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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, “the moon landing was staged?” Below the rocket, more white text reads “yeah that’s how all orbital rockets fucking work dude”

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    I looked into this a long time ago, it would’ve been more expensive to fake it than it was to just do it.

    We would’ve needed to somehow convince Russia to lie on our behalf. We would’ve needed to convince the dictatorship of australia to also lie on our behalf.

    The rooskies came out and said we beat them to it, and the aussies claimed they recived the camera feed and the audio feed from space and then echoed it to their TV network

    • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      That Mitchell and Webb sketch where they discuss faking the moonlanding to save money, and the only real savings was on catering…

      • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I too feel like I’m missing context on a joke here.

        This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          By vice regal, not regal. It was the governor general that dismissed the Whitlam government, not the monarchy

          • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            The palace papers revealed the royals knew and had discussed the possibility on a handful of occasions well before the sacking, even going so far as to discuss preemptively that the monarch would not wish to take the advice of the prime minister in replacing the governor general “If such an approach was made you may be sure that The Queen would take most unkindly to it” as written by her personal secretary.

            Further, the vice regal is an extension of the regal. Nek minnit you’re gonna say, oh the US president only ordered drone strikes, it was actually the drone operators who did the killing!

            Monarchy being non-political my arse. And this isn’t the only time the royals have been seen to favour the conservatives. No surprise there of course, there is no struggle other than the class struggle.

            Fuck the Queen, fuck the monarchy, fuck the conservatives for withholding supply, and fuck the governor general.

            (Not fuck you, though, even if you do like the royals)

            • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              I’m all for making Australia a republic, and thanks for that, I hadn’t heard that the dismissal was discussed by the Queen, but of course the GG could and can consult with the crown if they’re unsure of the correct path and the regent of the day is willing to take their call

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
          31·
          5 months ago

          Australia has free speech. Encryption is not banned. In what way do you think Australians have no bodily autonomy?

          A dictatorship requires a dictator. We definitely don’t have one of those.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiOPEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      Yes, exactly. In general the whole notion and everything they claim is fucking idiotic from start to finish. Outright lies, misunderstandings, misrepresented partial truths, etc.

      Those two friends of mine aren’t “gunpowder inventors” as we Finns tend to express it, ie. they’re… well, calling them stupid would be a bit too harsh, but they’re definitely not smart. I’m not surprised in the least that they fell down that rabbit hole, but fuck does it get tiring.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      5 months ago

      Right? It was the Cold fucking War, why would the Czar of Russia or whoever was in charge work with the US on the US’ propaganda against Russia?

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Plus you still need to launch a bunch of massive Saturn V rockets since so many people saw them launch. Unless they paid off everyone who said they were there? Building a moon rocket that doesn’t go to the moon isn’t that much cheaper than building one that does.