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[-] i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org 135 points 3 weeks ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

obligatory here's the study that shows that people will not change their minds

[-] kuunari@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Obligatory well, I still think it works

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 104 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

No no, I’m convinced already.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Kubrick is that good a filmmaker

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] cevn@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Love that they have leaders, meaning people who have advanced more into idiocy than on average.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

Bro, I'm a level 37 idiot, better show some respect!

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[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 3 weeks ago

And of course even in this meme the ESA logo was omitted.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

ESA erasure is a crime.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 24 points 3 weeks ago

The only way is to tie them to helium balloons and let them go uppie.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly, and the so-called "exhaust" is just a fog machine and light effects.

[-] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Napster153@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Stiggyman@ani.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago

Cutting to the crowd at the moment of booster separation was peak live event directing.

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My headcanon backstory for whoever made that decision is that they got kicked out of the porn industry for only showing the guys' faces

[-] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You try getting video from something that, within 30 minutes, accelerates to 18000 MPH. Literally, it will change what frequencies you even have to listen to, let alone the crazy amount of interference experienced during the process of exiting thr atmosphere.

Literally, the air compressing and ignighting against the shell of the space craft itself will produce crazy signals, let alone every other effect.

There is a reason it took even SpaceX over a decade to keep signals remotely intelligable with their booster recoveries, let alone launches aimed directly at the moon.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's true but it doesn't explain the black screen at liftoff and cutting to spectators during the booster separation.

[-] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I was shouting at my screen when they cut away for the booster separation. Then they fucked up the next separation too.

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago

They always had to build the massive rocket, hoax or not. And the catering costs...

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Don't even get me started. The worst part is that if the writers call for a disaster episode, they have to actually kill the actors, like in Apollo one. In all seriousness, the hoax conspiracy is especially unhinged, even as conspiracy theories go.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

I like the one that says they had to spend all this money to make it realistic, then they made everything so well they said "fuck it, we may as well go for real"

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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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."

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

The Moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick wanted to film on location.

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[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Bleh, whether the trip is a success or not, do they at least have two functioning toilets?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 weeks ago

well, one. and it clogged for a while today

but they do have two nonfunctioning instances of outlook, if that makes it better

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[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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)

[-] criscodisco@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's the thing with conspiracy theorists.

It's conspiracies all the way down.

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[-] Akh@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I get the sentiment but they are not landing on the moon

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I won't believe until I see live tik taks from the cheese world

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

tik taks

As a middle-aged man who's never used TikTok before, this is how I'm gonna refer to it from now on.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 3 weeks ago

Meh, I'll skip this Trump admin propaganda show.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

He'll definitely take credit, but he also tried to cut the budget for NASA. Congress insisted.

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[-] Prizefighter@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently not very far 🤣

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