SlabGizor117 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Last Sunday at my church we were in small groups and we kinda talk just to hang out before we start talking about whatever the lesson is, or whatever, and the subject got to space ;D So, one of the kids asked why rockets go straight up into space and not sideways, and so I answered, although in a really bad way, that they do go sideways, but after they've gone up quite a ways to get out of the thicker atmosphere, and that going sideways from the start would take a lot more distance in the atmosphere. I kinda wanted to explain how close the ISS was in comparison to the size of the Earth so I could show how close space really is, and how much atmosphere you'd have to go through to get there going sideways. Now, that wasn't really a dumb question at all, but I just wondered what you guys have seen people ask, or say, because I know there's a lot of people that don't know much about space.Thanks for reading! -Slab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jman508 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) "what if other planets don't actually don't exist i mean they're so far off its hard to believe they're real"i can't remember the rest of the conversation. it was in-between some girls in my class. Edited March 25, 2015 by jman508 to edit or not to edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuky Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 "They did it in the studio" - about Moon landings...Also, I see some comments on space related videos on youtube about all space programs around the world are fake, "ISS is just an empty shell" etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_Heart Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 My friends care so little about space they don't even dwell on it long enough to say stupid things about it. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxi Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I remember trying to explain Newtonian motion in space to someone many years ago, and they stuck rigidly to "but in Star Trek, when they turn the engines off, the ship stops moving, so..."It temporarily turned me into a raving lunatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pecan Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 "Second star to the right and straight on until morning"(Everyone knows that's wrong; you won't get there until at least lunchtime!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfire32 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Someone once told me:"We don't need to go to space because God loves us. When we've used up the Earth, he'll fix Mars and He'll choose two of his children to start anew. It's already happened before with Adam and Eve. Haven't you ever read the Bible?"Serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibble Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I was at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian and there was this group of people looking at LM-2 and they were like "...is the one that landed on the Moon in Apollo 11?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainDreamer Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) "Space is cold."And other misconception when a human body is exposed to space without a spacesuit. Edited March 25, 2015 by RainDreamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frybert Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 "Why do we always make out space ships move so fast? There's no gravity in space, couldn't we just make them stand still?"or "(insert random 'fact' as to why moon landings are impossible)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bargest Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Well, it's isn fully dummy talk, but i chatted with friends about speed limits in spaceone tells that you can accelerate untill you reach speed of light(if you have infinite fuel without mass)second one talks about newton laws and so on, i understand that he meaned that after you go to speed of specific impulse you cant accelerate further(he probably forgot about that rockets on orbit fly on speed far exeeding speed of their isp)well, both suggestions wrong and right in some ways, but i think its wery dumb disscussion for people who really know physics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexisBV Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) Just watch any movie about space, take your pick.I like the one where orbiting really fast against the planet's rotation causes time to reverse. Edited March 25, 2015 by AlexisBV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioBob Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I've spent a large amount of time debating with conspiracy theorists who deny the reality of the Apollo moon landings. The stupidity of those people is boundless. They've said so many ridiculous things that it is impossible for me to pick out just one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Velocity- Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 At a public star party in Montgomery, AL, a woman asked a guy with a telescope set up next to mine if he could see "the flag left by Apollo on the Moon". He told her, "No, sorry, they take it down at night." "Oh", she replied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlabGizor117 Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Someone once told me:"We don't need to go to space because God loves us. When we've used up the Earth, he'll fix Mars and He'll choose two of his children to start anew. It's already happened before with Adam and Eve. Haven't you ever read the Bible?"Serious.Wow. Not only is that completely ignorant, the Bible has no indication of that. This post is so much better than I thought it would be XD- - - Updated - - -I just read through all of the comments, this is gold XD Thanks so much, guys. The best one I've heard from someone else is that their friend thought the moon and the sun were the same thing and the moon was just the sun cooled down. I've also seen somebody on Ask Yahoo wonder whether man would ever land on the sun, but since it's super hot they could land in the winter. Ohh, poor people... - - - Updated - - -http://i.imgur.com/UGwWcO3.gifv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxster Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 By a highschool student of mine: "I heard that Hitler's on the moon and he flew there after some fightin cos he was gonna get shot and that innit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMSP Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 My friend once said to me:"But what about the guys on Mars! The ones that landed in the Apollo thingy!" Face-palms were made.And"I can't believe that the space shuttle went to the moon"And"This incredible Universe is now 2,013 (New Year's Eve 2012) years old!"Yeah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkinator Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Wow. Not only is that completely ignorant, the Bible has no indication of that. It's double the ignorance for the same low price! Lol. They have succeeded at being ignorant about the Bible and space at the same time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jman508 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 im not gonna be surprised if this gets plucked by a mod or something. and yeah lulz on the star trek "they kill the engines they kill their speed" logic. but considering they have 26th century crystal engines that they can't/won't explain we can't pick on it TOO much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlabGizor117 Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 "what if other planets don't actually don't exist i mean they're so far off its hard to believe they're real"i can't remember the rest of the conversation. it was in-between some girls in my class.Lol, yeah I can kinda understand that somewhat, it's hard to get it in your head that, for example, George Washington was real, as in, to conduct your thoughts consciously as if he was real, when you can't see for yourself that he was real... Ahh, I'm not explaining it well - - - Updated - - -By a highschool student of mine: "I heard that Hitler's on the moon and he flew there after some fightin cos he was gonna get shot and that innit".Repped for "innit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfire32 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 It's double the ignorance for the same low price! Lol. They have succeeded at being ignorant about the Bible and space at the same time...Looks like you've found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlabGizor117 Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) im not gonna be surprised if this gets plucked by a mod or something. and yeah lulz on the star trek "they kill the engines they kill their speed" logic. but considering they have 26th century crystal engines that they can't/won't explain we can't pick on it TOO much.Lol, yeah I watch star trek alot, they do have inertial dampers, like translational and rotational SAS Also, 24th* century XD Edited March 25, 2015 by SlabGizor117 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jman508 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 what i don't get are the shuttle crafts. what powers them? did i miss a episode or do they never explain it. is it the same stuff that powers the starships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxster Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Lol, yeah I watch star trek alot, they do have inertial dampers, like translational and rotational SAS ...they just cross-couple the Heisenberg compensators through the power coupling relays and its all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worir4 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 On a quiz show. I think it was 'The Chase'The planets in order from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth...What is next?A.Mars B.The Moon C.JupiterThey picked moon. *Facepalm* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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