Stephen Curry is pretty sure the moon landing was faked, just in case you cared

Yahoo Sports ^ | December 10, 2018 | Ben Rohrbach

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I think what we’re learning here is that NBA players are huge fans of conspiracy theories.

Nearly two years after Kyrie Irving said the Earth is flat on a podcast with then-Cleveland Cavaliers teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye, fellow All-Star point guard Stephen Curry informed us that man never landed on the moon during an appearance with Golden State Warriors teammate Andre Iguodala on a new podcast featuring Atlanta Hawks players Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore.

Curry even tipped his cap to Irving, suggesting, “They’re gonna come get us,” an ode to the social media firestorm that followed Irving’s revelation and ultimately resulted in an apology from the star.

What did Stephen Curry say about the moon landing?

Following a conversation about marijuana-inspired memes and the question of how filmmakers could possibly know what dinosaurs sound like, Curry asked around the 47-minute mark of the podcast: “We ever been to the moon?” When everyone in the room responded in the negative, Curry agreed: “I don’t think so, either.” Cohost Annie Finberg asked if Curry was being serious, and Curry confirmed he was.

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Like I've been saying NASA is a liberal organization.

Barack Obama will explain for you that we “can't go beyond low earth orbit” at about 4:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zzqW1WKZE

Yeah, and please explain the harnesses used by NASA nauts at about 19:20 and why we shouldn't be laughing our heads off?

The opening footage of Neil Armstrong on a movie set is pretty funny, too.

[Pelham]

“Barack Obama will explain for you that we “can’t go beyond low earth orbit” at about 4:25”

Only because we no longer have a heavy lift rocket in our inventory.

“The opening footage of Neil Armstrong on a movie set is pretty funny, too.”

Evidently the religion that you have invented for yourself approves of falsehoods.

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Yet, you cannot explain the astronauts’ hanging from the ceiling in harnesses... with Chromakey... LOL

[Pelham]

There isn’t a wire or a harness. That’s just more of the utter indifference to truth coming from you dishonest crackpots.

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Do you really believe someone in Houston remote-controlled this zoom shot on Apollo 17?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

(RIP the lunar cameraman who got left behind...)

[Pelham]

That’s a strawman argument. You’re injecting your own conclusion into your question. It’s not remote controlled, it’s a clock drive with a fixed focus.

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"It's a clock drive with a fixed focus"

Check again.

It's a zoom and tilt shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

Apollo 17 "lunar lift off" = comedy gold.

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BTW, no call for personal abuse, just because you can’t prove your position.

[Pelham]

“BTW, no call for personal abuse, just because you can’t prove your position”

You don’t have a problem calling everyone who worked on the Apollo program liars. So quit whining.

[Pelham]

There’s no zoom and the camera is tracking on a clock drive.

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"Just let Jesus tell him to his face because none of this petty distraction affects salvation anyway."

Oh, I wouldn't count on it, for a Christian born in this day and age who will not stand up to Evolutionism, or Dialectic Materialism, or anything that contradicts the Word is not right with God.

See, we Christians are to be apologists for the Word.

We are to be Bereans, as Paul explained.

The Lord God Jesus Christ warned His disciples sternly, when they asked Him about His second coming and the end of the world...

He said: "Beware deception"

Then, Paul reminds us that “for those who no longer love the Truth” God will send “strong delusion” so that these so-called believers will then be caused by God Himself to “believe a lie”.

(Not unlike the lying spirit the Lord sent to the most wicked king in Judah, Ahab.)

So while I agree with you that pressing people on issues of geography/astronomy/physics per se may not have anything to do with salvation, we as Christians are bound to remember that Christ teaches us that “heaven and earth shall pass away, but His Word is Eternal”...

... and His Word says that there is a Firmament.

God created each of us to live in this precise time frame as His ambassadors and apologists.

He knew there would be an internet (”in those times, knowledge will increase”) and the Lord knew every single position and point of His word would be challenged by the world, the flesh and the Devil.

You and I are bound to defend the whole of the Word, not parts of it, especially since so much of NASA’s math revolves around 666 sequences established only 500 years ago by Copernicus, the first real globe pusher.

We are to “beware deception” and remember that we must love the Truth.

But if you're an evolutionist or Darwinist, then you are already a true “Doubting Thomas” about Jesus Christ in terms of science.

Sorry to explain the finer points of our Christian duty, but your last required a response.

Overall, I think what you were trying to say is that we need to preach the Good News and walk daily in the joy of the Lord... which is what one of my fave Youtubers is trying to say in this video:

EXPOSED...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxPnNmn46_M

“Of all the deceptions and agendas we strive to expose, perhaps the evasive thing to try and uncover... are the parts of ourselves that we don't want to see...

Far easier to fix our gaze somewhere else.

Anywhere else...

We long to see change in the world, change in the people around us, but staying focused on allowing God to change our own hearts, above all else, is probably the most difficult aspect of Faith, in the end...

At least that has proven true in my own life.

It's easy to preach about Forgiveness, but so much harder to live it out.

To let go of all the ways that you've been wounded by others.

To have joy in the fact that your sin was paid for at the cross, even while many of the earthly consequences of that sin might still remain...

All I know is that analyzing the endless machinations of the Enemy, does not bring me Peace.

Debunking every falsehood I encounter, doesn't ultimately make the demands of God's Truth on my life any easier.

Finding ways to express myself creatively, and have other people see and listen, doesn't give me a lasting sense of worth... "(continued...)

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“There is no zoom and the camera is tracking on a clock drive”...

NASA said it remote controlled the Apollo 17 lunar lift off shot from... Houston.

In 1.5 seconds.

LOL.

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"You don’t have a problem calling everyone who worked on the Apollo program liars...."

? I'm honestly curious why you are defending a liberal Paris Accord loving organization like NASA?

Would you be offended if I called rabid left-wing Communists 'liars" as well?

What is at stake here?.... Our sentimental childhood memories about watching astronauts on TV?

[Pelham]

“NASA said it remote controlled the Apollo 17 lunar lift off shot from... Houston.”

They were pre-set commands. All that Houston did was initiate the sequence at liftoff minus three seconds. But at least you are now admitting that it was a shot made on the Moon. Congratulations.

The same shot was attempted on Apollo 15 and 16 without success. If the picture was faked, as Team Lunatic likes to insist, they would have had good pictures each time.

[Pelham]

“? I’m honestly curious why you are defending a liberal Paris Accord loving organization like NASA?”

You are regular textbook case of logical fallacies. Fallacy of the Complex Question in this case.. which doesn’t mean that your question is complicated, it means that you love to load your questions with presuppositions.

I’m defending the good people of NASA who worked on the Moon program, and whose tremendous accomplishment deserves to be defended against slander artists, whether the slander is motivated by invincible ignorance or malice.

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???? “All that Houston did was initiate the sequence at liftoff minus three seconds.”

Uh. No. Do you understand what type of equipment, battery power and video broadcasting transmitters/receivers would need to be in place for something like this to occur as NASA says?

Please explain what types of battery-powered broadcasting equipment would allow a mechanical “zoom” on a video camera from 1970... by remote control.. in a half a billion mile streaming video transmission... off the Lunar rover golf-cart’s battery?

You do understand analog video cameras of that time period, old fashioned analog color video cameras especially... did not run off battery power...

And what kind of mechanical remote controlled “zoom” and “tilt” could track this fake toy lunar capsule and hold the shot after the firecrackers were set off? (Notice no stabilizing thrusters, just some string at the top of a movie set... folks.)

APOLLO 17 ZOOM/TILT FOOTAGE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

THIS ZOOM/TILT FOOTAGE

WAS SUPPOSEDLY CONTROLLED OVER A HALF A BILLION MILE RELAY FROM THE MOON TO AUSTRALIA AND THEN TO HOUSTON TEXAS...

VIA AUSTRALIA'S DEEP SPACE STATION VIDEO RELAY...

AND THEN OVER ATT'S REGULAR OLD FASHIONED TELEPHONE POLE PHONE LINES (NO COAXIAL CABLE NETWORKS IN 1972!) WITHIN THREE SECONDS BACK TO THE "MOON"?

LOL... WATCH FOR THE FIRECRACKERS SOMEHOW SPARKING IN THE "LUNAR" NEAR VACUUM/OXYGEN FREE ENVIRONMENT, TOO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

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No, you are defending our childhood memories of astronauts on TV, out of a patriotic nostalgia.

But Santa isn't real, and you cannot demonstrate NASA’s actual accomplishments; indeed NASA can't duplicate, and therefore cannot build upon, what they say they did years ago.

And slander exists only if one knowingly and purposely lies.

That any conservative or Judeo-Christian blindly pledges allegiance to any Governmental agency defies the definition of conservatism, and faith in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.

Meanwhile, among a myriad list of things that no one has answered about NASA, I'm still puzzled over how they love to write "SEX" in the fake clouds on their faked "earth images", this one from 2015:

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Keep in mind, there were no coaxial cable networks in the year 1969 or 1972.

There weren't even sophisticated video relay stations at that time.

I told myself I would not do this again but you have no clue regarding the Television Transmission capabilities back it the days of the Moon Shot. I retired from Verizon after 31 years and a total of 40 years in telecommunications field. I was trained as a technician by the USAF and worked for ITT, Sprint, MCI and Verizon

Between early wired networks and today’s fiber optics sat a system of microwave relay towers transmitting information from coast to coast across the United States. Built in the early 1950s, this line-of-sight network spanned the continent using zig-zag patterns to avoid signal overlap. It conveyed phone conversations and television signals from the era of the Kennedy assassination through the resignation of Nixon.

This is the 1960 AT&T Long Lines network map. It carried TV signals for the big three networks across the country and that was before the Apollo program.. You act like you know everything but you come across as a pompous ignorant jerk. Please note that the map itself is labeled broadband. One more thing, the connections between the radios and the multiplex stages were connected with Coax Cable and BNC connectors.

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

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Really? LOL... That STILL doesn't explain the 1.5 second remote control relay (across half a BILLION miles) to the toy “Apollo 17” fakery here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

And how did that signal get from the tracking station in Australia and to Houston and back for the “return” TV uplink back to the “moon” in 1.5 seconds?

LOL again.

We STILL have lag on our cell phones today!

And what kind of batteries ran all this equipment on the moon?

And if Alaskans couldn't get live News reports in 1972 (as per Sarah Palin’s memoirs) but had to wait a week for the video reels to get flown in, how did Houston get relays from the Australian tracking station “live” to enable the remote from the Lunar Rover that was left on the “moon”?

LOL.

There were problems with live international transmissions in 1985 during the infamous Bowie/Jagger video hook up during Live Aid... and this was with the best engineers and recording technicians in the world! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid

Your post reminds me of the time here on FR, when I was discussing how GIs after WWII had the theory about Ike's implication in the strange death of Patton after a 15mph car accident... and some FReeper reprimanded me for even daring to discuss this by telling me “his grandfather was Patton's chauffeur”! and that I didn't know what I was talking about...

[higgmeister]

All I did was refute your crazy claim that "(t)here weren't even sophisticated video relay stations at that time" when there was a vast network of video relay stations across the country at the time.

While I cannot teach you how to be a telecommunications technician who worked in the field for forty years, I can provide you with some links to check out.

This is from Wikipedia providing some information regarding the Earth link with the Moon and Australia and then the up/down links between Australia and California. You will note the path from California to Houston is on the AT&T network I proved previously. The way that the signal gets sent between Parkes or Honeysuckle Creek Earth stations and Sidney OTC is across the Australian Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) facilities.

Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

Australian Broadcasting Corporation news report on the role of the Parkes radio telescope and the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, a week before the moon landing

What really saddens me is that you create your own straw men and then proceed to knock them down with glee. You're the only only one that is obsessed with delay. I have worked with communications delay on a day-to-day basis and it isn't some magic barrier you seem to believe it is. You have delay, you compensate for it or overcome it. You have been told over and over that on the Apollo 15 and 16, the engineers could not get the video timed to get the boost of the LEM but finally did on the last mission.

What my mind cannot wrap around is that you cannot believe in God or Jesus, if men walked on the Moon or his creation is a sphere. Jesus spoke Aramaic and the Bible was written in ancient Greek, then translated for us into Latin and then into the King's English of Shakespeare's times, yet you quibble over your understanding of the word firmament from the Old Testament. /smh

Also, the NASA you rail against now, is not the same NASA from fifty years ago. There was no works project, no Muslim outreach, no pork barrel spending, just a tremendous national pride in the Greatness of America. MAGA and stop being a schmuck.