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Some thoughts on the current controversy about the Apollo 11 moon landing and its tapes.

I remember seeing the moon landing on an episode of The Wonder Years (one of the best shows ever made) and seeing the two humans in spacesuits bouncing across the surface of the “moon” (I put “moon” in parentheses because I was not there to see any of this happen with my own eyes). It might sound ridiculous to expect to have been there, but so does walking on the moon when you really think about it. Doesn’t it? I love America just as much as the next guy, but did we really walk on the moon?

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The idea comes up in the Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Californication” in the following lines:

Space may be the final frontier

But it’s made in a Hollywood basement

The meaning in this part of the song is that because of Hollywood, California is becoming so superficial and materialistic. It also gives the idea that Hollywood created the film about the moon landing in 1969 in a “basement”. The idea is very interesting to entertain. Hollywood no doubt had the technology and the set to create a fake film about two American astronauts landing on the moon. Because of the low quality film they used back then, it was even easier to create a realistic walk on the moon. It is possible that they may have slowed the tape down of the men jumping on the set to make it look like there was very little gravity. I would like to think that we did in fact beat the Russians in the Space Race of the 1960’s, but if there is any evidence that the moon landing might not have happened, I would have to take a step back and reexamine the footage. America had a very big reputation to uphold and we were certainly not going to lose it to some communist country across the ocean.

This might be another Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot type of mystery. Although it’s hardly supernatural, the controversy and attention will certainly be similar. I cannot believe that NASA lost the tapes of the original moon landing. What is this, Everybody Loves Raymond? I would expect something better from such an intelligent association.

All one can say is there is a moon and that human beings can walk. The rest is hearsay.

Watch the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing video on YouTube