The appropriate response is to shake your head and walk away.
People with such views are just as impervious to logical argument as those who are heavily invested in some religious belief system. Their delusions have an internal consistency, and the main focus of their mental processes is to defend that warped view of reality.
In this case, if you pointed out that loads of amateur astronomers have used their telescopes to watch and photograph the ISS passing above them, Smokes might say that the photos are faked or they're just shills of the evil NASA regime. If you got him to look in a telescope and showed him the ISS, he could say it's only a peculiar airplane that NASA has faked up to look like the ISS from a distance (that's assuming he does believe that planes can actually fly). If you strapped him into a Soyuz and flew him to the ISS for a visit, he could say it's all a drug-induced hallucination or proof that the government has mind-control machines or a ultra-secret virtual reality system or evidence that the government has anti-gravity technology.
You couldn't use logic to convince a paranoid schizophrenic that Celine Dion isn't really telling him in her songs that the guy making sandwiches in his local Subway shop is trying to poison him. You can't use logic to convince a Bible-basher that it's physically impossible for the entire landmass of the world to have been covered by water during Noah's flood. You can't use logic to convince a devout Muslim that Mohammed didn't fly to heaven on some sort of winged horse-like creature one night and he had a chat with various Biblical celebs as well as God himself.
And once someone has become so detached from reality that he believes it's impossible to prove gravity works in the way described by Newton and the current explanation for the orbits of the planets is a huge lie, then there's definitely no point saying anything further to him about space travel.
The ISS is the size of a 747. You can't see a 747 from 220 miles away.
Considering you're just dismissing the ZERO proof NASA has to back up anything it says, I'll add "you cant use logic to convince somebody that refuses to believe the news might lie to you, that the news is blatantly lying to you" If it's such a dumb idea why is there no proof of NASA space travel?
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The appropriate response is to shake your head and walk away.
People with such views are just as impervious to logical argument as those who are heavily invested in some religious belief system. Their delusions have an internal consistency, and the main focus of their mental processes is to defend that warped view of reality.
In this case, if you pointed out that loads of amateur astronomers have used their telescopes to watch and photograph the ISS passing above them, Smokes might say that the photos are faked or they're just shills of the evil NASA regime. If you got him to look in a telescope and showed him the ISS, he could say it's only a peculiar airplane that NASA has faked up to look like the ISS from a distance (that's assuming he does believe that planes can actually fly). If you strapped him into a Soyuz and flew him to the ISS for a visit, he could say it's all a drug-induced hallucination or proof that the government has mind-control machines or a ultra-secret virtual reality system or evidence that the government has anti-gravity technology.
You couldn't use logic to convince a paranoid schizophrenic that Celine Dion isn't really telling him in her songs that the guy making sandwiches in his local Subway shop is trying to poison him. You can't use logic to convince a Bible-basher that it's physically impossible for the entire landmass of the world to have been covered by water during Noah's flood. You can't use logic to convince a devout Muslim that Mohammed didn't fly to heaven on some sort of winged horse-like creature one night and he had a chat with various Biblical celebs as well as God himself.
And once someone has become so detached from reality that he believes it's impossible to prove gravity works in the way described by Newton and the current explanation for the orbits of the planets is a huge lie, then there's definitely no point saying anything further to him about space travel.
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The ISS is the size of a 747. You can't see a 747 from 220 miles away.
Considering you're just dismissing the ZERO proof NASA has to back up anything it says, I'll add "you cant use logic to convince somebody that refuses to believe the news might lie to you, that the news is blatantly lying to you" If it's such a dumb idea why is there no proof of NASA space travel?