I can't remember where I heard this or of it is true, but apparently it would have cost significantly more money to deceive the public with a fake moon landing than it would have been to fund the mission. When I think about the effort they would have put behind this ruse it makes sense as I'm sure the media was all over the event and the fakery wouldn't have been isolated to a single broadcast.

Actually the second moon turned out not to be a moon at all, it was a red herring and it was Earth All Along

CGI in 1988.

who ever said that other than some random comment on the internet the traditional narrative is that they filmed it in the desert.

filmmakers can make the most bootleg looking set resemble a real place (just ask stanley kubrick) so there's no question they coulda faked the landing in 69'.

these conspiracies always draw attention away from other thinking that's more plausible than the quackery.

maybe they faked the manned moon landing but sent an unmanned probe to the moon, which is why the soviets didn't make a fuss.

maybe the 9/11 attacks were real but the attackers were actually real guys who were persuaded to do it by some gov.

you don't get that--you get ridiculous theories involving lasers and other far out shit.

Now imagine how CGI was when they flew to the moon in 1969!

The best argument against the moon landings being fake is the sheer amount of people involved in the Apollo project. Estimates go up to 400'000 people (with different levels of involvement). If it had all been fake, someone would have blabbed by now.

I remember when I was in kindergarten and the teacher was cool for reminding us that Beast Wars is coming up soon in couple of hours, so we could have something to look forward to going home!

That's why NASA conveniently lost all the video footage of the moon landing event, because they know we would laugh at how fake it looks if we could see it today.

The Moon landing was staged, but Kubrick insisted on shooting on location.

Am I a joke to you?!

Hey hey hey, don't talk smack about Beast Wars. Hands down still one of the best damn Transformer shows out there. Writing was at least tiny bit better than G1 but what really made the show was the characters and dialogue. You don't see a lot of shows with that kind of vibe/quality anymore.

Yes but the government had much better CGI that wasn't available to the public yet, duh

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MAXIMIZE !!

TERRORIZE !!

then there was Waspinator: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The moon landing is easier to think of as faked now as we only get the highlights. Landing, flag and a few bounces. The actual moonwalk was a couple hours. They where setting up stuff, getting samples. Buzz was running around for some reason. People at the time had live evidence and where able to watch it at home.The only thing they didn't have was chat distracting them and asking questions that had already been answered.

Opinions of the guy aside, I recall it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who made the argument that it simply is cheaper and easier to go to the moon than to fake it and maintain the coverup.

Like, we can't keep secrets for shit, but that's the one that stays kept?

CGI in 1991:

They wanted to fake a moon landing and after analyzing cost they concluded that the cheapest option was to film on location.

I heard they got Stanley Kubrick to fake the landing, but he was such a stickler for accuracy he got them to actually go to the moon to film it.