me too thanks

obligatory here's the study that shows that people will not change their minds

Love that they have leaders, meaning people who have advanced more into idiocy than on average.

Flat Earthers and anti-vaxxers really put into perspective the sorts of people the Scriptures talk about who are the same equivalent morons.

That being, people who are often dumb enough to get themselves annihilated despite ALL the evidence and warnings sent.

ESA erasure is a crime.

Exactly, and the so-called "exhaust" is just a fog machine and light effects.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

Okay, here is what I believe:

I believe landing on the moon and a live video broadcast from the moon are two extremely different things.

I think they did have actors on a soundstage pantomime to the live audio being piped from the moon. Just cuts down on so many variables, and the stakes were too high for the broadcast to be a technical disaster.

I think that even despite that, the moon landing is still one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

yes flat earthers are used by the social engineers to 'poison the well'. What's so funny? it would be strange if they didn't exploit (and cultivate) the immense stupidity of the median person. It makes the job of lying to them easier (and cheaper)

Cutting to the crowd at the moment of booster separation was peak live event directing.

I can't get into details but I worked at a company that does video broadcast equipment and worked with NASA helping them update some systems. It was mostly garbage equipment. The company I worked for is the harley davidson of broadcasting equipment; was good in the past but modern competitors are objectively better but the brand recognition is still there from the old days.

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.

well, one. and it clogged for a while today

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

Apparently not very far 🤣

I won't believe until I see live tik taks from the cheese world

Getting anything to the moon takes a lot of thrust.

Also because of having less stages than Apollo, the core stage needed to be quite powerful to get the stack all the way from the surface to the outer edges of the atmosphere.

Partially, yeah. Crewed spacecraft by necessity weigh significantly more than uncrewed, because life support is very heavy. But they also want to take that very heavy spacecraft further away from Earth than any crewed spacecraft has ever been before, which means they need to take a lot of fuel; yes, it's a gravity-assisted free-return trajectory, but it still needs fuel for course corrections and other orbital dynamics. Plus, it's a two-stage spacecraft, while the Saturn V was three-stage, so it's got to carry a lot more dead weight a lot further than before.

All of that together means they needed the most powerful rocket ever. The lander mission will almost certainly be even more powerful than that, because while it won't need to go as far, it'll be carrying another spacecraft.

EDIT: Actually, to correct my last statement, potentially not! Turns out the current plan for Artemis IV is to send the lander on ahead and have it waiting in lunar orbit for the astronauts to get there. So potentially all of the Artemis missions could be launched on this same configuration of rocket.

He'll definitely take credit, but he also tried to cut the budget for NASA. Congress insisted.

Pretty sure it takes a whole lot longer than a year to build a rocket.

This is a Biden rocket if anything.

expensive propaganda show

I know you're making a joke, but it's a farther flyby around the moon than we did before. It's an asinine statement by an asinine human being.

It doesnt matter whether you win by an inch or win by a mile.

That rocket is going to the moon tho