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   dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 08:07:52 JST dilbert 1
   Joe Rogan is talking about how Elon Musk is telling him how AI is going to become sentient, this is more embarrassing than when he questioned moon landing
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 08:10:46 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @sun Yeah. The fact you're here means that you must've landed. :blobfoxgooglytrash:
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 08:38:11 JST dilbert 1

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     @MMS21 by the time he was questioning it, there was more than enough freely available information to reject the hypothesis it was faked. I don't think the idea is inherently bunk, I think it's been debunked.
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 08:38:13 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     What’s embarrassing about questioning the moon landing? USA had every reason to lie.
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:01:32 JST dilbert 1

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     • Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪
     @HoneyBadgerSupreme @MMS21 economics and empire.
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     Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪 (honeybadgersupreme@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:01:33 JST Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪

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     @sun @MMS21 each year that goes by where there are no manned missions only adds credibility to their point unless you buy into 'lost technology of the ancients'.

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     Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪 (honeybadgersupreme@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:26:57 JST Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪

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     @sun @MMS21 what would the year cutoff you'd say it was likely faked as the tech should be getting cheaper and better, right? 50 years? 100 years? 200 years? Eventually, the circumstantial evidence becomes quite damning.

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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:26:57 JST dilbert 1

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     • Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪
     @HoneyBadgerSupreme @MMS21 it was never economical, we didn't have justification to continue it by the mid 70s.
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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:30:08 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     • Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪
     @sun @HoneyBadgerSupreme @MMS21 the economics of it were actually bad enough that it forced rapprochement with the ussr and their space program (hence apollo-soyuz and the later shuttle-mir missions), you don't go thru all that financial trouble and engineering wizardry just to fake something that could be easily disproven by your biggest rival
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:39:02 JST dilbert 1

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     • Honey Badger Supreme 🇮🇪
     @allison @HoneyBadgerSupreme @MMS21 my understanding is it's easy to say "go to the moon" but the actual cost and difficulty is really high so unless you've got a any-cost ROI like "embarrass the other empire" there's no point in doing it.
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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:41:11 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     @sun @HoneyBadgerSupreme @MMS21 it did have positive effects on civilian technology later on down the line but yeah, pretty much. military applications were pretty much exhausted once we had the capability to send automated probes so sending men up there was really just a flex.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:07:58 JST 翠星石

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     @MMS21 @sun Due to all the video and photographic evidence and the moon rocks that were brought back that would be impossible to synthesize on Earth in the timeframe of a few years.
     
     You can even see the vehicles right there on the moon surface with a powerful enough telescope (it's hard to see objects that small from that distance even with an extremely powerful telescope); https://www.universetoday.com/93983/look-its-a-moon-buggy-lros-best-look-ever-at-the-apollo-15-landing-site/
     
     It was all to "beat the Russians" and I'm sure the Russians would have immediately refuted the landing if it didn't happen.
     
     It would have been easier to carry out a moon landing than to fake to that level.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:23:50 JST GNU Too

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     @Suiseiseki for many conspiracy theorists there is no amount of evidence that will ever convince them they are wrong. Even when they are "just asking questions." A few years ago I had a conversation with some folks who were calling for a new investigation into 9/11. I asked why. I asked what would they do if a new commission still came back with Islamic terrorists did it. They'd demand another one. Blind faith in government is bad, but blind faith against it isn't any better. I think that's why so many people who believe one conspiracy, tend to believe in a lot, even those that contradict each other.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:27:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @gnu2 There's a reason people call them "conspiratards". Once you swallow one such story, you're much more likely to accept others.
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:16:30 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @HoneyBadgerSupreme @sun @MMS21 One look at the decline of the America over these years is enough to destroy any doubt that we lost the ability, purely though the corruption of the institutions. Just look how NASA is unable to make a worse Shuttle with the SLS. You aren't saying Shuttle was faked, are you?
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