• UFO@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    The budget required for some of these conspiracies is greater than, you know, just doing the thing.

    Eg: moon landing. Faking everything that went into the space program would be way more expensive.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s right! The sun, the thing that prevents our entire planet from being a frozen rock, which imparts 44 quadrillion watts of energy on the Earth’s surface, is just an elaborate NASA hoax!

    They actually generate all that energy with…

    …Uh…

    ???

  • 58008@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The reason the sun sets is it takes so much energy to run that they have to switch to a much dimmer “moon” at night to give themselves enough time to recharge the battery enough for the next day’s light. It’s solar-powered, so of course they need to ensure it’s not running at max brightness in order to get the most gains.

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I can’t get over that. NASA was formed in 1958… Are they saying there was no sun before then? Literally every culture that has left behind any archaeological evidence has referenced the sun in some way.

      Unless they believe that the sun is a god that NASA captured in the late 50s and replaced with a simulation so we wouldn’t notice. That would be crazy too, but kinda metal as far as conspiracies go.