Posted on 08/24/2023 10:57:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Of his 13 movies a few are considered classics in their respective genres. Including the black comedy Dr. Strangelove, the highly-quoteable anti-war commentary of Full Metal Jacket, and one of the most disturbing horror films of all time, The Shining.
But in 1968, Kubrick released "2001 - A Space Odyssey". This is more than a classic. It's a masterpiece. And widely regarded as one of the best science-fiction films of all time, and probably the most influential.
This collaboration with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of an alien intelligence that visited Earth in the distant past, and left behind artifacts in the solar system.
The movie (2001 - A Space Odyssey) features ground breaking special effects, which still hold up today.
In fact, the effects looked so good that the movie gave the American Government an idea.
Billions of tax dollars were invested in the space program but the Soviets were still years ahead of the United States.
NASA desperately needed to get to the moon before Russia, but they knew it was impossible. So they turned to one of the World's Best Filmmakers for help. Because when it came to the moon: if they couldn't make it, they'd fake it!
https://youtu.be/yDyJe1nmSOM?feature=shared
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46,000 feet.
Hilarious.
Conspiracy theories, like cockroaches, never travel alone.
I always wondered what else the “Clot$hot Poison Jab of Death” crowd was addicted to. Now we know!
I get it, but we’ve travelled 4 billion miles through the Milky Way chasing the sun this year. Multiply that by at least 4000 years and ask yourself, should the stars have at least moved a millimeter?
Well done.
Priceless.
They have.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SMIII_Problem7.pdf
Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov
4.”Some people believe that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax because astronauts would have been instantly killed in the radiation belts.”
According to the US Occupation Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) a lethal radiation dosage is 300 Rads in one hour. What is your answer to the ‘moon landing hoax’ believers?
Note: According to radiation dosimeters carried by Apollo astronauts, their total dosage for the entire trip to the moon and return was not more than 2 Rads over 6 days.
The total dosage for the trip is only 16 Rads in 68.1 minutes. Because 68.1 minutes is equal to 1.13 hours, this is equal to a dosage of 16 Rads / 1.13 hours = 14.0 Rads in one hour, which is well below the 300 Rads in one hour that is considered to be lethal.
Also, this radiation exposure would be for an astronaut outside the spacecraft during the transit through the belts. The radiation shielding inside the spacecraft cuts down the 14 Rads/hour exposure so that it is completely harmless.
“But, I have to ask, how did astronomy prove the earth was spinning?”
It’s either that, or the Sun is spinning around us. Relative motion.
Which model of the solar system do you prefer? Heliocentric or Geocentric? Occam’s Razor argues for Heliocentric.
Don’t forget the crystal clear, magic phone call from the earth to the moon 252,000 miles away, placed by Nixon of all people!!
Pressurized airliner?
Most airliners are pressurized to about 8000MSL equivalent, which is enough for the following experiment:
Open a cheap plastic water bottle (the thinner the better) at altitude and drink its contents. Ensuring that it is in no way crushed while doing so, and still at altitude, cap it tightly. Don’t let the stewardess take it; you’re doing science! Observe what happens to it as you descend. This works best if you’re landing at a near sea level airport.
That is the case with 90% of what you believe. You cannot have an opinion on how, where, and who bore you then or who won the game last night because you weren't there and rely on other people's reports. By this logic you cannot believe almost anything in history with any sort of certanty.
I believe most Likely the moon landings happened
Take a step back and look at how absurd this statement is.
I flew in a plane recently and saw the curvature of the earth. If the earth is flat why does a flight from Chicago to Dubai go over Greenland if the shortest distance between to points is a straight line. If the world was flat the flight path would go straight over the Atlantic Ocean over the Strait of Gibraltar.
Yes, they have moved.
Did Space Shuttle Columbia break up?
Eratosthenes
“We funded the Soviet Space Program. The former head of the Russian Space Program revealed this. It explains their refusal to expose the truth.”
Pretty sure that what that demonstrates is your gullibility.
” the extremely Dangerous Ban Allen Belts”
What part of “the radiation dose is dependent upon the time spent in the Van Allen Belt” do you have trouble processing? All of it?
You like to pretend that astronauts were lounging around in it getting a good radiation dose. In fact the Apollo capsules were travelling through the Van Allen Belts at 25,000 mph.
At least they were in the space time continuum that most of us inhabit. I guess in Cartoon Conspiracy World they were lounging around in Kubrick’s movie studio with their Soviet Space Program pals who we were paying. Rod Serling would have gotten a kick out of that. You could have starred in your own Twilight Zone episode.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48907836
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