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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, “the moon landing was staged?” Below the rocket, more white text reads “yeah that’s how all orbital rockets fucking work dude”
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Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging
Bring Jeb back alive
It’s just a little jaunt to Ike to grab a Kerbal for a contract. How hard could it be?
This guy kerbals
I looked into this a long time ago, it would’ve been more expensive to fake it than it was to just do it.
We would’ve needed to somehow convince Russia to lie on our behalf. We would’ve needed to convince the dictatorship of australia to also lie on our behalf.
The rooskies came out and said we beat them to it, and the aussies claimed they recived the camera feed and the audio feed from space and then echoed it to their TV network
That Mitchell and Webb sketch where they discuss faking the moonlanding to save money, and the only real savings was on catering…
The dictatorship of Australia?
I too feel like I’m missing context on a joke here.
This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.
By vice regal, not regal. It was the governor general that dismissed the Whitlam government, not the monarchy
The palace papers revealed the royals knew and had discussed the possibility on a handful of occasions well before the sacking, even going so far as to discuss preemptively that the monarch would not wish to take the advice of the prime minister in replacing the governor general “If such an approach was made you may be sure that The Queen would take most unkindly to it” as written by her personal secretary.
Further, the vice regal is an extension of the regal. Nek minnit you’re gonna say, oh the US president only ordered drone strikes, it was actually the drone operators who did the killing!
Monarchy being non-political my arse. And this isn’t the only time the royals have been seen to favour the conservatives. No surprise there of course, there is no struggle other than the class struggle.
Fuck the Queen, fuck the monarchy, fuck the conservatives for withholding supply, and fuck the governor general.
(Not fuck you, though, even if you do like the royals)
I’m all for making Australia a republic, and thanks for that, I hadn’t heard that the dismissal was discussed by the Queen, but of course the GG could and can consult with the crown if they’re unsure of the correct path and the regent of the day is willing to take their call
no free speech, no encryption, no bodily autonomy means dictatorship
Australia has free speech. Encryption is not banned. In what way do you think Australians have no bodily autonomy?
A dictatorship requires a dictator. We definitely don’t have one of those.
Hol’up, are you talking about the vaccine mandates?
Yes, exactly. In general the whole notion and everything they claim is fucking idiotic from start to finish. Outright lies, misunderstandings, misrepresented partial truths, etc.
Those two friends of mine aren’t “gunpowder inventors” as we Finns tend to express it, ie. they’re… well, calling them stupid would be a bit too harsh, but they’re definitely not smart. I’m not surprised in the least that they fell down that rabbit hole, but fuck does it get tiring.
Landing on the moon was such a huge PR event. Everything that could be controlled was controlled.
What if a backup TV broadcast was created in case of broadcast equipment failure?
Right? It was the Cold fucking War, why would the Czar of Russia or whoever was in charge work with the US on the US’ propaganda against Russia?
Cold fucking War
Czar of Russia
The Czar wasn’t around during the Cold War for … reasons.
Obligatory Mitchell & Webb
Ya, Russians are noobs tbh.
I still prescribe to the theory that we tried to fake the moon landing, but Stanley Kubrick being a perfectionist kept insisting they shoot on location prompting us to do it for real anyway.
Oh yeah uh… what about SSTOs huh? I bet we’ll have some sick aerospike powered vehicles any day now!
spoiler
RIP Rocketdyne XRS-220
single stage to orbit
SSTO enthusiasts in shambles
You mean single stage to orbit fans?
Honestly I’m surprised at the amount of people making SSTO jokes in the comments without knowing what that initialism stands for
I think people understand what SSTO stands for. People are talking about SSTO because in your title you claimed the four stage Saturn V was single-staged
Yea I understand. That’s why they’re in shambles.
Okay then I clearly just don’t get your joke 😅
The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.
But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.
It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines
You could also have staging in model rocketry. The largest we ever had was a 3-stage running on G-size engines. The “Red, White, and Clusterfuck”. If all three stages ignited and properly, you got a solid boom outta her. The frame outlived several nosecones from the friction they had to endure.
That sounds, intense.
Nuh uh. They snuck the astronauts into the Star Trek sets at night and used the transporters obviously. They knew the props wouldn’t have been convincing enough…
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kek gottem.
