Originally posted by Mini D
Ah.. gotcha hortlund. I guess that explains your.. what... 20 posts in this thread?
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Actually I thought I had explained my position in this thread. I do not doubt the moonlandings, Ive never said I did. I have seen something that I do not understand and I have no explanation for. This is what I wrote to Grun, it should sum up my position nicely.
Have you ever seen anything you cannot explain Grun?
If yes, did it make you curious or did it make you scared?
If you look back in this thread, you will see alot of people posting out of their a$es. "Its the sun" (even though it is about 50 times too big in the first picture) and then clinging to that opinion of theirs.
JoeSmoe is a good example of someone who doesnt want to think for himself. He is presented with a picture that cant really be explained, and his immideate reaction is denial. So ok, we can conclude that if JoeSmoe is faced with something he cannot explain, he gets scared because (probably) for some reason the concept of critical thinking is too complext for him.
btw...ra displays the same character trait (note how I abstained from using the word flaw). As does several other posters in this thread.
I am of the opinion that there are things that science cannot explain. Those things make me curious. Those very same things scare the cheese out of others. That is all fine and well.
The thing that bugs me is when people like ra, joesmoe and you talk about stuff you really dont know anything about in a way as if it was the one and only truth.
Now, grun, I'm going to say this again. The lightsource on the first picture is not the sun. The reflection of the sun is too big in all the pictures I have posted. Why is that? I dont know. It makes me curious though.
Now alot of people have claimed that the reflection in the visor is indeed the sun and they have tried to explain how the reflection could be 10-20 times larger than it should be. Personally I doubt their explanations, for several reasons.
Continue to downplay all of the stupid things you've said in this thread hortlund. And continue to act as if saying:
" As I said Joe, critical thinking is a good thing.
From your posts in this thread so far, you have yet to show evidence that you are capable of coherent thought, not to mention independent thinking."
doesn't necessarily mean you are trying to "come off as anything".
You can't just shut idiocy off hortlund. The text is still there.
Well, my personal opinion is that I havent said anything stupid in this thread at all. On the other hand, I suspect both you and JoeSmoe feels you havent said anything stupid either. *shrugs* maybe we are all right, maybe we are all wrong. Who cares? I do know that personally I think Joe is an idiot.
As for yourself, you are falling back into the cheerleader position you know oh-so-well from this board and others...
I see something I find strange, to me it is a mystery and it makes me curious, people offer explanations, but I question these explanations given. You jump in and call me stupid and an idiot. That puts you in the same category as JoeSmoe, you just use more and more complicated words to say the same thing as he does.
Are you still doing drugs btw?