I call Bullshit on.........

[Blackpool Rock]

OK so every so often you hear something and think Hmmm not quite sure about that and sometimes you hear something and think it's rank Bullshit as in WTF are they going on about, no way on Gods Earth etc

What things do people want to call out as Bullshit 

For me the one that continually seems to crop up and be quoted every few months on TV somewhere is this little quote which has yet again been on the main news after the discovery of a pristine coral reef off the coast of Tahiti -

"We know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the surface of the Sea" FFS how is that ever true     

In defence of my Bullshit claim i'd 1st like to point out that only 12 men have ever set foot on the moon and lunar probes / landers etc haven't exactly been one along every few minutes like a London bus have they 

People seem to be constantly doing surveys of the sea bed in all manner of manned and unmanned submersibles etc and then you have all manner of scuba divers etc, in fact oil exploration alone has surely gathered more information about the surface of the sea bed than Nasa know about the moon 

Looks like that Jacques Cousteau was wasting his time big style 

[Punterperson1971]

So why haven’t we been back to the moon or even the other side of the moon and Ive heard the Chinese were suppose to be going to the other side of the moon.

[Blackpool Rock]

So why haven’t we been back to the moon or even the other side of the moon and Ive heard the Chinese were suppose to be going to the other side of the moon.

Well according to the people who quote this shit we already know loads about it so don't need to I guess 

[Watts.E.Dunn]

Someone i used to know who worked for the British Antartic survey here in Cambridge said that a lot of it is very deep, difficult and very expensive to get to, and we are very unlikey to find much of use in materiles or scientfic knowlege.  I expect thats much the same with the Moon..

So she said!.....

[Punterperson1971]

Someone i used to know who worked for the British Antartic survey here in Cambridge said that a lot of it is very deep, difficult and very expensive to get to, and we are very unlikey to find much of use in materiles or scientfic knowlege.  I expect thats much the same with the Moon..

So she said!.....

And here’s me still believing the moon was made of cheese 

[Watts.E.Dunn]

And here’s me still believing the moon was made of cheese 

T I think your ideas are a bit Green;!...

[scutty brown]

Easy to survey the moon remotely using photography, spectroscopy, gravimetry, lasers... No oceans full of water and strange life forms to get in the way

Look at it another way.
We know there is a lot of undiscovered  deep sea life.
But we also know that there is little life to find on the moon

[golden bull]

Everything Boris says?

[shed]

 

Everything Boris says?

 

[mr.bluesky]

So why haven’t we been back to the moon or even the other side of the moon and Ive heard the Chinese were suppose to be going to the other side of the moon.

The Clangers put a stop to it. 

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[mr.bluesky]

Easy to survey the moon remotely using photography, spectroscopy, gravimetry, lasers... No oceans full of water and strange life forms to get in the way

Look at it another way.
We know there is a lot of undiscovered  deep sea life.
But we also know that there is little life to find on the moon

What about the Clangers   

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[scutty brown]

What about the Clangers   

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Just bribe the soupdragon

[mr.bluesky]

Just bribe the soupdragon

  both showing our age now scutty brown

[chrishornx]

People seem to be constantly doing surveys of the sea bed in all manner of manned and unmanned submersibles etc and then you have all manner of scuba divers etc, in fact oil exploration alone has surely gathered more information about the surface of the sea bed than Nasa know about the moon 

to be fair BR 100% of the moon surface has been photographed, surveyed and studied - only 10% of the ocean floor has been surveyed or visited so far

I can't fully agree with you on this one

[JontyR]

It is remarkable now to consider that with only 3 months of the fifites no one had ever seen what the far side of the moon looked like.

What gets me are when opinions are presented as facts. Even worse when it is preceded with things such as "everyone knows that..." or "obviously..." to try and deflect the need for actual evidence 

[Steely Dan]

Not bullshit. Sorry the moon is WAY more known than the bottom of the sea.  12 Humans have been on the moon. (and lots of cameras) No humans have been to the bottom of the sea.  No air and zero pressure is easy - take oxygen and a vacuum suit. Sorted! At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, pressure is 1000 times sea level pressure.  No one can think of a way to go there or even film there.

Ok, a few meters down (like the great barrier reef) we can go.  But it is still more work than looking at the moon.  The area of the earths oceans is bigger for starters.  And it is dark.  The moon is easy once one has a telescope or better still a rocket with a basic camera.