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[–]Armageddons_Engineer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

lol! Some of it is flat earthers who like to pull the wool over their own eyes, or just troll other people. And then you got the middle ground who're like, yeah, if that's real, the test pilots who took that thing there and back got some kind of death wish. I can't really see finding people THAT fucking crazy, but talented enough to go on a suicide mission.

Those are people completely unaware of just how nuts some test pilots are. :D The X plane series, the Century series of planes, plus all the others that came before which were pretty much best guess according to the numbers, a bunch of wind tunnel test, lots of 100 mile an hour tape, bubble gum, baling wire, and best guesses.

But, if you know how insanely risky it was, how big of a propaganda win it was, then you also know why we haven't been back to the moon in 40+ years. Returning to the moon when it was no longer a death wish based on stack of bleeding edge tech and materials, that's why it's taking 4 decade or more. :D Because a longer term mission needs some purpose other than just getting there.

Mining helium 3, mining thorium, testing dangerous reactor designs or other machinery, bio-tech, and other things you want to keep isolated, THAT is a future mission and a half. You also need efficient lift capacity if you want to do it without depressing the economy for 3 decades like Russia did with their space program.

[–]Node[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Let's use the imagination. probably 200-300 people in the full know and orchestrating everything. This could be like ten groups of twenty people, or 30 groups of ten people (teams) all with their own specialties. Writers/story telling gurus , science theorists/consultants, engineering specialists, news/pr specialists, human resource specialists, education specialists (crowd source smartest kids on the planet how to make a rocket fly through space to Mars on paper agreeing with all assumed math), project managers, foreign consultants, a treasury department, strategists, visual and artistic department etc. All these teams have their own teams of people not in the know (example the welders, fabricators, engineers, artists, etc, the janitors). I would guess like I said 200-300 people, and probably another 2000-3000 (may be much higher) performing sensitive work and likely could be suspicious or know and they don't care and just want to get paid, scared etc. The majority of NASA employees likely not in the know. Astronauts definitely paid liars. The total number of individuals indirectly helping the cause I would guess is over a million people.

I've been talking to the flat earthers for years. Just checked another site and this reply was waiting. In reality, it would have to be millions to hundreds of millions 'in on the hoax'. And vast sums of dollars we're currently spending would be totally wasted if earth were not a ball shaped planet orbiting the sun.

Destroying Flat Earth Without Using Science - Part 4: The Conspiracy (more flat earth debunking links in the description)

Moon based industry is going to 'change everything', when it finally happens. Everything from technology to warfare will be massively upended. Chucking big rocks at locations on earth would be so much more effective than using nukes, and pretty hard to block.