Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Will facts matter to him?

Few, if any, American adults have as much influence on young Americans as Steph Curry. His unique basketball skills got him that respect. However, his hateful attitude toward the president of the United States has long bothered me. Now he has added new stupidity to his roster. Sarah Taylor reports at The Blaze,

On Monday, the New York Times reported that Curry, who plays for the two-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors, is skeptical of astronaut Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk in 1969.

The outlet, which reported Curry's remarks from a recent podcast, wrote that during the podcast Curry asked two other people on the show whether they believed that the U.S. had put a man on the moon.

“We ever been to the moon?" Curry asked. According to the Times, others on the show "agreed that the answer was no."

“They're going to come get us," Curry responded. “Sorry, I don't want to start conspiracies."

Another host on the podcast pressed Curry even further.

"You don't think so?" the host asked.

Curry answered, "Nuh uh."

According to the Times' Benjamin Hoffman, the host then "expressed some skepticism, asking Curry to clarify, and [Curry] said he did not believe the United States had landed on the moon."

So what did NASA say in response to Curry's comments?
In a statement obtained by the outlet, a spokesperson for NASA said:

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. 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 to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay.
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