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Should NASA Try To Refute Crackpots?
angkor writes "CNN has an interesting article on the dilemma faced by NASA: what is the proper way to deal with far-out theories given exposure (and legitimacy) by the media--ignore the crackpots or refute them?"
IF people can believe that millions of abductees are lying why then is it illogical to believe our government may have faked the moon landings?
To this day no other country has put a man on the moon.
To this day we havent went back to the moon, and the timing is suspcious.
I'm not saying we couldnt do it, but we have every right to be skeptical of the moon landings, just like we have every right to be skeptical of the roswell incident.
The government lies when it benifits them to do so.
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I didn't believe the nutcases until I saw one of the shows. They weren't talking about tinfoil on their heads-- they had some pretty interesting points if you ask me.
Let's face it. People lie and so do the governments they form. They lie to others and they lie to themselves. They lie to cover up, to make believe, to get rich, and to advance a million other schemes. Some of the lies are even honorable and kind, but that doesn't change the fact that it occurs.
It doesn't take too much work to find lies as big as the moon landings. According to the press releases and the briefings, we were "winning" the Vietnam war up until the very last strategic withdrawal. President Clinton didn't have sexual relations with that woman. Terrorists set the fire in the Reichstag. The US signed a treaty forbidding biological weapons.
So I think that Nasa should answer these things. I think the cost of a few historians isn't very much compared to the cost of a space probe or a Mars Lander or even an additional programmer. What the heck.
I theorize that my head will not explode if I have sex on the moon with that hot chick Topanga from 'Boy Meets World.'
Almost explode, but not quite. I won't mind if it does explode afterwards.
You pathetic Lunatics, simply because you are too narrow minded to realize that you can't fly to the Moon, that doesn't give you the magical ability to fly to the Moon. The easiest way for you to realize that you can't go to the Moon is for you to try it- but we all know that will never happen. What planet have you been living on for the past 30 years? What has happened to all your childish fantasies: they have faded into nothingness, the only legacy Apollo has is the debate over whether it was real. "Get a Life!...it was only a TV Show." The only people that believe in the Man on the Moon are people who have never been to the Moon. You are only fooling yourselves. You have the rest of your lives to realize it was fake, it is your arrogance and vanity that blinds you to the most obvious truth, even if I pretended that you could fly to the Moon- you still couldn't. You are only dreaming!
Yes, we should all believe NASA because as a government
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agency, they would never lie to us. And we should all
believe Tom Hanks, because as an actor (ie, someone who
pretends for a living) he is an instant expert on any
subject he makes a movie about. And we should all
remember that anyone who disagrees with us, or who
requests further proof of things we say are true is
automatically a kook and should be ridiculed!
More likely, is that Aldrin wouldn't swear on a Bible
while on camera because he believes in God (and knows
doing so would be a sin). And hitting a man who is
simply talking to you is not legal (unless of course
you are an Astronaut). If we could go to the moon
before, and I'm still not sure either way (I was a
believer, but I now have some doubts - which is not
a bad thing), then lets do so again. Right away!
And lets use that same foil we used to block out the
radiation from the two Van Allen Radiation Belts
before! Oh what fun...
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiati
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wradbel
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ans