Unpopular opinions
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@WhiskeySandwich said in Unpopular opinions:
@steelworker @Matt @seawolf i have a theory about why MD drivers are notoriously bad : it’s because they’re from everywhere else. Md is FULL of transplants and military people. This means everyone brings a different style and habits formed by their home state and laws/designs. Combine that with road infrastructure designed for half the current volume of traffic and you get a “fuck you, me first” attitude.
Also: the police don’t enforce much anything on MD roads anymore.
This right here. Base closures dropped alot of New Jersey & NY into rural Md & Pa. and they're pissed they cant get good pizza.
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@mclaincausey said in Unpopular opinions:
Oh it happened. We were a much better and more capable country back then.
Right. Well except for the racism, sexism, misogyny, draconian philosophies behind education and parenting, rampant pollution, shitty beer, Cold War, and the general misconception that going to the moon mattered in the slightest. I mean c’mon, going to the moon because we can? In an infinite universe that’s like spending a jillion dollars on going down the street for a pack of smokes instead of on curing lung cancer.
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Saw an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about if the moon landing was faked. Said something along the lines of even if you don't believe the footage and such, there are well documented research hours, and blueprints of the designs, and paid tech development and etc etc etc for hundreds of thousands of hours. Can't imagine the US govt having invested so many of those dollars into a hoax.
All that said, I'm totally neutral. If the govt released a bunch of evidence and bunch of people came forward tomorrow saying it was all faked, it wouldn't change my life. I'd just be like, "whoa. ok thanks for letting us know."
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My opinion, maybe unpopular, is that this fact isn't subject to an opinion or what one might believe. It actually happened, and it happened more than once. Full stop.
If I was directly involved in this, i'd find it a little insulting for a widespread opinion to exist that what I did was nothing but a hoax.
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@Matt said in Unpopular opinions:
The logistics of safely transporting a human being to the moon then bringing them back alive relative to most space expeditions since then seems incongruous at best. Granted I’m not a rocket scientist like some people around here
I think the bring them back wasn't as essential a part of the mission as it would be now.
Risk appetite is a little different now when it comes to people's lives. We're talking about an era where a third of F1 drivers died during races and millions of people had died in wars within living memory.
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I think the Sowiets would have made it very clear to the rest of the world if the moon landing had been faked. Since they did not do such a thing, it's very safe to say it is real.
(Is that the correct use of the conditional III?)
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@Matt yeah we are that much worse now even than that. Pretty wild, unprecedented times.
And I disagree that space exploration is a waste of time, or that we can’t do that and other things at the same time.
The hoax argument falls apart if you just do the tiniest amount of research and critical thinking. Multiple contemporary parties, including enemies, were observing the whole thing live at the time. How would they have fooled the telescopes and radar? Why are there still rovers up there that continue to be observed by probes? Etc. it’s seriously flat earth territory if you really look at the facts.
Think it, be it.
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Speaking of flat earth..
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Bless this thread
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@Matt There were around 400K people involved in putting a man on the moon. A conspiracy that large would never be successful. Try keeping a secret with 100 people and see how it goes.
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@seawolf said in Unpopular opinions:
A conspiracy that large would never be successful.
Not nearly as large an undertaking, but the CIA's Blackbird A-12 Oxcart was successfully hidden from the general public for decades....
I find that astonishing in itself.
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles said in Unpopular opinions:
Blackbird A-12 Oxcart
I'd never even heard of the A-12 Oxcart, but I knew about the Blackbird. Just found this about both of them. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/oxcart-vs-blackbird-do-you-know-the-difference/
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman
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@Tago-Mago but how do I know that mods aren’t committed to propagating the Matt myth?
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