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Conspiracy Theorists, Meet The Moon
Spock the Baptist writes "You can read about an article entitled: "Telescope to challenge moon doubters" in the online edition of Sydney Morning Herald. The SMH reports that, "European scientists are to use the world's newest and largest telescope to see whether the spacecraft are still on the lunar surface." Does anyone really think that this will change the alleged minds of doubters?"
disney!!!! And if disney said the US landed on the moon. They did... or was that andy kaufman? Or maybe the marx brothers? hmmm... - Im not sure anymore.... - Maybe we are living in some tank and the world is computer generated by machines. Like a big matrix.... uhu... who are you black people in my office..... no... dont drag me away....
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All lies! Only if the government gives me a ticket to fly over to where the telescope is located and see at it for myself and allow me to check out other things in space to ensure it's not a fake. Then MAYBE I'll believe them. Until then, they're using my tax dollars for secret military projects and spending 5% of it to create these elaborate NASA lies!
If they can fake the original moon landing, then they damn well can fake pictures coming out of a telescope, too.
(No, I do not believe that nonsense.)
Had astronauts ever landed on the moon, the cheese surely would have melted when they tried to blast off. Cripes, I can't even cook cheddar in my oven, a mere 400 degrees F, without it melting and getting all smelly. How could it have stood up to rocket blasts? Riddle me that!
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Spanish scientists, doubting Christopher Columbus' trip to the "new world" will use the same telescope to prove that the Earth is flat.
they could verify the report in the Daily Sport that someone had spotted, on the moon, the World War II airplane in which Adolf Hitler had escaped.
At least the Daily Sport admitted that it made up the stories as it was easier than doing the investigation.
....over DMCA violation.
Allegedly, the European Scientists were using a new large telescope (technological means) to circumvent NASA encryption (Apparently they own that thing that if something's really freakin far away, you can't see it). Too bad the public will never know what really happened on that big orb in the night sky, so very, very far away.
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Is start up websites that do nothing but debunk all those UFO photos and make wild outlandish claims that it's a giant cover-up by the conspiracy therorists to mask the horrifying truth; That they have no lives.
The Internet is generally stupid
Aaah, yes. Photographic evidence of our ability to pollute and degrade the environment even of places we don't live... Maybe the images will end up as art posters on every third student's wall...
> instead of doubting the moon landing, they will now be convinced that it's fake.
Wow - they went all the way up there just to put a fake lander on view!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
The Moon is a Ridiculous Liberal Myth!
I don't think there is a moon, you insensitive clod.
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Here's a simple solution: Stick all the doubters and nay sayers into a rocket and shoot it to the moon. Then they'll have all the proof they need (at least as long as their oxygen holds out, nobody says they need to return). Ralph Kramden was a visionary!
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"You take them to the moon [...]" ...and leave them there to ponder.
Finally the truth is out!. NASA Fakes Moon Landing
As they say - cogito, ergo sum. What would happen if you challenged the doubters to prove that they did in fact have minds, then started calling their evidence 'doctored'? Would they disappear in a poof of their own logic?
Hee-hee. Dying tickles!
I can't understand why people doubt the lunar landings. I mean, it's not rocket science.
Who is alleging that these people have minds and what proof do they have! I think NASA should pay someone $15k to prove whether or not these people actually have minds.
Perhaps scientists could use cutting edge technology and the world's most powerful microscope to prove whether or not these people's minds exist.
Slashdot readers want to know!
Uhhhh, yeah, thath dithgustin. [The lady's man]
They didn't. They used this really, really big gun. That's why no humans could be on that trip and NASA had to fake it. The people came later, when They got the anti-grav technology They found in Roswell working. Say, isn't the shuttle right above Turkey now? They read Slashdot, you know.
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h'm, it's supposed to be the apollo 15 landing site but to my untrained eyes it looks suspiciously like dark splotches. anyone know of any better ones out there? maybe some moon rocks or golf balls all lined up to spell HELP or something?
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Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
You take them to the moon and show them the lander, they say it was planted there.
SHOTGUN! I'll be waiting in the Space Shuttle.
In other news, Alabama has passed new legislation requiring all history textbooks to include the following disclaimer before discussing the Apollo program:
Humans landing on the moon is just one of many equally valid theories concerning the video footage and rock samples resulting from the Apollo program. The moon landing is a controversial theory. Instructional material associated with controversy should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."
Alabama history teachers are encouraged to devote class time to discussing other theories about the Apollo mission.
Not unlike slashdotters.
But they won't get a story on Slashdot with actual reasearch.:-)
Sebastian
Hell, when pushed into a corner, the French won't even admit to believing in France.
This space available.
Perhaps wecould use these robots to cut down the Radioactive Trees
I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own. - Christopher Walken
The only way you'll ever convince these people is to take them to the moon and let them touch the stuff.
And then leave them there, because we've got enough wackos planetside.
Look at the moon pictures published by NASA They are so obviously fakes. USA couldn't cut is before the '60s ended, so they had to make it all up to not lose face. It's all on the internet, if you don't believe me! Besides, I think they also made up women. I mean, how many of you can claim to have even seen one?? Exactly. They just don't exist, I tell you.
Can you try and spot my nail clippers? I must have dropped them somewhere near the lander. Cheers, Buzz.
This month NASA tried to put an end to the controversy by commissioning a definitive account of the evidence for the landings. Days later it dropped the idea after criticism that it was wasting money by taking on the lunatic fringe: naturally, this only boosted claims that the agency was trying to hide something.
Do you think the Russians have a veneratic fringe?
from the to-stupid-for-words dept.
Whats so funny, is these are probably the same people who believe the 'Face On Mars' is of alien intelligence origin.
Then how do you explain the french toast I had for breakfast?
From the article...According to Mr Allen, NASA was forced to send robots to the moon and faked the manned missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Robots in 1969? These nuts need to stop smoking crack.
How ya like dat?
Of a Nasa project I worked on in the 60s. It is basically a filter for telescope lenses, which adds spacecraft to any celestial bodies you point it at. I did that when I worked at a Nasa base called "Lunar Landing" out in the desert in Arizona.
I think the date was April 1st 1969
You may call it a telescope... but to us right-thinking individuals, it's just another Tool of the Zionist Media Conspiracy!
The story came from the heart...but my stomach got in the way.
You take them to the moon and show them the lander, they say it was planted there.
Well no shit. Isn't that what the argument is about?
It would seem to me they would have to say, "No, we are really in Arizona" at that point. This is when you encourage them to remove their helmet.
It's like one of those "How much do you believe" arguments to disprove alot of philosophy. Say you believe there is a chair all you want, let your mind and your body take a vote and see if your ass ends up on the floor.
Never confuse volume with power.
I was just thinking that. But then I realized that you might get lucky and they'd try to prove it by opening their helmet.
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The only photos that really stuck out, at least to my mind, were photos where cross hair patterns, placed on a plate between the shutter and the film om the astronauts cameras disappear behind the astronauts or other objects.
The crosshairs were supposedly etched on the lens of the camera, to better help measure objects in the pictures. So what's more likely? That a couple pure white overexposed surfaces bled thru on the film and filled in the tiny black areas, a phenomenon known to occur on overexposed pictures here on Earth which is reproducible by you or anyone else (hell, a similar effect even works on digital cameras too).... OR for some unknown reason, NASA didn't actually etch the crosshairs on the lens but instead went around painting little black X's all over their fake movie set in California and mistakenly had their "actors" walk around in the wrong spot and cover up X's that they weren't supposed to??
And then, after they went through all this trouble of faking a whole moon landing set and doctoring the photos, they forgot to fill in the little black X's, which is about the easiest kind of object to Photoshop into an existing picture I can think of.... Hmmm, I dunno, I'm definitely leaning towards conspiracy on that one!
That's a lie! everyone knows when you are exposed to the space radiation you do not die! Instead you're likely to experience one (maybe more) of the following:
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