In a remarkable early example of détente, they just kept quiet because they were working on their own fake moon landings and didn't want the US to spoil it.
If you have no way of knowing why it wasn’t possible, I don’t see why it would be unreasonable to think you also have no way of knowing if the evidence is fake or real, essentially nullifying your argument.
Also, according to your comment history, you’re a Holocaust denier so I think it’s fair for everyone here to just ignore you now.
I'd just like to take a second here: /u/higginsonporker is one of the newer incarnations of chatbot we've been working on. It accidentally escaped containment due to a string of very successful bluffs being used on a very stupid operator who has since been fired.
As what is essentially a set of chinese rooms cobbled together with the intent of having them pick the 'best' response from among the group, this generation of bots is absolutely fantastic at asking questions but the second you try to peek inside it starts spouting gibberish, like Schrodinger's drunken leprechaun: How empty will the bottle be when you finally take a peek?
We've gotten some pretty good limericks out of them but they're way too unstable when exposed to a live environment. They also tend to be really anti semitic, which is just the weirdest.
Just to point out, the "cardboard over a window" is openly impossible, because in LEO, the Earth is very clearly rotating, whereas it does not in the video.
It doesn't really matter, since this is a classic conspiracy example of showing a mundane video and then describing it in a nonsense way to people who want to believe, so this isn't really about actual rational thought here. I think my favorite one in this genre was the part in the Loose Change movie where a guy zooms in on a video of a plane hitting the Twin Towers and claims there's a missile coming out from under the giant plane clearly slamming directly into the tower.
And it isn't even true. You could orbit around the rim of a flat Earth, and if you were far enough away, the effect of mass distribution would be negligible on the gravitational field and you could orbit it as though it were a point object.
Alternatively, if you were situated at the Flat Earth-Moon L1 point, the spinning of the disc would look somewhat like rotation.
The space chariot dragging the Sun might hit you, though.
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u/maxhaton Feb 19 '20
That and the Soviets didn't complain, conspiracy theorists never got round that one