if you didn't even investigate whether Einstein ever actually said this..
I did not say Einstein was the originator of the quote, and how stupid is it to strain a gnat and swallow a camel by not focusing on the content of the saying?
It's even more dumb to think we can't solve the tech issues to go to a place we supposedly went to 50 yrs ago.
YOU have a "fact" neatly filed away in your head that you don't want to investigate. That's fine. But don't put down those that have. That's your problem, not mine.
They KNOW we can't go through the Van Allen radiation belts. They said as much. And when the space shuttle got too close, the astronauts suffered eye problems and had to turn back. Now run along and find some stuff that's gonna counter that we DID go through them. And notice how quick google and youtube are to put those things 1st on the queue.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Maybe you can examine the "moon rocks" given to the Dutch national museum by American freemason astronauts, that turns out to be petrified wood!
Or the fact that most of the past 5 or 6 Presidents keep moving the goalposts back to when we are going to the moon and or mars. I think Trump insists it will happen by 2024, but NASA says "Hold on, we can't make that date". A feat we did in a scant 7 yrs with that awesome 60s tech!