Submitted 2 months ago by dactylotheca@suppo.fi to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Dark background with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket, depicted horizontally, from left to right. Above the rocket, white text reads, “the moon landing was staged?” Below the rocket, more white text reads “yeah that’s how all orbital rockets fucking work dude”
I looked into this a long time ago, it would’ve been more expensive to fake it than it was to just do it.
We would’ve needed to somehow convince Russia to lie on our behalf. We would’ve needed to convince the dictatorship of australia to also lie on our behalf.
The rooskies came out and said we beat them to it, and the aussies claimed they recived the camera feed and the audio feed from space and then echoed it to their TV network
That Mitchell and Webb sketch where they discuss faking the moonlanding to save money, and the only real savings was on catering…
Yes, exactly. In general the whole notion and everything they claim is fucking idiotic from start to finish. Outright lies, misunderstandings, misrepresented partial truths, etc.
Those two friends of mine aren’t “gunpowder inventors” as we Finns tend to express it, ie. they’re… well, stupid would be a bit too harsh, but they’re definitely not smart. I’m not surprised in the least that they fell down that rabbit hole, but fuck does it get tiring.
The dictatorship of Australia?
Shhh. We don’t talk about that anymore.
no free speech, no encryption, no bodily autonomy means dictatorship
I too feel like I’m missing context on a joke here.
This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.
Right? It was the Cold fucking War, why would the Czar of Russia or whoever was in charge work with the US on the US’ propaganda against Russia?
Cold fucking War . Czar of Russia
Landing on the moon was such a huge PR event. Everything that could be controlled was controlled.
What if a backup TV broadcast was created in case of broadcast equipment failure?
obligatory Mitchell&Webb www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
Plus you still need to launch a bunch of massive Saturn V rockets since so many people saw them launch. Unless they paid off everyone who said they were there? Building a moon rocket that doesn’t go to the moon isn’t that much cheaper than building one that does.
Ya, Russians are noobs tbh.
Objectively silly statement given the entire history of the space race.
Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging
Bring Jeb back alive
Jeb’s just operating a unscheduled manned solar orbital satellite.
They’ll be fine
It’s just a little jaunt to Ike to grab a Kerbal for a contract. How hard could it be?
Kraken decided my Jeb gets a little interstellar travel as a treat, so he is traveling at incredible speed in a straight line directly away from such ideas as “back” or “alive”
This guy kerbals
I still prescribe to the theory that we tried to fake the moon landing, but Stanley Kubrick being a perfectionist kept insisting they shoot on location prompting us to do it for real anyway.
How many times are people going to post this nonsense.
Kubrick notoriously hated filming on location.
He of course did have NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot background and reference pictures, he was a perfectionist, after all, but the official landing was filmed in Shepperton, England.
Also, no one’s going to believe this unless you tell them about the practically unique Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens NASA gave him as payment, which allowed him to shoot the candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon.
Nah the landing Kubrick filmed was just a backup in case they didn’t make it or in case they had technical issues with the video stream, it was never actually broadcast.
What is so special about this lens?
Why can’t other manufacturers create something similar?
The moon landing wasn’t staged, the launch was…
The lander did have a stage separation though, It left the landing gear and motor on the moon, and the accent stage took it back into lunar orbit.
Also, wouldn’t leaving the command module in lunar orbit before landing count as staging…?
I had two middle aged coworkers the other day talking about how it was staged. I should have showed them both this today. But I didn’t want to engage lol.
Yeah it’d be a waste of your time and energy.
I have two friends recently suddenly drop into the conspiracist nutball rabbit hole, and I really don’t have much enthusiasm to see them. Last time they grilled me on the moon landings, and absolutely nothing I said meant anything to them. If I hesitated even for a second when answering one of their “accusations” they took it as proof that I’m the one who doesn’t know what they’re talking about – couldn’t be that I tried to think of a way of explaining something to people who clearly aren’t familiar with the subject at all beyond whatever idiotic conspiracy garbage they’ve consumed.
The ability of god damn morons to gaslight the intelligent… ahh…
You could also have staging in model rocketry. The largest we ever had was a 3-stage running on G-size engines. The “Red, White, and Clusterfuck”. If all three stages ignited and properly, you got a solid boom outta her. The frame outlived several nosecones from the friction they had to endure.
That sounds, intense.
Blue blistering bell-bottomed balderdash, you blabber-mouthed vegetarian pithecanthropus!
Oh yeah uh… what about STOs huh? I bet we’ll have some sick aerospike powered vehicles any day now!
RIP Rocketdyne XRS-220
single stage to orbit
The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.
But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.
It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines
Good luck making a single stage to lunar surface rocket.
I just need more struts.
SSTO enthusiasts in shambles
You mean single stage to orbit fans?
Honestly I’m surprised at the amount of people making SSTO jokes without knowing what that initialism stands for
I think people understand what SSTO stands for. People are talking about SSTO because in your title you claimed the four stage Saturn V was single-staged
Yea I understand. That’s why they’re in shambles.
is this the fucking N1 rocket?
Damn bro, the US fucking died with this post.
N1 had 30 engines on the first stage
yeah, it’s just funny how visually similar they are in some respects.
Nuh uh. They snuck the astronauts into the Star Trek sets at night and used the transporters obviously. They knew the props wouldn’t have been convincing enough…
Thank you for adding a description.
Sorry, I can’t hear you over the roar of the engines inside my SSTO. squirtle-jam
kek gottem.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 2 months ago
Me, coming to the comments about to ask “what about SSTO?”
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