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Originally Posted by JonClarke
In 1958 Isaac Asimov published a story where people flew round the moon and say it was a huge set of canvas and scaffolding. All three become psychotic. The story reveals that it was all a simulation that the men had believed it was the real thing. The sting in the tail of this story was not hoaxed moon missions but maybe the moon itself was not real but could it have planted the idea of the moon as stage set?
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I can't say that I remember that particular story, though there is earlier one whose authors names I cannot remember which involves faking the presence of life on the moon as a means of unifying the world. (Perhaps this is what motivates the Hoagland crowd
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Unfortunatly when the combined govts of the world blast the moon with ray guns, the aliens occupying the moon get angry and fight back.
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Originally Posted by JonClarke
In the 60's many people believed that some Russian missions were hoaxes or fakes. Images of the farside of the moon from Luna 3 and footage of Leonov's space walk in particular. Could a lack of belief in Russian space achievements (or at least images of them) become translated into a lack of belief in US space achievements in the self doubt that afflicted many in the US in the 70's?
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Very very possible, those doubts (about the Russians) appeared right after the Luna 2 impact, one promoter even denied the evidence of US radio telescopes
As was
discussed on this forum a few years ago the Russians considered some fairly
extreme measures to silence the scoffers.
(Edited to add link to the original 'Nuke the Moon' thread')