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It's a testament to the magnitude of the achievement of landing on the moon that it is still a deniable event, so many years later No one claims we've never cl
by PJDK 10y ago
It's a testament to the magnitude of the achievement of landing on the moon that it is still a deniable event, so many years later
No one claims we've never climbed Everest, or been to the South Pole.
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- DanBC 10y agoFlat earthers claim the south pole doesn't exist, and so they probably claim we've never been.
- EarthIsReal 10y agoSo the evidence that proved it to you was the magnitude of the achievement?
- coldtea 10y agoParent doesn't say that the magnitude of the achievement proves that the achievement happened. He says that the denial of the achievement proves its magnitude (whether the magnitude corresponds to a real achievement or not). People don't usually deny/doubt trivial things.
- EarthIsReal 10y agoI understood what he said. I'm simply asking for evidence. What proved it for you?
- coldtea 10y ago>I understood what he said. Well, maybe, but the question was not corresponding to that understanding. >I'm simply asking for evidence. What proved it for you? It wasn't something that needed much proving in the first place, perhaps the contrary would have needed more proving. There was a space race, and both players had developed incrementally improved technology that was getting closer to achieving that. Besides there's the enormity of a cover up operation involving thousands of people of all walks of life and for decades on end (e.g. scientists who to this day do tests on minerals etc brought from the moon). Plus, we have (and had) all kinds of other related stuff, from airplanes that can get to the stratosphere, to satellites, a space station, etc. Not much of a stretch to also be able to go to the moon.
- EarthIsReal 10y ago> *It wasn't something that needed much proving in the first place Why don't you question what you read? Humans flying to the moon seems pretty extraordinary, no?
- coldtea 10y ago>Why don't you question what you read? Who says I don't? For example I question all the "we've never landed on the moon" posts I've read. >Humans flying to the moon seems pretty extraordinary, no? Only if one's knowledge/information about technology and about what's possible is at pre-world war II levels, if not 19th century level. In other words, not much more extraordinary than believing in a "network that instantly allows us to send image/sound everywhere in the world from the palm of our hand", or in "satellites that tell us our precise location", or in "pictures of the Earth from space", or "storing all the world's books in a 2" device", or "going around the Earth on a plane with a Jacuzzi in less than 2 days".
- dang 10y agoCreating throwaway accounts to act as sockpuppets in a thread where you already commented is certainly a bannable offense, so please don't do that again.
- mSparks 10y agoplease take your life somewhere else.