Recent data suggests a growing generational divide in lunar skepticism. While only 3% of Americans over 50 doubt the Apollo missions, nearly 1 in 5 young adults believe the landings were faked—a trend likely fueled by the modern resurgence of misinformation online. Skeptics point to common myths like the “waving” flag, lack of soil moisture, or studio lighting as proof of a hoax. Interestingly, those who deny the Moon landing are far more likely to believe in extraterrestrial visits, with 75% convinced that aliens have already reached Earth. As pseudoscience gains traction on social media, these gaps in scientific perception continue to widen.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    It was shady because the point was to develop ICBM technology.

    “Going to the moon” was literally the backup to “nuke the moon”, it was just decided that people would rally behind a scientific feat more than wasting a shit ton of moon to show everyone we could nuke the moon if we wanted to.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

    So when people dig, there’s a lot of validly weird shit going on with the moon mission. Rather than relize the (relatively) open reason for the weird stuff, people jump to it all being fake. Because that’s the simplest explanation