FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

[Luke Pemberton]

To be great and do great things you not only have to dedicate yourself to education, hard work and critical review by your peers you also have to be intelligent and in Einstein's case, a genius. It's far easier to make up some nonsense and convince a few similarly-minded sycophants

Indeed, making videos with the other cute kitty and Charlie biting his brother's finger videos is the quickest path to erudition. It's a cheap and easy way to appear intellectual.

[Zakalwe]

It's a cheap and easy way to appear intellectual.

There's a big part of that in their makeup, I believe. Most of the more "dedicated" hoaxies that I have seen appear to be poorly educated or just not very bright, *and they know this*. I think that the hoax belief is a way to compensate for their shortcomings. They envy the achievements of others and holding some "secret" knowledge is a way for them to feel superior.  "Even with all your fancy-pants education I know more than you. Not only do I know more, but I am clever enough to see through the lies".

You would think that they would work out that there's not that many smart people that actively support hoax/weird beliefs. Sure, there are some (Edgar Mitchell?) but not many. And then there are some that were smart and appear to have suffered some sort of personal or medical crisis (Neil Baker, John Lear, Dr Tekeli, Anders Bjorkmann)

[Count Zero]

Sorry, I missed this question until now:

And the second question is the same date as Apollo 16 returned just two days later (April 27), but that is impossible, the return can not take less than three days.

You're looking at the calendar date, based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or UTC).
Houston time (or Buenos Aires time) Apollo 16 departed lunar orbit on April 24 at 20:18 Central Standard Time for Houston (23:18 Buenos Aires time) and splashed down on April 27 at 13:45 CST (16:45 BA).  April 24 to April 27 is three calender days.

The actual flight time from TEI to splashdown for Apollo 16 was 65 hours 27 minutes (all but one of the lunar returns took less than 72 hours, with variations based on the actual distance from the Moon to Earth and the desired splashdown location and time-of-day at that location).  During that time, the astronauts had 3 sleep periods of 7.5 to 8.75 hours; so as far as the astronauts, the mission controllers and everyone else in most of the Western Hemisphere were concerned, it was three days.

[Ishkabibble]

Is it safe to presume, after three days absence, that we have a flounce on our hands?

[bknight]

Is it safe to presume, after three days absence, that we have a flounce on our hands?

Hope springs eternal.

[Zakalwe]

Is it safe to presume, after three days absence, that we have a flounce on our hands?