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7/7/2025, 11:39:10 PM
>>17822692
>first craft on different planet (venus)
Reality:
>Venera 3 became the first human-made object to impact another planet's surface as it crash-landed on 1 March 1966. However, as the spacecraft's data probes had failed upon atmospheric penetration, no data from within the Venusian atmosphere were retrieved from the mission.
That's pretty much the Soviet space program in a nutshell. Their disregard for safety and redundancy in the name of being "first" meant their early missions had no real value to them.
The first Soviet spacecraft (Sputnik) was just a metal ball that made noise, the first American Spacecraft (Explorer 1) actually had useful scientific instruments.
While the Soviets just wanted to be the first, Americas response was to focus on application.
>first craft on different planet (venus)
Reality:
>Venera 3 became the first human-made object to impact another planet's surface as it crash-landed on 1 March 1966. However, as the spacecraft's data probes had failed upon atmospheric penetration, no data from within the Venusian atmosphere were retrieved from the mission.
That's pretty much the Soviet space program in a nutshell. Their disregard for safety and redundancy in the name of being "first" meant their early missions had no real value to them.
The first Soviet spacecraft (Sputnik) was just a metal ball that made noise, the first American Spacecraft (Explorer 1) actually had useful scientific instruments.
While the Soviets just wanted to be the first, Americas response was to focus on application.
7/2/2025, 10:36:32 PM
We don't know. That's the most honest answer anyone could give. Atheism is the most reasonable position because they lack belief for lack of evidence. Antitheism and theism both propose that God either certainly exists or certainly does not exist, which are not reasonable positions unless either side has evidence to support them, which they don't.
Epistemologically speaking, we cannot know anything for certain about the metaphysical world and we can only speculate. Metaphysics are out of the scope of naturalism. We know the universe was hotter and more dense in the past and emerged from a smaller point, but we don't know what happened before this. It could be God or something else, and if it is God, then we would still never know who created God or even whether or not God has simply always existed. We just cannot know these things, we can only speculate. People are theists because they don't think this is a satisfying answer or think it's an answer that is not conducive to a greater spiritual meaning. I personally think spiritual meaning can still be found even without God. I tend to take a more Deistic approach to reality in that I do think the universe is self-evidence of something greater we can never understand but I can say with confidence given the mounds of evidence we do have that said God is not the Sky-Jew-Kaiju of the abrahamic faiths
Epistemologically speaking, we cannot know anything for certain about the metaphysical world and we can only speculate. Metaphysics are out of the scope of naturalism. We know the universe was hotter and more dense in the past and emerged from a smaller point, but we don't know what happened before this. It could be God or something else, and if it is God, then we would still never know who created God or even whether or not God has simply always existed. We just cannot know these things, we can only speculate. People are theists because they don't think this is a satisfying answer or think it's an answer that is not conducive to a greater spiritual meaning. I personally think spiritual meaning can still be found even without God. I tend to take a more Deistic approach to reality in that I do think the universe is self-evidence of something greater we can never understand but I can say with confidence given the mounds of evidence we do have that said God is not the Sky-Jew-Kaiju of the abrahamic faiths
6/19/2025, 10:24:06 PM
>>17776884
The Apollo Astronauts themselves were Christians you know? You know they read from the Book of Genesis, while live for hundreds of millions of people to hear, as they saw the Earth rise over the Lunar Horizon?
Of course you don't, you're not a real Christian, you're just a schizo LARPer
The Apollo Astronauts themselves were Christians you know? You know they read from the Book of Genesis, while live for hundreds of millions of people to hear, as they saw the Earth rise over the Lunar Horizon?
Of course you don't, you're not a real Christian, you're just a schizo LARPer
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