Anagram entry: Gibe Hitherto (406 hits)
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Submitted by 8 bit hero (View user info) at 2008-02-28 16:17:50 EST
I was watching National Geographic the other day and they had a program about the "Moon Landing Hoax". Same things we've all heard before. Nothing new.
Van Allen belt's radiation would kill them or destroy the film.
The light wasn't right.
A rock marked as a prop.
No stars visible.
And so on, ad naseum.
My question is, why don't the naysayers just take a look? Just get a telescope of sufficient power and simply look. If the flag is on the moon, mystery solved. If we have things laying around, they really went there.
Do they not do this because it would destroy everything they hold true? Can it be that hard to commission a telescope to check it out?
What do you think?
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Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2008-03-01 05:52:31 EST (#)
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I don't think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
Submitted by bjrog2 (user info) at 2008-03-01 00:57:17 EST (#)
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Could it be possible that shuttle launches did indeed happen, yet nobody landed on the moon due to Van Allen belt's radiation having sufficient power to kill people. All the 'moon-footage' could have been pre-recorded inside "studio 51". The Astronauts simply chilled out for a week or so, orbiting the earth, then came back down with the approriate footage placed inbetween?
Thats my belief anyway
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-02-29 06:58:54 EST (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:42:47 EST (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:25:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 21:33:42 GMT (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax
If they could make a telescope to see the flag, they might as well just fly back up there. We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
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Wrong. Apollo 17, 1972.
Conspiracy theorists are all fat blubbering homos
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Some people still actually believe the Earth is flat.
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Hang on a moment. Are you trying to suggest that it isnt?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:42:47 EST (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:25:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 21:33:42 GMT (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax
If they could make a telescope to see the flag, they might as well just fly back up there. We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
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Wrong. Apollo 17, 1972.
Conspiracy theorists are all fat blubbering homos
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Some people still actually believe the Earth is flat.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:25:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 21:33:42 GMT (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax
If they could make a telescope to see the flag, they might as well just fly back up there. We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
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Wrong. Apollo 17, 1972.
Conspiracy theorists are all fat blubbering homos
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 17:02:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:37:03 EST (#)
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Plus, if all the moon landing-related stuff was a hoax, why would they have been failures? I figure that if the US government made a hoax they wouldn't plan for failures, they would want to look infallible.
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Maybe NASA wanted everyone to think it was a failure to keep certain information top secret?
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:56:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by 8bithero (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:34:52 EST (#)
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But we must have something that can see it. We have telescopes that can see Jupiter and other planets quite clearly. Surely, the moon cannot pose such a challenge.
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I agree with you. You'd figure they would have done something to disprove all the conspiracy theories out there. But like I said, all we know is what they tell us. Its almost like they want us to think it was fake and to argue with those who believe it was real. Control through chaos. Like putting 2 ants in a jar and shaking it until they fight.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:37:55 EST (#)
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The only 'scope that might work would be the Hubbel. Bush wants to get rid of that. People wouldn't believe the pictures from it either.
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:37:03 EST (#)
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I figure the people who don't believe in the moon landing are either rooted in the past or are just so idiotic and self-centred they don't want to believe that the things beyond Earth are reachable. Also, what about things like satellites and the international space station? That's in space, and the moon is a hop skip and a jump away from that. Plus, if all the moon landing-related stuff was a hoax, why would they have been failures? I figure that if the US government made a hoax they wouldn't plan for failures, they would want to look infallible.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:36:03 EST (#)
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They would not believe they were looking at the actual Moon but a cleverly-constructed micro-replica installed inside the telescope.
Submitted by 8bithero (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:34:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:33:42 EST (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax
If they could make a telescope to see the flag, they might as well just fly back up there. We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
All we know is what they tell us.
But we must have something that can see it. We have telescopes that can see Jupiter and other planets quite clearly. Surely, the moon cannot pose such a challenge.
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:33:42 EST (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax
If they could make a telescope to see the flag, they might as well just fly back up there. We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
All we know is what they tell us.
Submitted by 8bithero (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:32:08 EST (#)
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See, unlike most conspiracies, this one can be settled quickly.
I'm not talking about having somebody else look and publish the pictures. I'm saying take the most vocal opponents of the moon landing and have them actually LOOK at the moon landing site themselves. It would squash the whole thing immediately.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:30:27 EST (#)
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oops
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:29:53 EST (#)
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http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/frenchj/moon/landingsite.html
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:26:23 EST (#)
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I've thought of that before, but no answers as of yet.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:25:40 EST (#)
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Interesting for 'sho.
Submitted by lostnphound (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:21:35 EST (#)
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I call bullshit on it.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:20:24 EST (#)
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You pose a great question. One that will probably be shot down by people that know more about this shit, but still a good question.
Submitted by 8bithero (user info) at 2008-02-28 16:18:33 EST (#)
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I fucked up the name thing