On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:40:11 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> In July 1969 I was on fieldwork in Southern France. I remember like the
>> day of yesterday how our team was stretched out in a dry river bed at
>> night (with some booze) looking up at the Moon and marvelling about the
>> fact that men were walking there overhead. It was a truly magical  
>> moment.
>
> Btw, this is closely related to one of the reasons why I consider
> conspiracy theorists to be such huge assholes.
>
> The Apollo missions are a true marvel, one of the greatest achievements
> of humankind in recent history. We can all admire in awe both our
> technological progress and the courage of the men who put their lives
> at risk to go beyond anything we had done before.
>
> Then these conspiratards come and destroy people's childhood awe and
> admiration by deceiving them, lying to them and using all the tricks
> in the book to make them believe in falsities. They are crushing people's
> childhoods and dreams with lies and deception. The people who once  
> admired
> those achievements end up feeling disillusioned and defrauded. They are
> being lied to, but not by NASA. By those conspiratards.
>
> The sad thing is how effective the techniques are that conspiracy  
> theorists
> use to convince people. It's like a religion. Once you become converted,
> it's really, really hard to deconvert you, to make you see that you are
> believing a lie, and that your original views are, in fact, the actual
> truth.
>

They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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