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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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