I did not verify any of the “facts” stated here Maybe you should.

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I did not verify any of the “facts” stated here

Maybe you should. You’d look less like a fool if you didn’t constantly cite unverified claims.

Even if most of the alleged US Moon rocks are real, the Russians were able to bring back a small Lunar sample with an unmanned probe

Yes, the Russians brought back roughly 326 grams of lunar material. 326 grams! The Apollo astronauts, on the other hand, brought back over 840 lbs. of rock and soil, including core samples in the form of long cylinders. This would have been nearly impossible for robotic probes.

Could US probes bring back larger samples?

Possibly, but prove to me that those probes existed outside of your imagination. Where are the engineers who built, tested, launched, and retrieved these probes?

Were people on the Moon even needed for that?

Probes capable of returning over 840 lbs. of lunar samples would have had to be far more advanced than the Soviet probes. It would have been easier just to send people.

Anyway, unlike the Apollo lunar samples, their Soviet counterparts exhibit…

I’d like to see citations for the information in this part of your comment. It sounds an awful lot like the guy is pulling this information out of his ass.

I will point out, however, that the US and the Soviets visited different areas of the Moon so I wouldn’t expect their samples to be exactly the same as NASAs.

27 of 61 space rocket launches in 1968 were secret, and 20 of 47 were secret in 1969. That’s 47 secret launches. What were they doing?

Launching spy satellites, testing ICBM technology, launching nuclear bombs into orbit for test detonations… etc.

Back in the 1960s spy satellites photographed their targets on film that had to be returned to Earth for analysis. It wasn’t like todays spy satellites that can transmit images back to Earth using radio and remain in orbit for years. Every time a satellite’s film was used up they would have to launch a new satellite to replace it.

Sending probes to pick up lunar samples? Sending probes to place mirrors on the Moon?

Pure speculation.

A few small probes could not have returned 840 lbs. of lunar samples. Landing the probes on the Moon would have been unreliable at best.

Doing their camera tricks in Earth’s orbit to make it appear as if they were much farther from Earth than they really were?

This just goes to show how little you understand about Apollo.

There is video footage of the astronauts in zero-G with the distant Earth in the background. But the really cool thing about this video footage is that it shows cloud formations on Earth that perfectly match the weather forecasts for the date that the video was broadcast. You can’t fake this.

Check this link out for more information:

http://bit.ly/hrthwv

PS – Don’t call us “conspiracy theorists”. This is a pejorative stigma that basically says “We don’t like you, and your thoughts should not be taken seriously by others”. We are Apollo skeptics and Moon-hoax theorists. We’re not sheeple.

Boo-hoo. You are theorizing about possible conspiracies. That makes you a conspiracy theorist, whether you like it or not.

Explain this petrified wood being passed off as a Moon rock.

It was never passed off as a Moon rock, and it wasn’t presented to the Dutch Prime Minister by the Apollo 11 astronauts or NASA.

The petrified wood was given to the Dutch PM by the US Ambassador at a ceremony honouring the crew of Apollo 11. But it was never claimed that it was a Moon rock. NASA hadn’t even begun gifting Moon rocks at the time (after just one mission to the Moon the US wasn’t about to give away their lunar samples). The US only began gifting Moon rocks in the mid-1970s after the end of the Apollo program.

As I said, did not verify any of this

As I said, maybe you should start verifying things before you make yourself look like a fool.