I was in the AF stationed in Taiwan during the moon landing. At the appointed time, I and 4 buddies stepped outside the bar and personally watched the moon landing thru a pair of binoculars. Of course we had to share the binoculars, so none of us got to see the whole awesome event. hic
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You really think mythbusters would air an episode with doubts about landing on the moon.... i'm betting they ignored the fact that the flag was flying on a windless moon.
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The moon landing conspiracy could not exist without a scientifically ignorant public. That's true for a lot of conspiracies, actually, and the best way to deal with them is to promote science literacy both in education and in our culture.
To summarize this sentiment: people think the moon landing is fake because they are dumb. There are lots of dumb people. Solution: teach people not to be so dumb.
There are plenty of reasons to doubt the moon landing. They sent a man to the moon with essentially a ti-83 calculator. Just considering the kind of number crunching you would have to do to account for all the various cosmic effects it seems hard to believe, but maybe you just need a big ass rocket and some smart folks up there.
I love the following combo: orbbs' handle combined with his moon take combined with his feelings on Battier (see the sig.) It's just too awesome.
Most of the predictions of quantum mechanics, exact to 12 figures were done before any computers existed. Orbital mechanics became a fairly exact science with Kepler. I agree the accomplishment is amazing (and my dad was a part of that -- I feel vested in it somewhat, call it bias if you want), but people overstate how far computing has come in the last 40 years, in terms of what was possible. Things were much slower, but the tools were there to make precise calculations, even on the fly (e.g. see mission #13, where they had to change everything... by the way, to the 'fakers' think that 13 was faked?)
Go to 219 Roy St in Houston and ask the lifer NASA Engineer who lives there how he feels about these conspiracy theories. He was my neighbor for 7 years, and he wants to destroy some conspiracy folks.
The last one is not basalt, it is the genesis rock. Anorthosite. How can people just lie about this crap. Do they not understand how freaking far away the moon is?
Mythbusters and its liberal media agenda wants to trick us. yep ::burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp::
