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#3098

It is highly unlikely that the Apollo 11 moon landings were faked

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

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After 7 votes and with 49 points ahead, the winner is...

fauxlaw
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@fauxlaw

The debate's over, so I'll explain my idea. The resolution states that it's highly unlikely that the Apollo 11 moon landings were faked. Your argument was that there was only one landing. However, here's the issue. "Faked" implies active fakery. Since NASA says they only landed once, there is no fakery going on regarding multiple Apollo 11 landings. While those multiple landings are fake because they didn't happen, they were not faked because NASA never attempted to fake multiple Apollo 11 landings. Thus, the resolution that the Apollo 11 landings were not faked is upheld. They were fake, but not faked.

Of course, this is hopelessly semantic hair-splitting, but the way the resolution was written seems to permit this.

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@fauxlaw

I won't say what it is until the debate is over, but there's a good way to at least challenge your argument.

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@Nevets

unblock madman, I want to watch this debate.

"Apollo 11 moon landings?"Plural landings? How many times did Apollo 11 land on the moon?

I should accept the debate and argue on that point, alone, because, for certain, while one landing was not a fake, additional landings of Apollo 11 certainly were. But, that would ridicule the debate.

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@Undefeatable

they were very possible to fake and were indeed faked but not only has nevets blocked me which means i can't accept his debates but this debate has very little understanding from voters usually so it's a waste of effort for Con to try.

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@Nevets

Highly unlikely? That means it wasn’t impossible? I could argue they were *impossible* to fake.

Before this gets underway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-tpiAiiHo