Friday 19 June 2015

Footprint of Lies?

 This is just a short one as I don't want to go into too much detail about something 'conspiracy theorists' have gone on about for over forty years. Regardless, I still think this is a fairly interesting apparent coincidence.

I was tempted to name this blog post "Did America just shit themselves", but gathered that that kind of title would just give me grief from overly patriotic Americans. So, did America just shit themselves? Metaphorically? Collectively?

The reason why I ask is that Russia has been looking for any way to dig up dirt on America or the West in general with the ongoing dispute over Ukraine. Seemingly, Putin has seen fit to return to an age of cold war-esque dick waving over now antique space programmes, and has called into question NASA's handling of important parts of their moon-landings.


Just to clarify, (as this is something which I had initially thought before re-reading the news story,) Russia hasn't necessarily said that they think the manned journey to the moon was faked, but that they wanted an investigation into the whereabouts of the original film recordings and fragments of sample moon rock taken back to Earth. Apparently much of the original equipment and so on was "destroyed to save costs".
Orbiter images show evidence for moon landings being real.

Now I don't want to get into the details of how and why the moon landings may be faked, let google be your guide in that respect, but I will say one thing. Who on Earth would throw away anything that was involved in mankind's most triumphant achievement? It just seems wholly inconceivable that anyone would chuck any of it away, let alone original recordings from the missions. I would argue that those trinkets and objects are so culturally relevant to all of humanity, that any destruction of any part equates to iconoclasm. So it is for this reason, that makes me consider that maybe the moon landings were faked after all.

Another article came out at around the same time this week though which has said that essentially, because of meteor showers, the footprints left by Neil Armstrong and others would slowly disappear under a layer of dust. Now don't get me wrong, I don't know the kind of timescale one would expect for this to happen. If this article had come out at any other time, I would have paid it no attention whatsoever, but the timing of this news story is rather, well, convenient!

This is all unlikely though. China and India have both photographed the Moon in high resolution a few years back, and seems to have verified the moon landing sites. 


I don't actually believe they were faked as I do think it would take more resources to keep it secret than it would just to do the thing in the first place, but there is always that niggle of doubt. And I don't want it to be faked either. For mankind to learn that our greatest achievement so far was a mere political ruse would likely harm our collective psyche. 
If it isn't faked, then as Russia has already said, we do need to find out what has happened to 'missing tapes' and moon rock fragments etc. They belong to us all.

Finally, even if the landings were faked, I don't think we should be addressing the issue. In special cases like this, ignorance really is bliss. If we stop looking up at the stars, if we stop dreaming, then our humanity is lost - finding a lie as big as this might open up a whole new level of apathy.

Which is fairly deep...

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