Given all the ongoing [coronavirus crap](https://steemit.com/coronavirus/@bobnboguslavski/tstdwytkad-0015-camp-covid-corona-cronk-crisis-crap-part-2-2) and US political / electoral cycle distraction out there, let’s change gears and look to the stars for a refreshing view. Like just about everything we are experiencing in this realm, we are told and taught how shit supposedly works and is. Then you memorize it, get tested on it at school, accept it, and move on with life. ![Don't Ask Questions.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQoMBCwKiWh2tjBzKhs4Wm6zfyNVU9xQDHCa7V3PCPQrA/Don't%20Ask%20Questions.jpg)Source: All memes hereon in via [ThePottersClay (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEdOLvL6olNghR-BWghUQA) unless otherwise indicated. If you ever come to start to question matters on certain topics, and find they ain’t so, why not consider looking at stuff about space and mankind’s alleged endeavors and exploration thereof. Here’s a sampler sprinkling of stuff, pulled from all over the place, that may well make one scratch their head and ask WTF is going on. -- Let’s kick off with current NASA astronaut, [Don Pettit](https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/donald-r-pettit/biography), on going back to the moon again, many decades later, after the Apollo landing missions of yore in 1969 – 1972. (54s) https://youtu.be/16MMZJlp_0Y https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0e/f5/f4/0ef5f49e0c2d398f51dfe4d774a96249--science-quotes-science-facts.jpg https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/apollo-guidance-computer-and-key-input.jpg Source: [The Apollo 11 moon landing, 45 years on: Looking back at mankind’s giant leap](https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186600-apollo-11-moon-landing-45-years-looking-back-at-mankinds-giant-leap) (July 21, 2014).
-- Actor [William Shatner](https://www.biography.com/actor/william-shatner), of the original [Star Trek](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/) TV series fame (1966-1969), spells it out on the difference between science vs. science fiction. (3m 45s) https://youtu.be/iS-Fy4cKKWY
-- Grizzled space veteran [Buzz Aldrin](https://buzzaldrin.com/biography/) (part of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission crew tres amigos) is asked why NASA never went back to the Moon. Interesting counterpoint to Don Pettit above. (57s) https://youtu.be/ZmlQsgRNJn0 It’s kinda tough to lie to a child looking your sorry ass right in the eye. Our main man Buzz shoulda borrowed a page from the Grinch back in 1966 and dealing with Cindy Lou, who was a Who, (and not to be confused with the [WHO](https://www.who.int/) currently perpetrating zee Covidski scamdemic). (1m 53s) https://youtu.be/IWM5uy1i9_Q
-- Those that have gone to space tell us that it is filled with stars ... and that it's not, too. In their own words, here’s a nifty compilation from over the decades—there's nothing like a consistent answer from folks to keep things straight. (8m 4s) https://youtu.be/Y_fLkL_kS9U ![Apollo Stars.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmd3qcdiDqqbbqsYuMoDi3erKxtkuHp5FLb9GWjXRfyays/Apollo%20Stars.jpg)
-- Science celebrity guru, [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://www.biography.com/scientist/neil-degrasse-tyson), next gives us a simple and clear explanation on what gravity is. (2m 10s) https://youtu.be/Efh4bu4rcbs No doubt, he knows what he's talking about when he says, "I don't know."
-- Retired Polish astronaut (or as some say, astro-not), [Mirosław Hermaszewski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miros%C5%82aw_Hermaszewski), gets something off his chest. (34s) https://youtu.be/A8_m51jDxso It's easy to check that plaska (Polish) = flat (English). These older guys, like Buzz Aldrin above (even if somewhat evasive), do come clean on occasion.
-- [Neil Armstrong](https://www.biography.com/astronaut/neil-armstrong) had some cryptic comments in 1994 on the 25th Anniversary of the Apoll(o/yon) 11 moon landing. (33s) https://youtu.be/GKUsJ8bBEqk
-- [Bill Nye](https://www.biography.com/personality/bill-nye) (aka The Science Guy, and actor) drops a rare real nugget for us here. (48s) https://youtu.be/xTyI_LujtFc ![Silver Suits.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeScCSrwWCCLMqwri7rYvLt12KymQ7aE8i6zWeRhx85Nm/Silver%20Suits.jpg)
-- Space debris is everywhere, and it has accumulated over the last decades since we started putting up satellites and leaving stuff behind above us. Here’s a nifty time lapse animation to represent that. (2m 12s) https://youtu.be/O64KM4GuRPk Never mentioned in all this of course, beyond Earth's spin (1,039 mph or 1 672 km/h at the Equator), is that Earth rotates the Sun at 66,600 mph (107 182 km/h), and the Sun with our galaxy is all moving along together at an even more fantastical 448,000 mph (720 986 km/h) inside the Milky Way, which itself is all moving even faster than that. It's all supposedly sumpin' like this, with Earth in blue (3rd planet from the Sun, as we are told). https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*XI-H2Vjx-I5VRq844sPA6g.gif Source: [How Fast Does Earth Move Through The Universe?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/04/01/how-fast-does-earth-move-through-the-universe/#448930d54d5c) Forbes | Science (April 1, 2016). Now, think about that there debris field above again, held perfectly in place around Earth throughout all this, as it is being dragged along. Note also how we, here on the ground, never sense any of that motion ... at all, ever. Next, imagine a hurricane with "just" 140 mph (225.3 km/h) winds and what that looks and feels like here on the ground. (37s) https://youtu.be/Ot_28neKoEE Gravity must take some vacation time off now and then, and be highly selective as to when, where, how and what it works on. Maybe it's organically intelligent. Go figure. https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://planetruthblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/flat-earth-memes-73-8.jpg Source: [APlaneTruth.Info - FE-Memes I](https://aplanetruth.info/fe-memes-i/)
-- Here are many of Universal Studios' animated logos over time from 1912 onward. (3m 8s) https://youtu.be/BJesM7Hwr74 Note their first spinning 1920s globe is the opposite / wrong way (i.e., retrograde, versus prograde), then it got "fixed" by somebody. 🙂 Keep in mind, the very first satellite, Russia's [Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1), only went up in 1957, and we got a first, distant, half-Earth image from Apollo 8 in 1968. Universal "just knew" that stuff decades ahead ... naturally.
-- On January 28, 1986, NASA’s space shuttle [Challenger exploded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster) shortly post launch and all aboard tragically perished. So they told us, like a lot of things. Someone looked back at the crew and some strange "coink-e-dinks" at play thereafter. (1m 39s) https://youtu.be/PxqhU6nEy6c
-- On May 27, 1931, [Auguste Piccard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Piccard) and [Paul Kipfer](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sir-paul-kipfer) ascended to a height of 51,762 ft. (15 777 m) in a pressurized gondola on a balloon, higher than anyone / anything ever before. (1m 42s) https://youtu.be/t8dHULTy-BU http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/8-1931/10_miles_high.jpg Source: [ModernMechanix.com - Ten Miles High in an AIR-TIGHT BALL)](http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ten-miles-high-in-an-air-tight-ball//) They were the first to get to the stratosphere. Their observations are covered in the Popular Science August 1931 edition. "Through portholes, the observers saw the earth through copper-colored, then bluish, haze. It seemed a flat disk with upturned edge." https://steemitimages.com/1300x0//https://christianobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/popularscience.jpg
Source: [ChristianObserver.net](https://christianobserver.net/popular-science-1931-first-man-space-reports-flat-disk-enormity-globe-deception/) (January 7, 2018)
-- As for planet Earth, and how it looks from space, there’s nothing like consistency over the years to help cement things in one's mind, with more changes than a chameleon to consider. ![NASA Earth.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmezkRNsPcym2wxb6JtJtZe6kMh1STwFswePhh8DNtWKkj/NASA%20Earth.jpg) ![Space Agency Earths.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSV3yA3HiWkput9uUkbR2BmaEDgrdTzig2VkeSeBn4JiB/Space%20Agency%20Earths.jpg)
-- Canuckistani astronaut [Chris Hadfield](https://www.biography.com/astronaut/chris-hadfield) comments here with a bizarre and highly atypical use of words. (12s) https://youtu.be/Begat1xfxCU They pull that shit every now and again, on porpoise [sic], to see if anyone is paying attention.
-- The [GoFast Rocket](http://kymichaelson.us/space-shot-2014) in July 2014 is what happens when folks on their own (not an established and approved space exploration entity), launch something independently. Look more on your own. (2m) https://youtu.be/Zx35zO6_Hnw Yip, yep, yup ... oopsy. There's a reason it stops abruptly, and it's not because it ran out of propulsion force.
-- There’s also stuff going on the other way from skyward. [Mike deGruy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_deGruy) from [The Blue Planet](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296310/) documentary series had a telling insight and observation on water matters at the bottom of the ocean in one episode. (1m 39s) https://youtu.be/xAY2bBUFARY "As above, so below," as the omniscient they like to state. Oh yeah, years later Mike deGruy dies in a helicopter accident, but that must have just been another coink-e-dink.
-- [Math Powerland](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4777020/) (aka Matt Boylan) takes a look back on things historically about our Earth and narratives put forth to we (m)asses. Even though he was billed as a comedian here, and he's off on early history dates a few times, his thinking, questioning and logic is spot on. (2m 51s) https://youtu.be/M3JOqBAy_xw Then think and consider beyond if they're wrong by innocent accident.
-- If one has never questioned stuff in this "(mis)adventures in space" area, a good place to consider starting with, looking only at the Apollo 11 moon “mission,” is with [A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon]( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446557/) (2001), by [Bart Sibrel](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1847745/). Okay, it is longer than a snippet or segment. (46m 57s) https://youtu.be/xciCJfbTvE4 https://steemitimages.com/880x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZGhdLwXkwqowN7X4cCLPntJdoC383RbaDwwxyRL4MjLu/Moon%20Call.jpg There’s a ton more of information on this general topic of space / travel, covering all facets, if you ever decide to go digging and having a good think about these things they tell us. Keep asking questions and you'll figure stuff out. ![TV Research.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/1280x0//https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTHmSBvgYWvXhzLYmAh6XhPKSyhmCwKicVAQjMxsQkfnZ/TV%20Research.jpg)
“Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.” - Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication" song (1999)
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