Moon Landing: Russians Think it is Fake News, Too By James Reed

     Being a Right winger fringe dweller, I pride myself in believing in all conspiracies that don’t involve harm to people. Take the alleged moon landings. Sure, I too saw it on black and white TV back in the prehistoric era when I was a teenybopper. It looked fake then, with the US flag blowing in the breeze, or even standing up. Look, you can go onto the mainstream media, like YouTube and find material criticising it. Even on Facebook, so the truth must be out there. And, there is a motive too, the US wanting to spit in the eye of the communist monster. Hell, why didn’t the Russians fake a moon landing back? Or, why didn’t the Russians expose it at the time? After all, most Russians are like me, and just don’t believe:
  https://www.rt.com/politics/434419-russians-nasa-lunar-fake/

“Over a half of all Russians believe that US astronauts have never been on the Moon and that the US authorities and NASA covered up this fact by forging proof of moon landings, a new poll shows. In the recent survey titled “Science and society: authority and trust” experts of the Russian state-run public opinion research center VTSIOM wrote that 57 percent of Russians currently think that the US claims of successful manned Moon missions are lies and that the documented proof of these missions was forged. Only 24 percent of respondents said that they believed that the manned Moon missions were real. Researchers also specified that 65 percent of those who think that the US authorities are lying about the moon landings have secondary education.

However, Russians are not only suspicious about the NASA moon missions. 59 percent of the poll participants share the opinion that “scientists conceal the truth from common people.” Even among Russians with higher education the proportion was extremely high – at 45 percent. When facing the question if the scientists possessed some “objective knowledge” about the reality the Russian public again split into almost equal parts: 42 percent agreed that this was true while 41 percent said that in their opinion the scientists who claimed this weren’t telling the truth, albeit in good faith. In the same poll, three percent of Russians said that they personally supported the flat Earth theory. 93 percent said that they shared the traditional opinion of Earth being a ball-shaped planet and four percent found it too difficult to answer the question. As far as space aliens are concerned, 45 percent of the poll participants said that they believed in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and 42 percent think that aliens either don’t exist or for some reason prefer not to visit Earth and contact humans. 18 percent of respondents said that in their opinion the authorities were hiding proof of alien visits from the general public.’

     Wow, moon conspiracies, aliens, …  Russians are really colourful people, and I love them. Why would anyone want to go to war against such a great race of people? Sure, I know, the global conspiracy to destroy the white race and all that stuff.
  https://www.rt.com/usa/410360-moon-landing-new-conspiracy/

PS: What about the alleged claim that one can bounce a laser off of some tech thing left on the moon, that the cool geek guys from the TV show Mythbusters apparently did? That, my drinking friends, is no proof, that WE put said geeky tech laser bouncing object there. For all we know it could have been those space aliens that almost a majority of Russians believe in.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zm7LfuDCu8
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPMoIv1lxI

     Before I tore this article, written in pencil, and to be attached to the leg of a homing pigeon, to reach our editor, in the far away land of Adelaide, some voice in my head said to me that I should look into the idea that the moon is actually hollow! Yes, people are championing that one too, God bless them:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0AqdaF-SA

     I fell asleep from the effects of alcohol somewhere during this, but, I noted that the idea is that space aliens have created the moon as an artificial space station. I do not know how this would fit in with gravitational theory e.g. tides, but the idea to me is not as exciting as the old classic that the moon is made of cheese:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8aM9v40Sg

     Who would want to write a song about a hollow moon? It would sound … fake … perhaps even … hollow …