Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury:
Mythbusters had an episode about this on not too long ago; they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the moon landing was real. All the crap conspiracy theorists spout off was disproved in such a simple way that all you needed was to be in possession of higher brain functions and you'd have no choice but to accept the science.
Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding:
I just read the wikipedia page on The Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy, and almost everything I was arguing was legitimately discredited, so in all truthfulness, I do believe we landed on the moon.
I don't what makes you the bigger idiot, the fact that you believed it in the first place, or you were so easily swayed the other way after reading a few things. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding:
Well, each person has his/her flaws.
I just don't see how they made it all the way to the moon using the equipment they were using. That's all.
I mean, look at the shitty computers we used 25 years ago compared to today. This was 40 years ago.
I just cant see us getting to the moon w/ the technology we had.
You'd actually be surprised if you saw the technology we use NOW on Space Shuttles. My cell phone has more computing power than the processors they use on the Shuttle.
Plus, it's not like technology back then was all that different from what we have now. We just have made it much, much smaller. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury:
Mythbusters had an episode about this on not too long ago; they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the moon landing was real. All the crap conspiracy theorists spout off was disproved in such a simple way that all you needed was to be in possession of higher brain functions and you'd have no choice but to accept the science.
What if Mythbusters is in on it? Maybe they were set up by the government as an ostensibly free-market show, but the actors are really CIA agents and their whole agenda is to discredit the truthseekers?
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
What if Mythbusters is in on it? Maybe they were set up by the government as an ostensibly free-market show, but the actors are really CIA agents and their whole agenda is to discredit the truthseekers?
Originally Posted by Darth CarlSatan:
Here's some science for you:
Fly through the Van Allen belt, and get irradiated to crisp. It's the plane that can not be crossed or circumvented.
This is complete and utter nonsense. The van Allen belts are regions above the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field has trapped particles of the solar wind. An unprotected man would indeed get a lethal dose of radiation, if he stayed there long enough. Actually, the spaceship traveled through the belts pretty quickly, getting past them in an hour or so. There simply wasn't enough time to get a lethal dose, and, as a matter of fact, the metal hull of the spaceship did indeed block most of the radiation. [Reply]
