In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the tech wunderkinds at Google yesterday unveiled their latest Web 2.0 offering, Google Moon, at Washington, DC's Newseum. The platform allows users to peruse the surface of the moon, much in the same way its sister program, Google Earth, lets a web savvy public peek in on everything from celebrity estates to their own backyard.
But apart from being just another flashy new application, Google Moon is quashing a rumor that has haunted the halls of NASA since 1969. Conspiracy theorists have spent the past four decades whispering that the landmark Apollo 11 landing was little more than a Hollywood-inspired hoax, staged on a backlot and intended to flaunt America's supposed aeronautical dominance over a much chagrined USSR.
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