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[–] i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org 87 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] kuunari@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Obligatory well, I still think it works

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

C'mon, they are flat fuckin earthers... What did you expect?

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 days ago

No no, I’m convinced already.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kubrick is that good a filmmaker

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[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 4 points 1 day ago

That's the thing with conspiracy theorists.

It's conspiracies all the way down.

[–] flamingleg@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

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)

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Looking at footage is among the weakest arguments against flat earth tbh

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You do not understand bow disbelief works if you think this is effective or even relative.

Yes, that does mean conspiracy theorists are fucking brainless morons.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Stiggyman@ani.social 12 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day 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 7 points 2 days 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.

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[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

well, one. and it clogged for a while today

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

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You could have just said two instances of Outlook

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