O/T Artemis II - is this just

[Beaufighter]

There's "pork" and there are "porkie pies".
What about the Van Allen radiation belts which reportedly encircle planet Earth? Much radiation in said belts.
"They pose significant radiation risks to both satellites and astronauts".
I agree that anyone contemplating travelling anywhere near Van Allen radiation belts would be stupid and would definitely not die laughing.

Exactly my point. How did I know you’d come back with this. Does the fact that James van Allen himself said the idea that radiation in the belts made human space travel impossible was poppycock mean nothing to you? The man who they are named after knows less than some conspiracy nobody who didn’t understand the science? How about the flag? or no stars on the photos?

Like I said, you either recognise the infantile nonsense for what it is or you don’t. You clearly don’t.

[Townerslovechild]

Monkeys chucking rocks at the moon......

[Spuddy Speight]

Exactly my point. Carry on porky

And your point is?

[Spuddy Speight]

Launch time for Artemis II is 23.24 Hours BST give or take....

[SdnMiller]

How do we know that the "person" behind this post is actually a real person at all. I can see you, feel you, hear you; for all I know it could be an AI robot writing this thread to put the conspiracy in someone's head.

In fact how do you know you weren't born this morning. All those memories that tie us to the past could be implanted by a superior race. There nothing truly definitive to say they actually happened, as you can't go back yourself and see them again,

Hell you could be asleep right now dreaming, in a constant state of realising your in a dream and then waking up over and over again every morning anew. Do the people who you see in your dreams know they're in a dream?

Really it's just a choice to believe, because truly nothing could be real. I choose to believe that Artemis and Human space travel is real, in the same way I believe Rotherham can stay up this year, if you don't believe then what is the point

#UTM

[Beaufighter]

And your point is?

Evidently way over your head as I spelt it out twice

[Spuddy Speight]

Evidently way over your head as I spelt it out twice

Still no provision of factual evidence. You're the epitome of a pseudo intellectual who has slowly run out of steam and ideas concluding with that one final single emoji which speaks to me and says that you've lost what began as a sensible debate.

[sota]

Bugger, couldn?t see owt this time, despite only a few patchy clouds. Must be fake then eh.

[Spuddy Speight]

At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex thousands took the opportunity to hear, see and feel the liftoff of Artemis II leaving Earth under the full power of those mighty rocket engines.
It came at a cost though. However, it was steady away for the mighty spaceship under those clear skies which quickly filled with a long trail of billowing clouds following on behind.

[John2]

"Space programs spanning decades, involving hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of the planet - including nations that can barely agree on what day it is - all somehow manage to accept the basic reality of space exploration."

But are there "hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of the planet" involved in "space programs spanning decades''? Really?
What you see is a fantasy creation of many people sat at monitors in a room called "ground control". So there aren't many people involved in the reported "space missions".

So, while we await the launch of Artemis II there's a fun fact apart from AI being ***** to their pet project.....
"NASA is a major purchaser of helium, historically acting as one of the largest consumers in the United States to support its space launch and research programs. NASA requires significant quantities of both liquid and gaseous helium".
Satellites are suspended from helium balloons. They do not reach space as we are led to believe.

To repeat my simple question, can you tell me who are these "Aerospace scientists" and where you got that figure from?

It is a reality in this day and age that Spuddy Speight could be a bot purely created to spread misinformation. Conspiracy theories are used by hostile foreign actors to create distrust in western democratic societies, that's a real conspiracy. Maybe he is an artifical creation, maybe he is doing their bidding for free.

Hundreds of thousands are involved in these projects, to have such a narrow world view to only be able to imagine ground control is mind numbingly naive.

What do you think of the russian astronaughts who spend months at a time on board the space station, and with video of them floating around long before AI, and them being away from their families for months at a time. Are they in on your grand conspiracy too?