It is quite easy to fake everything.
Ha! That’s what the Fake Spacers always say. Little or no thought ever seems to go into what it would actually take to fake it.
The rover works of course but only on Earth.
Why only on earth? The rover would have been designed, built and tested for the expected conditions on Mars. If it couldn’t meet the requirement specs, the scientists and engineers working on the project would know. Not sure what you think would make it only work on Earth, but whatever.
This of course applies to every system and subsystem of any spacecraft/probe/lander/rover. For every single part they’d either need to build it for real, or involve all the relevant people in faking something that still looks credible to everyone not in on it, whilst hiding the real results. All those people are security risks who could deliberately or inadvertently blow the whole operation. Easier and safer just to build something to spec.
Then it is loaded on a rocket that takes off and disappears in the sky.
Oh, the rocket just “disappears into the sky”, does it? Great detective work there.
However, building the rockets is much the same situation as with the craft. Everyone working on the rockets knows exactly what they are and aren’t capable of. If a rocket couldn’t deliver a specified payload to a specified trajectory everyone would know about it.
What’s more, the weight, thrust, fuel, etc specs of the rockets are publicly released. Orbits and trajectories can be calculated by anyone. Have any Fake Spacers even bothered to check the calculations themselves? Or is that too much like putting in some actual effort?
Also, spacecraft are tracked by radar and by their transmissions by other spaces agencies and civilian stations, so that’s a whole load more people who need to be in on it.
Only a few people at NASA ground control knows that the rocket will never arrive anywhere.
Ridiculous. As well as maintaining the conspiracy with international agencies, and the suppliers of the rockets and craft, now they need to fake everything internally well enough to fool their own staff of incredibly well qualified and highly skilled staff?
Those few Illuminati (or whatever) higher ups must be real workhorses, to manage not just all the normal things for running the operation, but also faking everything to fool the majority of their own staff, as well as the rest of the world. The people they’d have to fool are literally pouring over the data all day every day, and none of them ever spot anything suspicious?
So they report regular progress, etc.
The arrival Mars is 100% Hollywood studio work again with some NASA ground control staff playing their roles. Finally the rover is put on Mars (i.e. Earth) and NASA can show films about it. Etc, etc.
Sure, sure.
So as well as faking the engineering effort (or making it for real), faking the telemetry, faking the instrument data, now you’d need to bring in whole teams of “Hollywood” crews, CGI artists, and whatnot for the images and videos to present to the public. Again, every single one is a security risk.
Why bother with all of that when it’s easier to at least try to do for real? Its embarrassing when a mission fails (which they do), but nothing compared to being caught cheating.
So what’s the sum total of evidence the Fake Spacers have uncovered for half a century of alleged deception (to the best of my knowledge):
A) Number of whistleblowers = 0
B) Number of leaked documents pointing to conspiracy = 0
C) Number of engineers/technicians/scientists working on the projects claiming something didn’t add up in the specs or data = 0
D) Number of technical issues uncovered that’s confirmed by anyone who actually knows what they are talking about = 0
E) Number of scientists who have studied the results or samples who doubt their authenticity = 0
And yet:
F) Number of photos you all think look a bit funny (yet are easily explained) = Lots
G) Amount of personal incredulity = Off the chart
Conclusion: Fake Spacers have had decades to find some actual evidence and have absolutely nothing.
Same scenario as for the Apollo 11 trip 1969. What a waste of money.
You’re right about one thing. It’s as implausible now as it was in 69. More so in fact as they’d need to maintain the conspiracy started all those years ago.