Applying NEC to temporary portable solar power

[ggunn]

This is the kind of detail that undermines the space-travel deniers. Were the space program merely Hollywood fiction, we would never know that a plasma contactor (and a million other special-purpose technologies) was needed, and it would never have been invented.

There was a guy who worked with me for a bit who was a Flat Earther. I never figured out whether he actually believed it or if he was just enjoying the mental exercise of pointing out the difficulty (impossibility?) of proving even the most basic concepts beyond a shadow of a doubt.