NASA needs funding.
They need results to get people excited so they can get the funding.
Since we depend on them—and other people directly or indirectly on their payroll—to confirm anything they say...
I take nothing they say at face value.
I cannot prove they are lying about anything.
I just don’t trust them.
I cannot prove they are lying about anything.
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If you were to dedicate some time and go through their Apollo image catalogue and the old & newly released Apollo transcripts - you’d have plenty of proof. Same with their Mars efforts.
What NASA does is more along the lines of hiding information, than deliberate lying. They are likely hiding way more that we could guess.
Example 1:
One oft he early Mars Rovers had a grinding wheel to study rock compositions, plus a live camera so we could watch. The arm picked up a rock and made a grinding pass. The newly exposed surface had a fossil of a sea plant. But once that was exposed the quickly ground it off.
Example 2:
In the press room when the first Rover’s color TV camera was turned on, it showed a blue sky and green lichen on the surface - there was no red to be seen. Before the camera came on, techs in the press room had spent a good deal of time getting the high-end monitor’s color correct. But as soon as the first images appeared, the manager rushed to the monitor and turned the red gain all the way up.
They are often guilty of trying to fit square pegs into triangular holes, then backtracking with contradictory conclusions.
Best way to find out anything from them is to look a the raw data, which may take science and math degrees to understand, instead of just reading their conclusions.