• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Satellites Do Not Exist

mike3 said:
What's truly appalling is that the thumbs up and thumbs down are evenly split ... instead of it being a slam-dunk thumbs down! Of course, maybe some of them thought it was a joke and had a good laugh and thumbed it up for that reason. One can only hope...
Click to expand...


"Never, ever underestimate the amount of crazies out there. They walk amongst us."
-Zakalwe, poster at Apollohoax.net
 
Nihilianth said:
At first, I was wondering what in the hell you were talking about. I thought I did says that it boils at lower temperatures at higher altitudes. I looked back at my post, and lo and behold, I typed it wrong. My bad. :o
Click to expand...

**** occurreth - go and sin no more!!!!
 
Foster Zygote said:
I had an exchange with a guy on YouTube about that. His Google+ profile mentioned that he was attending a community college in South Carolina, so I looked up the names and office numbers of the math and science department chairs and provided them to him, inviting him to go ask them whether they agreed with him or me. I said that if they agreed with him, and they didn't mind an e-mail, I'd then contact them so they could explain my error to me. His immediate response was, "l wouldn't believe it if God himself told me!". I've found his attitude to be pretty representative of the conspiracy theorist crowd.
Click to expand...


Oh my!

"stoopidity is strong with this one"
 
dudalb said:
I would love to see the OP try to get a rocket to the Mun in "Kerbal Space Program",.
Click to expand...



"If I can't land a rocket on the Mun using the latest in computer technologies, how could they have done it with slide rules in the 1960s?!?"
 
Rincewind said:
not forgetting:

"The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity!"

[except I've forgotten who said it first :o]
Click to expand...

"The three most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen, stupidity, and misattributed quotes." - Nikola Tesla.

ETA:

"Amongst the most common elements in the Universe are included such diverse elements as hydrogen, stupidity, misattributed quotes, and typos." - Nicoli Tesla.
 
Rincewind said:
Actually, if this is correct, there are a bunch of companies and a huge number of people who are making loads and loads of money for doing absolutely nothing!

Colour me jealous!

:mad:
Click to expand...



This is true of all sorts of conspiracies. Medical examiners offices which don't do real autopsies, police departments that don't do real investigations, science labs that don't do real experiments, banks that don't do real finance - the list is endless. I bet if you did the math, a large majority of "jobs" don't actually exist if these theories are assumed to be generally correct.
 
But I noticed that in the brief clip of the sky he shows, one of the "stars" is moving pretty fast relative to the other stars, and is almost certainly a satellite.
Click to expand...

That is PRICELESS! The proof of your loss of argument in your own picture!

:dl:
 
Duffy Moon said:
Regarding the "rockets need atmosphere to push against" business. It seems to me that for modest expense, a garden shed scientist could set up an experiment to show that the entirety of the world's scientific community is lying and that the heroic truth seeker is correct.

One could get a vacuum pump/bell jar set up, like any school science department would have.
Place a Catherine wheel firework inside, along with some sort of r/c way of igniting it.

Remove the air from the bell jar using the vacuum pump and then ignite the firework.

The fibbers at Nasa, ESA et al would have you believe that the firework would spin regardless of nothing to push against.
Of course, this would be shown to be a lie and the entire "history" of space exploration would be exposed as a decades-long international con job.

I wonder why they don't try something like that.
Click to expand...

They get around that 2 ways, it is pushing off the side of the jar and also once ignited there is no longer a vacuum.

This guy does a decent job but there's no swaying the minds of some people, they continue to deny rockets work in vacuum.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6158lBjGo
 
Brian-M said:
You thought the "fake moon landing" people were nuts?

That's nothing compared to this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMRWvXuc5U

Ugh... I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the entire video yet. The stupidity... it burns.

ETA: Looking around on his YouTube channel, it's clear that he doesn't just think satellites are fake, he's also a flat-earther. He's even created a 90-minute documentary about it.
Click to expand...


I get 'This video is unavailable'. But I found instead this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84g2KJcUV0


Quite different reasons lead to, roughly, same conclusions. What they have in common is the rejection of a huge chunk of currently accepted knowledge based on ideology. Low capacities to change position are also there. Non religious attacks on science have often quite many in common with religious attitudes no doubt. Yet the most dangerous is by far the religious fundamentalist (especially when he has strong reasons for his stance in the basics of his religion, this guy definitely has: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FaNg_nxqns) for the capacity to change view tends toward zero...
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom