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Originally posted by Evil Al:
I'm really glad you asked that Neb. It was oftern thought that the first counrty who landed on the moon would will the cold war. Americans feared if the Russians go there first they would build a nuclear siklo on the moon. Baring in mind juring the cold war the USSR and the USA were bitter enemies and anything that one side had that the other side didn't was a minor victory. At the time the Russian space program was much better than the American one.
Howdy Al. I'm not going to slam your theory. Although I do agree with Cloudy that, on the scale of Conspiracy Theories, this one's pretty low. But, having been accused of being a 'Crazy' myself a few times, I can understand some of your points.
But, one thing you need to take into account. If the moon landing, hence the entire Space Race was based on fraud, how do you explain the massive societal changes that came about from it? When the USSR sent up Sputnik the American administration went NUTS. "You mean...they've got stuff in space before we do? We cant have that. We're the USA!" BOOM...All of a sudden, almost 50%(!!!!!!!) of the GDP was being dumped into NASA and the space program. Suddenly, almost the whole focus of the US was on space. The space race reached its fingers into every facet of out society. Engineering, metallurgy, electronics, computers, heck...Even the food market(Can you say TANG?..."It's what the astronauts drink" heh).
And the pinnacle of that race was the moon landing. Without that, most of the program would have been scrubbed and the USA would have lost the race.
And, all things considered, if the landing really was faked, then SOMEONE with actual, credible evidence would have come forward by now. I mean, there were what? 6? 7 landings? That's an awful lot of people in on the secret. All of the astronauts, the engineers at NASA, Flight Control. Then you have the people that would have been needed to perpetuate the hoax. The ones on the 'set' if you will. Sound folks, TV crew, set builders, etc etc etc. And that doesn't even take into account all the people who watch the takeoff. And those that watched things on telescopes etc.
It's an interesting theory, but, having been a rabid follower of NASA and a big fan of space exploration/travel, then I have to respectfully disagree.