I do hope others can identify genuine mean spirited rudeness from tongue-in-cheek "rudeness" which bears no real malice or personal slight.
With that proviso I can now safely call GM a
lunatic for his "we never went" comment. An apt moon related word in the circumstances too.
What those who hold your view always seem to think is we only went once in July 1969. But we went there six times with men on the surface over three and a half years until December 1972. Not forgetting the aborted mission in 1970, and the test orbit flights like at Christmas 1968 with the iconic Earth look back image from Christmas Eve.
Suppose for a moment you have successfully pulled off a fake moon landing in July 1969 and got away with it, proven your point, beaten the Soviets and fulfilled the JFK pledge to get there by the end of the 60's. Why would you choose just 4 months later in November to go through the whole charade yet again which could unravel the con you got away with first time? Why would you need to fake something SIX times when once would be more than good enough. It's illogical. If you've very successfully pulled off something and got everything you wanted without being caught then why are you going to risk doing it again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
I don't consider myself gullible or easy led and am a critical thinker but I've never doubted those magnificent achievements and the astounding bravery of those involved.
Out of interest GM, what about the probes to the moon, and even more interestingly what about our probes to Mars such as the Viking lander in 1976 which sent the first really fabulous clear colour images from the Martian surface? Did that go there and all the other ones since like Pathfinder in 1997, or was that somewhere in the Atacama desert or Arizona?
What about Voyager's 1 and 2, are they really now in interstellar space this incredible distance away in your view? Those my age were enthused and did a lot about them in our primary schooldays and marvelled at this and where they were going to visit.
science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-a...1-and-voyager-2-now/
Someone once made me laugh at them in derision on an Unexplained podcast when they held the "we never went" view with unimpressive evidence easily dismissed yet also at the very same time were adamant that "they have come here" lots of times and we have been visited from afar by physical beings not of this world.