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Satellites Do Not Exist

MikeG said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand the International Space Station is visible with the naked eye, isn't it? How would these nuts explain that away?
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Large rock-fly through sky-big god fella ride!!!!!
 
Halcyon Dayz said:
Clarke didn't conceive of satellites, he conceived of artificial geostationary satellites, the existence of which is one of the many evidences that the Earth rotates.
Artificial satellites were first mentions in the SF story "The Brick Moon" from 1869, nearly half a century earlier.


With copious amounts of handwaving, of course.
And the ISS isn't the only Earth-orbiting satellite visible with the unaided eye.
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I think that would be closer to 70 - 80 years.....
 
Regarding the "rockets need atmosphere to push against" business. It seems to me that for modest expense, a garden shed scientist could set up an experiment to show that the entirety of the world's scientific community is lying and that the heroic truth seeker is correct.

One could get a vacuum pump/bell jar set up, like any school science department would have.
Place a Catherine wheel firework inside, along with some sort of r/c way of igniting it.

Remove the air from the bell jar using the vacuum pump and then ignite the firework.

The fibbers at Nasa, ESA et al would have you believe that the firework would spin regardless of nothing to push against.
Of course, this would be shown to be a lie and the entire "history" of space exploration would be exposed as a decades-long international con job.

I wonder why they don't try something like that.
 
Duffy Moon said:
Regarding the "rockets need atmosphere to push against" business. It seems to me that for modest expense, a garden shed scientist could set up an experiment to show that the entirety of the world's scientific community is lying and that the heroic truth seeker is correct.

One could get a vacuum pump/bell jar set up, like any school science department would have.
Place a Catherine wheel firework inside, along with some sort of r/c way of igniting it.

Remove the air from the bell jar using the vacuum pump and then ignite the firework.

The fibbers at Nasa, ESA et al would have you believe that the firework would spin regardless of nothing to push against.
Of course, this would be shown to be a lie and the entire "history" of space exploration would be exposed as a decades-long international con job.

I wonder why they don't try something like that.
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I think you would need something that has it's own oxidizer for it to work.
 
Alternatively, they could put the entire rocket sled track at the Wyoming U. explosives center under a vacuum and see if Kari could split a boat in half with nothing for the rocket to push against.

Kari would wear a bikini.

For the science, of course.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Alternatively, they could put the entire rocket sled track at the Wyoming U. explosives center under a vacuum and see if Kari could split a boat in half with nothing for the rocket to push against.

Kari would wear a bikini.

For the science, of course.
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I like how you think there!!!:):D:):D:)
 
Duffy Moon said:
Regarding the "rockets need atmosphere to push against" business. It seems to me that for modest expense, a garden shed scientist could set up an experiment to show that the entirety of the world's scientific community is lying and that the heroic truth seeker is correct.

One could get a vacuum pump/bell jar set up, like any school science department would have.
Place a Catherine wheel firework inside, along with some sort of r/c way of igniting it.

Remove the air from the bell jar using the vacuum pump and then ignite the firework.

The fibbers at Nasa, ESA et al would have you believe that the firework would spin regardless of nothing to push against.
Of course, this would be shown to be a lie and the entire "history" of space exploration would be exposed as a decades-long international con job.

I wonder why they don't try something like that.
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Because their moms won't let them play with fireworks in their basement bedrooms.
 
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