Quote:
Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
Forget about them, what about the Soviets? Surely, they would have raised hue and cry if they had not detected Saturn V zipping off on an intercept course with the moon. Perhaps they were part of the conspiracy?
|
I've heard some of the Apollo conspiracy theorists claim that the US bought the silence of the food-impoverished USSR with wheat. I've also heard them say there is collusion among the space faring nations to keep silent about each sides blunders in space, so the USSR wouldn't blow the whistle on Apollo and in return the US wouldn't blow the whistle on the fact that Mir never existed, or something like ridiculous like that. Not a shred of proof in this post-Cold War world to that effect, but it doesn't matter.
Like others have said, the people who choose to believe that the Apollo missions were faked - because they desperately need to believe that for whatever reason - will not be convinced by any facts presented to them, no matter how compelling. However, there are a lot of people "on the edge" who can be convinced by decisive proof, and this new lunar probe will indeed help clarify this issue for many people.