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'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked
MarkWhittington writes: Forget about Apollo moon landing hoax theories. That is so 20th Century. Gizmodo reported that the "Pluto Truthers" have followed the astonishing images being sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe and have come to the conclusion that they are faked. After all, if the space agency could fake the entire moon landing, it would be child's play to fake a robotic probe to the edge of the Solar System.
At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?
Sept 12, 2001.
Nope. See, the way it was done was by employing ~19,000 to go forward with the mission, but at some point, a small team running maintenance on the mission mid-transit realized the mission failed when the probe was popped 2/3rds of the way through its flight. A plan was hatched with the NSA to use existing test code from the development effort to emulate signals from the probes at all the telescopes capable of listening to it. The NSA's role would simply be to install the interception equipment at the telescopes to man-in-the-middle the responses from the telescopes to the relevant computers in such a way that the expected test data would be injected. Therefore, you only had a small team of maybe ~50 which was involved in covering up the failure of the operation, including a few graphic designers who could create astounding mockups of Pluto and Charon extrapolated from a combination of the Hubble 2010 image with artistic direction guided by existing photos of Triton, a body very similar to Pluto. Introduce a scary software glitch mid-flight because nothing ever goes 100% right. As far as the ~19,000 knew, the mission succeeded.
OR, the glitch a weekish before the rendezvous was the point where the graphic design and emulation teams would have to be brought in. THAT's what happened! It's just that the probe was unrecoverable from a software glitch!
Or, you know, it actually went as fucking planned.
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Presumably the same "area 51" nutters?
Worse than that. A few hundred of the more extreme 'truthers' even deny that Pluto is a planet.
Really? Perhaps you didn't know it, but dwarf planets make a "whoosh"ing sound.
It isn't a planet, you moron
And A is no longer a vowel, and North is no longer a direction!
Om, nomnomnom...
Except for the fact that it's not. The definition changed, it lost planetary status.
Even so, Pluto is still a planet.
It cannot be unplaneted.
"And yet it planets." - Galileo
"Madness? This! Is! Planet!" - Leonidas I
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
On that note I am done reading this discussion, a few comments in. I advise the same to everybody else.
Clearly you are a shill, hired by NASA, as part of the conspiracy to silence those of us not afraid to speak the truth. Pluto IS a **PLANET**, and this probe didn't go there. Look how bright the images are. There is no way a **PLANET** 7.5B km from the sun could be so bright. And the shadows are all wrong.