This year will mark 50 years since the moon landing. In 1965, a Tasmanian scientist insisted that the moon was made of plasma, and landing on it would “never happen.” #RetroFocus | ABC News

The theory that the moon is made of plasma, rather than a solid celestial body, was proposed by Croatian scientist Dr. Nikola Tesla and later famously promoted by David Icke. One of the main proponents of this idea in the modern era was a man named John Leonard Walson. He claimed to have observed strange anomalies on the surface of the moon through his telescopic footage, which led him to believe the moon was not solid but rather composed of a form of energy or plasma. Supporters of this theory