Dude the flat earth people sent one of their leaders up into low orbit. When he came back and said the earth is round cuz he saw it, instead of believing him they just kicked him out. Some people are just beyond reason.
Love that they have leaders, meaning people who have advanced more into idiocy than on average.
Bro, I'm a level 37 idiot, better show some respect!
C'mon, they are flat fuckin earthers... What did you expect?
obligatory here's the study that shows that people will not change their minds
Obligatory well, I still think it works
The Moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick wanted to film on location.
The biggest thing to me is that the Soviets congratulated us on it.
The Soviet Union choosing to go along with the fake moon landing instead of calling the USA out is the absolute dumbest part of the whole thing.
Yeah, usually the Lizard people select world leaders from different clutches of eggs to ensure maximum competition and division among the human nations under them. Due to a malfunction in one of the incubators, Nixon's egg hatched about seven years after Brezhnevs. During that time the same incubator hatched a separate clutch, among which Nixon was counted, which is why he was allowed to become the US president. Having not grown up together, they were still competitive, but little moments like the moon landing concession still occurred from time to time. Now that might sound unconvincing, but that's only because I'm not an actual conspiracy theorist. I don't have access to the deep lore and twisted logic therein.
No no, I’m convinced already.
One of the funniest conspiracy theories I've seen is that "flat earth" is a CIA psyop to make other conspiracies look bad by association. (This came from a moon landing truther)
That's the thing with conspiracy theorists.
It's conspiracies all the way down.
yes flat earthers are used by the social designers to 'poison the well'. What's so funny? it would be strange if they didn't exploit (and cultivate) the immense stupidity of the median person. It makes the job of lying to them easier (and cheaper)
And of course even in this meme the ESA logo was omitted.
ESA erasure is a crime.
Looking at footage is among the weakest arguments against flat earth tbh
Does anyone know why the rocket needed to be "the most powerful" when it only got them out of Earths atmosphere? Is the crew module just that heavy that it needed it?
Getting anything to the moon takes a lot of thrust.
Also because of having less stages than Apollo, the core stage needed to be quite powerful to get the stack all the way from the surface to the outer edges of the atmosphere.
Partially, yeah. Crewed spacecraft by necessity weigh significantly more than uncrewed, because life support is very heavy. But they also want to take that very heavy spacecraft further away from Earth than any crewed spacecraft has ever been before, which means they need to take a lot of fuel; yes, it's a gravity-assisted free-return trajectory, but it still needs fuel for course corrections and other orbital dynamics. Plus, it's a two-stage spacecraft, while the Saturn V was three-stage, so it's got to carry a lot more dead weight a lot further than before.
All of that together means they needed the most powerful rocket ever. The lander mission will almost certainly be even more powerful than that, because while it won't need to go as far, it'll be carrying another spacecraft.
You do not understand how disbelief works if you think this is effective or even relative.
Yes, that does mean conspiracy theorists are fucking brainless morons.
Flat Earthers and anti-vaxxers really put into perspective the sorts of people the Scriptures talk about who are the same equivalent morons.
That being, people who are often dumb enough to get themselves annihilated despite ALL the evidence and warnings sent.
I watched the launch.
America
Why the fuck does your space agency shoot worse video of a historic event then a YouTube channel celebrating 100K subscribers.
Cutting to the crowd at the moment of booster separation was peak live event directing.
My understanding was that it was a risky moment, they didn't want to risk showing astronautes dying... But that doesn't make sense since the same logic applies to most of the launch!
My headcanon backstory for whoever made that decision is that they got kicked out of the porn industry for only showing the guys' faces
I can't get into details but I worked at a company that does video broadcast equipment and worked with NASA helping them update some systems. It was mostly garbage equipment. The company I worked for is the harley davidson of broadcasting equipment; was good in the past but modern competitors are objectively better but the brand recognition is still there from the old days.
The only way is to tie them to helium balloons and let them go uppie.
Nobody: "I was unconvinced by eight crewed missions to the Moon, but if they do a ninth then I'll have no choice but to accept all of them."
For April 1 I almost made a Flat Moon Society but I ended up playing Starfield and forgot about it. I wanted to see how far I could go with it.
Apparently not very far 🤣
They always had to build the massive rocket, hoax or not. And the catering costs...
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