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All these conspiracy theories turning out to be true are starting to make me wonder about the moon landing. Maybe the world really is flat?
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I’d say the earth is getting fucked pretty hard right now, so….
Earth is so freaking hot right now 🥵

These “conspiracies” that are turning out to be true were not the ones conspiracy theorists really cared for. Those fuckers were following a secret agent larping grifter who posted on a CSAM website he ran with his dad. The theorists were pawns in the conspiracy, a conspiracy to turn pedophilia into a toothless tool, oppress minorities, and support those already in power.

The rich and political elites are depraved freaks who treat people as disposable and do fucked up things because they can get away with it. This is capitalism working as intended. This sort of evil is what classism and legalized corruption always lead to. Unless the conspiracy actually challenges this fundamental power structure, it only helps them.

Maybe the world really is flat?

Nah. Easy way to see this is to derive (or look up) the expressions for the gravitational potential due to a sphere and due to a uniform plane. Then, fit the actual gravitational potential using known weights and simple gear to the same nonlinearities found in the two derivations. The spherical expression should be a much closer match. My college physics course actually had a unit where we fit the gravitational potential, so it’s extremely technically easy to do.

Also, airliners fly long haul flights in patterns that “look curved” on any flat map. This is because topologically speaking, a flat plane surface has one global chart, whereas there is no global chart for the sphere, so any chart map will distort the true distances compared to the original sphere. (The neat thing about the theory of manifolds is that all these words have technical mathematical definitions that basically line up with their plain English usage.) This shows that, at least when it comes to flying airplanes, i.e. what ways you are allowed to traverse the sphere, the Earth is topologically equivalent to a sphere.

the moon landing

Also nah.

wtop.com/…/the-experiment-still-running-on-the-mo…

This one is harder to demonstrate without a bit of money.

But also…if it never happened, why would the Soviet Union have let the government win the Space Race? There was enough historical and scientific evidence at the time for all world powers to conclude that it must have happened.

Proof we made it to the moon: You can still bounce a laser off it today

One of the experiments taken into space on Apollo 11 was called the Lunar Laser Retro-Reflector, and it still works even today (though perhaps not as well as it did), just like it did in a 2010 episode of “The Big Bang Theory.

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if it never happened, why would the Soviet Union have let the government win the Space Race?

If it never happened, wouldn’t the Soviet Union be the winner? Why disturb the propaganda of the US?

Yes, exactly. I’m trying to say the moon landing did happen.
You believe it but you can’t rely on the USSR for a disproof. The USSR has an advantage if the US population doesn’t push for the technological progress to be able to do spaceflight. Then there are no ICBMs and the USSR is more secure.
I think ICBM’s predate the moon landing, e.g. the Minuteman I. Like if faked the moon landing, I’m not sure why it would make sense for the USSR not to have taken advantage of that, because it would have been an excellent opportunity to embarrass on the world stage.
Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

I think ICBM’s predate the moon landing

If the moon landing is fake then the ICBMs can be fake, too.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Third-party_evidence_for_Apoll…

That’s an interesting site.

Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings - Wikipedia

If the moon landing is fake then the ICBMs can be fake, too.

God I wish ICBMs were fake 😞

Minuteman III ICBM Launch

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