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Let's talk about the Cold War for a bit. Who remembers the Space Race in the latter half of the 20th century? I'm too young to have experienced it personally, but I'm sure there are many people here who have.
According to certain conspiracy theorists, none of it ever happened. There was no moon landing, no space walks, no space stations, - even no outer space at all! Yet the US and the USSR were staking their national and ideological pride on this competition between them. How does that make any kind of sense?
The US and the USSR were the greatest of enemies. They would do anything they could to undermine, embarrass, or otherwise thwart each other, up to and including preparing for Mutually Assured Destruction via nuclear war.
Yet, according to conspiracy theorists, they were both in on this whole space deception together. If there was no such thing as space or space travel, surely the higher-ups of both nations would know this, and surely when their greatest rival began outshining them in the Space Race, the ultimate way to humiliate and take them down would be to reveal that it was all fake - they never actually accomplished anything. The only way this makes any kind of sense is if the entire Cold War - the animosity between the US and the USSR, and democracy and communism in general in the 20th century - was also a facade. An imaginary conflict between groups that were actually best buddies, all working together to deceive the rest of the world.
For this imaginary conflict, proxy wars (such as the Korean and Vietnam wars) were conducted on false pretenses. Literally tens of millions of people died over the decades as a result of the global struggle between capitalism and communism, and for what? Some would have you believe they died for nothing at all. All of the times the world was on the brink of nuclear annihilation (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Stanislav Petrov incident) were risks taken for nothing. Wiping out the entirety of human civilization was apparently a small price to pay to keep up the deception.
Every other country that has ever ventured into space is apparently in on the whole thing, too, including China, Canada, the UK, Italy, France, Australia, Japan, The European Space Agency (which represents 22 nations), India, Israel, the Ukraine, Iran, South Korea, and New Zealand.
All of these countries are coordinating perfectly with each other to make sure that all of their claims corroborate on every detail, despite all of the animosity and differences between them. In fact, for this conspiracy to be true, there would have to be no real conflict between national governments at all - everything would have to be ruled by a single shadow government, controlling the entire world. That means that all wars and international conflicts are staged, just to prop up the conspiracy.
Tell me honestly, does that sound reasonable?
According to certain conspiracy theorists, none of it ever happened. There was no moon landing, no space walks, no space stations, - even no outer space at all! Yet the US and the USSR were staking their national and ideological pride on this competition between them. How does that make any kind of sense?
The US and the USSR were the greatest of enemies. They would do anything they could to undermine, embarrass, or otherwise thwart each other, up to and including preparing for Mutually Assured Destruction via nuclear war.
Yet, according to conspiracy theorists, they were both in on this whole space deception together. If there was no such thing as space or space travel, surely the higher-ups of both nations would know this, and surely when their greatest rival began outshining them in the Space Race, the ultimate way to humiliate and take them down would be to reveal that it was all fake - they never actually accomplished anything. The only way this makes any kind of sense is if the entire Cold War - the animosity between the US and the USSR, and democracy and communism in general in the 20th century - was also a facade. An imaginary conflict between groups that were actually best buddies, all working together to deceive the rest of the world.
For this imaginary conflict, proxy wars (such as the Korean and Vietnam wars) were conducted on false pretenses. Literally tens of millions of people died over the decades as a result of the global struggle between capitalism and communism, and for what? Some would have you believe they died for nothing at all. All of the times the world was on the brink of nuclear annihilation (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Stanislav Petrov incident) were risks taken for nothing. Wiping out the entirety of human civilization was apparently a small price to pay to keep up the deception.
Every other country that has ever ventured into space is apparently in on the whole thing, too, including China, Canada, the UK, Italy, France, Australia, Japan, The European Space Agency (which represents 22 nations), India, Israel, the Ukraine, Iran, South Korea, and New Zealand.
All of these countries are coordinating perfectly with each other to make sure that all of their claims corroborate on every detail, despite all of the animosity and differences between them. In fact, for this conspiracy to be true, there would have to be no real conflict between national governments at all - everything would have to be ruled by a single shadow government, controlling the entire world. That means that all wars and international conflicts are staged, just to prop up the conspiracy.
Tell me honestly, does that sound reasonable?