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'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked

Posted by samzenpus on from the never-happened dept.

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.

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  1. Is anything true? by GloomE · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Not an interesting story by Improv · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Not an interesting story by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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  3. "Truthers" don't believe in *air* by msobkow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "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. :(

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    1. Re:"Truthers" don't believe in *air* by msobkow · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  4. Truther? by Sideshow+Mark · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  5. Re:But.... by bondsbw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because of the Paypal link in the video description.

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  6. Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance by tysonedwards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  7. Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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