Of course, in the conspiracist cartoon view of reality, such things can't happen; it's always part of the eeevil master plan, or at the very least Highly Suspicious.

Kinda brings up a point that I was discussing with myself in my head earlier (sorry, that's not uncommon...but I doubt any of you find that suprising either).

Conspiracists often run into trouble by thinking that Nasa would/should keep certian evidence so as to prove the missions were real. The problem is, Nasa has no need to prove the missions were real. They know they've been there because, well, they went there. Their interest is in preserving data and objects that are of scientific value, not preserving data to prove their accomplishment.

And, of course, I'm not saying they don't do the later. In fact, their very good about preserving "evidence" (I prefer to call it preserving history). That's why there's peices of the Apollo (and other) missions in museums across the world. That's just not always their main priority.

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