I continue to think that the reason we haven't gone back is one of two options:
This is the bit that always throws me. Death, even a particularly horrible death, doesn't seem to be enough to keep people in line. So many conspiracies rely on someone beating the prisoner's dilemma and I just don't find that likely on anything other than a very small scale.
that's why the program was cancelled to begin with. other than rocks, of which many pounds were brought back its not worth the trip, especially now that rovers and satellites have made observation so much better.
So where the fuck do tides come from? That gravity is just magic?
Gravity comes from mass, dude. An empty shell isn't going to give you much unless that shell is made of magic somehow that defies the rules of the universe.
No it wasn't. It was thought that it stopped fires. Which it did. They hadn't even considered that it did other unintended shit.
Yeah yeah yeah whatever, they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake it, but he was such a perfectionist he actually did it on the Moon.
He wanted to, but he decided the moon's surface didn't look moon-like enough to the camera, so it was actually filmed on Mars. The Mars probe missions are filmed on Venus.
Simulation theory is creationism for cowards.
We went back multiple times though.
It’s not just stuff like the tech, it’s people. It’s the brains and grit to do it. These guys were engineers in an age where it was incredibly hands on. Their education was suberb, and they could create custom one off machined pieces. But it’s more than that, it’s people. You watch things like ‘the right stuff’ and it’s gloriously dangerous. There were no bean counters worrying about danger (well there probably were but they were leashed enough to not stop things.) they were incredibly brave men doing brave and frankly stupidly insane stuff and they knew the odds. I don’t think we have enough people like that these days. You’ll have a few, for sure, but everyone at nasa in those days was a different breed, from the guys in the rockets to the calculators. Nowadays we don’t have enough PEOPLE who are good to sustain such an operation.
One thing that tickles me about simulation theory articles is the way they all have the same breathless acceptance we live in a simulation and then all abruptly stop just before the most interesting point which is that it implies the existence of a creator. It’s like they can’t quite take that final ‘you may just have proved God exists’ step no matter what. It’s always funny
This is the real reason we won't go back. Here's a top secret film I found while hacking into the Pentagon with my Gibson:
Current year "commies" would not survive an actual commie society much like how neo nazis would never survive Nazi germany.What if the Cold War never really ended, but just morphed into the "Culture War" of Current Year, with a "ceasefire" and buildup to Clown World during the '90s and '00s?
In other words, what if it's always been commies versus non-commies since the mid-20th century?
