It was a big blow to flat earth fringe kooks in the fifties when the Soviets launched Sputnik into orbit and that proved without a shadow of a doubt that the earth was round. But later the interwebs came into existence and kooks got instant access to millions of morons.
How do you prove they weren't just bouncing their signal off the ionosphere?
Well, if I were dumb enough to try to prove that I´d have to do the same with thousands of other satellites and the international space station. I guess. Maybe you should try.
Well I just cast the shadow of doubt on Sputnik.
Glorification of the Eucharist by Ventura Salimbeni painted in 1600Most people that read this and have an I.Q.over 60 probably think, cast doubt on Sputnik what is the guy talking about, there have been thousands of other satellites that millions upon millions of people have tracked around the world.
Maybe notbatman has part of a point there.
Back in the '50s they told us we were going to the moon. They showed us pictures of what it would be like living in space and on the moon.
Then in the '60s they got serious. We went to the moon. We have the movies and pictures to prove it. We even have the moon rock samples that they brought back.
In the '70s we were all excited, and we were patiently waiting. The weeks turned into months; the months turned into years; the years turned into decades. We forgot our excitement in the humdrum of life. We even forgot about the fact that they stopped fulfilling their promise - the promise of big time moon settlements.
Then in the '80s, we started to find fake photography in the moon photos. We found the fake movies, movies made on earth, of make-believe moon landings. We found that we never went to the moon at all. It was all a fake, designed to get more tax dollars out of us.
Now, as the general public is starting to find out the the moon trips of the '60s were all a lie, NASA is starting its line of BS all over again. It's basically the same line. The Orion space capsule is simply a larger version of the Apollo space capsule. But the pitch is still about the same - Youtube search on "NASA Orion." And the fake movies that will be made will seem more real than ever, because movie-making technology has advanced far beyond what it used to be.
Certainly the earth is round(ish). Certainly there is an outer space out there. But notbatman's points remind us that NASA and the government are a bunch of liars and swindlers at heart. And they are getting ready to "rape" another generation of us, now that we of the baby boomer generation have almost forgotten.
