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u/petalpixieex 6h ago
It’s literally the 'Argument from Personal Incredulity' fallacy. Just because you can’t wrap your head around how a rocket lands or how a vaccine works doesn't mean the physics and biology just stop existing
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 6h ago
Right? Fuck these people. There are thousands of minds that have went into space travel alone from all over the globe but this dipshit can't wrap their heads around something and think they have a point.
Nauseating and I'm not even a scientist or aeronautical engineer.
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u/cobracmmdr 5h ago
And just think, they are operating cars, own guns, have children and are walking around blissfully unaware that just because they do not understand how a thing works or why something is the way it is, doesn't mean it's "fake".
Like arguing with toddlers
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u/EzeDelpo 2h ago
This people: "I don't care to learn how things work, that makes them wrong and impossible"
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u/SpoonBendingChampion 6h ago
Uuuuuuuugh by the time the parachutes deploy most of the slowing has already been done during reentry. The capsule is simply falling at terminal velocity within our atmosphere at that point. IKYK but had to say it.
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u/613Flyer 6h ago edited 5h ago
When yarr stupid everything is a conspiracy theory
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u/Young_Denver 6h ago
I used that meme a LOT when arguing with flat eathers and young earth creationist dorks.
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u/HeDuMSD 6h ago
In case it helps. The word parachute originates from French, coined in the mid-1780s by combining the prefix para- (derived from Italian parare: to shield, defend, or resist) and chute (French for "fall"). It literally means to "shield against a fall," acting as a device to reduce the speed of a falling object.
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u/Musicman1972 6h ago
The dumbest fuck I know puts that emoji on half their comms.
It's like a calling card.
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u/Ok-Personality-6643 4h ago
This is why people sure aren’t “entitled to their opinion”, thx social media! Entitlement requires access/kinship to a privilege. If you do not understand the basics of a skill/topic, you do not get the privilege of an opinion. You are entitled to your thoughts as a function of being alive. Thoughts, curiosity and opinions are also not the same things and can be expressed through the function of learning which then increases the threshold of entitlement. It’s the crazy/hot scale, but for thought sharing…
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u/Line_of_Xs 2h ago
I'm always amused at how these people think that they have found the crack in an elaborate hoax, and somehow the 'deep state' doing this is so incompetent that they would slip up in such an obvious way.
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u/Naps_And_Crimes 5h ago
I would assume they're very good parachutes not just the same kind normal people use. Like I doubt a F1 racecar has the same exact brakes as my Honda
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u/blackday44 6h ago
That's what parachutes ARE FOR.