And if they are digital, how has there not been any sort of hack? ‘Anonymous’ or foreign actors would surely love to have a chance to air the dirty laundry, no?

  • SharkyAttack@lemmy.worldOP
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    Just seems like there is such universal interest in ‘releasing’ them that something should have leaked by now. You hear the argument about the moon landing or other conspiracy theories that it would take so many people colluding to hide the truth it would be impossible not to leak, how many people have access to “the files”, and if there is a vote to release them, who just pushes the button or whatever to make that happen? (And in no way am I suggesting they are not real and only a conspiracy theory, just giving an analogy)

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      the thing with the moon landing (or spaceflight in general) is that it’s very easy to verify for other countries since many of the satellites send a radio signal all the time and you can actually receive that radio signal from other sides of the world. this way, you know where satellites are (if they want to be discovered). so, we know Yuri Gagarin made it to space because of the radio signal, and the same would likely be true for the moon landings (although i actually hadn’t checked so far).