Oooo, classic and obscure.

I simply unhinge my jaw and let it slide down my throats.

We are the ferengi

You mean the one he has now or the one the government will be paying for?

Well, I can’t make you undrink the koolaid.

You want to look like an idiot, be my guest.

It’s not a “so-called conspiracy” it is a conspiracy theory.

Thousands of people worked on the Apollo project. Hundreds of America’s best engineers spent a decade designing and improving the designs for equipment that would go to the moon. If it was really impossible to do it in the 60s, you don’t think some of those people would have come forward by now? And not Bert Sybrils version of “my buddy’s uncle’s friend left his son a confession tape that was destroyed in a fire” version of coming forward. I mean someone from Boeing, or Northrop, or Rocketdyne, or even JPL itself would have said something. You’re talking about keeping thousands of very smart people quiet about something that would have been obvious to them from the start, and asking them to waste a decade of their life designing things that wouldn’t work.

Apollo missions after 11 left scientific instruments on the moon like laser reflectors that let us calculate the moon’s distance from earth more accurately over time. Non-US agencies and universities have used these for lunar observations. Are independent agencies lying for the American government, or are there really reflectors on the moon. If they’re lying, why? What benefit would they gain? If there are reflectors on the moon, how did they get there?

The US government spends millions of dollars every year meticulously preserving lunar rock samples. If it was fake, why would they continue spending that money 50 years later? Why not say “all rocks gone, everyone is fired, go home” 40 years ago? For that matter, those rocks have been sent to thousands of research centers, universities, and labs around the world for analysis and testing. They’re the rarest and most valuable rocks in the world. If NASA shipped some random rock from the Arizona desert to a lab in France or Germany, don’t you think some French or German geologist would go “hold on a minute, this is just ordinary basalt!” And call their local newspaper about how nasa just scammed them and wasted their grant money?

24 astronauts have orbited the moon, and 12 of them walked on it. These are men who dedicated their lives to being the best at what they do, a good chunk of them had doctorates. Again, you’re saying that 2 dozen people wasted a decade of their life training to be the best of the best so they could go to the moon, and then just what, sat in a bunker for a week and then said they went to the moon? And not a single one of those 24 men ever said it was all bullshit? Clearly you don’t understand American history or culture if you think that’s true. We like the big slamdunk, knock out drag out, victory. If that wasn’t true, someone would have blabbed about how they wasted their life for a fake crowning achievement.

Just because you don’t understand how something works doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Go play kerbal space program or read a book on project Apollo if you want to actually understand how space travel works. Watching YouTube videos is not going to educate you.

We went to the moon.

If we hadn’t, the Soviet’s would have been screaming it from the rooftops. The soviets tracked all the Apollo missions themselves, and even had robotic missions going on at the same time as several of the manned US landings.

The Cold War was intense. You think if the US hadn’t made, the soviets would have just let it slide?

Oh I’ll edit your latex

Probably buy RD-180 tech package or just the engines from the Russians.

The RD-180 is one of the most robust and reliable rocket engines ever made. Slap that baby on the bottom of a couple fuel and oxidizer tanks, and you can reach just about anywhere in the world in 30 minutes or less. The North Koreans stole the plans for it and now they have ICBMs, the Iranians could do something similar.

The average global temperature has been rising steadily with greenhouse gas emissions, for over 50 years, but sure we’ll just ignore that and say it’s impossible to know.

We only have the one planet, sometimes you can’t get multiple data sets. But you can certainly study the things that are happening and make predictions based on that.

“It’s hard to link changes in climate to climate change”

Is the author stupid?

Let me address your concerns.

Leaving their hand and going into mine is about as instant as it gets.

Excel and open source equivalents exists.

Buy a safe and keep your damn mouth shut.

Don’t be a criminal, or don’t do 2 crimes at once.

Production cost is irrelevant to how fast the currency goes from person to person.

Any currency will have a lag for economic stimulus. That’s not a currency issue it’s a human emotion and thought issue.

I can go to the next state and pull out a thousand dollars in cash, come back, pay for my stuff, and now it is practically impossible to tell who has what bill, when they got it, what it was used for, or anything else about it after it left the bank. Your mechanic and grocery store don’t catalog the serial number on every bill they get for every transaction.

Cash is instant. It leaves their hand and goes into mine.

That’s but how math works, doesn’t matter if you use the American or metric formula

How did you hear negative chirps?

Can I learn this power?

I can only assume you’re human, so that still counts as a man made religion.

Sounds relaxing though, I’d pray to that.

Are their non man made religions I should know about?

I feel like dogs would have a good religion. I wanna subscribe to that.

Ah, the Harry Dresden Assassination technique

And the demon name sounds like car sell, which is accurate because all car sale people are demons

I would assume that the North Koreans took an old Soviet sub designed for 5 dudes, and crammed 9 into it because they couldn’t build a 9 person sub but needed 9 people for something.