'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.

Comments

Is anything true?

[GloomE]

Maybe they should just go full solipsism and be done with it.

Not an interesting story

[Improv]

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?

Re:Not an interesting story

[Dutch Gun]

These people are only after attention, and by putting this story on slashdot, we've given them exactly what they wanted. No sane person seriously believes this or gives it even the least bit of credibility. Oh, and it's not really even funny either, if that was the angle - it's just sad. I'm not even going to bother reading the article, because I don't want to contribute any advertising traffic.

My summary: Still plenty of attention-seeking morons in the world. News at 11.

"Truthers" don't believe in *air*

[msobkow]

"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.

You can make people go to school, but you can't force them to become educated. :(

Re:"Truthers" don't believe in *air*

[msobkow]

Personally I think "truthers" are just very lonely and insecure people who are trying to boost their own egos through claiming to have "secret" or "superior" knowledge to the rest of the world. Kind of sad, really.

Re:"Truthers" don't believe in *air*

[dbIII]

One of those "engineers" is on slashdot at times and it turns out HR called him "software engineer" when he became a team leader after a few years as a programmer. Such "engineers" are easily identified by assertions that redhot steel is just as strong as cold steel and similar symptoms of not earning the title by either experience, training or education.

Truther?

[Sideshow Mark]

At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?

Re:Truther?

[Anonymous Coward]

At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?

Sept 12, 2001.

100% correct. a tried and true tactic of the mainstream media and those who cling to it is to denigrate the handful of legitimate issues and questions being raised by diluting the discussion with tons of nonsense, highlighting the most ridiculous people, organizations, and theories, offering them up to all get viewed as being one and the same, coming from the same crowd of people, and possessing the same level of veracity.

on 9/11 3 steel-framed skyscrapers demolished themselves in mid-air, coming down through themselves, through the path of greatest resistance, near the acceleration of gravity, leaving little in their wake but pyroclastic clouds of pulverized dust and pools of molten steel. those such as the architects & engineers for 9/11 truth, professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, and physics, who for the last 14 years have sought scientific peer review not only of NIST's official analysis of what happened to the 3 wtc buildings, but also of their own scientific analysis of what happened to the 3 wtc buildings, and who ultimately call for a new investigation into what happened, have been commonly referred to as "truthers."

ever since then the mainstream media, which of course refuses to fairly cover that issue, jumps at any and every chance to hold up some crackpot here or some crackpot there who supposedly thinks pluto doesnt exist or the holocaust never happened or the government is really shape shifting aliens or any other stupid thing, and say look here! it's another TRUTHER !!! AREN'T THEY SO RIDICULOUS AND STUPID !!! and all of those whose world views would be uncomfortably compromised if they were to take an honest look at an issue like 9/11 cant eat this nonsense up fast enough.

Re:But....

[bondsbw]

Because of the Paypal link in the video description.

Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance

[tysonedwards]

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!

Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance

[Bing Tsher E]

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.

Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance

[ClickOnThis]

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.

Re:But....

[penguinoid]

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..