Now It, Er, Needs To Be Told

Fifty years ago plus one day marks the day that we first never landed on the Moon.  I didn’t have access to tv at the time - unlike on 9/11, say; when I was able tis see those images immediately, and could tell immediately that there was something wrong with the narrative that we were being given to believe was what we saw - so it took me awhile to ‘get::-

* No blast crater under the LEM, no dust blown up for some of it to settle back onto the landing structures; that thing just sitting there as though in a sound studio;

* Shadows not parallel/different locations of lighting;

and after a little more digging:     

* A shot of the flag waving (in airless space), before subsequent shots of the flag treated as if it were waving, to enhance the illusion;

* Um…about those Van Allen belts…

…which are back in the news in our current day, with the astronaut spokesman training to go to Mars citing that factor as one that they still had to overcome.

That they still had to overcome…

…and the number of pictures taken far more than they would have had time to take in real time.  Rather than in reel time;

and, though their suit helmets blocked them from being able to look down and align their shots from the cameras mounted on their bulky suit chests, the shots came out perfectly aligned, and in perfect focus… 

…and a docu that I have subsequently seen shows how they created the shot back at the Earth, purportedly on their way to the Moon, seeing it whole from their vantage point out in outer space, when in reality what they apparently did was to photo the Earth from across the inner chamber of their Earth-orbiting capsule through a porthole, so that it appeared as though it were the complete Earth, rather than a shot from low Earth orbit.

We don’t even need that supposition to know that what we saw - what we thought we saw - ‘with our own eyes’ was a fraud.

Why would they do that?

People not alive at that time need to understand something about history.  At least, History as we have been given to understand it.  In 1957 the Soviets put into orbit the first satellite (a basketball-sized gizmo called Sputnik).  That was a shock to our system, given what was called the Cold War, and if the Soviets were able to ‘beat us into space’ and put into orbit a nuclear bomb, used to threaten the U.S. into submission, that would be disastrous, and wholly unacceptable; and so, that event triggered a massive spending project, for us to start churning out more scientists, especially aeronautical engineers.  And then, when JFK was elected president in 1960, one of the first things that he did was to announce that we would ‘put a man on the Moon before the end of this decade’.  And boom - off we went into another major, and even larger, round of spending, to accomplish that goal.  (Which a basketball-sized object had put it into our minds to accomplish.)

So, it was critical that we beat the Soviets into space, and especially to the Moon.  Which could be used as a permanent orbiting platform from which to aim nuclear devices back at Earth, and particularly at us.  So, The Race to the Moon began.  And our ‘team’ began to uncover details of the Mission that were proving to be insurmountable, at least at the time.  So, what to do.

Got it.

Fake it.  .

And so they did.  With the help of a lot of Hollywood-like shenanigans.  And, apparently, the terrain around Area 51, in the Nevada desert.  And for subsequent shots, of actions purportedly taking pace on the Moon.*

And such con jobs on the American people have been going on ever since.  (Well; even before the ‘60s and '70s, and The Race to the Moon.  But to continue.)  And crowned with the capstone piece to the enterprise:

9/11.

Next.

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* With it turning out that Wernher von Braun led an expedition to Antarctica to find some pristine rocks ‘from the Moon’ - or at least, space debris.

   Close enough.  For The Mission.