It was as predictable as the moonrise.
Stephen Curry’s thoughts about men on the moon, dispensed in a recent podcast, had barely hit the ether when reaction began rolling in.
Astronaut Scott Kelly, a veteran of four space flights and who set a record for accumulated number of days spent in space, was one of the first to check in.
Steph, so much respect for you, but re the moon landing thing, let’s talk. DM me. https://t.co/BXYxPF4zz1
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) December 11, 2018
Who wouldn’t want to interact with a real, down-to-earth astronaut? @derbenjamin just raised his hand.
https://twitter.com/derbenjamin/status/1072318219912921088
Then came Bill Nye the Science Guy. Appearing on The Rush, a daily sports broadcast hosted by Yahoo! Sports’ Jared Quay, Nye expressed what you might call faux incredulity.
“Why would they fake it?” he said. “Why? Dude. Dude. It’s like saying you’ve never buried a j. It’s just not happening.”
Quay piled on.
“My man Bill makes a good point. Steph, can you actually prove that you really made a bucket before? Sure, there’s footage of you dropping mad 3-pointers. But I ain’t never seen it in person. For all I know the videos are all fake. As a matter of fact, are we sure there’s a basketball team in Oakland? If you ask me, the Denver Nuggets won the NBA Finals last year and commissioner Silver just covered it all up.”
Try refuting that.
Or this:
https://twitter.com/Football_Junky1/status/1072334415660019712
Finally, a spokesman for NASA reached out to Curry with an offer no one in their right mind would refuse.
“We’d love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets,” said Allard Beutel. “We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see firsthand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we’re doing now to go back the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay.”
So that’s the way it works? Someone engages in crazy talk, disparages someone or something, and gets invited on the coolest field trip there could ever be?
I hereby declare that the Four Seasons never really built a ritzy, sprawling, gorgeous resort on Hawaii’s big island.
And I steadfastly believe the lunar landings were real. How else would we know that the moon is made of green cheese?
