My favorite self made up conspiracy of the moon is:
As we all know the moon is moving away from the earth slowly each year but that means it was once much closer perhaps so close even that it rolled along the surface of early earth, pushing down on creatures that were lazy and didn't get out of the way into the ground giving us fossils.

When the dinosaurs disappeared it wasn't from an apocalypse they just got tired of being squished and dino capitalism and decided to grab onto the other side of the moon as it rolled by and are now stuck up there.

And that's why the government won't let us go to the moon. Because they don't want us to meet our dino comrades.

Flat Earth already does this. And it also includes the Sun.

When I first started using Facebook, a relative shared something from a conspiracy theory page, and I started reading all of the stuff from the page and it blew my mind (I was around 11 or 12 I think). But then a few conspiracy theories were too obviously wrong even for the child I was. One was a video of the moon being passed over by a cloud. Because the cloud was very thin and the moon was bright, the light shone through nearly unaltered. And the text was claiming that the cloud was passing behind the moon and that this was the evidence that the real moon had been destroyed and a fake one had been built which was much closer to earth (beneath the clouds).

Reminds me of good old Ken M

It's part of their model already. And oh! The sun has the same size.

Aliens landed in my backyard the other day, and these little one-inch creatures came out. They walked up to me, I looked down and said - "Are you really one inch tall?" - and they said - "No, we're really very far away".

That's an old Steven Wright joke. Weirdly half-forgotten, the man deserves at least as much love as Mitch Hedberg does.

Always time for one of my favorite fun facts:

The moon is so far away from the earth that all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.

I mean, not for long, but it would be worth it.

but, it is small and close.

relatively :P

I was having a debate I didn’t know I was having with a flat earth guy at a Christmas party last year lol. He was asking me questions and I didn’t get why but were basic science so I was answering and then suddenly clicked when he started making remarks about how we only see one side of the moon. I still don’t get where he was going because I laughed it off and went about my business but he seemed to think that “they” were projecting a picture of the moon I guess? Or maybe the sky is a giant screen? I don’t know , it was just funny that it happened but I do wonder how you could think something like that but not think that ‘they’ would have that kind of technology and capabilities but not be able to project a different side or picture of the moon if that’s all it would take to debunk peoples claims of the moon being fake.

There is a great story about that by the great writer Italo Calvino called 'the distance of the moon': https://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf

I don't think that's a new one.

All the craters are from rednecks shooting at it. :)

Just watched a flat earther trying to dispute that the moon is not 250k miles/kilometers away from earth because he was able to photograph it with his camera.

mine is "airplanes are secretly very fast roller coasters"

There's a scientist with a knife approaching you at a speed you're uncomfortable with.

You never hear about all the planes that crash into the moon, that is clearly in the sky why does the government cover up the truth?

I mean, on a cosmic scale, the moon is tiny, and it is quite close to the earth.

So, this isn't wrong.

You know what else is small..

This was one of the few things that Lucretius was very wrong about in De Rerum Natura.

Nailed survival of the fittest, quantized light, different mass objects falling at the same rate in a vacuum.

But the Epicurean cosmology was pretty bad and he suggested that the moon and sun were both roughly the size we see them as in the sky.

Can't get them all right.

Speaking of conspiracies. Anyone seen the wild statement that was made by a col at Salt just this week?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpl0FrdJWfs

Absolutely no clue what to think of it.