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NASA Wasting Time and Money on Moon Landing Doubters

Posted by chrisd on from the dead-scientists-spinning dept.

Rob Miles writes "Yahoo! News has this article about how NASA is paying aeronautics engineer James Oberg $15,000 to write a monograph gathering up materials answering the skeptics of the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing, point by point. It's a shame that even $1 has to be spent to debunk these conspiracy theorists with too much time on their hands. And it's unfortunate that the nutters will see this as validation of their ridiculous claims ('if our charges weren't true, NASA wouldn't bother answering them' they'll snivel.)"

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  1. Idiots by DarkAurora · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Idiots. (the doubters.)

  2. Fake by numb · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No matter how much they gonna try to prove, I never trust a US govt anyway.

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    NumB http://www.engvig.net
  3. Rush Limbaugh by Casca · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I just put them in the same circle as the people that think Rush Limbaugh reports news objectively.

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    Casca
  4. Pseudo-intellectual Snobbery Running Amok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh no! $15,000 to teach those rednecks a lesson! How dare we waste our money on this!

    Much better we pour another hundred billion dollars into a space station that accomplishes nothing while directly lowering the quality of life for all taxpayers.

    Just because you jerk off to shiny pictures of the ISS in Popular Science doesn't make you one iota better than the Moon Hoax people. At least they're not helping to bankrupt the economy with Russian-style public spending excess.