Joe Rogan remains unconvinced about the legitimacy of the Apollo moon landings, expressing deep skepticism during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Greg Fitzsimmons.
“I used to believe it before C*VID. No, I didn’t. I didn’t believe it for a long time and then I said, I’m probably wrong. I don’t know what I’m talking about. Let me just leave it alone,” Rogan admitted. “And then I got back into it again and I was like, but it doesn’t make any sense.”
Rogan’s primary concern centers on the Van Allen radiation belts, a thick band of radiation surrounding Earth. “The problem is the Van Allen radiation belts. There’s a thick band of radiation that surrounds the Earth,” he explained. “They’ve never sent anything out into deep space and had it come back alive except the Apollo astronauts. They never even sent a chicken out there and had it come back alive.”
He referenced Operation Starfish Prime, where nuclear weapons were detonated in space in an attempt to create holes in the radiation belts. “They thought they got blow a hole through it. Did the opposite. Made the belts supercharged. Made it way more radioactive.”
The technological limitations of 1969 particularly trouble Rogan. “It was 1969. I had a 69 Chevy and I used to drive it from Boston to New York and it would break down about half the time,” Fitzsimmons said, illustrating his point about the era’s reliability issues.
Rogan noted that while computing power isn’t necessarily the issue, other factors are: “There’s all sorts of crazy s**t with radiation and solar. If there was any sort of solar flare, everyone’s dead.”
Rogan found the behavior of the astronauts after their return particularly suspicious. “Neil Armstrong basically went into hiding. And then at the 25th anniversary of the launch, he gave the most cryptic speech,” he said.
Playing the audio, Armstrong told students: “There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers.”
“What does that mean?” Rogan questioned. “You’re talking to genius kids and you’re leaving a cryptic mark about truth’s protective layers. How about saying I went to the f**king moon b**ch? You can go to the moon, too.”
The post-flight press conference raised additional red flags. “I went back and watched the post-flight press conference when they supposedly landed after they landed on the moon and came back home. It’s like a hostage video,” Rogan observed.
He continued, “There’s a guy who’s a body language expert. He analyzed it on YouTube and he’s like, ‘This guy what he’s doing here, this guy’s being deceptive. This is clear deceptive behavior.'”
Rogan also questioned the physics of one-sixth Earth gravity. A physicist friend told him, “My problem has always been with the physics of one-sixth Earth’s gravity. Those people are not behaving like it’s one-sixth Earth’s gravity. When I look at it looks like it’s in slow motion but there’s no indication that they can do things that you can’t do in regular gravity.”
He did the math: “I weigh 200 pounds. Imagine if I weighed one sixth of 200 pounds with 200 pounds of strength. How high I could jump. Dude, I’d probably jump 20 f**king feet in the air.”
Additional evidence includes a fake moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister. “They gave away a piece of moon rock that they got from the moon to the prime minister of the Netherlands. Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong presented this like, ‘Look, we’ve given you a chunk of the moon.’ Turned out it was a piece of petrified wood.”
Photography inconsistencies also bothered him, including the famous flag incident. “There’s a an astronaut hops by the flag and it blows in his breeze in an atmosphereless moon.”
Rogan acknowledged the counterarguments but remained skeptical. “If there’s one conspiracy that I think is the most unlikely, the most preposterous in the public eyes, but might be true, it’s that we didn’t go to the moon,” he concluded. “It’s highly unlikely that we would do that in 1969 and not have bases on the moon by now.”
