[ WP ] Write about a ridiculous conspiracy theory ( fake moon landing , flat Earth , etc ) being true

The footage is fake, but that does n't mean it was n't real. Yes, the flag waved, in the absence of an atmosphere. Yes there's no blast crater underneath the lander. Yes the shadows are inconsistent. Yes the astronauts bouncing around in the gravity is just video of them running slowed down so it looks like they're floating. It was 1969, we did n't have the equipment to film ourselves on the Moon. But we needed something to show the American people. It was the middle of the Cold War, we needed something to prove to the Russians that we too had sent men into space. So yes, those crackpot conspiracy theorists are right. The moon landing that the world saw on their television sets was fake, but we went to the Moon. I should know. I was the first man to step on it.
