So I watched the SpaceX launch....

Only a small number need to know anything, you can order a rocket engine without anyone needed to know how it will be used,same goes for all!the other parts, even the engineers designing parts just need to know how to make it not break.
The people in the control room who high five,whoop and holler have to be in on it, the head engineer,the guy who invented heat shielding,the astronauts,the techs working on the buoyancy lab ie swimming pool....when it's being used for spacewalks. The people who make videos of ships approaching the ISS, which don't seem to give a wide view of said station.

The lower engineers probably have questions which are dismissed or try are too afraid of social or financial consequences for asking questions

Only a small number need to know anything, you can order a rocket engine without anyone needed to know how it will be used,same goes for all!the other parts, even the engineers designing parts just need to know how to make it not break.
The people in the control room who high five,whoop and holler have to be in on it, the head engineer,the guy who invented heat shielding,the astronauts,the techs working on the buoyancy lab ie swimming pool....when it's being used for spacewalks. The people who make videos of ships approaching the ISS, which don't seem to give a wide view of said station.

The lower engineers probably have questions which are dismissed or try are too afraid of social or financial consequences for asking questions

I'm just really confused on the why.

Quote from: grubby1983 on June 15, 2016, 02:16:09 PM

I'm just really confused on the why.

You are supposed to be confused because Mr.SpaceY does not want you to know what they are doing. 

I have no idea what SpaceY is doing but it may be an attempt to take photographs of the earth from a higher vantage point and peak over the perimeter.

Those dastardly Space-Xers might even try to photograph earth and prove it a globe! And we can't have that!

...you can order a rocket engine without anyone needed to know how it will be used...

So I watched the SpaceX launch today and several thoughts crawled through the cobwebs. Flat earth would have us believe that those 2 companies that paid millions of dollars to build and launch their satellites into orbit are in on the hoax? They paid all that money to continue fooling all of us while they really built ground based communications that do the real work and not the fake boxes they had pretend launched into orbit? And SpaceX puts on these live webcasts to trick us into thinking they are putting things in orbit but are really using cgi to fake it?

I'm just really confused on the why.

Quote from: grubby1983 on June 15, 2016, 02:16:09 PM

So I watched the SpaceX launch today and several thoughts crawled through the cobwebs. Flat earth would have us believe that those 2 companies that paid millions of dollars to build and launch their satellites into orbit are in on the hoax? They paid all that money to continue fooling all of us while they really built ground based communications that do the real work and not the fake boxes they had pretend launched into orbit? And SpaceX puts on these live webcasts to trick us into thinking they are putting things in orbit but are really using cgi to fake it?

I'm just really confused on the why.

Of course it's a hoax. Do you think it's hard for the government to find someone wiling to lie for literally tons of money?

Quote from: Pongo on June 23, 2016, 07:44:22 AM

Quote from: grubby1983 on June 15, 2016, 02:16:09 PM

So I watched the SpaceX launch today and several thoughts crawled through the cobwebs. Flat earth would have us believe that those 2 companies that paid millions of dollars to build and launch their satellites into orbit are in on the hoax? They paid all that money to continue fooling all of us while they really built ground based communications that do the real work and not the fake boxes they had pretend launched into orbit? And SpaceX puts on these live webcasts to trick us into thinking they are putting things in orbit but are really using cgi to fake it?

I'm just really confused on the why.

Of course it's a hoax. Do you think it's hard for the government to find someone wiling to lie for literally tons of money?

  What makes you think that the government had much of anything to do with the satellites or the launch?

Quote from: markjo on June 23, 2016, 01:24:17 PM

Quote from: Pongo on June 23, 2016, 07:44:22 AM

Quote from: grubby1983 on June 15, 2016, 02:16:09 PM

So I watched the SpaceX launch today and several thoughts crawled through the cobwebs. Flat earth would have us believe that those 2 companies that paid millions of dollars to build and launch their satellites into orbit are in on the hoax? They paid all that money to continue fooling all of us while they really built ground based communications that do the real work and not the fake boxes they had pretend launched into orbit? And SpaceX puts on these live webcasts to trick us into thinking they are putting things in orbit but are really using cgi to fake it?

I'm just really confused on the why.

Of course it's a hoax. Do you think it's hard for the government to find someone wiling to lie for literally tons of money?

  What makes you think that the government had much of anything to do with the satellites or the launch?

Oh good, you have knowledge of satellites. When does the government tell people they have put another satellite too close to their spy satellites. Before the launch, or after it flying too close to the gov't satellite?

Oh good, you have knowledge of satellites. When does the government tell people they have put another satellite too close to their spy satellites. Before the launch, or after it flying too close to the gov't satellite?

Quote from: hoppy on June 23, 2016, 06:03:43 PM

Oh good, you have knowledge of satellites. When does the government tell people they have put another satellite too close to their spy satellites. Before the launch, or after it flying too close to the gov't satellite?

Spy satellites are generally in much lower orbits than communications satellites, so I doubt that the issue comes up very often.

Also,all rockets are government funded,even spacex ,their customer is the government.
They send people and supplies to the ISS.

Quote from: markjo on June 24, 2016, 07:14:41 PM

Quote from: hoppy on June 23, 2016, 06:03:43 PM

Oh good, you have knowledge of satellites. When does the government tell people they have put another satellite too close to their spy satellites. Before the launch, or after it flying too close to the gov't satellite?

Spy satellites are generally in much lower orbits than communications satellites, so I doubt that the issue comes up very often.

I think you just made that up

Also,all rockets are government funded,even spacex ,their customer is the government.
They send people and supplies to the ISS.

Also,all rockets are government funded,even spacex ,their customer is the government.
They send people and supplies to the ISS.