Moon Landings - Real or Fake ?

oh bugger and I thought that I always hid my tracks well,damn if my lair has been discovered this is most upsetting. Do you know how hard it is to find a place to get away from polution in all its forms and find a bit of 'tranquility',. Damn you Boaty and sting now that you have let people know there is life there they will all want to go. For goodness sake,keep away from my favoutite little bar on mars,as if thats discovered the name mars bar will be in the public conciousness and that will be the end of that secret too !!!!

My younger brother can argue convincingly that the moon is unvisited and the earth is flat, plus a few other anti reality arguments.

The thing is, he knows that what he is arguing is not true, it just amuses him to make people with fewer debating skills either frustrated enough to get angry at his arguments, or better still to convince them they were wrong in believing otherwise.

There are lots of people who do the same thing and it spreads like wildfire until huge amounts of people actually believe this rubbish.

I've watched journalists do the same for decades - print something to see how fast it will spread.

How many people here believe that conkers have been banned, for instance, due to health and safety concerns, or that blackboards could not be used because black folk complained? These "facts" were made up and printed in newspapers and became real things when they kept on spreading.

Once people spread rumours by word of mouth, that was bad enough, then written media was used to do the same thing and being widely read, and later watched, untrue things were easier to get out to the public. Now the internet spreads things so fast and so widely, that it is impossible to ever find the original source and disprove it.

Open a large sack of feathers, shake all the feathers out from the top of a tower on a windy day and then try and collect all the feathers a week later.

That is how false stuff is spread, and why people believe things such as the moon landing being made up, or the earth being flat.

We should make something up that could be believable and see if we can convince alot of people that it's true!!!

This could be a new thread and it could be fun!

I suggest any flat earth believers take a look from an aeroplane window . you can see the curve of the earth if its clear.

Not if he puts them on upside down snd walks across the planet !!