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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congratulations to India, this is their moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Live. Laugh. Love.

[–] babysharknanana 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It would be interesting to learn what the "moonlanding never happened" crowd has to say. Must be some next-level brain exercise to keep the story going. 😄

[–] Sheik 34 points 2 years ago

Bollywood is very powerful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That and the flat earthers explaining away any picture of the earth

[–] Lev_Astov 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And sunsets, and parallax effect, and visible curvature, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Guvremen faket it.

Here, done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Aren’t they generally ok with crew-less landings and mostly deny actual humans landing on the moon?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not the more crazy ones. They believe there's literally a barrier in the sky that prevents objects from going past a certain altitude. It stems from old abrahamic religious texts of an impenetrable "firmament" surrounding the Earth.

[–] Frozengyro 3 points 2 years ago

Yea, they claim if we're only getting rovers out there now, there no way humans actually made it there.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 3 points 2 years ago

I believe humans walked on the moon but they lied about how they got there.

Giant ladder theory crew

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not doubting it's real. (It's pretty obvious with the reflections on the solar panels.) But, the lighting looks weird on the Moon, like it has this painting quality to it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It's a combination of two major factors: The camera is pretty low-resolution, both in its ability to take video, and pixel density, and because there's no atmosphere to give us the "blur" and color filtration we're so used to seeing around objects.

[–] Smartboystupid 2 points 2 years ago

We should colonize it so we can give it a repaint!

[–] avater 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

send it to the russians 😅

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically, they made it first if you count lithobraking as a valid landing technique.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Technically, lithobraking is the final stage of any descent, but high speed lithobraking is usually not conducive for future mission objectives.