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Where are all the conspiracy theorists?


You know, all those who proudly proclaim that MAN NEVER WENT TO THE MOON?

I'm not one of them, but I sorely miss them coming in droves out of the woodwork to lambast this movie. We could make fun of them like flat-earthers.

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We never went to the moon. We still can't get to the moon. Also, space isn't even real and this is just a holographic prison.

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It's not even a holographic prison. The whole illusion we see whenever our eyes are open is from a tiny projector in our brain showing one continuous movie on the backs of our eyeballs. Nothing is real.

Or as Trump would put it, "You can't prove anything."

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The Moon isn't real, its just the reflection of the Earth.

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Remember, it was liberals who started the “moon landing was a hoax bullshit” because that is the song of the left, making America look bad at every turn possible. They envy American achievement.

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Actually it was the Soviets who started the ball rolling. You could say sour grapes, but....the soviets maintained that every capsule containing a living animal they sent through the Van Allen belts returned with a dead animal. They calculated that the walls of any capsule would need to be considerably thicker (00.12 inches) than the skin of the Apollo 11 (and successive missions) capsule to safely go through the belts and return with passengers still alive and not irradiated.
Conspiracy theorists may well be nuts, but if NASA simply answered certain questions they could put it all to bed. No?

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The Soviets said all of the animals they put in space in the VAB died? I think you're wrong. https://www.rbth.com/history/333007-space-dogs-veterok-ugolyok

What answers does NASA need to provide?

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What answers does NASA need to provide?
The answers to the questions being asked of them

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So exactly what questions do you have?

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Me?
None really. But I do have one of you. You replied with an attachment regarding Dogs in space, but I referred to the Van Allen belts which the Russians said of all animals dying, not low orbit.
But if you want a list of conspiracy questions I suggest you visit one of the many sites. Funny at times and interesting at others.

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I post on the International Skeptics forum and Apollohoax.net. Both forums routinely run hoax believers through the buzz saw when they show up.

I was hoping that you would have provided a link to show that your claim of "the soviets maintained that every capsule containing a living animal they sent through the Van Allen belts returned with a dead animal" was true, or not.

The Van Allen belts extend from 400 miles to 36,000 above the Earth's surface. Kosmos 110 with the two dogs on it had an apogee of 548 miles; well within the radiation belts. I don't know which Soviets claimed that all of their animals sent into the belts died, but they were wrong to say so.

Everyone and everything that passes through the VA belts is irradiated. The ways to reduce radiation exposure while traveling through the VA belts is time, distance and shielding. Traveling through the belts at the edge where radiation levels are lower, moving as fast as possible (25,000 mph) and use of shielding (thin aluminum and other materials in the case of Apollo) is how the astronauts kept their exposure down during their short duration missions.

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-set-a-new-radiation-limit-for-astronauts/

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The liberals did it? As far as I know, it is the ones who sell books and videos trying to make a buck that are the ones promoting the hoax ideas.

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"We could make fun of them like flat-earthers."

Or we could be forward thinking and discuss real science without having to have someone to beat up over it.

Seriously, I don't understand the need to beat on others. Yes, these people are somewhere between moronic and trollish but they don't need to be the focus of every discussion that involves scientific/historic topics. Sadly turning the insult canon on these people seems to be the order of the day.

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My favorite is the "Kubrick filmed the moon landing" theory. Thoroughly debunked and yet, stubbornly clung to. You have to admire their tenacious addiction to fantasy.

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Why do Flat Earthers believe what they do? Because their EEG's are flat. :-)

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They are all over the interwebz and in real life.

There are conspiracy theorists and followers of many many crazy wacky and some TRUE theories.

OMG

The OP is GONE.

That's a bad OMEN.

No more conspiracy talk.

Epstein Lives!

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