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Identity (Metric)
09/01/09

In reply to Moon Conspiracy Theorist Makes Neil Armstrong Realize Obvious Truth
I read this last night on the Onion and it was hilarious. Thanks for sharing it to those who haven't!

I am in a very pleasant mood today.
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dry-roasted-peanuts
09/01/09

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Good, glad that's out of the way. Now how about we get the truth about there actually being no moon. That's right people.

There is no moon.

The Reptoids are just hoaxing us into believing that space exists so we don't go exploring their secret lairs under the earth.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
09/01/09

@dry-roasted-peanuts: Show your proof! [www.revisionism.nl]
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dry-roasted-peanuts
09/01/09

@GitEmSteveDave_WonAForeignLott...!: ... at least my crackpot theory has Reptoids in it and assumes the earth is hollow...
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Andre Ondre
08/31/09

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Well Ive been saying for a long time that the moon landings were Fake, to honestly think we can land man on moon in 1969 with computers as powerful as standard digital watches, and yet in 2000's we cant land a man on moon despite having better technology and computers
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RT100
08/31/09

@Andre Ondre: have you ever heard of the onio, good sir?

edit: i mean to call you a fool
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ArtisticThought
09/01/09

@Andre Ondre: Wait, people actually believe that? We've landed on asteroids and mars, not to mention the moons of other planets, good sir. NASA simply hasn't had the funds or initiative to land on the moon over the last few decades until recently.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
09/01/09

@Andre Ondre: Honestly, what idiot believes the moon actually exists? YOU SIR, and I use that term loosely, are part of the conspiracy. Hopefully someone will unplug you someday, and you will wake up from your pod. [www.revisionism.nl]
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Lester Dean
08/31/09

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Yes this is funny! But there are effin retards who will take it as serious as the conspiracy so we should all die a little inside still...
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I Think We're Property
08/31/09

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One of the things that I tend to question about these moon-hoax theories is how they explain the rocks. Its usually something they gloss over. Did they get a whole bunch of geologists to lie about the rocks and soil samples they examined, which were reported to be subtly unique in composition to anything on earth? Did NASA somehow manufacture or otherwise fabricate fake moon rocks and soil using obscure techniques that wouldn't occur to geologists? Did they send up an unmanned probe, collect some samples, bring them back, and then shove them into the 'reentry' capsule before airdropping it in the ocean? And speaking of probes, was it with stealth probes launched during the fake "manned" launches that they placed the mirrors and other assorted bits of ground-observable evidence for the landings? All I tend to hear are "photo inconsistencies" and "soundstage in New Mexico". Occasionally "Van Allen radiation belt", too, for variety.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
09/01/09

@I Think We're Property: Supposedly Verner Von Braun was up on the North Pole collecting Moon Meteorites to use as moon rocks to further the conspiracy. Which proves it's not true, as the moon doesn't exist. The moon is a lie. [www.revisionism.nl]
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Bigbadbikernerd
08/31/09

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Finally! We can now go back to believing the moon is made out of cheese.

It is made out of cheese you know...the squirrels told me. Now the little bastards are after me. They watch you though the remote sensor on your T.V., so make sure that you rip yours out...

Oh shit...I think they know I'm writing this...........
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
09/01/09

@Bigbadbikernerd: Idiot. Everyone knows the moon is a hoax. It doesn't exist. Who lets gullible people like you in the Internets?

[www.revisionism.nl]
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DoctorEcks
08/31/09

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I'm pretty sure that's the Proteus from "Fantastic Voyage". Shrunk to the size of an RBC its not so fugly.
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DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
08/31/09

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"...this guy built his first solid-fuel jet engine in a high school shop class."

I don't think "solid-fuel" and "jet engine" go together. A jet engine uses a fan to force air into the (liquid) fuel where they are burned together.

A "solid-fuel" engine is one type of rocket engine that's basically a slow bomb with a solid oxidizer mixed with a solid combustible.

Just playing with the words - you could almost have a solid-fuel jet engine if you had some sort of aerosolized combustible powder that did NOT have an oxidizer mixed with it and instead got its oxygen from air forced with a turbine... That would be an interesting engineering exercise to see if it was even possible, but not something that anyone would bother making for any other reason.

That's all - thanks.
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Navin R Johnson
08/31/09

@DreamTheEndless: +1 for the feasibility study of a typo.
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DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
08/31/09

@Navin R Johnson:
:)

Thanks -
For the record, the typo was not the fault of Gizmodo - it was in the original article. I couldn't help but think it an interesting concept though...

(Anyone want to see what happens when you force a few hundred pounds of non-dairy creamer into a turbine and light it? I kind of do... Anyone friends with bored postgrad students at someplace like Purdue, Cal-Tech, MIT, etc?)
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DigitalPasture
08/31/09

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Needs a turrent... And flames on the paintjob (to make it go faster of course).
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Indigen
08/31/09

@DigitalPasture: Needs a what?
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gunluva is prepared to drop.
08/31/09

@Indigen:

A torret gun to shoot Combines with.
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Gary_7vn
08/31/09

@gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim: or a Tourette's gun, that would tell everybody to fuckoff, shit, fuck, shit, fuck, shit, motherfucker
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
08/31/09

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Eventually this will end up on blocks, in some space redneck's front yard I tell you.
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BasicBlack
08/31/09

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This kind of sweet and innocent madness gives me hope for my own future. Here's to things that need no reason!
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AkkiRonin
08/31/09

@BasicBlack: a place to stay / enough to eat /
somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street...
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
08/31/09

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Nice design. I bet the stainless steel construction will make the flux dispersal work better.
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Ryanraven
08/31/09

@GitEmSteveDave_HasAFrenchLoaf: not to mention I hear shiny things makes you go faster
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Parapraxis
08/31/09

@GitEmSteveDave_HasAFrenchLoaf: however, it's missing the very vital Mr. Fusion device.
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Bedheadjc
08/31/09

@Parapraxis: Oscillation Overthruster.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
08/31/09

@Ryanraven: That's flames your thinking of. Shiny things distract people, which is why Queen Amadilla's ship was full chrome. The idea was to blind your opponent with luxury.
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ephdel
08/31/09

@Parapraxis: even the original design didn't use Mr. Fusion. remember, the trick is to start with plutonium until you can get to the future and bring back a Mr Fusion...
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Goondocks
08/31/09

@GitEmSteveDave_HasAFrenchLoaf: It looks like it would be loud as hell, seeing as it's just the SS skin beyond the bracing. Pretty sweet, and it will last forever. It would be sweet with some monster truck tires cruising the wastelands, pluggin' zombies.
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TheCrudMan
08/31/09

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This could have been a "what's this?" The title is the answer...or we could play jeopardy: "this what an apollo 11 engineer ends up with..." bbbzzzzzt "what is this?"
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Yuppers: I love you
08/31/09

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To boldly go where no travel trailer has gone before...
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incubushead
08/31/09

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F unctional
U nderfunded
G igantic
L aughable
Y ?
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surfjim
08/31/09

@incubushead: "Y"es
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