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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ITT: people saying they always knew

What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kay but that's honestly a pretty awesome getup. It's only cringe in retrospect knowing what we know now. If I saw someone like this on the street I'd think, "slay, dude."

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

yeah exactly. very MCR.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have a not-quite-physics degree (I could not mentally bring myself to do the proper physics capstone, but I basically have a physics degree.) I have had multiple conversations with astrophysicists, astronauts, and people who know their shit.

It has always been abundantly clear to me that he has been full of shit. I had to play coy a lot because I had some association with NASA, but the man does not know shit about rockets or physics and it’s always been abundantly clear to anyone who does.

I doubt he could do a simple kinematics problem.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You could have let this be a top-level comment, but you chose to make it directly a response to mine about how I'm interested in hearing about people who didn't always know. Why did you do that.