Guys. You are embarrassing me. Yes we went to the moon.
How do I know? Because my two older brothers worked at JPL on Ranger through Voyager. I later worked for NASA in planetology as a scientist. I have touched hardware that is now way far out in space. My brother's name was inscribed with the other people's names on a piece of hardware that ended up on the moon.
I have to think some of the people pushing the idea are trying to make us look like nuts.
It is reasonable to send up a dummy instrumented with sensors to detect the many kinds of radiation found in space to design better space suits etc. I'm not ok with a lot of what NASA is doing that is wasteful, but this thing actually makes sense for them to do it.
You don't know though - you merely believe through abject appeal to authority. And frankly, if you are a scientist you should know better :(
I have to think some of the people pushing the idea are trying to make us look like nuts.
Kookifying, they call it. It does seem that way, but truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to possibilities... Would you care to have an earnest discussion with someone with different views than your own, in the collaborative pursuit of truth? If you earnestly engage, i think you will find the conversation rewarding regardless of if it has any impact on your perspectives (or vice versa - on my perspectives!)!
Normally I do engage in discussions with people who disagree.
The problem is that I am a personal witness. My brother did the programming for reassembling the data stream into pictures. I did work as a scientist at JPL/NASA but I didn't like taking tax money from people for my salary so I left.
What do you do when you are a personal witness to something and someone says it never happened? They essentially say I am lying. It's hard to have a discussion with someone who simply says you are lying.
I saw with my own eyes. They say I'm a liar.
I welcome your advice on how to handle that. I'm stumped, and I really wonder if that person was just there to make us look stupid.
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Guys. You are embarrassing me. Yes we went to the moon.
How do I know? Because my two older brothers worked at JPL on Ranger through Voyager. I later worked for NASA in planetology as a scientist. I have touched hardware that is now way far out in space. My brother's name was inscribed with the other people's names on a piece of hardware that ended up on the moon.
I have to think some of the people pushing the idea are trying to make us look like nuts.
It is reasonable to send up a dummy instrumented with sensors to detect the many kinds of radiation found in space to design better space suits etc. I'm not ok with a lot of what NASA is doing that is wasteful, but this thing actually makes sense for them to do it.
You don't know though - you merely believe through abject appeal to authority. And frankly, if you are a scientist you should know better :(
Kookifying, they call it. It does seem that way, but truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to possibilities... Would you care to have an earnest discussion with someone with different views than your own, in the collaborative pursuit of truth? If you earnestly engage, i think you will find the conversation rewarding regardless of if it has any impact on your perspectives (or vice versa - on my perspectives!)!
Normally I do engage in discussions with people who disagree.
The problem is that I am a personal witness. My brother did the programming for reassembling the data stream into pictures. I did work as a scientist at JPL/NASA but I didn't like taking tax money from people for my salary so I left.
What do you do when you are a personal witness to something and someone says it never happened? They essentially say I am lying. It's hard to have a discussion with someone who simply says you are lying.
I saw with my own eyes. They say I'm a liar.
I welcome your advice on how to handle that. I'm stumped, and I really wonder if that person was just there to make us look stupid.