Did We Go (Back) To The Moon？ Michael Knowles Investigates Artemis II
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Summary
As the Artemis II launches into deep space and bangs a U-E around the moon, we will take a trip down memory lane and consider why we are so fascinated by Earth s favorite at rock. Since ancient times, man has looked up to the moon and thought, What is that? Why is it different shapes sometimes? And I wonder if I could get up there and walk on it. Then in the 1950s, American scientists and foreign communists figured out how to use rockets to explode our way into space. We began to race the Soviets, and while they got into orbit first, we set our sights on a higher, rockier goal: going to the Moon.
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NASA is going back to the moon, or, depending on your particular perspective, NASA is attempting
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As the Artemis II launches into deep space and bangs a U-E around the moon, we will take
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a trip down memory lunar lane and consider why we are so fascinated by Earth's favorite
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Since ancient times, man has looked up to the moon and thought, what is that?
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And I wonder if I could get up there and walk on it.
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Then in the 1950s, American scientists and foreign communists figured out how to use
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We began to race the Soviets, and while they got into orbit first, we set our sights on
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
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using six and a half million pounds of kerosene
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13 had a little bit of trouble so they didn't land,
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It was at that point that everyone looked around
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thought, okay, I think we're probably good with this for a while. Big budgets and waning public
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interest ultimately shut down the Apollo program. Journeys to the moon changed from a lofty future
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goal to a thing of the past. America had won the space race. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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became household names. Everyone seemed to look back fondly at the time the United States defied
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the odds and accomplished what man had dreamt of for millennia. But the whole experience was so
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incredible that some people began to doubt that it was credible. I believe that we didn't go to
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the moon. So there was a documentary that came on on Fox. He might not have looked into it. I have.
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No one went to the moon. I don't think we did. I think it was fake. In 1979, a former naval officer
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named Bill Kaysing wrote a book subtly titled, We Never Went to the Moon, America's $30
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Four years after the final Apollo mission, Kaysing claimed that NASA simply did not have
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the technology required to make it to the moon, that the entire operation was an elaborate
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A small group of Americans began to examine the story closer and started to notice that
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Why does the flag look like it's waving when there is no air on the moon?
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It was filmed in a movie studio, possibly directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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The conspiracy theories percolated for years among small numbers of weirdos,
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mocked by polite society, which was delighted to gobble up the government slop story that they
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had been fed, as the doubters would have it. But then the conspiracy theorists had an Apollo 8
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moment of their own, the invention of the internet. I'm at the center of the web. In theory, I can
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pull in information from any other point at the speed of light. All of a sudden, the people asking
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questions about starless skies and wavy flags found an audience of millions of people eager
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to listen to them. People started making whole online careers out of questioning the truth
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of the Apollo missions. Then some other people made careers out of debunking those people.
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Then a slightly smaller group of people made still smaller careers debunking the people
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who were doing the debunking. People began to take sides. If you thought they were faked,
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you're an idiot. If you thought they were real, you're a bigger idiot, and probably Jewish.
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Everyone claimed secret knowledge. Esoterica abounded. Which brings us to today. Artemis II
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took astronauts to deep space, around the moon and back, paving the way for future manned missions
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to the surface. To many, this is a grand return, a triumphant message that we still possess the
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skill and audacity to travel beyond this goodly frame, the Earth, into and beyond the brave
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oar-hanging firmament, a mission that sets the stage for the future of space travel.
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Others, however, will never be satisfied. Every frame will be analyzed, every assumption
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questioned, every discrepancy will be evidence of another grand conspiracy.
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Whoever you are, whatever you believe, everyone was waiting for this moment.
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Unfortunately, NASA rejected my application to join the mission and see the evidence firsthand.
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But they did invite me to come to Cape Canaveral for the launch.
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I will admit, even though I am pretty Apollo-pilled, you know, I think it happened,
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Now, of course, the question is just where are they going to ditch that rocket ship, you know,
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so that they can pretend to go to the moon and, you know, I don't know, get on a boat or something.
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No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I think that's real.
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There have been several multi-hour-long blocks in which I was convinced that the whole thing was a big hoax.
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I made it my duty not just to report, but to investigate.
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For the benefit of all mankind, I would use my access to try to answer the truth of this
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I arrived, and immediately set out to inspect the rocket up close, at which point NASA informed
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me that I would be stationed three and a half miles away.
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Well, call me what you will, just don't call me late for dinner.
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At the very least, I saw and felt a very large rocket go very high in the air.
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If anything is going to the moon, I am confident that it is that.
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From my first-hand experience, I thought the case was closed.
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I did not intend to take any hard lines on this subject today.
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This may come back to bite me when the truth of the universe is hopefully revealed to me after the particular judgment.
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But I think that those guys and that lady and that Canadian went to the moon.
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We're so used to the general incompetence and perfidy of our decadent, degenerate culture
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that we doubt that people can do important, impressive things.
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Once we have the moon base up and running, there will be Twitter sleuths breaking down
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the doors of every movie studio, which is fine by me because Hollywood is Gomorrah by
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meantime, though, America is going back to the moon.
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