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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. baaa! by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not a troll (wonder how long it will take to get marked as one?) But please tell us why you blindly believe man has landed on the moon.

    If the gov't says it's ok for MS to be a monopoly, or copyrights need to be extended, you disagree. But if they make the miraculous claim that they sent a group of men to the moon and brought them back, you don't question it.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. What does God ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 1, Troll
    need with a starship?

    "Jim, you don't ask the Almight for his I.D.."

  3. Re:God? by lugonn · · Score: 1, Troll
    I think evolutionists like yourself are bigoted

    Your argument has no merit. I could say the same thing about Creationist. The Bible says it took God six days to create the "World/Universe". Is a day to God 24 hours? Or a billion years? That is up to theologins in the Vatican to ponder. And whatever Dogma comes forth, you'll happily lick up I'm sure.

    The Creationists are the same ones who tried to silence Gallileo/Capernicus regarding the Earth not being the center of the universe 350 years ago. Gallileo was jailed for a few years for publishing a book about it. 350 years later, we KNOW the Earth is not the center of the universe, Dogma aside. So who is right and who is wrong...time will tell.

    I'd much rather have the money spent on getting evolution out of the school systems

    I'd rather spend my money getting fundamentalist ideals out of the school system all together, that includes creationism.

    You reason like the Taliban do. Zeolot.

    P.S. I actually read the Bible and forgo church.

  4. Welcome to my list of creationists by Kiwi · · Score: 0, Troll
    As a Christian, I find creationists rather annoying. Which is why I have a list of creationists and a convenient way of killfiling these people.

    Now, I believe very strongly in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians. What I am doing here is not an act of hatred; I am sure that if we knew each other in real life, we would get along really nicely. Putting you on this list does not mean that I don't disrespect you as a person. It just means that I feel that you post some inappropriate things which make Christians look foolish to anyone in the scientific community.

    I don't waste my time debating creation/evolution. I simply killfile the creationists so I don't get needlessly upset.

    - Sam

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    The secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it should not be taken too seriously.

  5. Space fakes by Animats · · Score: 2, Troll
    There are a few known fakes on the Russian side. Gagarin actually bailed out of the capsule just before landing, because the capsule didn't have a good soft-land capability. But the USSR claimed he rode the capsule all the way down, because the rules for the world altitude record for aircraft require the pilot to stay with the aircraft. There were also a few unreported deaths in the early days of Soviet space flight.

    On the US side, we now know that the Explorer satellite series was a cover story for the Corona spy satellites. And there was a fair amount of disinformation about the SR-71. Covering up a large supersonic aircraft making sonic booms over the US was a tough bit of spin control. On at least two occasions, there were low-altitude engine failure restarts over populated areas. One toppled a factory chimney, and the other was over downtown Salt Lake City.

    Other cool stuff we know now:

    • The Rosenbergs were guilty. They really were Soviet spies. The KGB archives and the Venona decrypts make this clear. The Venona transcripts also make it clear why the US Government was in a such a panic - they knew someone was transmitting important info about the atomic bomb to Moscow for a year before they figured out who it was.
    • There really were Communists in the State Department during the McCarthy era. But they were useless as spies. Moscow Central wanted spies in DoD, the AEC, and research labs; they didn't care about the State Department.
    • Much of the Vietnam War protest movement was Soviet-funded.