Nate The Surveyor, post: 450763, member: 291 wrote:
Did we really go to the moon?
Maybe it depends on what your definition of "we" is....
Not that this will change the minds of the conspiracy theorists, but the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of several Apollo landing sites. Here are two examples that use remote sensing to prove that they left footprints and "trash" behind.
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Home Page
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Moon Image Archive
Apollo 11: "A Stark Beauty All Its Own"
You can make out the footsteps from the Lunar Module to the camera, a crater, and the Laser Ranging RetroReflector, its cover and the Passive Seismic Experiment Package.
More information at Apollo 11 Revisited
I can't confirm whether every last thing outside of my personal experience is true or not. At some point it is useful to accept as true an authority states happened (such as NASA saying the Apollo missions actually landed on the moon with human astronauts) until credible, clear, and convincing evidence proves otherwise.
What I find interesting is people naturally have a double standard. If a piece of information or a certain bloviating individual bloviates on TV and it confirms a person's beliefs then it is to be accepted without question especially if the bloviator has some persuasive credential such as a PhD (notwithstanding PhDs are capable of being wrong or even not necessarily smart). On the other hand if the bloviator contradicts a closely held belief then they have an axe to grind or they are lying or they are members of a mythical branch of the press that always feeds the stupid people and I shouldn't just accept everything I hear as if I'm an idiot and can't distinguish good information from bad but they just know for sure who is telling the truth (even though I point out that individual is influenced by self interest even if they are honest) etc etc on and on.
Why is this gobbledygook discussed here?
Original poster requests that this shouldn't be discussed as political but posts deceitfully an attack that our government perpetrated this hoax on mankind.
Crackpot conspiracy theories,
That being said, I have rode some very cool #d simulators at NASA facilities and seen some great Imax space films at the Hayden Planetarium,
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Alvin Tostick, post: 451277, member: 13000 wrote: but posts deceitfully an attack
That's an attack.
Nate
James Fleming, post: 451228, member: 136 wrote:
I've known the origins of the "jumping the shark" phrase for what seems like forever. Some how I missed the fact that he did it wearing his ever present leather jacket. That just makes it a hundred times more ludicrous. 🙂
