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.

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-Nekar Xenos-

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On 6-11-2014 17:58, Nekar Xenos wrote:

> They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.
>
Too good for them. Tethered to the feathering device at the least :-)

Sadly enough, vanguard projects like Virgin or Apollo /need/(?) a 
catastrophe from time to time to pinpoint weak spots in the design and - 
ultimately - make the end result better and safer. I have deep respect 
for the test pilots indeed.

Thomas

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> One of the many jobs I've had was a
> techy one on a UK newspaper. Thick as mince most of these journos

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach, 
report. :-)

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On 07/11/2014 09:12, scott wrote:
>> One of the many jobs I've had was a
>> techy one on a UK newspaper. Thick as mince most of these journos
>
> Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach,
> report. :-)
>

And those that can't report, sit and gawp. :-)

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     Stephen

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> On 6-11-2014 17:58, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>
>> They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.
>>
> Too good for them. Tethered to the feathering device at the least :-)
>
> Sadly enough, vanguard projects like Virgin or Apollo /need/(?) a
> catastrophe from time to time to pinpoint weak spots in the design and -
> ultimately - make the end result better and safer. I have deep respect
> for the test pilots indeed.
>
> Thomas
>
Agreed. While all loss of life is tragic, it's better that these 
problems were found in testing rather than during a commercial flight.

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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:29:48 +0200, Francois Labreque  

<fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:


>> On 6-11-2014 17:58, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>>> They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.
>>>
>> Too good for them. Tethered to the feathering device at the least :-)

>>
>> Sadly enough, vanguard projects like Virgin or Apollo /need/(?) a
>> catastrophe from time to time to pinpoint weak spots in the design an
d -
>> ultimately - make the end result better and safer. I have deep respec
t
>> for the test pilots indeed.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
> Agreed. While all loss of life is tragic, it's better that these  

> problems were found in testing rather than during a commercial flight.

>

Agreed. I fully support them. I would love to be able to go on a Virgin 
 

Galactic flight one day.

I think it would be really interesting to have test pilots consisting  

solely of moon landing conspiracy theorists :)

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On 9-11-2014 11:50, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:29:48 +0200, Francois Labreque
> <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>

>>> On 6-11-2014 17:58, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>>
>>>> They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.
>>>>
>>> Too good for them. Tethered to the feathering device at the least :-)
>>>
>>> Sadly enough, vanguard projects like Virgin or Apollo /need/(?) a
>>> catastrophe from time to time to pinpoint weak spots in the design and -
>>> ultimately - make the end result better and safer. I have deep respect
>>> for the test pilots indeed.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>> Agreed. While all loss of life is tragic, it's better that these
>> problems were found in testing rather than during a commercial flight.
>>
>
> Agreed. I fully support them. I would love to be able to go on a Virgin
> Galactic flight one day.
>
> I think it would be really interesting to have test pilots consisting
> solely of moon landing conspiracy theorists :)
>
They would crash to prove their point ;-)

Thomas

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