That's no moon!
On a game-related forum I sometimes post on, there's an "Aliens" thread where people are discussing the possibility of there being extra-terrestrial life out there.

This has brought out a couple of proper tin-foil hat wearing nutbars.

One of them seems to seriously believe that the moon (the big one you can see at night) is actually an "observation base" for "EBE's" (Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities). The "proof" for this comes from this site:
www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2004/070/moon-banding.htm
the tl:dr is that this person has taken the detailed, digital images provided by NASA of the moon, which have been stitched together quite badly and concluded that the points where the overlaps between images are actually uniform, 1km-wide ridges in the moons surface. According to the person's massive conclusion-jump, this proves that the moon is artifical and made by some civilisation greater than our own.

When I pointed out that you would be able to see these bands with a telescope from Argos, the poster reverted to the ususal conspiracy nut defense of:
"You guys are sheep , just going with the herd and making baa noises like all your ignorant counterparts .

Delete my posts please , i'm not going to waste my time on this rubbish thread with narrow minded lemmings.

So basically "laa laa laa, I can't hear you".

He also listed the latest war with Iraq as proof that The Government lies to us about everything.
(ScousersPet, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 10:00, 3 replies)

Brilliant!
I love people like this, it makes the world a more MURRRR! type place.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 10:04, closed)

It's quite amazing
how much work that loon has put into it all.

I haven't counted, but there must be 1,000 earnestly typed, dense pages on that site. Not a single one of which makes any sense at all.

You have to give him a few points for the monumental effort he has put in. And when I say monumental, I mean mental.
(username failed moderation, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 11:11, closed)

But the moon doesn't even exist
A guy I know turned out to be a moonlanding hoax conspiracist, so I challenged him to a debate over a pint. He turned up with a bunch of pages he'd printed from the web, but when we looked them over they turned out to be from a site claiming that the moon itself did not exist, it was all a hoax.

I don't remember the details, but one claim stuck in my mind: "There are no references in literature to the moon before 1547, so it was unknown to the ancients."

As far as I could tell from what I read, it was serious. If not, it was a very large amount of work for a rather unfunny gag.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 14:47, closed)