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Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-looks-like-a-job-for-jupiter-jones dept.

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.

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  1. Of course not. by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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....

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    1. Re:Of course not. by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Funny

      In 1969, "special effects" that were convincing enough to have faked the whole thing would probably have cost more than 2 whole trips to the moon.

      I guess you haven't taken a look at those images lately, the "special effects" have not aged well. This site is truly revealing But you be the judge. ;-)

    2. Re:Of course not. by ShaunC · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not only that, but at the time of the Moon landing, the Russians themselves were rather heavily involved in that arena. Had the landing been faked, Russia absolutely would have known; they would have distributed the proof far and wide to humiliate and one-up the Americans. It's just a tad late for a Russian to start asking questions.

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    3. Re:Of course not. by dunkindave · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Obviously those are fakes. You can tell by the fact that they show a lander on the moon. :-D

      Sadly, that is how a conspiracy theorist actually thinks. In this case, NASA publishing photos from a probe orbiting the moon to prove NASA went to the moon 40 years ago will be labeled as the complicit organization just putting out more lies. These people will only believe something when it is put directly in front of them (sometimes not even then), and since they can't go to the moon to see these artifacts for themselves, you can't prove it to them, and any second-party proof you present will be dismissed as fake or lies. It is one of the tenets of how they make claims that within their requirements for "proof", the claim becomes non-falsifiable.

    4. Re: Of course not. by IMightB · · Score: 5, Funny

      I want to know why Putin fucks goats and why all evidence has been erased. So many shirtless Putin shots have been doctered!

  2. Buzz Aldrin, paging Buzz Aldrin by istartedi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will Buzz Aldrin please pick up the white courtesy phone? We have need of your your services.

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  3. Re:and 1 ....2......3.... Begin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:The tapes were re-used by imidan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is suspected that the tape was re-used due to NASA's tight budget and they couldn't afford more tape.

    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.

  5. Re:and 1 ....2......3.... Begin by tompaulco · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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