Ahh I know I shouldn't keep going. The poetic way you typed out "Why not just fly the hardware for real?" betrays your dwindling composure. I'm not even sure it's safe for you if I keep going. But I think you genuinely believe this shit and one of my absolute favorite things to do is pop redpill cherries. Ahhhh just one more~
we made all this hardware to aerospace specs, made craft capable of doing the mission (that left piles of technical residue we still poke at today, see "Curious Marc" on youtube), faked imagery from different missions decades later...so we could make a movie to beat the Soviets to the Moon.
First of all, yes, the Cold War was mostly fought with propaganda. Making a movie to convince everyone that Capitalism is better than communism was worth all the trouble and money just for that alone. To this day, landing on the moon is used as shorthand for technological achievement. Cellphones and the internet have probably had more of an impact on the world, but everyone the world over still regards putting men on the moon as the GOAT. I still believe in American Exceptionalism, but thinking we were the only people who ever put men on the moon made me believe a lot harder.
Furthermore, the Space Race functioned as cover for developing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile technology. In the 1960s there were was a rapidly growing antiwar sentiment, so it wasn't politically viable to say "we're gonna spend your tax money on making even more deadly weapons". Lucky for the feds that most of the technology developed during the Space Race doubled as technology for ICBMs in low-earth orbit. Saying "we're gonna spend your tax money on, uh, GOING TO DA MOON!" struck the public as something admirable, as opposed to evil. All the technology developed in the Space Race that actually works still works to this day. Most people literally cannot function without a GPS. Those ICBMs are still hanging above us like a Sword of Damocles. It's only the technology that enables us to put men on the moon and return them that has suspiciously been lost.
Oh man, thank you much! I never expected to find someone so firmly dug in to the narrative here of all places. It's like finding a virgin on tinder. I'll stop now though, don't worry. I might actually put this on my blog though! Thanks for the content too!
Uh-huh sure buddy. Maybe you should step away from the computer for a while. After you've cooled down a bit, try rereading our little exchange instead of skimming for buzzwords or outright ignoring what I post 📯
Ahh I know I shouldn't keep going. The poetic way you typed out "Why not just fly the hardware for real?" betrays your dwindling composure. I'm not even sure it's safe for you if I keep going. But I think you genuinely believe this shit and one of my absolute favorite things to do is pop redpill cherries. Ahhhh just one more~
First of all, yes, the Cold War was mostly fought with propaganda. Making a movie to convince everyone that Capitalism is better than communism was worth all the trouble and money just for that alone. To this day, landing on the moon is used as shorthand for technological achievement. Cellphones and the internet have probably had more of an impact on the world, but everyone the world over still regards putting men on the moon as the GOAT. I still believe in American Exceptionalism, but thinking we were the only people who ever put men on the moon made me believe a lot harder.
Furthermore, the Space Race functioned as cover for developing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile technology. In the 1960s there were was a rapidly growing antiwar sentiment, so it wasn't politically viable to say "we're gonna spend your tax money on making even more deadly weapons". Lucky for the feds that most of the technology developed during the Space Race doubled as technology for ICBMs in low-earth orbit. Saying "we're gonna spend your tax money on, uh, GOING TO DA MOON!" struck the public as something admirable, as opposed to evil. All the technology developed in the Space Race that actually works still works to this day. Most people literally cannot function without a GPS. Those ICBMs are still hanging above us like a Sword of Damocles. It's only the technology that enables us to put men on the moon and return them that has suspiciously been lost.
it's not like there's currently no incentive to return to the moon. Growing up, I was told that the reason we haven't yet returned was because there's nothing there. Yet it's now common knowledge that the moon is packed with valuable Helium-3: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/studies/191/lunar-helium-3-fusion-resource-distribution/
Oh man, thank you much! I never expected to find someone so firmly dug in to the narrative here of all places. It's like finding a virgin on tinder. I'll stop now though, don't worry. I might actually put this on my blog though! Thanks for the content too!
Deleted my comment because I said I'll stop, and I will be a man of my word.
Uh-huh sure buddy. Maybe you should step away from the computer for a while. After you've cooled down a bit, try rereading our little exchange instead of skimming for buzzwords or outright ignoring what I post 📯