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I base a lot of hoax debunking on common sense via my own personal experience. It took hours and freaking hours for Armstrong to leave the LEM and get down that frelling ladder. We waited and waited and waited.
If it was a hoax, they wouldn't have bothered with such boring realism. 45 minutes would have convinced the world. More than 2 hours was not necessary.
As for Virgin Galactic's eventual price drops, it's too little too late for me. Even at, say, $5,000, I won't pay that for 5 minutes in orbit. I might have when I was younger, but there's a lot of extravagant spending I wouldn't bother with now - even if I had the money.
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I've lately become interested in 9/11 hoax theories (by lately, I mean since yesterday). A project I'm working on has led me to a lot of videos of the Trade Center collapse, and there are some very fishy-looking things that I wouldn't mind further tin-foiled and/or debunked.
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