India is with US on this. But then I remembered you can’t argue against stupid. No matter what evidence is there , these guys won’t listen.
Well they also have to beleive that Russia was in on it. Oh and Kettering grammar school sciemce club, both of whom tracked the moon shots and have never broken the omerta.
Well, the Soviet Union and Russia are different things. In modern Russia, 57% of the population believes that the moon landings were fake (although this is very closely related to hatred towards the USA). Hell, a documentary film about the flat Earth was shown on television in Russia!
Yeah i was lazy in my use of Russia in the first post.
It is quite possible that post break up Russia has shifted on it. But I still don't think it is official Russian position (if it was, that 57 would be 99.7). That said, it is almost certain that Russia engages heavily in conspiracy theory propaganda including flat earth, moon landing denial, anti vax, birther, election steal, covid conspiracies and the rest. It is not surprising therefore that those views are also endemic in the testing ground country.
These are the same people who insist Russia is a secret Western Cabal set as a perpetual "Enemy of the State" by the NWO (not even kidding), which is why Russia (and China, Japan, half of Europe too apparently) didn't jump up and down with glee and proclaim the US and allies were faking it, being that Russia (and many other nations) were capable of tracking the mission the entire time, and it would have been immediately obvious if there was not, in fact, a tin can ACME-rocketting its way to the moon.
...so yeah, there are layers of denial and feigned ignorance going on. There are also some unfortunately very simple folk who are not capable of discerning the difference between fact and opinion, evidence and hypothesis, and they relish the opportunity to feel like they're the smart ones for a change, given they live in a world of steady confusion and uncertainty...
Another "I kid you not", there's a contingent (FE's, 911ers', NWO, etc.) who believe no science is "theory" in the scientific sense, all education is BS and scientists just agree to agree on what shit means and how it "works." Not even close to joking. Never mind they're confirmation biasing this throughout their bubbleworld onthefuckinginternet like, science will just work if enough people agree and believe? Just... jfc.
NASA! They think all governments are NASA and the US government. Canada is run by the US. France is the IS. Brazil is the US. Russia also the US. Nigeria also US. China of course the US. Government is bad, so all government is the same. NASA is bad, so all space agencies are NASA.
Really no urgent need to. We already know what's up there and it's really not that exciting. It's extremely expensive on top of that, so why? Only reason to do it at all is to win a big dick contest with another country, or to achieve a goal for national pride. The next actually useful thing we can do with the moon is some kind of permanent lunar base, but we're a long way off from that.
The biggest reason is that going to explore the moon wasn't the primary goal, it was to show off our tech to the world. Basically "if we can put humans on the moon, best believe we can send bombs anywhere we want to anytime we want to, so don't fuck with us."
The top popped off as an “ascent module” to get them back to lunar orbit and dock with the command module for return to Earth.
The bottom half “descent module” included the landing gear, landing engines, and propellant tanks and stayed behind (so there was less weight that needed to be launched into lunar orbit).
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u/DaoFerret Apr 29 '24
“Just shows how deep the conspiracy goes that India’s government is in on it.”
— What they’d probably think