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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by soperj on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:58PM (#22206289)
The part about not going to the moon that always baffles me, is when I start asking questions like "Were the Saturn Rockets fake? were the satellites launched fake? Do you believe the ISS is currently being faked? the Space Shuttle? Any of the SpaceX stuff that is currently happening?" and they believe that stuff is real.

If that's all real, then why couldn't they land on the moon?

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:00PM (#22208560)
Because anything which currently involves humans in tin cans in earth orbit happens below the van Allen Belts, which is one point the non-believers are holding up.

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

Their point being to cross the Belts in tin cans even going fast would have toasted them nicely and afterwards being toasted further by having no protection from cosmic rays or solar winds at all.

Which won't happen if you stay in LEO where every human space flight happened afterwards.

To return back to the current topic, there was a (good!) movie about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One from 1978 where they faked it to proactively saving face in case of any real mishaps. Though that was for traveling to Mars, not the Moon.

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