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NASA Wasting Time and Money on Moon Landing Doubters
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.)"
The fact that we such an abundance of blue-cheese dressing to go with our wings is enough proof for me.
This is the best option for the money. The alternative would be to send them all up there in the cargo bay of a shuttle and then crack the bay doors for a second or two and see if they'll finally believe you.
roflmao
Poof.
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Maybe they could just send Buzz Aldrin out. With a bat. Or his manly fists of iron. That should "silence" the doubters!
"Slashdot is about legos and staplers." -Cmdr. Taco
God is omnipotent yet it would be impossible for him to create a rock he could not lift. Therefore, God does not exist. Right? Right? Is that a paradox?:-)
Since I moonlight in my spare time as God, let me answer this one for you. It's child's play.
I simply would create a rock exactly the size of the universe. I wouldn't be able to lift the rock, because by definition there would be no room for the rock to move.
Happy to clear that up for you.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon-landing Conspiracy Theorist
btw...The video is pretty funny!
Now that's a true Hero :) And the prosecutor's office declined to press charges too! That single handedly revived my faith in the American justice system ;)
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
They had a great interview with this crank on The Daily Show.
The interviewer showed him the video footage of Aldrin punching him and then proceeded to question whether or not it was faked.
It was amusing watching him squirm when she said "His fist doesn't actually appear to make contact with your face does it? Could that have been faked?"
This is just another attempt to hoodwink the public. I'd publish my point-by-point rebuttal but no one would understand the scientific terms that I'd need to use.
The government can already read our minds. Last year we saw that scientists have been able to have machines controlled by nothing other than thought by scanning brain waves. It's obvious that this is merely the tip of the iceberg. Moving machines with thought is only the part that the government allows these scientists to reveal to the public. Just as civilians aren't privy to top-secret military aircraft designs until years after they become completely outdated, so is the thought-reading apparatus hidden while it still is useful.
You think I'm mad? Even private corporations are not allowed to release technology without government approval. Remember the Hoverboards in Back to the Future? They're real. But they still have military applications so cannot be released to the public. We know that it can work because the Japanese have maglev trains that work on identical priciples.
You still think I'm mad? Turn your Television to a 'staticky' station. Watch the chaotic series of dots and blips. Do this for about six hours until your brain becomes attuned to the frequency. Soon you'll be able to decipher the 8,192 bit encoded datastream that the government is using to communicate with the L'kelialia from Pluto. You'll hear their voices. You'll see their devilish grins peering back at you.
People ask, why would the government want to fake the moon landing? It's easy. Staking a claim. In 2053 the Global Congress will debate the issue of ownership of mineral rights on Luna. The government is only making sure that it has the most prior claim. The actual technology for a moon shot won't be available for another 16 years (I think, this is 2002, right?) but time travel has been well understood since Einstein. It's very complicated and scientific (I'd have to use terms like Schwartzchild radius and eigenvalues to really explain it) but suffice it to say that it's true. I read it on Slashdot earlier this year.
Anyway, I hope my detailed, logical, and coherent analysis and convinces you that this upcoming paper is total fabrication.
The worst of this whole debacle is when Fox had the "special" on TV about a year ago about whether the moon landing really was a hoax or not.
Was Jonathan Frakes the host? I never trust anything on Fox unless Frakes hosts the show.
Trolling is a art,
According to anonymous sources, Christoforo Columbo, an Italian adventurer employed by the Spanish court, never landed in America. He forged his ships' logs, and hired actors to play the parts of his "Indian" captives.
A spokesman for King Ferdinand of Spain declined to comment.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
does not prove that PEOPLE put it there. Could have, theroetically, been done by an unmanned robotic lander.
Or by the aliens!
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
They tried this one. Chairface Chippendale once tried to write his name on the moon, but he only got the first 3 letters before running out of room.
And then The Tick kicked his ass...
And then the Man Eating Cow showed up... but that was after the Ninjas....
Or something...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
Reminds me of one of my favorite sigs ever:
MORTAR COMBAT!
My favorite part of that interview is when the interviewer said "Lets see that again in zero gravity", and just slowed the video down a bit
There certainly have been moon landings, but not before 1982, when NASA finally invented the technologies to get past the radiation belt. The world was fooled over a decade before into believing that Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. All the images and whatnot from the various Apollo missions were fakes. I have bulletproof evidence to support this claim: Two different people, who do not know each other, have separately told me that they doubt the moon landings took place.
With a question like that from you, I'm not sure if the debate has been settled yet as to whether you are not still a monkey. ;)
-T