It's been a minute since I've written an OpEd for @sciam.bsky.social, but a new one just posted: In which I am angrily disgusted at Apollo Moon landing deniers, and how they play into the greater conspiracy theorist mindset destroying our country.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-landing-hoax-early-antiscience-conspiracy-theory-shot/
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-landing-hoax-early-antiscience-conspiracy-theory-shot/
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I was a science nerd (when it wasn't cool) with a telescope, microscope, chemistry set, and wanted to be a scientist when I grew up. I was also equally into ESP, UFOs, and ancient astronauts.
The marble statue pfp crowd won't shut up about how we've supposedly "forgotten" how to build gand old cathedrals, and other ostentatious crap that no one builds these days due to labor and material costs, & wanting it done in our lifetimes.
I still fondly remember all the fun we had over Planet X supposedly coming to take us all down.
But if you look up Nibiru you'll find some chuckleheads still clinging to it.
Those who feign legitimacy will claim itβs a really really dim brown dwarf or something.
Will check into Nibiru.
Touche!
In other news, The Onion is awesome: https://www.theonion.com/conspiracy-theorist-convinces-neil-armstrong-moon-landi-1819570978
https://youtu.be/03qPteWBVTc
I missed meeting Adam during the InSight landing at JPL by only a few minutes! π
If I'd stayed in the press tent for a minute longer before heading to get a good seat in the theatre, I would have been right there when he walked through on his way to mission control! π
My own meeting with him is a longish story. I should write it up someday. I wind up meeting a lot of cool people by being in the right place at the right time, sometimes coincidentally (like Sigourney Weaver!) or because of something I was involved in (like Adam).
There is no reasoning with that mindset.