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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.
Maybe they should just go full solipsism and be done with it.
If you look around you'll find wackos of every kind. Unless there's a lot of these attention-desperate people, why should we be interested in this?
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"Truther" conspiracy nuts don't believe in *anything* they can't see, feel, hear, or touch themselves. They probably think the very *existence* of Pluto is a lie.
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At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?
Because of the Paypal link in the video description.
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The claim is that using a modern day 20mp SLR imaging a planet the size of Jupiter, he can resolve better details using the same size telescope (which is itself false as the picture in question was taken with a 2in telescope, not the 8in telescope, but whatever!) and ignoring the fact that the image sensor on the probe is a decade old and only capable of 1024x1024 images... The guy wants advertising revenue and is getting it! Don't feed the trolls!
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Why are we paying any attention to these people at all? To do so only encourages.
On that note I am done reading this discussion, a few comments in. I advise the same to everybody else.
Slashdot: there are more interesting stories to post than junk like this.
This is the correct answer. Since we can "define" whatever the fuck we want, we could have simply let Pluto stay defined as one of the 9 "original" or "classical" planets and been done with it. I don't buy the argument that keeping Pluto a planet means a whole bunch of other junk in space must now be taught in schools as the "list of planets." Just mention, "there's now known to be a whole lot of other dwarf planets like Pluto. Scientists spend endless years mentally masturbating about which to categorize as planets, vs. dwarf planets. If such pedantics interests you, a career in science might be your future!"
This brings up an interesting consideration. Why do a bunch of astronomers get to decide this, or anyone else for that matter. I simply refuse to stop calling Pluto a planet. Whether I conform or not to the changing definitions of scientists has no bearing on what Pluto actually IS, or even what I understand it to be. Furthermore, isn't the categorization hierarchical? Why can't "dwarf-planet" be a subset of "planet?" So then calling Pluto a planet or dwarf-planet makes no difference, both are equally correct, though the latter conveys more information.
Why are we paying any attention to these people at all? To do so only encourages.
Leaving their claims unchallenged encourages them as well. Or worse, it encourages others to be deceived and to embrace their crackpot theories.
Sadly, somebody needs to address the unsustainable claims made by these nutters. It's tedious, but essential. Refute the error, assert the truth. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Funny how they don't claim the US military faked a bunch of wars too seeing as how NASA's funding is around 40 times less.
Really, cause I heard quite a few people complaining about fake weapons of mass destruction..
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