Comments by "Kevin Skinner" (@kevinskinner4986) on "Stanley Kubrick and The Moon Landing" video.
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@createbelief8678 Siiiigh.
First of all, water does NOT form a perfect plane so your premise is false.
Second, a water level cannot determine the shape of the Earth. You need three points to determine curvature, two on the side and one between them, and even if you had a level with three points, it is too small. You lack the precision needed to make an accurate measurement in nanometers.
Forming a horizontal plane with a water level proves nothing. A water level cannot tell the difference between a plane that is parallel to the ground forever and one that is tangent to it. A tangent is ALWAYS horizontal compared to the radius that it intersects.
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As far as the stars, you can tell where you are and where an object is based its direction, height, and position from you. This is why you can use the stars to navigate. From three or more locations, you can determine its position. This is called "triangulation."
In order for the same stars to be seen due south of every location the Southern Hemisphere, these locations must be pointed towards each other with the stars in or above the middle. Since there are two locations like this - one in the North and one in the South - the Earth MUST be three dimensional because it has to wrap together on both sides.
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@KingRahiem First of all, Apollo cost about 130 billion dollars, and their current budget is HALF of what it was in the 60s and another half of that is devoted to non-spaceflight research. It's extremely expensive and nobody really wants to pay for it.
Second, only three countries have manned space programs at all: the US, Russia, and China.
Russia's own moon attempts ended in disaster. The truth is that they spent more time and money than they should have trying to show up the Americans to the point of neglecting the N-1, their equivalent to the Saturn V, and when they rushed development to try and get back on schedule, they wound up with a piece of garbage that blew up when they tried to launch it.
The N-1, it turned out, had a fatal design flaw in their engine design where a single rocket would cause too much vibration. In order to fix this, they would have basically scrap much of it and start over, and so they shelved it because like any sane and reasonable person would notice, wasting any more time on this failed endeavor would result in them being behind in everything else forever and never being relevant again because the Americans weren't going to sit there waiting for them to catch up.
The reality is that today, 50 years later, neither Russia nor China have any MOTIVE not to take their sweet ass time. You can only be first ONCE and the moon ain't going anywhere, at least not very fast. Without the Cold War space race driving it, you are essentially spending a very, very large amount of money for ultimately not a whole lot of actual gain. Robots would be cheaper and can last years on the moon because they don't need food, air, or water, and for all the talk people give about mining, the only resource of any actual value (helium 3) is both able to be synthesized in a lab and primarily desired for a hypothetical energy source that doesn't work and isn't expected to be commercially viable for another fifty years.
Do you know WHY we built the space shuttle, by the way? Because the Apollo-era technology was deemed too inefficient and too expensive to justify long-term operations. Especially since Apollo and before are all single-use spacecraft. You need to build a new one every single launch because they can only be used once. And so they tried to work on technology to make spaceflight cheaper (which failed by the way) and built the first REUSABLE spacecraft.
But building reusable spacecraft is "moving backwards". Working on long-term medical experiments before committing to long-term colonization plans is "moving backwards". Developing water and air reclamation systems that work in space and physics experiments that will be used to design future equipment and all of the other shit they do on the ISS is "moving backwards".
Never let a conspiracy theorist program your computer. They'll stick to the first method they find that works no matter how much of a memory hog it is, evolve it into a convoluted mess, and never ever rework anything because optimization and bug fixing is "moving backwards."
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Bart Sibrel got caught lying about his air force base bs. Just like he gets caught lying about everything else.
The idiot he got filled his story with anachronistic details, accused of people who had no business being there of being part of it, and forgot to mention to Bart that his family put up a GoFundMe for the house fire (which has a posting date), resulting in Bart trying to claim it was filmed a year and a half before the fire mentioned in it happened. Ooops.
Don't try and claim that Bart's "hated by NASA" without mentioning that he's hated for being the most prolific fraud you have.
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Also, front screen projection works by using a camera filming through a one-way mirror. It requires a stationary camera, otherwise, you're not pointing at the screen and mirror, and the camera in Apollo is picked up or spun around, in some cases 360 degrees, in most of the footage.
By the way, if you ever drive through places that have lots of hills and no trees, you'll see your "Front screen projection line" literally everywhere.
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