Mythbusters vs. The Moon

[Trekker4747]

I prefer that they stick to real questions, not trick-questions. The moon one, as silly as it seems, is good hard science. Why DON'T stars show up in the photos? That's something real and demonstrable. I'm looking forward to this one.

Well, anyone with a cursory knowledge on photography can answer that one.

But, I see you point.

But, as I said, it depends on how you want to interpet the question. Some people need to see things to believe it. "Roosters don't lay eggs" is a biological fact that cannot be disputed.

"Can a plane take off on a treadmill," is tougher because many people will think that -like a car- the plane won't be able to move against the treadmill's movement.

Forget the trick way the question is worded as -to me- that's just internet nutjobs getting their panties in a bunch.

I think I see what you're saying, but sometimes with stuff like this people need to see it to believe it and it's harder to tell people "planes push off the air and not the ground" than it is "roosters don't lay eggs."

To each their own. I thought it was a fun-enough episode eitherway. The roaches vs. radiation thing was kind of neat.

Let's get back to Shark Week/the upcoming Moon episode.

 

[mvkemp]

There was already a show on the National Geographic Channel called Conspiracy Moon Landing that debunked the 10 biggest moon landing hoax theories.

I loved that special. My favorite part was where the conspiracy advocate said something like, the astronauts would have been fried going through the van Allen belts because of all the radiation. And the actual scientist response was like, "So I called up Dr. van Allen, who's still alive*, and asked him if the radiation levels were high enough to kill an astronaut. And he said you'd have to sit there for about a month instead of the half hour the astronauts were actually in them."

*Alive when the special was originally aired, but has since passed away.

 

[Christopher]

Let's get back to Shark Week/the upcoming Moon episode.

Could you escape a shark on the Moon if the shark were on a treadmill going backwards?

 

[jkladis]

If I had Al Shepard's golf club to beat the shark with, then totally doable.

 

[Hermiod]

One thing I don't get about Moon hoax theorists. They are specifically accusing individual Americans of perpetrating the worst act of fraud and deception in American history.

Unless they have irrefutable evidence to back their accusations instead of half-baked theories are these allegations not libelous ?

 

[Gepard]

Could you escape a shark on the Moon if the shark were on a treadmill going backwards?

......don't you dare. The Internet will explode!

 

[Carpe Occasio]

There was already a show on the National Geographic Channel called Conspiracy Moon Landing that debunked the 10 biggest moon landing hoax theories.

I loved that special. My favorite part was where the conspiracy advocate said something like, the astronauts would have been fried going through the van Allen belts because of all the radiation. And the actual scientist response was like, "So I called up Dr. van Allen, who's still alive*, and asked him if the radiation levels were high enough to kill an astronaut. And he said you'd have to sit there for about a month instead of the half hour the astronauts were actually in them."

*Alive when the special was originally aired, but has since passed away.

Yes, I would love to see it again (I wish I had recorded it to DVD).

 

[Warp Coil]

I briefly shuffled through this episode at work yesterday out of curiosity. Looks like they're going to try lots of different things in the episode - looks entertaining. But I only watched like 5 minutes of it.

 

[Squiggy]

One thing I don't get about Moon hoax theorists. They are specifically accusing individual Americans of perpetrating the worst act of fraud and deception in American history.

When they're not claiming 9/11 was set up.

 

[Hermiod]

One thing I don't get about Moon hoax theorists. They are specifically accusing individual Americans of perpetrating the worst act of fraud and deception in American history.

When they're not claiming 9/11 was set up.

I'm a cynical bastard but even I would not prefer to believe that the US government faked something that was quite possibly humanity's greatest achievement (the moon landing, not 9/11 ).

 

[Squiggy]

Also, given the government's penchant to keep NOTHING they intend a secret, one would think that such a massive undertaking involving tens if not hundreds of thousands of people a decade and costing billions would've been debunked as it was happening.

 

[mrcoaster]

I don't know why people still think we landed on the Moon. Everybody knows the Earth is flat and the Moon is made of cheese.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Also, given the government's penchant to keep NOTHING they intend a secret, one would think that such a massive undertaking involving tens if not hundreds of thousands of people a decade and costing billions would've been debunked as it was happening.

That's true. If it had been faked, we wouldn't be getting a bunch of wack-jobs saying, "Look at our proof!" We would have a bunch of wack-jobs holding up some guy who claims to have been there and saw it filmed.

 

[Squiggy]

"Some guy"...why not hundreds of guys?

 

[Brikar99]

the Moon is made of cheese.

Wouldja eat it?

 

[Rowan Sjet]

the Moon is made of cheese.

Wouldja eat it?

Depends. Is it Cow or Goat cheese?

 

[Messianni]

So does this mean that if they can't prove it they're going to try to blow up the Moon? Seems like that's how half the other myths go!

 

[Christopher]

So does this mean that if they can't prove it they're going to try to blow up the Moon? Seems like that's how half the other myths go!

Maybe they'll blow up the no-Moon-landing conspiracy theorists instead. We can only hope...

 

[Messianni]

So does this mean that if they can't prove it they're going to try to blow up the Moon? Seems like that's how half the other myths go!

Maybe they'll blow up the no-Moon-landing conspiracy theorists instead. We can only hope...

Indeed... by flying them to the Moon, then blowing it up once they land!

Isn't a convergence of ideas beautiful?

 

[Christopher]

No... they'll fly the conspiracy nuts to the Moon, and then the nuts' heads will spontaneously explode from trying to figure out how they can dismiss it as a hoax.

Next, they'll send that damned Creation Museum in Kentucky back in time to the Cretaceous.