So, I ranted a little today to Nigel about how much I despised Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists, and he said “you should probably post that up”. So I will.

What kicked it off was that he said, “You really dislike it when someone questions that the moon landings happened, don’t you?”, or something to that effect.

His point being that having some level of skepticism is healthy and that being skeptical about the moon landings was just a healthy distrust of government that everyone should have.

Now, I don’t disagree that we should be distrustful of government in general, and we certainly shouldn’t take everything that the US Government says at face value, without a doubt. But I believe that NASA has been extremely candid about the Moon Landings, and there has been such overwhelming and convincing evidence that the Landings took place in the manner and times in which have been documented by them, that the fact that they took place cannot be questioned.

What might be questioned is what, exactly, happened. There might be gaps in the activities performed there, secret equipment installed or secret experiments performed for the US Government or the US Military, but as for the question, did they land on the moon when they said they did? Yes. Without a shadow of a doubt.

It makes my blood boil when people start listing all of the bullshit reasons why we (and yes, I’m aware I’m Australian, and therefore “we” might be a bit presumptuous to our American friends who are the ones that actually did all the work – but I’m using the “we” of the world here) didn’t land, or they try to weasel around the landings and say, “Oh yes, we landed but not on that exact day.”

Bullshit. Armstrong and Aldrin are fucking gods to me, giants who still walk among us, who bled and sweated and cried and clawed their way into the stars and walked on the Moon and brought us back the rocks to prove it. To say they didn’t land, is to call them liars, and to call all the men and women who helped them land on the moon and safely come back liars. These men and women, mind you, are kindred, fellow Engineers of an almost mythical stripe – Engineers that know how to build fucking spaceships!

And these snotty nosed little twerps who couldn’t design a fucking bolt on a spaceship have the hide to call them liars?! They landed on the moon! Every single possible hoax “proof” can be easily and scientifically explained away! There are photos of the tracks made in the lunar dust by the Aldrin and Armstrong while they roamed about the surface performing their experiments, for fucks sake. Every peice of evidence that we have today, agrees with the recorded history and the statements made by everyone involved.

Look, I can understand why people might want this to be a hoax. I mean, after the past 30 years of governments the world over, lying and trying to hoodwink the populace, its easy to be distrustful and to start to distrust everything, including recorded history.

But it was another time, and Armstrong and Aldrin are fucking heroes. Give them the respect they deserve. Stop this bullshit. Acknowledge the greatness that took them to the moon and will someday take us further. We went to the moon, I have no doubt. It’s not blind faith speaking here – this is trust in my ability to sort fact from fiction. And none of the facts presented by NASA have any hint of deception in them, or they would have been torn apart by the Scientific community years ago.

And no lie can ever be that perfect.