JCSat14 landing from 3 cameras on the ASDS:

No bounce!

I already can't remember what life was like before the google.

@uhoh There was Excite, Yahoo, Altavista, ... and before the Web, we had (gasp) Gopher!

And before that libraries, and talking to people. Oh the days.

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@MichaelKjörling GOPHER baby!

JCSat14 First stage closeup. LOok at that pout! Blue Steel!

@geoffc Those were the days! It seems people today forget that even as search engines go, Google came pretty late.

Maybe I should have mentioned web rings, too...

@MichaelKjörling I remember the very first iterations of Yahoo.

@StackExchange Great answer, I guess that puts the final nail in the coffin of moon hoax conspiracies (that's probably too optimistic, for someone even LRO's pictures are not enough).

@geoffc I had a Hotmail account before it was cool. :) (Or more specifically, while getting a four-letter username was possible.)

Nice

@mark.g I wouldn't be so sure, but it certainly helps driving one more nail into the coffin.

@MichaelKjörling Yeah, their answer will be that NASA gave the tapes to Russians.

@mark.g My standard response to people who think the US didn't land people on the Moon is why the USSR would have passed up such a propaganda opportunity as disproving Apollo would have been. It's not perfect, but at least it gets most people thinking.

Especially when you throw in the hundreds of thousands of people who worked, directly or indirectly, on the project, plus the millions who did things like... watch the launches on site and in person, maybe?

Their response would be that: 1. USSR didn't have the capability to track Apollo missions 2. USSR is involved in conspiracy, their achievements were also false so they gave open hands to US in their moon hoax and US acknowledged Gagarin's flight.

That still ignores the not insignificant fraction of the US population who was involved with the project. And even such an answer would require that people think about such things. It's too bad so few people are knowledgable about rocketry and the effects of operating in a vacuum.

Conspirators really think that many thousands of people who were involved in the project can be silenced. Their ignorance is just staggering.

I'm not sure anything can bring people who truly believe in conspiracy theories like that to admit that they are wrong. I was thinking mainly of the people who hear something and think "hmm, that sounds about right" without being committed to either side. Those are much easier to sway.

Don't overlook theflatearthsociety.org

This is no matter of arguments for them, rather a matter of religion. Nothing can change their belief than moon landings were faked. But after all evidence is presented to majority of people, their only conclusion is that moon landings happened.