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I'll admit, I'm not the most educated on all the conspiracy theories surrounding the moon landing.
The United States became the first country to send humans to the moon back in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission, and since then 6 separate crewed missions have sent 24 U.S. astronauts to land on the moon.
Or is that just what they want us to think?
There's a sizable part of the population who believes that the moon landing was fake. The conspiracy theorists generally believe that the United States faked the landing in order to be able to claim to have beaten out the Soviet Union in the space race during the Cold War, and point to the fact that we haven't returned since 1972 as evidence that it was staged.
Much of the "evidence" revolves around missing blueprints for the lunar modules, as well as so-called irregularities in the photos and videos of the landing and astronauts on the moon.
And listen, I'm generally the first one to question pretty much everything the government tells us. I pretty much just assume they're always lying to us until it's proven otherwise. But man, if they managed to pull this one off, with as many people as they would need to be in on it, they're more competent than I give them credit for. (And I don't think they're competent enough to pull it off).
Danica Patrick, however, is all in on the conspiracy theory.
The former NASCAR and IndyCar driver shared a video on her Instagram story of a clip from
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with noted moon landing denier Bart Sibrel - the same man who was once punched by Buzz Aldrin for confronting him and claiming that the moon landing was fake.
In the clip, Sibrel explains part of his rationale:
"If you really went to the moon and spent $200 billion you would never destroy the technology. But one of the clips we have is them saying that they intentionally destroyed all of the equipment to go to the moon. All the diagrams, all the hardware, all the schematics, all the original telemetry of where the rocket was at the time, and all the original videotapes."
And in her Instagram post, Danica admits that this is one conspiracy theory that she buys into:
"This is definitely one of the conspiracy's I believe. I don't care if you think I'm crazy. I already know I am."
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Well some people might think she's crazy, but at least among her followers, it seems she's found a receptive audience. In the poll she included on her story asking whether people thought we went to the moon, so far 53% have voted no and 47% have voted yes.
Sorry Danica, but I'm not buying this one.
Well some people might think she's crazy, but at least among her followers, it seems she's found a receptive audience. In the poll she included on her story asking whether people thought we went to the moon, so far 53% have voted no and 47% have voted yes.
Sorry Danica, but I'm not buying this one.