P&T BS 0603 - 001

Bullshit season 6

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Education

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• Penn
• Teller

[ElZomboFantasma]

Be an Astronaut? Pffhhh... No, being Astronaut BATMAN with a really cool cowboy hat! THATS MY DREAM JOB!

[SamonMarquis]

It never really occured to me that astronauts get paid to go on space flights. For something like that, I'd do for free. Then again, the amount they get paid is probably miniscule compared to the entire launch.

[Freepepsi42]

@ElZomboFantasma BATMANNNN, BATMAN. YOU NO BATMAN. BATMAN DON'T KNOW ASSMAN, ASSMAN KNOW BATMAN!!! LOOOL

[codyownz2]

Warning: Pointless internet argument below.

[dpayO2]

@helljumpr5150 I'm not quite sure what point you're making now but okay.

[helljumpr5150]

@dpayO2 As i said, the USSR never acknowledged they were competing against the US in going to the moon, but they WERE trying to go to the moon, just look up the N1 project, it was the Soviet equivalent of Apollo but they couldn't get it to work, they almost did, but after Apollo 11 they saw no point in going as seeing as too little and too late.

There was no goal written on paper to get to space first like for the moon race. Besides, Germany already did it, US and USSR followed up.

[dpayO2]

@helljumpr5150 JFK was American... I meant where does the USSR acknowledge that the challenge of the space race was to get a man on the moon, that's the source I was after. Why wasn't the major goal to get a man in space first? I'm not defending the Soviet Union by the way, I'm purely pointing out the somewhat jingoistic nature of saying that the US won the space race when we could say that the USSR did or even Germany (thanks for that by the way). 

[helljumpr5150]

@dpayO2 Even though the Soviets didn't say they were competing to get there first, but their progress and showing their successes to the world said otherwise. Besides, for someone claiming that they won the race just because they got the first man and satellite into orbit, isn't that setting a criteria too?

[helljumpr5150]

@dpayO2 Seriously?! What did you think JFK was saying besides: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" during his state of the union address? That we were gonna do something else instead?

We set the goal getting a human on the moon, the USSR tried to do so first but wouldn't acknowledge it until they won, but never said it competed with the US until the fall of the USSR.

[dpayO2]

@helljumpr5150 "the major goal of the Space Race was to get a human on the Moon." Source?

[helljumpr5150]

@dpayO2 If you want to go by the definition of first into space, it was pulled off long before Sputnik. By Federation Aeronautique International strandards, space begins at 100km above sea level (62 miles), and the V2 rockets that Germany developed in the 40s surpassed that altitude several times, so the first manmade object to ever reach space was done at least 15 years before either US or USSR did. Plus, the major goal of the Space Race was to get a human on the Moon.

[dpayO2]

@helljumpr5150 You've basically just proved my point about setting your own criteria.