- I always thought it would have been much harder to fake the footage of the moon landing and takeoff with 1969 FX technology than it would have been to actually land on the moon.
- If you can already go into space what's so hard about landing on the moon?
- The Soviet Union would have been all over it in 1969 to score points if the US had faked it.
- People shouldn't mix up Capricorn One with reality. Particularly as they couldn't keep the astronauts in the movie quiet.
Absolutely, those are all very valid and have been rehashed endlessly, but if those didn't convince the weirdos out there a bunch of pictures isn't going to make much difference. The risk here is that people will start to think this was the main objective for the Chandrayaans mission.
Nutcases thrive when you give them a platform, this not only gives them yet another reason to get plenty of airtime but makes it worse by actively addressing them instead of just ignoring them. They're now 'officially' part of the game, instead of relegated to the fringe where they belong.
'Moonlandings', 'hoax', an article that makes claims without the image to back it up, great factors for a bunch of stories in a slow news month, this will get plenty of airplay.
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- I always thought it would have been much harder to fake the footage of the moon landing and takeoff with 1969 FX technology than it would have been to actually land on the moon.
- If you can already go into space what's so hard about landing on the moon?
- The Soviet Union would have been all over it in 1969 to score points if the US had faked it.
- People shouldn't mix up Capricorn One with reality. Particularly as they couldn't keep the astronauts in the movie quiet.
Absolutely, those are all very valid and have been rehashed endlessly, but if those didn't convince the weirdos out there a bunch of pictures isn't going to make much difference. The risk here is that people will start to think this was the main objective for the Chandrayaans mission.
Nutcases thrive when you give them a platform, this not only gives them yet another reason to get plenty of airtime but makes it worse by actively addressing them instead of just ignoring them. They're now 'officially' part of the game, instead of relegated to the fringe where they belong.
'Moonlandings', 'hoax', an article that makes claims without the image to back it up, great factors for a bunch of stories in a slow news month, this will get plenty of airplay.