Warbler said:
CP3S said:
I'm enjoying the moon landing hoax discussion. Real discussion and less smart comments and people taking offense would go a long ways though.
how can we possibly have a real discussion about a insane idea that the moon landing was fake? There is no point to it. And I refuse to give BmB the pleasure of that kind of discussion. As Boost said, it is ass craziness. No matter what you say, you can't change the minds of idiots like BmB. There is no way to have a rational conversation about the moon landing with someone crazy enough to believe it was faked.
What if it really was faked? Or what if something else is faked, and we never question or consider? Your stance doesn't seem to be it really happened because of "A", "B", and "C" reasons; but rather that "it really happened BECAUSE IT IS INSANE TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE!!!" "Insane idea", "ass craziness", "idiots like BmB" "FOAD", etc.
I don't think it hurts to question the "of course!"s in our lives.
Imagine if our government had decided that the space race was a lost cause, wasted money and impossible. Would it really be below them to fake it for the win? Obviously, I don't think this is what happened. But I do feel like nobody has bothered to really look over the reasoning and say way it is such an "insane idea" and "ass craziness", rather they just write it off as insanity and refuse to talk about it. Feels like there is a good deal of emotions involved, rather than rational. As the little kid who once dreamed of being an astronaut and tended to look at those guys as the epitome of awesomeness, the idea of it being faked did use to strike quite a nerve on me, so I get it. But I also think it is kind of cool to learn about there arguments and to be able to supply technical reasons for why they are so very ignorant and wrong.
CP3S said:
I mean, someone doesn't believe we ever landing on the moon, or that we didn't land on the moon every time we said we did. Is that really a big thing? Who cares what they believe.
its insulting to the US, all the people that worked on and risked their lives to get to the moon, and especially offensive to families of the three men that died in the fire.
I am sick and tired of all these asinine conspiracy theorists assclowns.
I don't think getting pissed at them defends the honor of our country. Knocking them on their ass by discrediting their stupid reasoning, I feel does.
Keep in mind, a lot of people who think the moon landing was faked aren't from nor have ever been to America. They have an outside in view on the whole thing. Seems it was a topic that came up a lot when I lived overseas, since that damn Fox documentary has been circulating foreign airwaves for so many years. Since I was an American, and that documentary played on TV from time to time, I guess a lot of people found it an appropriate dinner topic. That stupid documentary is probably the most detailed piece of media they have seen on the event. I think they can be forgiven for being pulled in by it.
Likewise, you have a lot of younger kids these days who sadly don't see the space programs as exciting as the kids of my generation and prior and don't see it as something sacred, but spend a lot of time on the interwebs absorbing information (some most of which is BS, like the Apollo conspiracy). I think these poor youngins' can be forgiven for their ignorance and are better off being educated and set straight than written off as assclowns. When the younger me believed something silly and bothered to mention it to someone, I was usually set straight, which made me rethink and change my view. But I imagine if someone got defensive, called me names, and walked away, I'd probably find myself grinning and realizing I may be onto something and that these people seem to be incapable of proving my silly belief wrong. I might just cling to it tighter, feeling that since no one will refute it, it might just be irrefutable.