On Anniversary of the First Moon Walk, it is the Chinese who Plan another

Ryan says:

The Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter imaged all six Apollo landing sites, and was able to resolve not only the descent stages of the lunar modules from each mission, but also tracks from lunar rovers and the astronauts themselves. However, if you believe in such an elaborate and widespread conspiracy in the first place, then it is not a giant leap (pardon the pun) for you to believe the LRO images are faked as well. That really cuts to the heart of the issue though, because for those who are intent enough on believing something, there is no such thing as ?irrefutable evidence? to the contrary. Instead of reviewing all the available information, you have formed a premise and you are attempting to find ambiguities in the data which can be exploited to support your claim. Implicit in your statement is a mistrust of every single individual who was intimately involved in the Apollo project, as well as every scientist in the present day who has studied images of Apollo landing sites taken by the LRO. Admittedly, agencies such as the NSA have given people a lot a reasons to be mistrustful of certain government agencies, however your comments on this issue both misplace that mistrust, and take it to an absurd extreme.

I rarely comment on random blog posts on the internet, and perhaps my response is a bit of an overreaction considering that the belief in a staged moon landing is on the fringes, and is unlikely to gain traction in mainstream society. However, this issue troubles me, and not just because I am someone who has had a life-long appreciation for the scientific and engineering accomplishments of space programs throughout time and all over the world. Your view is an unfounded belief which masquerades as logical and scientifically rigorous point of view, and I see a great many parallels between your approach to this issue and the insidious way in which politicians (mostly American, and mostly Republican) go about denying climate change. Clearly our understanding of the earth?s climate is not complete, and as with any other scientific endeavor, it never will be. But in the same way that we know enough about fluid mechanics to make jumbo jets fly, and enough about semiconductors to make computer chips work, we know enough about climate science to say that changes in the earths climate caused by the burning of fossil will have a significant impact on our planet over the coming century. However, those in positions of power who deny climate change, continue to form their opinions based on subsets of available data which can be manipulated into refuting anthropogenic climate change. It?s hard to say whether they know in their hearts that this approach is not logically rigorous, but the basis of their opinions and manner in which they present their arguments is quite similar to the way in which people go about touting theories that the moon landing was a hoax.

I went way off topic there. Long story short: the moon landings happened, deal with it.

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