There are a lot of other white countries out there, and none of them have gone to the moon. The US (using displaced Germans) developed the atom bomb in 1945. The Soviets did so in 1949. The UK in 1952. China in 1964. India, a far poorer and less developed nation, did so in 1974.
We're talking single digit years to catch up with splitting the atom, yet nations who have developed space travel weren't able to figure out how to pilot that vehicle to the moon in 60 years?
Remember, the Russians beat the USA to space, but 60 years later haven't been able to replicate our moon landing of 1964? Something is a bit off with that logic.
Of course, America is a broken society today, and generally can't do anything. But it was still a functional and sane country until about 1999, as was most of the rest of the white world. That doesn't explain why no one else has visited the moon, nor why the footage of the first people to do so was destroyed.
As for Kubrick, I cannot believe there is not a Kubrick thread here, but in my book he was one of the good guys, and there is a huge difference between revealing evil and participating in it.
No one is questioning whether a moon landing could be faked; Hollywood was already faking moon scenes very believably by that time.
Actually the the space scenes in something like 2001 are *better* quality than the NASA footage itself, so if anything, the fakery was *more* realistic, in the Baudrillard sense of hyperreality. This is a red herring.
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