Artemis II – Surreal, Real or Just Unreal?

The Van Allen Belts? No, we just went right through them. Didn’t notice a thing.

– Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 Astronaut

The Apollo moon landing is an unverified scientific claim.

– James McCanney

When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue to “discover” America, any veteran seaman knew along with him that the Earth was round. But most of the world thought it was flat and that at the edge of the oceans, there was an abyss where lived frightening monsters which devoured any one so foolish as to sail so far out to sea. One wonders if such tales were told to keep the “peasants on the plantation” so to speak. Exploration is dangerous; leave that to the professionals.

Fast forward to today and as a commentary on the latest Artemis II mission to the Moon, suppose the following were true:

1. The Moon has a breathable atmosphere. The space suits are fake to make you believe that there is a vacuum on the Moon and that you would die without the aid of an air tank.
2. The Moon has sufficient gravity, not only to hold an atmosphere, but also water which is abundant in its deep craters.
3. There is no danger from radiation or from extreme temperatures of hot and cold. Astronauts do not need a space suit. A winter coat would be more than sufficient.
4. The Van Allen Belts are not dangerous, either. You can sail right through them without ever noticing they were there.
5. The Moon is close enough to share Earth’s electromagnetic field. In fact, it is so close that a properly fitted 747 Airliner could take you there in the time it takes to fly to Beijing. The Artemis II spacecraft, as did all of the Apollo spacecraft, orbited the Earth to kill time to make you think that the Moon is far, far away.
6. NASA does not send you live pictures of Earth because the shape of the Earth is not a perfect sphere. In fact, it so mangled it looks like a carnival freak show.
7. NASA does not let you see live footage of the Moon, either, otherwise, you might see that it is already inhabited by people who don’t want us there to mess up their world.
8. And finally, if we ever do land on the Moon again, we had better be armed to fight the natives.

If you don’t believe any of the above, then that makes as much sense as the nonsense, fake science, and all around bullshit of the multi-billion dollar American space program we have endured for the last 60 years.

Try to have a nice day!

JWS, 4/24/26

For more of the ongoing debate see the Apollo Detectives and their latest on the Artemis mission.