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Sixty years ago, on July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, paving the way for the official opening of NASA's doors just a few months later, on Oct. 1.
The drive to create an American civilian space agency began with the shocking revelation on Oct. 4, 1957, that the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the punch and launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile. The USSR was quick to tout its success in launching Earth's "second moon."
"Sputnik 1 was a phenomenon: You could go see it in your backyard," recalled physicist and engineer Guy Stever, who was on the faculty of MIT at the time, in a 1992 oral history workshop on the origins of the law.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-nasa-got-its-start-60-years-ago-sputnik-eisenhower/
(Score: 3, Funny) by isostatic on Monday July 30 2018, @08:27AM (7 children)
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @08:39AM
Oh, mate, that's a very bad attack of Mondaytis you suffer of.
Is the job that you need to do really that stupid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @10:19AM (2 children)
Quick Google search
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Moon [knowing-jesus.com]
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 30 2018, @06:59PM (1 child)
Allowed scripts on knowing-jesus.com - and still had a crummy disjointed page. I didn't allow third parties to run scripts. If there had been a .cdn or -cdn in the list, I might have tried that. Javascript sucks just as bad on Jesus sites as it does on earthly pages. You think maybe we should mention it to the archangels?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @09:38PM
That's probably why the Doctor Who-verse has the Weeping Angels: java script and Jesus sites.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @01:42PM
What about the shadow object? Can we conclude that the shadow object is also man-made and didn't exist prior to 1950?
Lemme throw this out there. Consider Gervase of Canterbury [wikipedia.org] and the June 18th, 1178 event. As we know, that was not actually the moon that was observed. I propose that the Medieval Warm Period was early weather war experimentation, possibly with very early steampunk technology. What was observed at Canterbury was actually a boiler explosion in the weather control satellite that the monks were deceived into believing was the moon! Thus, the Medieval Warm Period concluded shortly thereafter as the weather control equipment was no longer functional.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:12PM (1 child)
Obviously, you've already been subverted. If you really were in on the Truth, then you would know that the Sun rotates around the earth.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:33PM
FTFY
This sig for rent.