8543RB Reading for Me Level 6 Part A

Persuasive
The Man NOT on the Moon
Space travel certainly sounds unreal and us Earthlings may never be able to verify the
truth with our own eyes. In actual fact, all signs point to the belief that it’s never
actually happened!
Let’s focus on the moon landing as an example of supposed extra-terrestrial travel. It was
a well-documented event that allegedly occurred in 1969. This was a time when technology
was limited and, therefore, so was the evidence.
Firstly, many photographs were taken of the Apollo 11 landing with Neil Armstrong, but
upon closer inspection the photographs are missing an important feature—there are no
stars! It is simply not possible in deep, dark space, for the stars to not be visible. The
photographs must be fakes.
Secondly, in 1969 the space program in the United States of America was barely
functioning, so they could not have suddenly developed the technology to fly to the moon.
It is more likely that the USA was just trying to hype up their space program to the
Russians and thought of this idea to fly to the moon. They must have filmed the entire
moon landing in a television studio because they could not have executed the real thing.
Area 51 is a well-known mysterious location owned by the US government, so it was likely
the location of the elaborate moon landing hoax.
Thirdly, the images that show the apparent moon landing do not have a blast crater
underneath the landing spot of the space module. It almost appears to have been placed
on the surface rather
than have blasted in from
Earth. Not to mention
the way that the shadows
fall in the images, which
is inconsistent with the
direction of the light. The
images are clearly posed
on a purpose-built set.
Lastly, why is it that
no one has stepped foot
on the moon since the
last supposed visit in
1972? Because we never
actually went to begin
with and no one can be
bothered repeating the
stunt. It seems the event
was only ever devised
as a great political
distraction. It was, after
all, the time of the
Vietnam War and people
certainly wanted to be
distracted from that.
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