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Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-looks-like-a-job-for-jupiter-jones dept.

MarkWhittington writes: According to a Tuesday article in the Moscow Times, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee named Vladimir Markin suggested that an international investigation be mounted into some of the "various murky details surrounding the U.S. moon landings between 1969 and 1972." Markin would particularly like to know where some of the missing moon rocks went to and why the original footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing was erased. Markin hastened to add that he is, of course, not suggesting that NASA faked the moon landings and just filmed the events in a studio.

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  1. Of course not. by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Markin hastened to add that he is, of course, not suggesting that NASA faked the moon landings and just filmed the events in a studio.

    Of course he's not suggesting that. He's suggesting that Putin wants another sideshow and is desperate enough to think this'll do it....

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    1. Re:Of course not. by ShaunC · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not only that, but at the time of the Moon landing, the Russians themselves were rather heavily involved in that arena. Had the landing been faked, Russia absolutely would have known; they would have distributed the proof far and wide to humiliate and one-up the Americans. It's just a tad late for a Russian to start asking questions.

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    2. Re:Of course not. by dunkindave · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Obviously those are fakes. You can tell by the fact that they show a lander on the moon. :-D

      Sadly, that is how a conspiracy theorist actually thinks. In this case, NASA publishing photos from a probe orbiting the moon to prove NASA went to the moon 40 years ago will be labeled as the complicit organization just putting out more lies. These people will only believe something when it is put directly in front of them (sometimes not even then), and since they can't go to the moon to see these artifacts for themselves, you can't prove it to them, and any second-party proof you present will be dismissed as fake or lies. It is one of the tenets of how they make claims that within their requirements for "proof", the claim becomes non-falsifiable.