I ran across this amusing video from right-wing nutjob and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens:
You have to admire the confidence with which she says the most idiotic things.
Here’s a sample where she’s talking about the moon landings (at 21:50 in the video):
…Bill Maher made fun of me for this, like, a little tweet that I said that, I don’t know, the moon landing just seems weird and whenever the media like, tries to make you feel like you’re stupid, that’s usually for me like, the first breadcrumb that, like, you’re on to something, because they’re, that’s what they are trained to do. They’re trained to sit here and tell you “You’re ridiculous, you don’t believe this.”
But then I decided to read this document, it was 119 pages, and I know there’s a book, too, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, and he just broke down the science in a way that was very digestible so I didn’t have a non-expert problem. So there’s a basic thing that you guys can do if you’re, like, somebody who’s like, “It had to have happened, the moon landing,” um, what you can do is look up, uh — I’m calling this the firmament, but it’s the, um, uh, what is the, uh, belt the, uh, 200 miles out, you hit the Van Allen belt.
Okay, so there’s a Van Allen belt. So we have never gone beyond that belt, right? There’s been no human that’s gone beond belt since the moon landings, allegedly. And not even Elon Musk when they go out to space they have to stay like, there is a space station, but like once you get 200 miles out you hit the Van Allen belt which has an incredible amount of radiation. NASA has said, like, in order for us to get through it we’d have to have cement blocks around someone.
So I want you to just Google, if you’re watching this, the temperature of the Van Allen belt. Okay? Just Google that, and you’re going to get something like, at the lowest points in the Van Allen belt it’s, I think, 3,000 Kelvin and at the highest points it’s like 30,000 Kelvin and then I want you to Google what material the shuttle was made out of, and then I want you to Google at what temperature that would just burn and you’re just going to laugh out loud. This literally doesn’t make sense, that an aluminum alloy could have gone through the Van Allen belt for an hour and a half or 59 minutes. It just couldn’t have happened, literally can’t happen, there’s no explanation for it. They just don’t even talk about it, they don’t like talking about the Van Allen belt because that part makes entirely no sense…
Sorry, Candace, but you definitely have a “non-expert problem”.
This is from six years ago, but I just ran across it for the first time and thought it was worth sharing:
Laura Loomer melts down over being called a conspiracy theorist
keiths,
Puts me in mind of my friend. Angry voice notes because I don’t accept that the evidence on the conspiracist angle – pizzagate, baby murder, cannibalism, Satanic ritual – is concrete and irrefutable. Unfortunately (as is often the case) there is a grain of truth – Epstein did Bad Things, and we may not know the full extent yet – but frothed up beyond reason.
Just skimmed the OP again; it’s funny how people think the moon landings impossible, due to radiation and improbable vacuum temperatures, but believe in aliens, who have to traverse the same barrier as well as survive the radiation generated by atomic collisions with gas and dust given speeds equivalent to CERN. Aliens, of course, have access to Special Physics.
Somehow without a noticeable ripple in the news cycle, Trump released the UFO files. It has not even resulted in any increase in arrests of aliens, illegal or otherwise.
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