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Moon Landing Celebrates Its 47th Anniversary, 52% Of British Adults Still Think It's A Hoax
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First Posted: Jul 20, 2016 03:58 AM EDT
It has already been 47 years since the Apollo 11 mission that successfully took the first man to walk on the moon. However, despite the years had gone by, there are still at least 52 percent of British adults still say it was a fake.
Even though it has been nearly 5 decades ago since the first moon landing happened, the fact still remains that 52 percent of adults in the United Kingdom who think of it as a sham. These people believe that the speech Neil Armstrong, the first man to ever walk on the moon, made was pre-recorded somewhere on Earth.
The Apollo 11 space mission was the first to bring men to the moon. Among those who will be marking the 47th year of the space mission is former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who walked the moon with Armstrong on the mission. However, even though there have been so many proof that the late Armstrong, who passed away in 2012, actually walked the moon, still a lot of British people who responded a new survey think it's a conspiracy, though there have been studies that say what people thought to be a conspiracy actually happened.
More interestingly, that's not the only one they doubt to be true in the new study.
Mirror.co.uk reported the new survey found almost two-thirds or 64 percent of adults in the United Kingdom don't believe that dinosaurs ever existed, but apparently, one in ten people are sure that the Loch Ness Monster is real.
In the same report, e2save, an online mobile retailer conducted a survey on adults in the UK and found that there are many people who in the supernatural, but doubted a lot of the biggest moments in history, one example is the televised 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, which was thought to be a hoax by 52 percent of British adults.
The survey also revealed that people between the ages 25 and 34 are the most skeptical, with 73 percent of them thinking that there was never really a moon landing, compared to only 38 percent of people aging 55 and up who were already born at the time the actual landing happened.
The survey also found that 24 percent of British adults believe in extraterrestrials, while 5 percent believe that dragons do exist, that perhaps is due to too much Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile, people are also more inclined to believe in the existence of ghosts and spirits than God (30% vs 29%). And women lean more towards the occult than men, with almost double the amount believing in spirits (38% vs 21%).
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First Posted: Jul 20, 2016 03:58 AM EDT
It has already been 47 years since the Apollo 11 mission that successfully took the first man to walk on the moon. However, despite the years had gone by, there are still at least 52 percent of British adults still say it was a fake.
Even though it has been nearly 5 decades ago since the first moon landing happened, the fact still remains that 52 percent of adults in the United Kingdom who think of it as a sham. These people believe that the speech Neil Armstrong, the first man to ever walk on the moon, made was pre-recorded somewhere on Earth.
The Apollo 11 space mission was the first to bring men to the moon. Among those who will be marking the 47th year of the space mission is former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who walked the moon with Armstrong on the mission. However, even though there have been so many proof that the late Armstrong, who passed away in 2012, actually walked the moon, still a lot of British people who responded a new survey think it's a conspiracy, though there have been studies that say what people thought to be a conspiracy actually happened.
More interestingly, that's not the only one they doubt to be true in the new study.
Mirror.co.uk reported the new survey found almost two-thirds or 64 percent of adults in the United Kingdom don't believe that dinosaurs ever existed, but apparently, one in ten people are sure that the Loch Ness Monster is real.
In the same report, e2save, an online mobile retailer conducted a survey on adults in the UK and found that there are many people who in the supernatural, but doubted a lot of the biggest moments in history, one example is the televised 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, which was thought to be a hoax by 52 percent of British adults.
The survey also revealed that people between the ages 25 and 34 are the most skeptical, with 73 percent of them thinking that there was never really a moon landing, compared to only 38 percent of people aging 55 and up who were already born at the time the actual landing happened.
The survey also found that 24 percent of British adults believe in extraterrestrials, while 5 percent believe that dragons do exist, that perhaps is due to too much Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile, people are also more inclined to believe in the existence of ghosts and spirits than God (30% vs 29%). And women lean more towards the occult than men, with almost double the amount believing in spirits (38% vs 21%).
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