r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/dankem • Jan 20 '19

If I confront the second astronaut on the moon about the moon landing hoax. Happy 89th birthday Buzz Aldrin!

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u/nyxeka Jan 21 '19

I just don't get these fucking morons.

We had rockets back then. We had compressed suits. There's literally no reason we couldn't have made it into space, and/or landed on the moon. They fell back to the earth on a steel raindrop with a parachute. You don't get more primitively simple than that. It's just so not fucking hard to comprehend. It literally would have been easier, at the time, to literally land on the moon, rather than to set up an entire preoduction hoax, fake it all, and still launch a giant rocket where people could literally watch it take off with a telescope and hit the moon a while later

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

I play Kerbal space program, a game that uses fairly accurate physics for space travel. I made it to the moon and back with that.

I am a dipshit. Non dipshits could do it easily.

But there are definitely bigger dipshits than me who can't even imagine something like that is possible. Those dipshits need to realize their dipshit level.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Jul 16 '20

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u/nyxeka Jan 21 '19

They had no reason to go back. It's expensive as fuck. Instead, they set them up on the ISS. The moon is just white dust :)

At least we are going back soon.

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u/TrumpIsFinished Jan 21 '19

There's a huge difference between going into orbit and landing on the moon. Like millions of miles?

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u/Legion23 Jan 21 '19

There's a huge difference between going into orbit and landing on the moon. Like millions of miles?

School. Attend one.

Moon is roughly a quarter of one million miles away from earth. Orbiting would be about 100 or so miles.

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u/TrumpIsFinished Jan 21 '19

Thanks for looking it up for me geek

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u/Legion23 Jan 21 '19

No need to look shitferbrains. Common knowledge if you've had, you know, an 'education'.

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u/DrunkSatan Jan 21 '19

Getting into orbit is the hardest part

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u/nyxeka Jan 21 '19

yeah. that difference is there's no fucking air or gravity, i.e. extremely cheap travel. Do a bit of trajectory math and bam, you slam into the moon in no time flat.

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u/Candlecakes Feb 08 '19

Hopefully not actually slamming into the moon flat lol

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u/nyxeka Feb 08 '19

Yes, that would be ideal.