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update us when he finds out terrestrial telescopes can't see the landing site and thinks you're a deep state cia agent trying to hide the truth lol

I upvoted this, and then I was like "wait a sec... are they fooling us?" and had to look up if you can't see the moon landing site from Earth.

Of course you can see the site, but indeed no telescope has enough resolving power to see any items left there. So I guess you didn't fool us this time.

Pedantry alert, neerrrr:

You can see the moon landing sites easily enough if you know where to look, and can match up the geography easily. What you can't do from the ground is what a lot of folks expect, which is see any of the left behind equipment, rover tracks, boot prints, flags, etc. for a couple of reasons. First, the features are too small to be physically possible for a purely optical telescope to actually resolve. And even then, the random motion of the Earth's atmosphere would distort your image too much to make out anything that small at that distance.

Have you been telling this story a while? Or are you intentionally taking credit for something you didn't do for meme cred?

Edit: actually double xp meme credit, including the OP meme cred of lying for the meme and also the meme-ness of telling the story as OC

That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about. White lies to steer people away from fear and hate ... benevolent demagoguery?

You found the Easter Egg.

I hearby dub thee, @niktemadur@lemmy.world...

'Can we reach quoteceotion by Twain quoting Churchill?'

• Einstein

I'm convinced that you tried to fool me

~~Ethics~~ Quotes are relative

That quote originated from Michael Scott.

Or, as has been my experience:

"Every time an engineer designs something that's foolproof, it's destined to prove him a fool in the end."

Need to fool them into being critical thinkers.