the real depressing reality is that we did land on the moon, but it literally bankrupt our country to do so. we economically collapsed in the 70s and have been harshly declinimg ever since. nasas budget alone was exponentially shrank immediately following the original moon landing. we went a few times, because that was the peak of our culture and nation. everyone thinks the 80s were great, but they weren't. the first half was a continuing decades long economic downturn that only turned around when consumer debt became the basis of the entire economy. we stopped producing, stopped extracting, and shifted everything to selling mcdonald's and chinese crap at walmart. we stopped funding the programs that created these scientists and instead funded gender studies and civil liberties classes to run up lawfare bills and print money out of nothing by creating massive lawsuits over someone refusing to bake a cake. the people who were capable of doing these things are dead and gone, and the country has been so shitty for so long that it's hard to believe we did these things we used to do, because we currently can't even run a press conference without our penis slipping out of our pants. the technology wasn't "lost", it just became outdated when compared to modern technology and regulations, and nasa can't even hire someone who's good at public speaking to explain that, so that silly phrase entered the zeitgeist. the true reality is much sadder, not that we never went, but that we may never return because we have fallen so far.
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