Guy Explains Why The Moon Landings Are A Hoax, And His Thread Is Better Than Any Conspiracy Theory
Global warming is fake news, Tupac is still alive, and the American military is experimenting on aliens and their spacecraft in Area 51. Poke your finger at a random object near you and chances are it’s somehow involved in a conspiracy theory. They’re that common.
July 20th will mark the 51st anniversary of the first human steps on the moon, so what better way to celebrate it than with a theory that rejects the lunar landings in the first place? The best one came in February 2019. Then, a comedy writer from Australia, David Hughes, turned to Twitter to share his thoughts on the subject and raised quite a few interesting points. Check them out.
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“I decided to do the moon landing tweets because the concept was funny to me, I liked the idea of poking fun at conspiracy theorists by being one of them,” David told Bored Panda.
And he did an awesome job. The writer sounded just those people who have no idea what they’re talking about. Sadly, not everyone got the parody.
“From the feedback I get from people who don’t follow me I think most [of them] missed the point,” David said. “But that’s fine.”
The Apollo 11 mission was one of the most astonishing achievements in human history. It is estimated that 530 million TV viewers watched U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their steps on the moon. Afterward, the two men and third crew member Michael Collins safely returned to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
However, no wonder some people thought Hughes was for real. There still are plenty of folks who think the “giant leap for mankind” was a hoax the U.S. government had staged to win the space race against the Soviet Union.
Most of the deniers highlight the perceived anomalies in the images transmitted back to Earth from the moon’s lunar surface. “With few exceptions, the same arguments just keep coming up over and over again,” Rick Fienberg, the press officer for the American Astronomical Society, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy, told HISTORY. Fienberg has some first-hand knowledge of this: Nearly 40 years ago, he debated with one of the first prominent moon-landing deniers, Bill Kaysing, on TV.
“About 400,000 scientists, engineers, technologists, machinists, electricians, worked on the Apollo program,” Fienberg said.
“If in fact the main motivation for believing in the moon hoax that is you don’t trust the government, you don’t trust our leaders, you don’t trust authority, how can you feel that 400,000 people would keep their mouths shut for 50 years? It’s just implausible.”
If you still need proof, here’s a good article that debunks the most popular claims conspiracy theorists use to question the moon landing.
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HEY... isn't the moon made of Cheese??
Well of course!! I thought it was meant to be Wensleydale. Don't forget the crackers Gromit!
OMG love your A Grand Day Out refference!
I HAVE SAID THIS ALL ALONG. There is no cheese that can withstand the weight of three men and a space bus.
The moon being made of cheese is a lie by the dairy lobbyists to make you THINK of cheese at night! The moon is really a satellite! :p
It's really cold!
Yep... but they didn't take any wine or crackers. Complete BS if you ask me.
That's why they couldn't send mice to the moon. Cheese could support the small weight of mice but by now they would have eaten it.
it's probably very stinky but yummy cheese, i mean look at how long it's aged.
He is absolutely right. Who travels 3 days just to sit on the bus! I am now rethinking this whole moon landing farce.
"I decided to do the moon landing tweets because the concept was funny to me, I liked the idea of poking fun at conspiracy theorists by being one of them," David told Bored Panda. For those still wondering if he's joking. I know the print is small, but it's there.
Furtherhencemorth
Definitely the best part if the whole thing. I'm gonna use this word more often
I was hoping somebody else caught that. Easily the best part of the whole thing.
It's depressing how many people are attacking this guy thinking he's serious. Take a goddamn joke, people.
Stupidity has long been a pandemic in America.
I'm honestly not sure if he's joking. He felt the need to say he wasn't joking.
The fact that anyone would need to be told that this is a joke is the reason we have a sociopath in the White House, mind boggling stupidity.
Honestly I'm not sure. It would take the same level of stupidity to take this seriously if it's fake as it would to be legitimate about it when posting it. I just don't know anymore.
What's funny is that there are Trump voters out there going, "Yeah, that's it!!!"
Might be a trump voter writing it, thinking it's true.
There are people out there who WILL quote from this as proof...I am constantly disappointed in the human race..
Well, yeah. It's on the Internet, so it's true.
Oh thank you, now i can sleep well tonight after realise i can land on sun at night because sun will put off their fire at night
I'm gonna print this thread so I can laugh in the faces of all those moon landing 'believers' and wave it at their stupid ignorant faces. That'll learn em.
a parody is to make fun of something, but unever use it as an argument. It makes the oppositte effect and you will look stupid
"Furtherhencemorth" really cracked me up.
There's absolutely NO WAY Neil Young was on the moon in July 69. He was on tour & getting ready to record After The Gold Rush.
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Yeah we need to buy more moon 50 bucks per piece and God sticks them on just so we have something to look at at night
The Vin Diesel asteroid belt X-D
Haha gotta love Hughes. He's a bloody legend.
We should have listened to Von Braun. He over engineered the rockets and spacecraft with Mars by 1985 in mind.
For most of his tweets there is an obvious answer such as that they cant be shadows on moon because it is night, but the sun is in the centre and side you are on the moon there is no night
What about staying on the Planet Earth, and stop destroying it and start taking care of it instead?
Where would NASA even find Lance Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear, and Adrian Shephard to go to the moon anyway?
His joking logic is legit batter than the actual thing.
My husband tells conspiracy theorists the the moon landing WAS faked but it was directed by Stanley Kubrick who was a known stickler for details and insisted it be shot on location.
Lmao for a sec I thought he was serious- he's just messing with the people who don't study stuff lol
Wasn't there an incident a few years ago, when some Moon landing conspiracy theorist basically called Buzz Aldrin a liar to his face, repeatedly. Then Buzz turned round and belted the guy in the face.
The fake moon landings were famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick but he was such a stickler for realism that he took the whole film crew to the moon to do it. (not mine originally but I still laugh at it)
What’s even funnier? Some will get angry, and some will believe him.
"furtherhencemorth" brilliant.
Funny. Facebook Mum comment Funny
Wait... So are you saying night time tides are a lie!!?? WOW! I have been lied to my hole life, because in the day the moon gets sucked into a black hole, and at night gets spit out again!
(I know the whole thing was a joke)
Furtherhencemorth...
The light rays on the photos prove we landed there. There is no possible way that you can create perfectly parallel light sources on earth.... we barely can do that now... let alone the 60s.
Also the Japanese satellite took photos of the landing sight. In their photos you could see everything down to footprints.
Overheard in a bus ride: a 4 yo asks his Mom: Mommy, does the Sun ever sweat with all that hot? - Mom: No, sonny, the sun can't sweat, otherwise it would put off itself. +30 years later, I still don't know if the mommy was being serious or making a deadpan joke, or simply came up with a genius answer in childspeak to shut up her child.
Hughsey is a bloody national treasure!
One thing. Say it was fake (no i dont believe but imagine it was) why the heck would you need to fake something like this? whats the point? and for the "3 days on the bus" well who do you think was taking the picture? unless they had robots. but still.
Come get your mans
Don't give these people attention
This is brilliantly written!
Yawn.
there is no way that guy was being serious...
He came out later saying the whole thing was a joke. He was poking fun at conspiracy theorists
Thank you. Your the one person giving solid evidence rather than saying "if you believe this you are dumb."
OP has to be trolling.
It is a true testament to how whacko some of these types of people are that it sometimes becomes impossible to distinguish the "real" flakes from the lampoon.
To David McNamara We sent Wallace and Gromit up there during the great cheese shortage! As the Americans went up there too it means any deals are between the UK and the US. The EU get nothing
Furtherhencemorth.... XD
I'm 100 percent sure he's joking. Wait no .43 percent. Nah 60 % ?
boring and not even remotely funny
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Some guy was being a troll on Twitter. Ok?
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Can't argue science and after all, he's that random stranger on the internet that has all the answers, so it must be true. (LOL , 7 downvotes. Either 7 people were too stupid to get the sarcasm, or 7 people were absolutely pissed off because I hurt their anti-science feelings.... )
it's hard to tell when somebody is being sarcastic online
In their defense, it can be a little hard to understand sarcasm over text. Not bashing you though, I though your joke was funny. I brought you up to -6 instead of -7!
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My guess: You don't think mask works to protect from Covid-19 You wear a red cam with MAGA on it.
He's taking the piss out of conspiracy theorists. This isn't serious.
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no
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I can't decide if he is stupid or sarcastic.
It explains further in that he is, in fact, being sarcastic.
HEY... isn't the moon made of Cheese??
Well of course!! I thought it was meant to be Wensleydale. Don't forget the crackers Gromit!
OMG love your A Grand Day Out refference!
I HAVE SAID THIS ALL ALONG. There is no cheese that can withstand the weight of three men and a space bus.
The moon being made of cheese is a lie by the dairy lobbyists to make you THINK of cheese at night! The moon is really a satellite! :p
It's really cold!
Yep... but they didn't take any wine or crackers. Complete BS if you ask me.
That's why they couldn't send mice to the moon. Cheese could support the small weight of mice but by now they would have eaten it.
it's probably very stinky but yummy cheese, i mean look at how long it's aged.
He is absolutely right. Who travels 3 days just to sit on the bus! I am now rethinking this whole moon landing farce.
"I decided to do the moon landing tweets because the concept was funny to me, I liked the idea of poking fun at conspiracy theorists by being one of them," David told Bored Panda. For those still wondering if he's joking. I know the print is small, but it's there.
Furtherhencemorth
Definitely the best part if the whole thing. I'm gonna use this word more often
I was hoping somebody else caught that. Easily the best part of the whole thing.
It's depressing how many people are attacking this guy thinking he's serious. Take a goddamn joke, people.
Stupidity has long been a pandemic in America.
I'm honestly not sure if he's joking. He felt the need to say he wasn't joking.
The fact that anyone would need to be told that this is a joke is the reason we have a sociopath in the White House, mind boggling stupidity.
Honestly I'm not sure. It would take the same level of stupidity to take this seriously if it's fake as it would to be legitimate about it when posting it. I just don't know anymore.
What's funny is that there are Trump voters out there going, "Yeah, that's it!!!"
Might be a trump voter writing it, thinking it's true.
There are people out there who WILL quote from this as proof...I am constantly disappointed in the human race..
Well, yeah. It's on the Internet, so it's true.
Oh thank you, now i can sleep well tonight after realise i can land on sun at night because sun will put off their fire at night
I'm gonna print this thread so I can laugh in the faces of all those moon landing 'believers' and wave it at their stupid ignorant faces. That'll learn em.
a parody is to make fun of something, but unever use it as an argument. It makes the oppositte effect and you will look stupid
"Furtherhencemorth" really cracked me up.
There's absolutely NO WAY Neil Young was on the moon in July 69. He was on tour & getting ready to record After The Gold Rush.
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Yeah we need to buy more moon 50 bucks per piece and God sticks them on just so we have something to look at at night
The Vin Diesel asteroid belt X-D
Haha gotta love Hughes. He's a bloody legend.
We should have listened to Von Braun. He over engineered the rockets and spacecraft with Mars by 1985 in mind.
For most of his tweets there is an obvious answer such as that they cant be shadows on moon because it is night, but the sun is in the centre and side you are on the moon there is no night
What about staying on the Planet Earth, and stop destroying it and start taking care of it instead?
Where would NASA even find Lance Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear, and Adrian Shephard to go to the moon anyway?
His joking logic is legit batter than the actual thing.
My husband tells conspiracy theorists the the moon landing WAS faked but it was directed by Stanley Kubrick who was a known stickler for details and insisted it be shot on location.
Lmao for a sec I thought he was serious- he's just messing with the people who don't study stuff lol
Wasn't there an incident a few years ago, when some Moon landing conspiracy theorist basically called Buzz Aldrin a liar to his face, repeatedly. Then Buzz turned round and belted the guy in the face.
The fake moon landings were famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick but he was such a stickler for realism that he took the whole film crew to the moon to do it. (not mine originally but I still laugh at it)
What’s even funnier? Some will get angry, and some will believe him.
"furtherhencemorth" brilliant.
Funny. Facebook Mum comment Funny
Wait... So are you saying night time tides are a lie!!?? WOW! I have been lied to my hole life, because in the day the moon gets sucked into a black hole, and at night gets spit out again!
(I know the whole thing was a joke)
Furtherhencemorth...
The light rays on the photos prove we landed there. There is no possible way that you can create perfectly parallel light sources on earth.... we barely can do that now... let alone the 60s.
Also the Japanese satellite took photos of the landing sight. In their photos you could see everything down to footprints.
Overheard in a bus ride: a 4 yo asks his Mom: Mommy, does the Sun ever sweat with all that hot? - Mom: No, sonny, the sun can't sweat, otherwise it would put off itself. +30 years later, I still don't know if the mommy was being serious or making a deadpan joke, or simply came up with a genius answer in childspeak to shut up her child.
Hughsey is a bloody national treasure!
One thing. Say it was fake (no i dont believe but imagine it was) why the heck would you need to fake something like this? whats the point? and for the "3 days on the bus" well who do you think was taking the picture? unless they had robots. but still.
Come get your mans
Don't give these people attention
This is brilliantly written!
Yawn.
there is no way that guy was being serious...
He came out later saying the whole thing was a joke. He was poking fun at conspiracy theorists
Thank you. Your the one person giving solid evidence rather than saying "if you believe this you are dumb."
OP has to be trolling.
It is a true testament to how whacko some of these types of people are that it sometimes becomes impossible to distinguish the "real" flakes from the lampoon.
To David McNamara We sent Wallace and Gromit up there during the great cheese shortage! As the Americans went up there too it means any deals are between the UK and the US. The EU get nothing
Furtherhencemorth.... XD
I'm 100 percent sure he's joking. Wait no .43 percent. Nah 60 % ?
boring and not even remotely funny
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Some guy was being a troll on Twitter. Ok?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Can't argue science and after all, he's that random stranger on the internet that has all the answers, so it must be true. (LOL , 7 downvotes. Either 7 people were too stupid to get the sarcasm, or 7 people were absolutely pissed off because I hurt their anti-science feelings.... )
it's hard to tell when somebody is being sarcastic online
In their defense, it can be a little hard to understand sarcasm over text. Not bashing you though, I though your joke was funny. I brought you up to -6 instead of -7!
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My guess: You don't think mask works to protect from Covid-19 You wear a red cam with MAGA on it.
He's taking the piss out of conspiracy theorists. This isn't serious.
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no
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I can't decide if he is stupid or sarcastic.
It explains further in that he is, in fact, being sarcastic.