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- HughesAP, on 08/26/2008, -17/+722History Channel and Discovery already did this. Turns out we went there.
- tejohnst, on 08/27/2008, -10/+354I really enjoy the mythbusters.. its Sciencetainment.
- datastorageguy, on 08/27/2008, -4/+335I just wanted to say that "smash lab" is an utter piece of garbage and is a total rip off of Mythbusters. Pains me to even see the commercials.
- DrGerg, on 08/27/2008, -4/+268I'll watch just because these guys have special effects experience and would have an idea of what it would take to fake the stuff rather than the History Channel showing me an old man in a trailer telling me why he thinks we didn't go to the moon
- IphtashuFitz, on 08/27/2008, -7/+226I recall seeing a show on tv recently about the whole moon landing hoax thing. They interviewed some guy who must be about 80 years old who is convinced the moon landings are a hoax. He even built a device to prove it. He built an airtight box with glass on one side so you could see in it. A heavy duty rubber glove was attached to one side of the box so you could put your hand in it, like those containment things you see in sci-fi movies. He demonstrated how you could move your hand easily in the glove. Then he pumped all the air out of the box to simulate the lack of atmosphere in space and demonstrated how the glove became so rigid that it was effectively useless. From this he concluded that any trips to outer space are bogus. As if NASA, etc. would build their spacesuits with parts bought from Home Depot...
I still contend that the best proof we landed on the moon is that the Soviet Union never disputed it. Armstrong landed on the moon in the middle of the cold war, and you can bet that the Soviets were watching closely since this was the culmination of the "space race" of the 60's & 70's. They were undoubtedly eavesdropping on all our communications with the spacecraft. If they could have determined that it was a hoax you can guarantee they would have "outed" the USA as fast as they could in order to embarrass the hell out of us and show the world that we couldn't be trusted. I can believe that the US government could conceivably pull off a hoax like this against most of the US, but there's no way they could do it in such a way as to fool Soviet scientists who were also experts in space travel. The Soviets would have figured out very quickly if we were transmitting the moon landing from a sound stage somewhere on Earth instead of it actually coming from the moon. (Timing of signals, etc. would be a dead giveaway) - SonicEarth, on 08/27/2008, -1/+164It was a soundstage on Mars.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -16/+165***** all organizations
The only approval I need is Mythbusters approval - jrtcs, on 08/27/2008, -0/+99Oh, thanks for spoiling the ending.
- D5010, on 08/27/2008, -7/+104They're all in on it!
- Gimjee, on 08/27/2008, -26/+113You'll never tell the conspirators otherwise though.
- jbmcb, on 08/27/2008, -4/+82They use valid scientific techniques all the time. Their experiments aren't controlled enough for a scientific paper, but good enough to disprove various claims within reason.
- pault107, on 08/27/2008, -9/+83Ban this troll, check his comment history:
http://zuubu.pcriot.com/?username=CoolStoryBro&sel ... - stix213, on 08/27/2008, -1/+74@da_bradler
There are plenty of episodes where the mythbusters state what they expect as their results... and then the results turn out to be a total surprise. Have you even seen the show? - kent1146, on 08/27/2008, -9/+78You know, just hypothetically, if I wanted to convince people that we landed on the moon, I would have two options I'd consider:
1) Create a giant complex staged event where it looks like we are on the moon, televise it to the world, and then create a giant conspiracy to kill everyone involved to ensure their silence. Or...
2) Actually design and build a spacecraft that can land astronauts on the moon.
Did any of the conspiracy theorists consider that it may have been cheaper and easier to just build a spacecraft? - inactive, on 08/26/2008, -4/+69I'll definitely be watching this. Topic makes perfect sense for the show.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -1/+64Yeah, it really is. They basically took Mythbusters and stripped out everything but the part where they blow up and crash things. Sounds like a good show but it just isnt somehow.
- dumass4u, on 08/27/2008, -1/+62Your second paragraph makes a very good point, I never thought about it that way before
- NaziHatinChimp, on 08/27/2008, -2/+59http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_llr. ...
There are mirrors on the moon. That is the best evidence we got. However I don't see why we don't send a drone there again. Let people drive it around to help pay for it or some *****. - kent1146, on 08/27/2008, -3/+59So are giant hoaxes.
- joshrice, on 08/27/2008, -1/+54Indeed, it's awful... no chemistry between the hosts whatsoever, their challenges are usually crap with 'solutions' that are even worse.
- erichw1504, on 08/27/2008, -3/+51And for their next show: Is the moon really made of cheese?
- IphtashuFitz, on 08/27/2008, -2/+49Wallace & Gromit already proved that beyond a doubt.
- infamousjre, on 08/27/2008, -4/+47I just read the dictionary. It turns out the zebra did it.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -10/+52Another ***** sucking truther
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -9/+51If they really want to prove it they need to go to the moon.
- ultraseamus, on 08/27/2008, -2/+43Are you saying that letting people drive a drone around on the moon would convince the nutcases that we were there? Within days there would be stories about how you are really just controlling a high tech video game, or it is just a drone on a huge treadmill, or the drone is really on Mars and they just painted the area to look like the moon.
- designerutah, on 08/27/2008, -1/+42And you would not only have to pull off the a successful hoax in front of the largest worldwide audience, but have the hoax stand-up for the next 50 years of scientific review, independent thinkers, and technological advancement without monumentally failing.
For example, as a physics student being able to design, build, and test a new communication laser by bouncing it off the reflective plate on the moon. - Chairboy, on 08/27/2008, -3/+42Disproving a myth only works when all parties involved agree that no malice is involved. Take your pick of urban legends and myths that they usually tackle, they're all big fish stories that can be laughed away with "well, it's a good story, anyhow, ha ha" by anyone telling them.
The people who honestly think the moon landings were faked bring dead-eyed, cold blooded suspicion to the table and assume that the price of truth is the death of an untold number of innocents. They believe, to their very core, that the US Government is both so competent and evil that countless would-be whistleblowers have been assassinated to "protect the lie".
When dealing with this level of passion coupled with the inherent assumption of bad faith on the part of "The Conspiracy", there's no way to convince them through demonstration or debate that they're mistaken. They're conversational equivalents of The Terminator. They will not, CAN NOT stop until the conversation is dead.
So, I'm prepared for an entertaining hour. But I have no illusions that any amount of debunking will have any tangible effect on this movement. You're dealing with True Believers, and TB'ers won't let you confuse them with facts and logic. - ddfall, on 08/27/2008, -0/+39Anyone care to fill us in (those of us who are late to the party)? Looks like he already got deleted. I have no idea what the comments were but I'm curious. lol. Yeah, I've got nothing better to do.
- moocow1452, on 08/27/2008, -1/+39Get this man an Internet.
- ajaxmil, on 08/27/2008, -5/+40Physics FTW. Anyone who can't see that the Lunar Landing was a primitive groundwork for the space programs we have now is delusional. Do the conspiracy nuts think that our NASA space program appeared out of nowhere in the mid-80's with no precedent?
- subliminalurge, on 08/27/2008, -11/+45Or, we could just call them the "idiots". It's a much shorter and easy to remember word.
- nbcaffeine, on 08/27/2008, -1/+34Yeah, but if entertainers did it the scientifically sound way, nobody would watch.
- baltar2008, on 08/27/2008, -3/+34This won't convince the tinfoil hats. They'll just say that it was all rigged etc etc. Can't we just see Buzz punching that dude out for an hour?
- MOJIRA, on 08/27/2008, -1/+32Anyone who doubts the moon landing just needs to watch "When We Left Earth"--brilliant stuff, my favorite documentary ever.
- twertyto, on 08/27/2008, -3/+31It's better than pretty much anything you can find on television but technically what they do is not scientifically sound. If researchers did science that way we'd be *****.
- kyleforeman, on 08/27/2008, -0/+26They better prove it right or else...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoyiJdeWT4 - twertyto, on 08/27/2008, -16/+42It's shameful that Mythbusters feels that this topic is even worth addressing.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -7/+32Moon Landing did 9/11.
- nesman89, on 08/27/2008, -18/+43Next up prove 9/11 was actually committed by terrorists. this is for all you trufers out there.
- inigomntoya, on 08/27/2008, -3/+28I once saw a guy give a dollar (a WHOLE DOLLAR) to a homeless guy on the side of the road - thereby showing that he supported homelessness and the redistribution of wealth to even the less deserving.
yeah - think about it...
/s - pault107, on 08/27/2008, -0/+23He was randomly posting links to virus ridden web pages, racist 'jokes', vile images (I'm no prude, but he was disguising the links as related to the article), he was also posting a link that would hijack your browser and blast out "I'm am looking at gay porn" (yep, it even worked in Firefox).
All in all, some pretty sick *****. His account has been deleted now, but no doubt he'll be back under another username. - BXRWXR, on 08/27/2008, -2/+24Oh, that jerkwad.
No worries, he won't be here much longer - dupeduperson, on 08/27/2008, -2/+24I hope they don't do what they did a couple of weeks ago. TV listing said it was a new mythbusters (something about viral videos), but it wasn't. It was a re-run.
- IphtashuFitz, on 08/27/2008, -2/+23Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. But it sounds more like that was done for their own internal propaganda than anything else. If they actually had proof of anything I'm sure they would have made a lot more noise for the whole world to hear.
- Louis11, on 08/27/2008, -0/+21Is it just me, or does a vast majority of that show always sound scripted? Annoying as hell, can't wait till they cancel that show.
And wtf kind of name is "Gadget"? - DrDustbunny, on 08/27/2008, -0/+21Have you seen their Hollywood myths? Like shooting thru a floor from Underworld?
- thegrizz51, on 08/27/2008, -2/+23Video of the moon or it didn't happen. Oh wait...nevermind.
- UncleCrapper, on 08/27/2008, -0/+20What the Mythbusters do is by and large science. No, it's not of the white-lab-coat-in-sterile-laboratory variety and more of the in-your-kitchen type, but it is still science. Remember that they are often looking for aggregate effects -- does a particular phenomenon occur or not -- rather than to what degree. It's like saying that rough calculations done on the back of an envelope are not math.
- LOCK3D, on 08/27/2008, -13/+32"the conspirators"? Those who conspired? I think you might be thinking of conspiracy theorists or those who believe it was a conspiracy. There is a rather large difference. I can't believe so many people dugg you up.
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