On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 7:18:47 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > I heard there are a couple of people that claim they've been on the Moon. > I asked them to prove it to me by going again, but they said they cannot do > it. What do you think ? Is this anecdote true ? >
When I was a kid I was big on the moon landing. We went on a vacation to Florida and saw one of the Saturn V rockets lift off. The thing is that if these were faked, then NASA built a 370 foot tall rocket that roared off the launch pad only to ditch the thing in the ocean or some such event and then do a studio enactment. If NASA were to build such a machine, why fake it? --- they might as well have gone all the way. For a 5 years in the 90s I was employed in spacecraft navigation. I worked the mechanics on how to get a spacecraft to some orbit in space, whether around Earth or out into the solar system, or to reach some other planetary body. I timed my visits to the Kennedy Space Center to watch shuttle launches, one landing and some Delta launches. This stuff is not faked. There is in fact a visitor center where an unused Saturn V rocket is displayed. The idea that moon landings are faked is in line with other historical denials, such as holocaust denial or that black slaves in the south really enjoyed their status and so forth. Conspiracy ideas and nonsense about alt-history or alt-science such as creationism (even flat earth stuff is getting popular) are growing in decibel volume these days. It is a sign the minds of people, particularly Americans, are being rubbished up. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/abdb9978-596d-4357-921c-b6318fc65ce2%40googlegroups.com.
