They don't do it to mislead people per se--their objective to is to hype up a situation so as to
profit for it. And this is what I'm against--profiting at the expense of other people who worked hard to do something real and dangerous.
People who have profited from their accusations that the moon landings were faked:
1. Bill Kaysing - Published a book "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle"
2. Bart Sibrel - made a video called "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon" earned tens of thousands of dollars.
3. Ralph Rene - wrote a book "How NASA Mooned America" also earned him big money
and many more. People will do anything to get big bucks and exploit the gullibility of people.
But amateur astronomers like me have the obligation to straighten the facts and make sure that twisted ideas and pseudoscientific claims have no place in a public forum that aims to provide the public with accurate information, esp. on science and technology matters.
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Simulations are designed so that you have the opportunity to practice operating the machine/aircraft before you fly the actual thing. Back in 2002, I was given the opportunity to hand fly a
real Cessna 182 private airplane, for the , but the only reason why the pilot allowed me to pilot it was because I already had 10+ years experience flying Microsoft's Flight Simulator series in my home computer. The effect was, I didn't have to exert much effort sa pag palupad, because the physics and avionics was replicated by the simulator.
Similarly, Orbiter space flight simulator uses Newtonian Physics to accurately simulate the movement of interplanetary objects such as spacecraft across interplanetary space--it was designed by physicists and are being used in training by the European Space Agency (so mind you, NOT NASA, so you cannot claim that NASA "tricked" up this simulation) and some other private space firms. It's currently being used as an educational tool to teach young people about rocketry, space exploration and space travel, in different schools around the world.
We can meet anywhere, I already gave my contact number in this thread--just provide me a computer with the specs I requested in my previous post. Or even better, it could be as neshem said, a simulation EB (eyeball), something that we at PFSG (
Philippine Flight Simmers Group) do every once and a while. I'll give details of such an event soon.
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