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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Does that include theists and atheists?
Politics?
Even Brian is expressing an opinion.
Alex
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And a lot of walking demonstrations of the Dunning-Kruger effect will duly ignore him! I am a member of a facebook group that daily provides astounding demonstrations of the effect. It is one about engine management technology and theory and attracts a lot of "My engine is doing this, what is the problem" posts. Which result in any number of authoritative diagnoses from people who had a problem once that sounded just like the ten word description of the issue that was provided. Out of pure dumb luck, occasionally one of them is even right.
There was a Mythbusters episode that dealt with a lot of the "Moon landing was faked" theories, in particular the one you mentioned Alex about the lighting of the photo. In a nutshell, while there is no atmosphere to scatter light, the lunar surface is reflective enough for the nearby landscape to cast enough light on the austronaut in shadow for him to be well lit as per the photo in question. Another one dealt with the "non parallel" lines biz as well.