To all Apollo moon landing hoaxers, deniers, and cranks.

 Used to be that if you needed information first you went to periodical publications like newspapers or magazines then your only other choice was libraries where you found drawers full of 3” by 5” index cards you had to slog through to find what you’re looking for. Or you go to the research desk where the person there would either know off the top of their head where to find it, or they would slog through the catalogs for you. It was hard for average people to check the accuracy of things they read.

Then through the mid to late 1990’s libraries and other just about every other thing in the world became networked. From then if you really wanted to know the facts all you had to do was point click and type into search engines. That’s it.

Virtually everyone born after 1985 or so has had all the information in the world at their fingertips. And yet through seemingly pure laziness many or most have squandered it!!! The world can be made safe from misinformed people and purposeful disinformation campaigns because reality is stored in zeros and ones on computers all around the world that are linked at lightning speeds. And yet lazy assed conspiracy mongers squander easy access to the truth for bullshit that can be spread a hundred forty four characters at a time in “tweets” (sic) and everywhere there is a comment section. Nobody can have a real discussion in comment sections because the adolescent minds are in charge. The newest generations of young people ignore it’s use for research and use it instead for a make-believe world based on the stupid notion something is real because you voted it real. It’s a comic book world.

By going to the moon, six times, my generation did the impossible and handed you exactly how we did it, and connected you to a network that gave you thousands of ways to confirm it. Just because how it was done is over the heads of conspiracy cranks does NOT mean it wasn't done.

They did the mathematically impossible by getting up every day and solving a little more of the problem, day after day, month after month year after year, then putting the variables in the hands of a human pilot and primitive computers in real time. They did it, and did it again, and again, and again. Your "proof" doesn't exist outside the comic book false world of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter et all.

I challenge deniers to bring us your proof from outside your bubble. But you won't because it's too much effort and you have to get back to your comic books and crayon world and check Facebook to see if Lady Gaga farted this morning. Hopefully, you'll grow out of it.

 You are really stupid enough to believe that these men that were all career pilots of at the top of their profession, who's life histories can be easily verified would suddenly turn into lying patsies and tools of a conspiracy and remain so the rest of their lives. No deathbed confessions, no friends or family member stepping forth and tearfully confessing that they have to finally tell the truth. You don't have any idea of how a career pilot has to live in a reality based world, or die.

Big lies like that are against their nature. They would have had to send them to acting school to lie.

As someone who read the books of the space projects as a jr high school student and at age 19 watched on TV as Armstrong stepped on the moon then walked to the front yard and stared at the full moon knowing humans were on it, then years later meeting people in the early Silicon Valley days that had actually worked for Raytheon programming the Apollo computers and now were programming for early pre-windows PC makers and chip designers, I cannot help taking it as a personal insult to hear you say I am from a generation of liars and fraudsters.

Questioning and seeking truth were the pillars of my generation. I'm a counterculture baby boomer and it's not my fault that you need to compensate for the fact your generation doesn't measure up by trying to falsify mine. I could show you literally hundreds of ways outside your bubble to verify the moon shots really happen. I can't think of anything in American history with more factual no doubt about it documentation.

Without a doubt people I've known in my life that believe in conspiracy theories have been the hardest to reason with. I don’t believe anybody that claims to have secret knowledge or inside knowledge that has been suppressed. By claiming that they have knowledge that is suppressed or hidden they hope to dodge having to defend it. That of course leaves a hole in reasoned argument big enough for the biggest bullshit artists in the world to pour though. 

I give them what I think is the biggest insult you can give someone. They bore me.