Husband insists moon landings were faked and 9/11 was a false flag secret operation the Americans did to themselves

[AmberTigerEyes]

I am désolé
My husband, he tell me he really believe there has never been a moon landing and that the 9/11 attacks were faked too.
I was in New York on 9/11
He knows this
He keeps saying things that have been disproven as conspiracy theory myths.
I wonder if I should be calling for a mental crisis unit.

I'm neither unintelligent or mentally unwell, thank you, and I'm extremely sceptical. Surely questioning things like this rather than blindly accepting them shows a more enquiring mind. Technology was really basic in the 1960's, I just can't see how they could have done that when so many other things were so rudimentary. We could barely get a TV signal in the 1960's!

Literally one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Have you SEEN cars from tge 50s and 60s??? They were boats, nothing aerodynamic about them.

Buy him shitloads of Wensleydale, and hopefully that will distract him enough

Agreed, and many things that are assumed to be conspiracies later turn out to be true.

They have. Multiple missions landed on the moon.

I also wonder about the moon landings. Was discussed it with my family only the other day, I was asking about the Van Allen radiation belts and trying to understand how the Apollo got through them.

You have to watch the Michael Moore movie before you comment any further about 9/11. It’s frightening stuff.

It never IS 'that alone' though, is it? I've never come across anyone in RL, or online for that matter, who didn't believe in a whole raft (interconnected or not) of conspiracy theories.

I believe in the Loch Ness Monster, or like to believe.
A lot of people don't believe in the moon landings and think 911 was an inside job.
The one thing I can never understand though Is Holocaust disbelief, I mean come on.
I also belive that every living thing has a soul and when someone dies you should open a window to let the soul fly out , should I see a therapist?.

The lochness monster was made up by the daily mail in the 1920s @Nos4r2. There is a rest is history episode on it if you're interested! Sad but true!

Over 50 years. I think it’s more if the moon rocks had oil or rare minerals we would have been having moon battles. As it had nothing of value, no one wanted to spend the money

I think many people think the Americans sent one rocket to the moon and landed on it, if fact it started in 1958;
1958 - 1963 Project Mercury with 26 missions (six manned),
1964 - 1966 Project Gemini with 12 missions (ten manned),
1961 - 1972 Project Apollo with 17 missions (Apollo 11 being the first manned landing on the moon).
It would be an inordinate task to fake all of 55 of these missions and would require hundreds of people to be complicate and then keep quiet about it, and probably cost more than actually doing it!

Maybe you don't know the answers to this because the efforts of female scientists were overlooked in that time? (Even more than today.)

The first major, fully programmable digital computer system for NASA was the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) software, developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory led by Margaret Hamilton.

Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan worked at NASA as lowly "computers", performing mathematical calculations.

You're underestimating human ingenuity by a long way.

Margaret Hamilton photographed in 1969 standing next to the Apollo guidance software that she and her MIT team produced; 'Hidden Figures' movie and originals.

He probably thinks it’s alien outposts spying on us like anthropologists did on tribes in the Amazon

I was brought up with those pictures of The Loch Ness Monster that was in The News Of The World every Sunday.
My DH said nothing can live in loch Ness , but I love the idea that it could be true and would hate to be given proof that it wasnt, but that is a childhood thing that I wish was true, so I'm going to keep believing because I'm not hurting anyone and have never got into a heated debate or am a franatic about it, like some people about thier own ideas on moon landings and 911 and covid etc.

Perhaps you should

Yes

Although the official Covid guidance from President Trump was to inject bleach into our veins to kill the virus…..

Are all the conspiracy theorists using SatNav? What about Satellite telly?…before YouTube came along.

He’s an idiot

It doesn't really matter. So just smile and nod and say, oh yeah! Interesting, I agree! And hopefully he will get bored of it. Conspiracy theories are fun to believers because it makes them think they have figured something out that noone else has and that makes them clever. Agree with him and he loses that part of the fun.

Your questions were answered on this thread at 21:59 BST last night

They actually did go back—multiple times: Apollo missions 11 through 17 landed astronauts on the Moon It stopped mainly because of: Cost Political priorities shifting after the Cold War space race Now, programs like Artemis program are aiming to return humans again.

“The flag is waving—there’s no wind on the Moon”

What you’re seeing isn’t wind. The flag used by NASA had a horizontal rod to keep it spread out. When astronauts twisted the pole into the ground, the fabric moved and kept moving briefly because there’s no air resistance to damp it. On Earth, air quickly stops that motion. On the Moon, it lingers a bit—so it looks like waving.

Thank You all gave me a smile with my morning coffee.

Except it van be proven that they landed on the moon all you need is a good powerful telescope and you can see the landing site yourself.

I really wish people would stop saying that we will never know or that there's no way to prove it. There is a way just get a decent telescope and look for yourself and then you will have the evidence of your own eyes.

Sorry but you’re going to get a very long answer because it’s complex. I’ve been thinking a lot about space exploration and trust in institutions lately. Missions like Artemis II are seen as major achievements even though they don’t come close to landing on the moon and it makes me wonder why only 12 people have ever walked on the moon during the Apollo program, all decades ago. Why hasn’t it happened again, and why haven’t other countries done it? It was only the U.S
At the same time, the Epstein case and his links to Israel and wider political issues have made me feel increasingly uneasy about those in power. There are well documented links between governments, lobbying groups, and foreign policy interests for example organisations like AIPAC, which openly advocate for strong U.S Israel relations. There are also ongoing debates about political donations, lobbying influence, and how closely linked some governments are with countries like Israel.
On top of that, blatant insider trading, political influence, and the relationship between mainstream media. Even the BBC. Hence why I’ve started to become sceptical. Check out led by donkeys
All of this has made question more. I think it’s reasonable for people to ask questions and seek reliable information..

@GarlicFind

There was also Creola Katherine Coleman, and of course there was Judith Love Cohen whose work on the 'Abort-Guidance System is credited with helping save the Apollo 13 crew after an oxygen tank exploded disabling its electrical and life-support system.