Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 09:42:32 AM

Unless I completely misunderstood him (which I doubt), @nullius is making fun of the typical nonsense that you can read in this section.

Nooooo! The so-called “Earth” does not exist; and the “Moon” was fabricated as a lie feeding a lie. What is your motive for lying about this, Rikafip? What are you, a CIA agent shilling for this psy-op!? KEEP UP THE STANDARDS OF THE POLITICS & SOCIETY FORUM!!!

More seriously, I do hypothesize that much of the psychological motive for the “moon landing hoax” nonsense is discomfit over the history of Wernher von Braun, et al. People believe what they want to believe. “Seek, and thou shalt find” is an ill epistemology, and very popular.

Quote from: nullius on Today at 07:11:08 PM

I suppose it goes to show that either way, any which way, people tend to discover what they want to find, not what is actually there.

On topic: I think that the pre-announcement is interesting, but perforce premature to discuss. It caught my interest. I will look forward to Monday! Literally ‘Moon Day’, < O.E. mōnandæġ. Unless there are any amateur philologists in the NASA press office, it is probably a coincidence; nonetheless, it is a poetic coincidence!