William Parker
Mr. Bergmann
Senior English P2
Tuesday March 31
The Moon Landing Conspiracy The moon landing conspiracy is a well-known conspiracy that is shared with many theorists out there thinking all the government does is lie to us. When it was shown on news channels in 1969, a lot of skeptics thought that it was just shot in a studio in Hollywood. The videos and audio shown on news channels live showed certain things that made skeptics sure of it being filmed in a studio. The author of the website I chose for my conspiracy, Josh Fox, seems to lean more that the moon landing didn't happen. Fox has many different reasons on how the moon landing is a hoax and he doesn't go into detail on NASA's defenses on each reason. Conspiracy theorists…show more content… Photos of the landing also seem to show rippling in a breeze, such as the image above which clearly shows a fold in the flag. The obvious problem here is that there’s no air in the moon’s atmosphere, and therefore no wind to cause the flag to blow. Countless explanations have been put forward to disprove this phenomenon as anything unusual: NASA claimed that the flag was stored in a thin tube and the rippled effect was caused by it being unfurled before being planted. Other explanations involve the ripples caused by the reaction force of the astronauts touching the aluminum pole, which is shown to shake in the video footage…show more content… The claim is that the U.S government came to Stanley Kubrick to hoax the first three moon landings. Evidence points to that 2001: A Space Odyssey was released a year before the moon landings. The funniest claims the author makes in this next paragraph include conspiracies with another Stanley Kubrick film "The Shining." One conspiracy is the Apollo 11 shirt the kid is wearing in the film. A hilarious claim is a little farfetched; Another supposed gem is the line written on Jack Nicholson’s character’s typewriter: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, in which the word “all” can be interpreted as A11, or Apollo 11 (Fox). The last claim of this movie involves a even more hilariously elaborate claim; If you aren’t convinced yet, Kubrick made the mysterious hotel room in the film number 237. Guess how many miles it is from here to the moon: 238,000. So divide that by a thousand and minus one, and you’ve got one airtight theory right there (Fox). I get the feel that Fox is being sarcastic but I can't be too