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I believe the 1969 Moon landing was a hoax. Besides all the evidence presented by the "Moon landing was a hoax" proponents, there's also the fact that we haven't gone back in HOW LONG?

See? It was all to beat the Russians. It was a Cold War piece of Hollywood trickery to help America psychologically.

1969 was a long time ago. It's not like the year is 1983, and it's only been a decade and a half. Back then, we could have given NASA the benefit of the doubt: "Maybe they're saving up for the next big project -- maybe a moon colony?"  But it's been 42 years!

I think the low Earth orbit missions are authentic -- we just can't go to the Moon or beyond without dying. Apparently there's a radiation belt around the Earth that is extremely deleterious to human physiology.

It got me thinking -- you have Star Trek (and its various spin-offs) and countless other Sci-fi series, all of which act as if staying on one's home planet is up there (advancement-wise) with cooking freshly killed animals over a bonfire.

But as a Catholic, I must object. God created the Earth and everything in it. He wants us here; he created us to live our short lives out on this world. Earth is not only hospitable to life, but it has everything we need. I don't believe we're meant to leave Earth behind as soon as we "grow up" as a civilization just like a pimply-faced teenager leaves his mom & dad's house at 18 to start his grown-up life.

But *every single* Sci-fi series acts as if extra-planetary space travel is a given.

My question: Does watching enough of these "harmless imagination" TV programs brainwash us to the point that our mind is "jarred" by the reality that we can't actually set foot on the humble Moon (nevermind other planets), to the point that we REJECT that reality?

Once again, the true evil of TV programming comes to light.

If there were any people left that didn't watch TV (not even in their foolish youth), you'd have more people reacting NATURALLY -- with derision -- when people suggest: "Of COURSE we're going to be able to travel to all sorts of planets in the near future. Our civilization just has to advance enough -- we have to grow up, that's all!"

A sane person would send anyone who said that to the looney bin.

Insanity is mistaken for wisdom, and vice-versa. What a messed up place the modern world is -- how full of error! How backwards -- how satanic!

Quote from: Matthew

See? It was all to beat the Russians. It was a Cold War piece of Hollywood trickery to help America psychologically.

Well then, why aren't the Russians exposing this, simply by invoking "the moon landing was a hoax" evidence, or by objecting that there is some kind of radiation belt preventing such an enterprise?

Could it be they would not be caught dead saying something so entirely ridicule?

Again, please, why the Russians never exposed this?

They probably want to "go to the moon" too.  :rolleyes:

I don't know, Vandaler.

And that's a valid answer when dealing with cօռspιʀαcιҽs. We don't know who was involved, exactly why they did it, etc. so how could I tell you why the Russians didn't do their own moon landing, or expose the hoax nature of the Americans' moon landing?

Maybe the single group that rules the world decided to have the USA "win" for whatever reason -- later on, the Soviet Union "fell" so it would seem to corroborate that theory. It was obviously decided to have capitalism "triumph" over communism on paper, even as communism triumphed over capitalism in reality.

In both systems -- today's Corporatism, or corporation-dominated Capitalism, and Communism, you have an oligarchy -- a rule by the few. There is little-to-no difference on the street between the two.

Most of the objectives of Communism have been achieved in modern-day capitalist United States, so it seems to have worked. It's like a sophisticated game of good cop, bad cop. Just like the 2-party system in the USA -- every 4 years you "throw the bums out" but the policies are all the same and nothing changes.