Moon Landing Doubts
SUMMARY
Shadows, flags, missing tapes. And still — retroreflectors sit on the surface, answering lasers.
FULL DOSSIER
The hoax case collapses on its own logistics — 400,000 conspirators, retroreflectors that answer lasers from any observatory, rocks with no terrestrial isotopes. But the doubt itself is the interesting artifact: it was seeded in 1976 by a single self-published pamphlet, and it grew because the government that went to the Moon was simultaneously running COINTELPRO and burning MKULTRA files. Institutions that lie about some things lose the benefit of the doubt on all things. That's not physics. That's the actual mechanism.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Lunar Laser Ranging (Apache Point)
02Apollo sample catalogs, LPI
03Plait, 'Bad Astronomy' (2002)
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