My favorite self made up conspiracy of the moon is:
As we all know the moon is moving away from the earth slowly each year but that means it was once much closer perhaps so close even that it rolled along the surface of early earth, pushing down on creatures that were lazy and didn't get out of the way into the ground giving us fossils.When the dinosaurs disappeared it wasn't from an apocalypse they just got tired of being squished and dino capitalism and decided to grab onto the other side of the moon as it rolled by and are now stuck up there.
And that's why the government won't let us go to the moon. Because they don't want us to meet our dino comrades.
68With the current theory of how the moon was formed, it was in fact close enough to be touching the earth at one point... technically
34Exactly.
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Checks out.
9Thank you.
I know, the evidence is outstanding. Truly the final leap in logic when you really look at the pieces.
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the moon is made out of cheese.
goverment cheese was never made to feed the poor or to bail out dairy farmers,
it was used to built the set where they faked the moonlanding.and now they feed it to the poor to get rid of the evidence.
5As a former recipient of said cheese, I am so glad they did that. That cheese was the best thing in my kitchen as a kid.
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Thats some new kind of tidal locking
3Did you come up with this as a kid? Totally sounds like something I would've thought of as a little one.
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Flat Earth already does this. And it also includes the Sun.
53Don't forget that the Moon also emits cold light, which makes things colder.
Seemingly 90%+ of Flat Earthers believe this.
Also sometimes the Moon is a hologram.
9Also, lunar clipses are caused by an anti-moon that you can't see unless it's between the moon and the Earth. I'm 100% serious they believe this.
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When I first started using Facebook, a relative shared something from a conspiracy theory page, and I started reading all of the stuff from the page and it blew my mind (I was around 11 or 12 I think). But then a few conspiracy theories were too obviously wrong even for the child I was. One was a video of the moon being passed over by a cloud. Because the cloud was very thin and the moon was bright, the light shone through nearly unaltered. And the text was claiming that the cloud was passing behind the moon and that this was the evidence that the real moon had been destroyed and a fake one had been built which was much closer to earth (beneath the clouds).
23I like to pretend they're memes. It makes the world a little less bleak. 😂 Sometimes they're actually unironically hilarious and you'll see them here.
8Well this is by design. Some conspiracy theories are just out there to make everyone think all conspiracy theories are hoaxes. They are the completely idiotic ones that is impossible to even see how they would work.
The entire flat earth society is also a complete hoax. It's just there because people Google on these things and that's the first hit the search engines give you. I think they say on the page that the earth is like an elevator that goes up all the time, or something like that. :)
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22DRINK! GIRLS!
3FECK! ARSE!
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Reminds me of good old Ken M
21Ken M <3 that takes me back
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It's part of their model already. And oh! The sun has the same size.
20I can't remember which comedian said this but he absolutely loves talking to flat earthers. Whenever they bring up the moon being too small, etc., he bursts out laughing and says, "You believe in the moon?!"
18Also in this model, the sun and moon cannot be seen in the sky at the same time, except during an eclipse. And the stars never change through the seasons, they are fixed points that look the same no matter where you are at on Earth.
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Aliens landed in my backyard the other day, and these little one-inch creatures came out. They walked up to me, I looked down and said - "Are you really one inch tall?" - and they said - "No, we're really very far away".
That's an old Steven Wright joke. Weirdly half-forgotten, the man deserves at least as much love as Mitch Hedberg does.
17Always time for one of my favorite fun facts:
The moon is so far away from the earth that all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.
I mean, not for long, but it would be worth it.
14Hold on a second. You can fit Jupiter and Uranus in there?
WTF?! I have to check this.
4The interesting part is that it would be kind of a close fit, astronomically speaking
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but, it is small and close.
relatively :P
12So you are with us? I believe that, while the moon appears to be as big as the sun, it is not. It is in fact much smaller and closer to earth. And it doesn't shine on its own but only reflects the light of the sun.
NASA wants to cover this up by fabricating an obviously fake moon landing so people think "if the moon landing isn't real, the moon has to be much further away" but they can't hide the truth forever
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I was having a debate I didn’t know I was having with a flat earth guy at a Christmas party last year lol. He was asking me questions and I didn’t get why but were basic science so I was answering and then suddenly clicked when he started making remarks about how we only see one side of the moon. I still don’t get where he was going because I laughed it off and went about my business but he seemed to think that “they” were projecting a picture of the moon I guess? Or maybe the sky is a giant screen? I don’t know , it was just funny that it happened but I do wonder how you could think something like that but not think that ‘they’ would have that kind of technology and capabilities but not be able to project a different side or picture of the moon if that’s all it would take to debunk peoples claims of the moon being fake.
12I don't think that's a new one.
10There is a great story about that by the great writer Italo Calvino called 'the distance of the moon': https://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf
10In that story, sometimes the moon would be so close, that if you would jump on the right moment you would be taken up by its field gravity.
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All the craters are from rednecks shooting at it. :)
9And ancient peoples of all continents shooting arrows at it
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Just watched a flat earther trying to dispute that the moon is not 250k miles/kilometers away from earth because he was able to photograph it with his camera.
8mine is "airplanes are secretly very fast roller coasters"
7You never hear about all the planes that crash into the moon, that is clearly in the sky why does the government cover up the truth?
5I mean, on a cosmic scale, the moon is tiny, and it is quite close to the earth.
So, this isn't wrong.
5You know what else is small..
5Churches! Very small rocks!
4My mom!
1And my bow!
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There's a scientist with a knife approaching you at a speed you're uncomfortable with.
5This was one of the few things that Lucretius was very wrong about in De Rerum Natura.
Nailed survival of the fittest, quantized light, different mass objects falling at the same rate in a vacuum.
But the Epicurean cosmology was pretty bad and he suggested that the moon and sun were both roughly the size we see them as in the sky.
Can't get them all right.
4Speaking of conspiracies. Anyone seen the wild statement that was made by a col at Salt just this week?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpl0FrdJWfs
Absolutely no clue what to think of it.
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2You believe in the moon?
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