re: Qs for the Moon Landing HOAXERS - which category are you in?

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If we actually went to the moon (which we did), then why would we have to doctor anything?

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This is a great question. And the answer is complex. Think of the bureaucracy of the federal government when analyzing this one. Imagine a couple dozen Gemini and Apollo missions, and ALL of the footage from each. Then imagine ALL the training done, and some of that filmed.

Then imagine a "high-fidelity" training event that was filmed. That film was copied, and given to a news station in Atlanta, because an astronaut on the flight is from Rome, GA (five weeks before launch). The reel has some adhesive label on it "final EVA training event for Apollo 14 - White Sands, New Mexico". In 1982, the adhesive label falls off.

Someone finds the reel in a basement in 1993 and gives it to a local science museum. The museum is contacted by a documentary filmmaker in 2002 and is loaned a box of photos, VHS tapes and film reels including the aforementioned reel.

And the footage makes it into some documentary, and 5% of the viewers can tell it is "fake". And so on and so on. So yes, this is a fact of the nature of footage, and of bureaucracy, and the failings of documentation and record-keeping.

Yet the result is, four viewers now KNOW the moon landings were faked, and NOTHING can change their minds!