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This is what DK was talking about. There are fields of pretend that do not correlate to the world, and there are fields of science that require you to know certain truths about how it all goes together. "We didn't go to the Moon because it was Hard! Look at all of these Goofy Bloopers!" is in the same category of stupid shit. Why would NASA stop pretending, if it pretended to get to the moon the first time? Why not get a bunch of guys together on a TS film set and set up a little moonbase? Why was there an 80-year space dark-age where we never escaped LEO again? Why is NASA spending so much time on "getting ready" for ARTEMIS I and II if they can just spin up a film-set and some After-Effects to photoshop Brandon onto the moon?


"Who knows what shape the earth is, no one has been on top of it"? That attitude is a little gross if we're being honest. You're no heir to the Greeks. The tools to verify the greatness of your forefathers are always at hand. The Greeks had to make do with a well to figure out the shape of the Earth. You have other means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment