But I guess the scam continues to work if they just promise enough.

Well, that is obviously not what I said and you know it. Maybe stop behaving like a child?

That's always an incredibly stupid thing to do, that is, for a business to commingle the ownership's politics.

The point of most of the lockpicking youtube channels seems to be opening locks either with household items that aren't even able to be called lockpicks, or being able to open locks nondestructively such that no one can tell that the lock was penetrated.

Anything can be destructively opened with enough destruction. That's not the point. The point is when something touted as a lock can be opened trivially and without skill it's marketers are basically lying.

When locks can be opened that easily, then the people using those locks might not even be aware of just how vulnerable they are, and might even have trouble getting compensation for theft when they can't prove that a crime occurred other than something's missing.

Yes, there's indeed a reason why manual choke lasted a century, analogue automatic choke didn't even last a decade, and ECM controlled chokes have lasted until today.

It's almost like it's telling you something. But believe what you want.

Actually almost all locks are trivially easy to pick, as a couple youtube channels with massive followings prove again and again. In fact there have been a very few locks where people on those channnels take more than two minutes to open, that would be the ones to buy as those are exceptional (there are no unpickable locks you can buy at a store)

I guess with LPL they will not even try that kind of intimidation.

NASA was literally created to give Nazis a job.

The Moon has very little in common with Mars, so there's no great reason to going there first. There's no atmosphere so landing is different, the surface dust is extremely abrasive, it's an entirely different environment for propellant production, the gravity is about half as great, etc.

About the only real benefit is that you're only a few days away if something goes wrong, rather than a few months away on Mars.

And on top of that, we know today that some of these writings were done decades or generations later. That would not even be reliable today in most contexts and certainly not in the one these things were written.

Whit how gullible people are (including most types of "experts"), accepting a miracle as real would require direct observation and verification by me in an area I am actually an expert in. That is not going to happen.

Funny thing is that this supposed "evidence" is known today to have been recorded (or more likely hallucinated) generations later....

And that nicely sums it up. But because the religious people with high intelligence chose selective blindness, they can never see the obvious.

This idea has long since been discounted by the IT security community as unhelpful and actually dangerous.

Amateurs come up with it time and again though and always think they are smarter than all the experts. They are not.

In this case discussing highly confidential things over essentially unsecured channels.