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Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program
MarkWhittington writes: According to a Tuesday article in the Moscow Times, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee named Vladimir Markin suggested that an international investigation be mounted into some of the "various murky details surrounding the U.S. moon landings between 1969 and 1972." Markin would particularly like to know where some of the missing moon rocks went to and why the original footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing was erased. Markin hastened to add that he is, of course, not suggesting that NASA faked the moon landings and just filmed the events in a studio.
Of course he's not suggesting that. He's suggesting that Putin wants another sideshow and is desperate enough to think this'll do it....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
There, saved you reading the article.
Will Buzz Aldrin please pick up the white courtesy phone? We have need of your your services.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
From T first FA:
Venting his frustration with what he viewed as "U.S. prosecutors having declared themselves the supreme arbiters of international football affairs," Markin proposed that international investigators could likewise examine some of the murkier elements of America's past.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
It's a sideshow war
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Fine, go ahead Russia, spend a chunk of your GDP and put some boots on the Moon and fact check the U.S.
Oh yeah, make sure to make some more nuclear missiles. That's not cheap either, but security!
But wait...weren't these exact activities what caused the USSR to bankrupt themselves back in the 90's? Just checking.
No hate Russia, but you need to rein in your rhetoric. You have been beaten by playing this hand before.
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Find the lost Doctor Who episodes, and you will find your answer. Probably not, but I would be happy. I want to see the Marco Polo serial.
So, some guy from a Russian Investigative Committee for ... what exactly? Snide innuendo and propaganda?
Does he have a mandate for something?
This is some idiot trying to throw around smoke about the fact that Russia is implicated in bribery with FIFA, and then somehow pulling the bullshit nugget out of his as to fling poo at the moon landings?
I wonder if Mr Vladimir Markin has stopped sodomizing young boys and embezzling resources from the state.
This article is such thinly veiled rhetoric and bullshit as to be deserving of a fucking award.
In three paragraphs he bitches about what we really wants to complain about, tosses in a snide reference to Americans investigating corruption, and then insinuiates that maybe there are other pieces of history for which the Americans have also acted corrupt and dishonorably. There's not even a pretense of denying Russia was corrupt.
Then the next two paragraphs is more innuendo to throw the reader away from realizing that Russia is alleged to have benefited from corruption in FIFA
I sincerely hope journalism classes are doing a case study in propaganda, and logic students everywhere are being shown the bald-faced, lies, innuendo, and misdirection in this utter piece of crap.
Bra-fucking-oh, I hadn't realized the extent to which the press in Moscow was still so utterly a tool of government.
That's some exceptionally well done lies right there. Carefully crafted to look like a reasoned argument, when in fact it's specious misdirection and innuendo.
I certainly hope that Mr Vladimir Markin doesn't have too many children out of wedlock, that could get awfully expensive.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Just when I thought the fake moon landing conversation had ended.
It will not end until the truth comes out. When I was a kid, I went on the Universal Studio tour, and when I went to the toilet, the tram left without me. So I looked around, and accidentally wandered into the warehouse with the fake Tranquility Base. Everything was done in Styrofoam, painted gray to match the color of the moon. There was an exact replica of the Eagle lander. I saw it all with my own eyes. Then the security guards grabbed me, threatened me, and told me that no one would believe me if I said anything. It is ironic that after all these years, it is the Russians that have finally revealed the coverup.
The proof.
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Not just budget concerns. There was also a big problem in the 80s when commercial whaling was outlawed. The tape that NASA had used to record a lot of data involved whale oil in its production somehow. When whaling went out, whale oil went away, and companies that made data tape scrambled to replace it with something. They came up with synthetic alternatives, but because they didn't have much time to test, they discovered after it was already in use that the new stuff basically turned into glue after sitting on a shelf too long, which ruined tapes. So the old whale oil tapes became valuable for re-use, since you could depend on them not gluing together and losing all of your data. So that's another reason why NASA taped over a lot of irreplaceable data.
At a conference last year, I spoke with a NASA guy who was working on recovering a lot of old lunar data. He told me about the whale oil angle. He also said their best find at that point had been a whole palette/palettes of the whale oil tapes that had been sent from one NASA group to another to be copied over, but had been misplaced in a warehouse during transit, and just sat there ever since.
It will not end until the truth comes out
The truth is once they ran the numbers for how much the program was going to cost, they decided to fake it. Then they ran the numbers on developing the technology to convincingly fake it, and that was even worse. So they sent some guys to the moon in a rocket and faked it from there.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
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There is nothing in this article other than some idiot saying he objects to the US appointing themselves in charge of investigating corruption, and by the way, we should look into their claims of landing on the moon.
Not that he thinks they lied about the moon.
This is very thinly veiled distraction and innuendo.
Don't treat it like it's a coherent anything. It's complete gibberish.
This is the fucking Wookie defense.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Everyone knows the moon landings were filmed on a soundstage on Mars!
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