Today is the fortieth anniversary of the Moon landing so of course it has been all over TV. I remember staying up all night to watch. It has to be one of the most momentuous times in the last thousand years.
Unbelievably, I have read on other sites that perhaps the whole thing was a hoax. I know they made a movie with that very premise. They also made a movie about a faked war with Canada. I hope nobody thinks that actually happened. Not to mention the very real following of people who believe the Holocaust never took place. I know people can be gullible about many things but really. What I find even worse is that a lot of these comments were made by younger people. What have they been teaching in schools the last couple of decades?
On one of the programs I watched today, the hoax story was addressed. Maybe they could hoax one landing but not all of them. It would be too expensive and for what purpose, aside from the fact that special effects were nowhere near what they are today.
I heard today that there is a video on the Web purporting that the Pentagon bombing back on 9/11 was also a hoax. I haven't seen the video yet so I suppose I shouldn't comment on it. But it does raise a question of just how much we can believe what our government tells us.
Enough of the negative. Today marks the anniversary of a great human endeavor, possibly on unparalleled in human history. Hopefully there are better to come.
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