I find conspiracy theories tremendously appealing, even though my rational side constantly finds proof that dismantles some of my most hard held beliefs. However, there is one thing that undoubtedly proves that no man ever set foot on the moon.
For many years I was a firm believer to many of the conspiracy theories put forward on the assassination of Sweden´s prime minister Olof Palme in 1986. The case has so many oddities that believing the official story of a single assassin was impossible. Then I read the book “The unlikely killer” by Thomas Petterson last year and my well-established conspiracies on the Palme-case instantly crumbled. And even the “conspiracy of conspiracies”, the JFK assassination is starting to collapse before my eyes. A good friend, who was equally convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald hardly could be the single shooter presented a strong case for this to actually be true which in turn got me into studying Oswald. And again, a rock-solid conspiracy is crumbling before my eyes.
When it comes to the conspiracy around a man setting his foot on the moon in 1969, there is one fact that cannot be disputed and is the final evidence of the moon landing being the biggest cover up in history.
When Neil Armstrong steps down from the Eagle and speaks his well-rehearsed quote, his words are broadcasted instantly all over the world. In parallel he is in constant contact with Houston which basically constitutes what we today refer to as a “video conference”. And there it is. The hoax is so obvious and looks you straight in your eyes.
If you´ve ever tried to do a video conference you know it is impossible to get it to work with anything resembling the flawless ease that Armstrong succeeded with from the moon fifty years ago. Either the camera is not working, the sound is messed up or people for mysterious reasons can´t join. Or it’s the connection being to poor, the wifi settings messed up or some setting deep down in the system that has been switched off and only a professor of computer science could have a chance knowing how to switch it on again. I´ve done countless Skype calls, Zoom-meetings, and Teams-conferences over the years and still, the smooth ones that worked without hassle I can count on the hand of a fingerless man.
The problem is not the applications, it the fact that the application needs to work in a context of different operating systems and hardware. I´ve seen amazing end-to-end Cisco systems that delivers amazing result and even a FaceTime call works perfectly. But that´s because it resides within the Apple ecosystem and as soon as you try to scale, the technology for video conferences just collapse. If it would be one startup to invest in, it would be a company who could prove that they´ve found a way to connect the dots and solve this problem. It would be a huge.
So, my home brewed moon conspiracy boils down to this; if we still haven’t figured out how to make a simple video conference work on earth today, there is no way that Neil Armstrong could have done it 50 years ago from the moon. It´s as simple as that.
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