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)
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.
Yeah but Trump said these astronauts are going “farther from earth than anyone ever has before,” tacitly admitting that we never sent astronauts to the moon in the 60’s and 70’s
I know you’re making a joke, but it’s a farther flyby around the moon than we did before. It’s an asinine statement by an asinine human being.
It doesnt matter whether you win by an inch or win by a mile.
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 🤣
obligatory here’s the study that shows that people will not change their minds
Obligatory well, I still think it works
me too thanks
There are dozens of us.
And of course even in this meme the ESA logo was omitted.
ESA erasure is a crime.
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.
Kubrick is that good a filmmaker
Syncing the footage to real world events was a masterstroke
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.
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.
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
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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.
That’s true but it doesn’t explain the black screen at liftoff and cutting to spectators during the booster separation.
I was shouting at my screen when they cut away for the booster separation. Then they fucked up the next separation too.
They can sell it as premium footage at a later date!
The only way is to tie them to helium balloons and let them go uppie.
Exactly, and the so-called “exhaust” is just a fog machine and light effects.
I get the sentiment but they are not landing on the moon
I won’t believe until I see live tik taks from the cheese world
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.
They always had to build the massive rocket, hoax or not. And the catering costs…
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.
Nah there’s a trapdoor where they go to live underground for a month then they’re whisked away to shoot the ocean recovery scene
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”
Bleh, whether the trip is a success or not, do they at least have two functioning toilets?
well, one. and it clogged for a while today
but they do have two nonfunctioning instances of outlook, if that makes it better
You could have just said two instances of Outlook
No joke. If I ever tour a Lockheed Martin facility, I’ll make sure to use the bathroom before I go.
I once took a bus trip and I’m pretty sure it was a Lockheed Martin bus because the shitter broke
It could not handle my leavings even after I mashed it down the hole
Meh, I’ll skip this Trump admin propaganda show.
He’ll definitely take credit, but he also tried to cut the budget for NASA. Congress insisted.
Have you seen the fucking 'Murica ads before launch? They literally justified and propagated US Exceptionalism by name and talked about how all of this (which they were at least nice enough to mention was a collab with ~50 other countries) creates jobs in America.
It was a god damn propaganda show.
He, and the GOP controlled congress, successfully cut budget for NASA an laid of tons of its staff, and he also insisted on launching new moon missions which currently isn’t even viable and Artemis II is nothing but a little airshow as they make a loop around in a big circle before returning.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43419
https://ourplnt.com/budget-of-nasa-year-by-year/
Don’t get me wrong. I still haven’t found a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the GOP. It’s more likely that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Airbus, et. al. reminded then who’s writing the checks to PACs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
The Artemis program infrastructure is mostly stuff advanced by Obama and Biden era Congresses and Administrations.
The loop is a well precedented procedure for testing components that have not been used for a mission before. They did the same for the Apollo program.
My apologies, I was unaware that the original 24% cut was eventually rejected.
No apology necessary. What you said is exactly what Trump was trying to do. I believe turning NASA into an air circus is exactly the plan. I hope that plan fails.
Pretty sure it takes a whole lot longer than a year to build a rocket.
This is a Biden rocket if anything.
This moon program is supposed to be a step of the future manned Mars program and started during Obama. So I guess this is an Obama rocket.
Then IIRC Trump wanted to skip to Mars, despite reducing NASA funding and causing leadership issues in the agency during his first term.
First of all, Trump’s been talking about a return to the moon since his first term almost a decade ago.
Second, the rocket is one thing, the stated goals of the agency are another. They’re declaring the plan is a permanent human presence on the moon.
