• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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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.

  • Akh@lemmy.world
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    I get the sentiment but they are not landing on the moon

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

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

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      well, one. and it clogged for a while today

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

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          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