01 Feb 2020 16:24:56 Yes. Because we have mirrors up there that we bounce lasers off, so we can accurately measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon. These were planted into the Moon on the very first Moon landing.
01 Feb 2020 15:49:18 Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud are the most likely candidates. The most widely used and believed theory is that it all came from comet impacts, there is a lot of evidence to suggest this. It's not conclusive and it's something that they've been trying to get a definitive answer for quite a while now.
There is also another theory that was gathering pace a few months ago, that suggested our planet got it's water from a major collision with another planet. That planet being the hypothetical "Theia" which smashed into us a few billion years ago. This collision is also widely believed to be the reason our moon formed too.
16 Dec 2019 18:59:48 It's still not a balloon. The rocket had something called "balloon tanks" which keep it structurally sound. The tanks failed and the rocket collapsed in on its self.
16 Dec 2019 16:36:08 No, no they are not. I went to watch the launch of the Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. I've also seen them assembling the rockets during a tour of the facility a week later.
Also, that video doesn't even look like a balloon. It looks like it's thin sheet metal collapsing under its own weight.
Additionally, the uploader is a flat earther, enough said.
22 Aug 2019 20:22:28 Elon Musk is continuing to explore the idea of terraforming Mars, by "nuking" certain regions of the planet.
A very brief explanation: The idea is that it will melt the polar ice caps on Mars, which will release a large amount of C02 into the thin Martian atmosphere and warm up the planet.
Personally I'm against nuking it. there are other ways which may take longer, but will be less destructive.
10 Feb 2019 07:40:31 Interesting, but there has been no magnetic pole shift which has taken less than a few centuries to fully happen, the quickest one (that we know of) happened over 270 years (approx). And humans have survived 4 or 5 temporary magnetic pole shifts in our history, with the last temporary shift coming 41,000 years ago and the last full shift occurring 781,000 years ago. Archiac Humans have been around for 500,000 years, anatomically modern humans for 200,000 years, so in my opinion, this is just scare mongering.
After reading up on this, the worst case scenario is that people will be more prone to cancers, due to the increased UV radiation, but for the Earth to become a barren wasteland like Mars, we'd need to have no magnetic field at all.
02 Aug 2018 12:34:29 How so Ed? I've not agreed with anything you've said. All I've said is that they used metal tools and that if they were able to forge Bronze and Copper, then they can melt Granit and Limestone. That has nothing to do with disagreeing with the mainstream.
Everything I mentioned in the above post was mainstream views, so tell me. Where did I agree that they were more advanced than the mainstream says? In fact, my 2nd link is to the University of St. Andrews - a government funded page.
Nice try Ed, but I think now that you've try to spin my words, I'm done. Cya.
02 Aug 2018 02:12:01 Of course they have some hidden technologies, I guess I'm reading into the words "black tech" wrongly and assuming you're talking about teleporters, black hole bombs, cloaking fields etc. You know, things that are edging on breaking the laws of physics, or just flat out ignoring them. I guess that comes from my dislike for Alex Jones. So I am happy to be corrected on that front, unless you are actually referring to teleporters etc.
Regarding Sacsayhuaman, it is fascinating how they built such complex structures. However, contrary to your comment about their primitive tools, you'll find they were actually using metal tools. peruenroute.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/sacsayhuaman-how-incas-built/ I would also imagine that they're able to melt Granite (1260°C melting point) and Limestone (825°C melting point), as they were forging Bronze (950°C melting point) and Copper (1085°C melting point), they were also very good with mathematics, so it doesn't seem so farfetched to think they built these things without modern day technology or better. It was likely just a forgotten technique, as they didn't have a sophisticated enough writting system, in order to keep a record of it. It's actually argued that they didn't have a writting system at all. www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Inca_mathematics.html.
01 Aug 2018 14:24:20 Ok Rian, Moon landing. As Neil deGrasse Tyson says, show me your best piece of evidence and tell me what it will take for you to be proven wrong.
01 Aug 2018 00:40:06 Rian, if you used a telescope to look at something really small would you see it? The answer is no, it would just be a monumental blur. For that you need a microscope, not a telescope designed for viewing the moon from orbit. We have been to the Moon already, don't be so silly.
youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4
And are you talking about the missing pixels and the dust particles on the camera lense?
p1 and Ed033. Black tech seems to just be an appeal to ignorance fallacy and sounds like that typical religious view point, "Science can't prove it, therefore God". You need to show me some conclusive evidence in order to convince me, as I've never come across anything that proves it. I'm not dismissing the idea, as secret technologies have always been around (Greek Fire for example), but I need proof.
p1, Ancient civilisations being more advanced than we are? Not a chance in my view, there is no evidence for mass manufacturing with metals, plastics or polymers, which would be essential for things like electricity, which is essential for power and the progression of technology. Plus medicine has never been better than it is today, when you consider the ancient Egyptians (pioneers of the time) were diagnosing things like Dysentery as an having too much blood, prescribing a bloodletting as a remedy, then you kind of get the picture.
Another way to gauge it, is to look at the Tribes of the African plaines, or the tribes of the Amazon, 12,000 years ago, that was us. It's likely that some are more advanced than we initially believed though. A few examples: Sumer (4500BC), knew that there were 8 planets in the solar system + Pluto and they knew that they revolved around the Sun, not around us. They also developed a written language over night almost.
Gobekli Tepei (between 10,500BC and 8000BC), it was believed that a sophisticated society was almost impossible back then, as we were hunter-gatherers which weren't capable of creating megalithic structures, then they discovered Gobekli Tepei and dated it to around 12,000 years old. 7,000 years older than Stone Henge and 50 times larger.
31 Jul 2018 09:36:32 Rian, it will likely be done by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) as a collaboration, much like the new James Webb telescope that's replacing Hubble, set for launch on 30 March 2021. They have had a plan to do the same thing on Europa, which was originally planned for mid 2020s (an unrealistic target to say the least) . And what do you mean we should go to the Moon first? And why is penetrating the ice the least of their worries?
lew99, we haven't physically explored it no. However we have mapped the entire Moon using satellites. youtube.com/watch?v=jdkMHkF7BaA Additionally, there is no "dark side" of the Moon, it's just we only see one face of the Moon because it's tidal locked.
30 Jul 2018 09:10:57 What are you specifically interested in, regarding the "dark side of the Moon"?
Mars is very interesting, they recently discovered a liquid water lake under 20km of Ice on the south pole, which is a huge breakthrough as liquid water enhances the chances of life. They have already started drafting up plans for an ice penetrating mission to Mars, to see if we can find anything, which is fantastic news.
I very much doubt we visited Mars many years ago though, when you look at how we constructed buildings and means of transport, we've only recently in the last 200 years, started using Metal on a mass scale. For the 12,000 years previous it was wood and stone, we could not have got to space, let alone Mars using stone and wood. And if you were talking about more recently, then I guess it's possible, but the Astronauts would have severe muscular and bone deficiencies, from spending so much time in Zero Gravity, and we'd know a hell of a lot more about Mars than we do ^_^.
10 Jul 2018 16:05:48 I think the Younger Dryas hypothesis can cover much of the Bible stories personally. If you want to know more, then you can find quite a few 3 hour podcasts with Randall Carlson, Robert Schoch, Graham Hancock and a few others, which go into great detail on the theory.
He's been on the Joe Rogan Experience about 6 or 7 times, I believe this was his second solo appearance on there:
03 May 2018 22:34:33 Lots of military movement going on down here near Salisbury Plains. As I'm typing at least 5 Helicopters and 5 Chinooks flew over. Been like this for the last week or so. Lived here for 29 years and never seen so much in such a short period of time.
29 Nov 2017 18:50:38 Rian, he mentioned about strange flight paths and diversions which "don't make sense". So I explained my experience of a flight being diverted and why.
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