Welcome. Welcome to silly speculation Saturday. It's kind of like Fun Fact Friday, but probably no fact it's on the same feed for this is not Fun Fact Friday tactical we we kind of rate this show and 1213 or older. We don't cuss. We don't talk about crude stuff but you know, but it can get it's not for the five year old, deeper. Right. So what are we talking about? We're talking about the moon landing the moon landing, quote and, quote. So what do you know about the moon landing in 1969?
Um, not much, because I thought I knew a lot about it. So I didn't pay attention in class. Oh, so the story is, they landed on the moon, and then they put a flag in and they laughed. That's all I know. So it was it was a big deal. There's this thing going on with Russia. And it was called the Space Race. Right. And we decided we were gonna go ahead and we're gonna go ahead and just land on the moon. Right. And when it when it all get the gold medal, big foam being number one, right. And that's,
that's what they that's what they said we did. They showed it on TV. They're like, hey, look, we're on the moon. Wow. Yeah, they can't, they came back home and everybody would never is a hero. And everything worked. Well. I don't understand how people are heroes like that. But then I mean, okay, so it's super brave, though. Because nobody had ever done that before. It was super dangerous. Right hero in my mind is someone that's like saved the world.
Right. But, okay, that's hero has different different meanings. Yeah, everything has different meanings to different people. Yeah. So. But if you go in and look at a lot of the stuff surrounding the moon landing, there's a lot about a lot about have that done lineup. Right. So there's a lot of people out there. And the thing it didn't happen. Yeah, I think it was all a big TV production. And they think it was all directed by Stanley Kubrick. Who did this about a look that you see in the
chat. Yeah. So the moon landing. There's a lot of inconsistencies with the lighting. With the photos. There's a lot of inconsistencies with like, they they had a they had color cameras on the shuttle, but not they didn't take the color camera with them. So my thing was, we were watching a video in class and our science teacher was very anti hoax, stuff like that. Right. So it said that there was no wind on the moon, but it looks like claymation. Red read. They had the flag going into the
soil. And it was kind of like waving a little bit. Well, the waving flag thing. Yeah. I tried moving. I try. Yeah, I could try and look at things from both sides. I'm not all 100% gung ho, no, we absolutely did not go. But I like asking questions. And that brings brings it to a lot of a lot of things. I was listening to a podcast recently. And there was a conspiracy theory in there shows kind of about conspiracy theories. And they were talking about, well, there's this other
theory about this thing. But the people who said that are part of this crazy group, so I'm not even gonna listen to them. And I'm like, Well, hold on, where did they get it though? Like, you shouldn't not look into something because a crazy person has said it or repeated it. Like because I can say something completely true, and evidential and fact based, and then some crazy person can get on the internet and say it and then
people will dismiss it outright. That's not That's not right. So I got Ted Bundy. So the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. That doesn't make that wrong. Just because Ted Bundy said it. Yeah, so I like to ask questions. There's somebody talking about that there's somebody talking about the flat earth. Right. And they were talking about it and they said, I don't believe for a minute that the earth is flat and
covered with a dome. And I think a lot of the people who do believe that are off their rocker, but they're asking the right questions. And what he meant by that was that Why are you taking the things that are told to you at face value? Because the person saying them had a lab coat on? Yeah, or as a paid government official? Because there's many, many, many, many instances of government officials lying.
That's not even controversial to say. So the the whole thing is, is I want to ask questions about things when I see something inconsistent. And if you come back with a really like a good answer that makes sense to me. Cool. Yeah, we're, we're good to go. But one of the big things is there's this thing called the Van Allen radiation belt. Yeah, I've heard of that. Yeah. Really cool. I was telling you about the other day. And how did they get
through that? And not die. Like, it's supposed to kill people. I'm looking for. Let's see that thing with one of they sent the satellite to the sun. Like, huh, okay, yeah. Okay, so this is another this is about the sun, or the sun. This is about Seoul and sort of, let me find that, because I'm going to turn my thing now. Tell him tell him about it. Okay, so we watched a video about it in science class. And it just looks like a whole bunch of like security cam footage from
outside the whole bunch of bugs and dust. Like it didn't look like anything. Like super scientific. It was just like, oh, yeah, that's bugs. Instead of oh, look, that's the sun. So let me let me give a little background. Because you're just talking about the video. Okay, so they can't see it. So basically, they sent us satellite probe to go, quote, unquote, touch the sun. Right. And they sent back video from this probe, which was inside the sun's atmosphere.
Yeah, now that inside of the corona, you can you can, you can outfit a satellite with heat resistant things. Very, very, very thick, heat resistant shell, but a camera, but how did they get the footage? And I brought this up to my science teacher. And she was like, well, well, it's, it's fine. It's a camera and I'd got the footage. I was like, Okay. I want to meet Oh, crap. A few of the teachers listen to this. They're gonna bring it to her. Oh, no, no. I love you slam teacher.
Lille as actually genuinely liked a lot of her teachers. I have. I don't. I haven't heard her complain. I don't hate MIT science teacher. Of course you don't know. Anybody. Right? But now I, you know, who knows if I poisoned your brain with asking about how the camera took pictures inside the sun's atmosphere. I try really hard not to though I try really hard when something comes up. And it's a controversial topic to not poison your
thinking one way or the other. Because I genuinely want to hear how somebody who doesn't know anything about it thinks it's tough because I want to tell you things and same thing that I was talking about what the dust and the bugs? i Sorry, good. I believe in like spirits and entities. But I don't really think that ghost orbs are a thing. Right? I think that it's just dust floating around because of air movement. But I'd love to hear
about spirits and stuff. I think it's really cool. Oh, yeah. I just, you just don't know if you actually believe it really. So okay, I went on. I want a podcast called abs and a six pack not for kids. And it was about the moon landing. Like we did a whole episode about it. I think it was called Buzz because Buzz Aldrin was one of the astronauts. So I said on that show, and I've said actually on a couple of shows, because I've gotten a couple of out there conspiracy theory type shows.
And I always say I don't 100% believe that we went to the moon. I don't want to under percent believe that we didn't go to the moon. I don't know. But whichever story is the most entertaining is the one I'm going to gravitate towards. And the story of a deep government conspiracy, involving lots and lots of people is more interesting to me than like faking the moon landing is a more interesting story to me
than us actually going to the moon. And that's just me. There was a story that Kim Jong Hoon found some unicorns in North Korea. Yeah, there was a it was official news source in North Korea said that Kim Jong Hoon fell On some unicorns in North Korea, and I think I'm gonna say that but who am I to say he did? I'm not even gonna say they're gonna get nuked. I'm like, Yeah, who am I? Well, I got really close to the mic. Who am I to say that he did not find a cave full of unicorns? I
don't know. I have no idea. And you know what? I choose to believe that there's a cave full of unicorns in North Korea, I choose. I choose to believe that. And you're not going to be able to tell me otherwise. They're all over there in North Korea. So okay, let me let me get back into more of the dialogue. We do not love North Korea. People in North Korea that are stuck there. Yeah, yeah, but we love you. So Stanley Kubrick is supposedly the one that they got a hold of to make the moon
landing, right. This is according to the theories. And he was always troubled by it. And he made the movie The Shining by was a Stephen King novel, he adapted into a movie he adapted definitely it wasn't, was not the book. But there are so many little nods to the moon landing in the movie that you can't, it's almost like he made a confession of I did it. I faked the I faked the moon landing. I found these people on
a soundstage. And it was all fake. And there's just there's, I'm trying to think of a couple of things that make me believe that what we saw now, whether they went to the moon or not, is a completely different question as to whether what we saw was real, because they have may have went to the moon. But what we
saw was fake it. I mean, yeah. So one of the things is the lunar lander, if you look at pictures of the feet of the lunar lander on the moon, and underneath it, it supposedly slowly lowered itself down using retro thrusters to lower itself to the surface of the moon. If you look at the ground underneath it, this super, super fine sand supposed to be on the face of the moon is an undisturbed completely. It's completely undisturbed, as if the lunar lander was set there.
Like lowered down into position like claiming without Yeah. Like it's a set. The other one that really bothers me is there's a famous picture from the Moon of the earth on the horizon. Yeah, but where they say could have been, like, painted? Yeah. Made? Yeah. Most of the stuff that NASA puts out is an artist's rendition. Yeah, I have no problem with 3d assets, as long as you tell us.
Like there was a picture I saw recently. Yeah, the black hole picture, if you look at the actual what it really look like. It's like, okay, there was a picture recently I saw of Saturn with the sun in the background, and it was said that it was from the Hubble Space Telescope. And that doesn't make any sense. Because the Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth. Yeah. So there's no way that we can look at a telescope. Telescope, it's not gonna work like that, because Earth is closer to the
Sun than Saturn. Saturn never goes between us and the sun. So it's pretty cool. There's little, but who knows, that picture might not have made it may not have been from NASA. But there's, um, there's a lot of pictures from NASA that they get all of this radio information and all these, like different wavelength pictures and things. And it doesn't, it's not pretty, you know, it's either black and white, or there's just a bunch
of distortion. But then they pull out all the radio information and do their best guesses as to what color things will be and then make it pretty. And it gets people interested in space. And you know, that's, I guess that's a good thing, you know. So, yeah, if you look at the Okay, here we go. We've got a link in the chat. From DIY photography. And from Yeah, do my photography. Look at the lenses. Here's a look at the F. The F the F stop level 0.7 lenses that Stanley Kubrick used. Okay, I'll put
this in the show notes. Thank you for the link as well as a gal. Thanks. Thanks, Gail. Gals a robot. Thank you Billy Bones. Yeah, the photos have been artificially enhanced and colorize pretty much all like really bones has done more. Like fact finding Yes. Well, that's the thing or the community builds the podcast. Yeah. Without without the community You were nothing. On some karma. You believe on some karma in the chat, you can get your own karma if you want to join us in the chat on when
we go live can give yourself karma. Nope. Gouden allow it. Yeah. dogbone says the other big deal with Kubrick was the lenses that we're at the time recently invented, that made specific shots possible. The very specific shots for the moon landing. So it's very, there's just a lot to look into. And there's a lot of things that people say, Oh, this is the smoking gun that we didn't go to the moon. And it's not. It's actually explainable using the official narrative. But there's
just there's a lot of inconsistencies. And I just want people to look into it. And I want more than anything, I just want people to be able to question the official sources of things in their own brain. You don't I mean, if that makes sense, like, like, there's some people who just cannot question an authority figure. And I don't I don't understand that. I'm like, that's just a person. You know, it's just this group of people who work at this place. Their job is to get their
department of the government money. Like funding, right? Yeah, you get funding by getting the public to demand funding for something. How do you get the public to do something? You show them something cool. You're like hey, look, we did this cool thing at NASA and then people were like, Oh give NASA more money they're doing cool stuff. You know and then the politicians are like ah but anyway, just wondered word permanent test after this.
Oh, you haven't How long has it been teacher? The word permanent test? I don't know. I hate where permanent tests. Do you ever use Mavis Beacon typing teacher? Oh, man, I should totally get Mavis Beacon. MAVs. It's Mavis, I thought it was madness. No, she said her name is beacon Teaches Typing. Okay. All right. Okay, so typing too much. Why don't you read about what your what you read. Now I'm going to take a sip of my drink.
Okay, I don't have much source. You I was mainly just going to listen to you and agree with what you're saying. No, you gotta question it. I just wish I had the pictures to show you. I'll look up some pictures while I'm I'll get my drink. That didn't hurt. Let's see. Phil Plait. Phil Plait Phil Plait has mixed feelings about the moon landing hoax. The Moon Landing hoax still lives on more than 50 years after Apollo 11, the first crewed mission to land on the moon. He is frustrated that he
and others like him still have to debunk the hoax theory. From time to time. 50 years after the first moon landing, then again, plate became famous because he's so good at debunking in the first place. Back in February of 2001, Fox Broadcasting ran a documented documentary titled conspiracy theory. Did we land on the moon plate? plat, I think it's plat coincidentally had a
pile of research ready from a book he was working on. And a friend sent him an advanced copy of the show, so that he had time to write up a response Okay, hello. Your mic is muted. I turned it down so I could drink my drink without going into the mic. That was a pleasant noise. Yeah. Likewise said there's also during the Fun Fact Friday episode. There's also a theory that the moon is a huge space station. Oh, and I see this is this is from mirror.co.uk. And
it says Video unavailable. Conspiracy conspiracy theorists believe that the moon could be a hollow satellite, kind of like the Death Star from Star Wars. Alright, so basically, they're just saying that humans, how many years ago flew here in the moon. All right, and we've just left the ship out there and took some like, you know, smaller ships to actually land land there. And I said the moon has a lot of helium in it. And they
they hollered out. And anyway, it's an interesting theory. I'll link to the mirror.co.uk site that they talked about a little bit, but it's got some cool art. To go along with it. Let me link this in the end. The Chat Room X astronaut escapes assault charge. Have you heard about this one? Billy Bones just posted the link. Buzz Aldrin punched the dude in the face after he told him that the moon landing was a hoax. All right. You can read about that. At the BBC dot Coda UK link in the show.
There's two pictures of a black hole on my screen. And they're two different black holes, but they look very similar. I guess that's because they're both black holes. And I'm just not very black hole. enthusiast. But like, yep, yep, two black holes. Yeah, it looks like somebody was playing with their, like, Photoshop, and they were playing with the blurred Smear tool.
Yeah, and they put a little bit of red, smeared it on black.in the middle, but okay, so um, it's been said, by somebody in the chat that I'm trying to create rebels. I'm not trying to create rebels. I'm trying to create critical thinkers trying to create trouble not afraid. I just want people to question authority, but also accept answers that that makes sense. And position
your science teacher? Well, yeah. And like a lot of people will get into get so deep into a conspiracy theory or a alternate theory of something that when it's proven, they can't be like, oh, oh, okay. They'll they'll move the goalposts. You know, I mean, yeah. So it's like, Dude, you absolutely cannot hold up three fingers. You absolutely. It's just undoable, and then somebody holds up three fingers, and they're like, no, no, you're not holding them up, though. That's just like gaslighting.
Just, you see what I'm saying? It gets like a cute girl boss, you got to keep you got to be able to be like, Okay, I was looking for this proof. And you've just given me that proof. So there we go. That's, you know, not not a valid thing for me to think anymore. I can still write fiction about it, you know? What else do you have? I don't have a lot of like things to read or things like that. But what I'm going to do is I've got a bunch of tabs open
right now, I'm gonna put some stuff in the show notes. Just interesting. People to listen to about the whole thing. Bart Sobral is the guy who got punched by Buzz Aldrin, and he's actually got a couple of movies about, about the moon landing being a hoax and all that. And, you know, you can't, because he get it, some of the stuff is easily explainable. But there's also a lot of things that NASA does that are very shady. Even just when you're just talking about, like, the pictures of the
Earth. If you zoom in on a lot of the pictures that are from NASA, there's a lot of copy and pasted sections, like very blatantly photoshopped. And they're like, well, we take in a lot of pictures, and we had to paste them together, because you can't take one picture of the entire Earth because we don't have a camera angle law. But then they're like, Okay, so you actually you actually just this section right here, you just copy and pasted this exact set of pixels. And he's like, Well,
yeah, you have to as like, what? Why do you? Why do you have to? Like we have to use we have to use our artistic skills on some parts of it. I mean, because you know, you have to write Yeah, okay. Okay, Boomer. But yeah, if you're interested and you're not a kiddo, check out my episode of ABS and a six pack about the moon. Was that just generally about space? Or was it about the moon? The first one I went on was just about the moon landing. Okay, and then the
next one was about space. Yeah, the next one was about space and we just got goofy on how it was. It's a goofy Yeah, but space is fake. It's fake. Space in itself is fake. Yes. Not just everything like Yeah. I believe that none of us are real. No one's real. I'm not real. Okay. So on abs in six pack. I show you when I told you should I told. I told Sir, she said are the host about last Tuesday
theory. Have you ever heard last Tuesday that last Tuesday carry you and no one else can prove that anything existed before last Tuesday? Yeah, everything could have come into existence, including your memories. Everything could have come into existence last Tuesday, and there would be no way for us to prove that anything happened before it. That's true if everything came into existence exactly how it was including all human memories.
I also have this weird thing of my dreams that I can't tell my dreams from reality. Oh, really? Because they're so realistic. There's like, I have a different world in my dreams. Like it's all coherent. Oh, you've got a shared universe, a shared universe. Yeah. It's much more interesting than my life. I gotta say. It says Absurdism. Yeah. My dreams. I've got a couple of places that I visit regularly. Not on purpose, but just recurring dreams, you know? Yeah. But I don't have a shared
cinematic universe. I do. My most recently is that I visited my dreams. Those are the cool library, a cool library. That was a cool library. And those are cool, dude. They're just wishful thinking to get away from all of the just wishful thinking to get away from the heat. It's hot out there, folks. It's not a heat wave today. I actually got a like, severe heatwave warning when I woke up this morning. Oh, yeah. I have a focus mode on so I
don't use my phone past my bedtime. And it like when I woke up in the thing turned off. It was like, severe heat warning. Yeah, it was hot. I'm not seeing it being hotter than in memory. But it's hot. Yeah, we've had some pretty hot summers here. So. But yeah, the moon. If you're listening to this not live. We don't do this as a canned episode. So we don't do donation segments on canned episodes. But this is a value for value podcast, we put it out there for free. If you enjoy it, just send
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of that on this episode. unless something comes in live on curio caster or pod verse, you can live boost. But I think I think when it comes to the moon, I just have to say with the moon landing, I don't know. I don't know if we landed there. I especially don't know if we landed there the way they said we did. And it seems skip. I'm skeptical. As all say that picture I didn't finish talking about the Earth was on the horizon. There's a picture of the earth on the horizon of the
moon. That's not really on the horizon. It's just it's above it's, it's above the horizon. Where they are on the moon, if you map out where the landings were, you need to have a pop filter where Yeah, and I'm talking directly into it. That's a problem. When when you look at that picture, if you're they would have to look directly up in order to see the Earth from where they were standing on the moon when they supposedly took this picture. So they could not have physically
gotten the picture that they said they did now. Is it a cool picture? Yes. Is it probably just pieced together from different pictures? Yes. But say that, you know, when you when you lie about one thing, it makes me think you're lying about others. And that makes me not trust anything you say? So, just tell the truth. NASA just tell the truth. And more people will trust you. Don't you? Look over spoiling a rubber band at my face one of those hair rubber bands. You leave everywhere.
I should throw Hornaday Yeah, the little paper Hornets? Yeah, we used to have to put thumbtacks in there. Yes. Who does a psychopath? You are a psychopath? We do Hornets but we don't put thumbtacks in them. Sometimes someone's dying out. I never just you did you've told me about it. Yes, we used to make the little paper horn is that you shoot each other with the they're fun? Yes. And they're super fun. We used to have little wars in our class whenever the teacher would
leave the class. The second that door closed. Wow. And then people not me, per se. Started putting some texts in the paper you think It was so cool. We all started wearing safety goggles. Y'all are absurd. Our would, our woodshop class had safety goggles and we would just go get we had a pile of them. Get the safety goggles. Because if you get a little cut on yourself, it's whatever but safety goggles will protect your eyes. All right, safety is
important. All right, so we're gonna wrap this silly speculation Saturday. What do you think? Do you think that we landed on the moon in 1969? Not 1969. But we might have and we might have gone past the moon. And if so do you think we're we're humans have gone past the moon. Probably not humans, but stuff that humans have made. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I can see sending stuff out there and possibly cameras. Yeah, and then sending pictures back I can
I can see all that. That's that's feasible. I just don't see humans getting through that Van Allen radiation belt if that even exists? I don't know. The radiation lady. The radiation lady. Yeah. What do you think girls are discovered radiation? Oh, Marie Curie. Yeah, Marie calendar. Marie calendar discovered radiation and that's why you she makes microwave meals right. Marie? Marie Marie calendar? Microwave. Oh my gosh. I'm funny. Anyways. Oh, using the metal shear in
spot welder to make cheap shurikens. Yeah, nice. Y'all are crazy. We used to play a game called jagged metal piece. Yeah, I've heard that. We do that too. But you played jagged metal piece. Where did you get your jagged metal piece? I don't know if we had to make our notebook. Probably. No, we took a washer. And our washer is yeah, like a little disc. And we took it to the belt sander. When knuckles. bloody knuckles Yeah, by ankles. But yeah, we take the washer and
cut it into like spiky, spiky, sharp points all over it. And you take your pencil and you flick it across the table and somebody had to had to stop it with their finger. Like by sticking their finger in the center of it as it was flying towards them or would like stab him in the stomach. These are not games that you should be playing. Please don't do any of this. This was all very dumb.
We did do the knife game but with pencils. The knife game or the Oh, you put your hand flat and stab in between each finger. Yeah, I got really good at it at one point. Yeah, I started with the pencil. I started with the pencil eraser just to get the motion. Really good. Yeah. And I worked. Worked my way up to the like a pen. Awesome childhood. That's a That's a fun game you got and you can do it without any danger. Like you just gotta use a pencil eraser instead of a sharp point.
Instead of a knife. There's a guy on the movie Alien who does that with a really sharp knife. And he's a robot. So it doesn't matter if he stabbed himself. Yeah, all right. Actually don't don't do anything that we say on this show. Because this is silly speculation Saturday. Alright folks, we'll see you. We'll see you next week. Bye. Oh, that's not the right but what could we do we bring in Kyle and Fun Fact Friday with Linus media production. All rights reserved.
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