In fairness, I forgot to add a /s (sarcasm) tag, so my sincere apologies.
That being said, would it surprise me if NASA secretly sent astronauts to the moon, succeeding after numerous failures, prior to '69, and then legit sent more in 1969 and told the world it was the first time?
Not at all.
It'd be like the supposed red mercury. "we got to the moon, it's easy!" we tell the world, not mentioning numerous tragedies it took us to get there. Meanwhile, the USSR be like "the Americans did it on their first attempt, what's our problem?". Watch em waste resources on something that they think we did easily, when in fact it was very hard for us.
We do it with stuff all the time. We don't say, "we have a new bomber" when we rent don't. Instead, we say, "we have no new bomber" while we test fly the F117 fire a decade prior to reveal.
So do I think the moon really went down that way? NO. Would I be shocked if I learned it did? NO.
In fairness, I forgot to add a /s (sarcasm) tag, so my sincere apologies.
That being said, would it surprise me if NASA secretly sent astronauts to the moon, succeeding after numerous failures, prior to '69, and then legit sent more in 1969 and told the world it was the first time?
Not at all.
It'd be like the supposed red mercury. "we got to the moon, it's easy!" we tell the world, not mentioning numerous tragedies it took us to get there. Meanwhile, the USSR be like "the Americans did it on their first attempt, what's our problem?". Watch em waste resources on something that they think we did easily, when in fact it was very hard for us.
We do it with stuff all the time. We don't say, "we have a new bomber" when we rent don't. Instead, we say, "we have no new bomber" while we test fly the F117 fire a decade prior to reveal.
So do I think the moon really went down that way? NO. Would I be shocked if I learned it did? NO.
Hahaha.