https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbal_Space_Program
Its kinda shocking how many stupid people play this video game and assume that makes them some sort of astro-physics guru.
Its kinda shocking how many people use Kerbal as an argument for why they think they understand rocket science.
Playing Mario Bros won’t make you a master plumber, and playing Kerbal won’t make you an astronaut.
I don't see any reason to attack Kerbal Space Program.
KSP is a tremendous game which has probably gotten tons of young people interested in science. It is super fun to land on the Mun and come back, and quite difficult.
What does it have to do with the Great Awakening?
Do you think that the purpose of KSP is make people believe more that we went to the moon? Because I don't think that.
The KSP is probably OK,
other than giving young, impressionable people delusions of competence.
I actually went to the trouble of working out the math and physics of the moon landings,
and believe me, “it doesnt add up”…
and instead of actually addressing the facts, some people insist i need to play more KSP, to truly understand why white men using the Standard measuring system totally walked on the moon, while (presumably lesser?) races using the Metric system could never walk on the moon
Framing the moon walk as an example of innate white supremacy drives libs absolutely crazy.
"I actually went to the trouble of working out the math and physics of the moon landings,
and believe me, “it doesnt add up”…"
I would pay good money to see what kind of schizo finger-painting you came up to arrive at this conclusion hahaha.
Agree. Show your work.
You jealous bro?
Here's a "think piece" for you.
You probably don't know what a retro-reflector is... but there's one on the moon. We put it there. I have seen it.
So, either we landed men on the moon and THEY set up a retro reflector OR, we landed a retro-reflector on the moon by itself, in the absolute perfect direction to line up with the earth, by using 1960s technology.
You've been to the moon?
If NASA were willing to fake great accomplishments, they'd have a second one by now.
They went to the moon 6/6 times,
Which is actually better than Shaq’s freethrow percentage
6 of 7. Apollo 13 failed on the way, but they saved everyone.
“Miracle on Ice” was fake news too.
Fuck Herb Brooks
What?
what is your evidence that no one has been to the moon? and if it was fake, why hasn't it been faked again?
i'm not suggesting everything made public about it was real. but not everything about it was fake, either. we did go. there are videos and images they don't want you to see, as well. have you seen those?
"Playing Mario Bros won’t make you a master plumber, and playing Kerbal won’t make you an astronaut."
This statement perfectly exemplifies your ignorance on all the related topics. It's actually pretty elegant.
I'm sorry your flat-earth BS got dunked on so hard yesterday, it's clear you're still very bitter.
But let's unpack this:
"playing Kerbal Space Program doesn’t actually mean you an astronaut, or that other men have walked on the moon…"
Please provide an example of someone on this board making this claim.
"Its kinda shocking how many stupid people play this video game and assume that makes them some sort of astro-physics guru."
Please provide an example of someone on this board making this claim.
"Its kinda shocking how many people use Kerbal as an argument for why they think they understand rocket science."
Please provide an example of someone on this board making this claim.
And again: "Playing Mario Bros won’t make you a master plumber, and playing Kerbal won’t make you an astronaut."
This is a failed joke you made yesterday. It's laughably ignorant, I'll give you that.
Your entire crybaby post is based on wildy false premises and claims that were never made.
These posts belong on a different board anyway. Take this crap to conspriracies.win.
I’m sure I’ll be cited as the example of the person claiming KSP proves the existence of orbital mechanics.
For the record, no hard feelings. We all agree there’s an evil cabal intent on destroying the world and we all want to stop it. Let’s meet there and stay frens.
And, I know that program probably dumbs down some things to make the whole thing more playable. But the concepts of gravity, orbit, thrust, that’s all there. And it works. And it makes logical sense.
The planets orbit the sun. The sun orbits the galactic core. Everything you see in the sky is spherical because gravity turns any liquid gaseous material into a sphere.
The Earth is not a disc. Nothing makes sense (to me) that way.
Love to all. Peace.
HOWEVER, you can pretty much fly a plane using MS Flight Sim.
And, you can use a backhoe being trained on a simulator.
Astronauts, are trained on simulators.
So, yeah... playing video games doesn't make you what you're playing... but achieving high marks on a simulator, means you will probably plop your butt in the seat and do as well as any beginner.
And now we are painting a full picture off the OP's outline. o7.
WWG1WGA
KSP is an amazing game and it's fact that I didn't know what an apoapsis was prior to playing. Back off. Jebidiah does not approve.
I've heard the reason they have women astronauts is, "Those sandwiches won't make their selves up here. Uh oh, time for the torches & pitchforks
Lol.
They are already talking about how their next crew is going to be diverse and inclusive.
I guess they are sensitive about NASA critics cracking mean jokes about white men walking on the moon
Spoken like someone who could not fly a greasy stick up a dog's ass !
What?
I play it because it's fun 🤷♂️
But given it's wonky physics I'd never assume I'd be a capable engineer just because I've managed to send a lil ship to the mun.
Oh, BTW, earth isn't flat.
As for moon landings being fake, I guess it's possible.
We LoSt ThE tEcHnOlOgY
vAn AlLeN rAdIaTiOn BeLts
Who manned the camera when the moon landing was filmed?
We lost(destroyed) the master copies
Outer Space is 100% fake and gay.
It's definitely not fake and gay, but it could be completely outside our capabilities to traverse it.
I was with you until you disparaged the Super Mario School of Plumbing by Osmosis.
Shame on you!
But seriously, yes, video games and popular entertainment have taken the place of rigorous scholastic achievement and critical thinking in the minds of a large portion of "above average intelligence people."
A secondary effect of the dumbing down of schools - not only are the dumb dumbs' and the normies' expectations lowered, but our best and brightest are, as a result, given an easier path and thus more free time to waste on frivolous pursuits.
TPTB's plans always seem to have multiple angles. Commendably insidious.
Edit: Not to say KSP is horrible, or all people who play it are midwits. I have a friend I respect very much who enjoys it quite a bit and doesn't let it get in the way of more substantiative endeavors.
On the other hand, he is definitely an outlier; the majority I know are mesmerized by, and addicted to, these "games".
In 1969, a high-tech phone was one with push buttons. A color TV weighed as much as a small piano and it turned white faces magenta and black faces green. Making a left turn in a car was like bringing a boat into a harbor.
Yet in 1969 we allegedly had the technology to travel 238,000 miles into space and back, despite our never travelling even five hundred miles off the surface of the planet in the last fifty years.