What - no thread about how the moon landings were faked?

[bwv 1080]

What's ammater with you people?

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm

http://wechoosethemoon.com/

[DavidW]

You know I asked a certain poster if he believed that the landings were faked, but sadly enough I received no reply.

[karlhenning]

Not directly an answer to Steve's neat-o thread . . . .

[Opus106]

Well, we all know the truth. Don't we?

[Opus106]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

[Joe Barron]

Well, on that topic.

[Todd]

Of course it was all fake.  To get to the moon, you'd have to build some kind of ship capable of flying in space.  What would that be called, a spaceship or spacecraft?  Preposterous.  It would have to perform life support functions, there would have to be advanced wireless communication equipment, advanced computational devices, and advanced navigation systems.  Then, if you wanted to actually get out of the craft that delivered you to the moon, some kind of space-proof clothing (a spacesuit, or some such silliness) would be needed, with an even smaller life support system.  No civilization has ever been able to create such advanced technology.  It's just crazy talk.

[Elgarian]

The moon is a fake. Thought everyone knew that.

[Dr. Dread]

Back to cheese. 

[Elgarian]

Actually, here's a true story - one of my earliest clear memories. I can't remember how old I was, precisely, but certainly less than 5. Anyway, I was out at night, with my Dad, and there was a full moon - and this was the first stirrings of curiosity about the universe I guess, because I remember asking him what the moon was, and why was it different to the sun? And I remember him trying to explain. Of course I know now that he was trying to explain that we saw the moon only by reflected light, but what he actually said was something like 'the moon is really just a reflection'. And there was a period of time that followed, weeks, or maybe even months, when I was trying to figure out where the mirror could be. No kidding.

[Lethevich]

Indeed @ moon-fakery. Thank god we have some people willing to expose the truth, regardless of ridicule from the brain-washed sheep.

[Elgarian]

Indeed @ moon-fakery. Thank god we have some people willing to expose the truth, regardless of ridicule from the brain-washed sheep.

Well not necessarily. I mean, how big was this Peanut?

[Lethevich]

Well not necessarily. I mean, how big was this Peanut?

I've done some extensive research through peer-reviewed sources, and have discovered that the peanut was larger than the kettle:



I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes before our fragile grasp on this illusionary world comes crashing down. Then, apparently, the last laugh will be on us. Perhaps Sean and Rob will come out from behind the peanut and mock us for a few seconds before we're all harvested for bodyparts by the reptillian-masonic-zionist-capitalist-nazis...

[Elgarian]

Speaking of size reminds me of another story. There was this chap - let's call him Sam - who was unusually small for his age - I mean really small. And I walked into a room wherein were gathered several people - but not Sam.
'Where's Sam?' I asked.
'He couldn't come,' was the reply. 'He got trapped under a mentholyptus sweet.'


There was something about the absurd precision of this statement - the apparently crucial importance of the type of sweet that had caused his downfall - which made the thing seem incredibly funny. But I guess you had to be there.

[Elgarian]

I've done some extensive research through peer-reviewed sources, and have discovered that the peanut was larger than the kettle:

That's not a peanut. That's the Moon!

[drogulus]

     You people are all just dupes of the media. There was only one fake landing. The rest were fake fakes.

[Xenophanes]

This is old news. Everyone should know that by now.

You can find the proofs here:

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

A friend of mine, Dr. Leo Ferrari, was President of the local Flat Earth Society and many documents of the society are stored in the university archives.

http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ferrari/intro.html

http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ferrari/s2.html

[Szykneij]

Well, on that topic.

Good article, Joe. Some excerpts relevant to another thread:

Ted Goertzel, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University who has studied conspiracy theorists, said "there's a similar kind of logic behind all of these groups, I think." For the most part, he explained, "They don't undertake to prove that their view is true" so much as to "find flaws in what the other side is saying." And so, he said, argument is a matter of accumulation instead of persuasion. "They feel if they've got more facts than the other side, that proves they're right."

Mark Fenster, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law who has written extensively on conspiracy theories, said he sees similarities between people who argue that the Moon landings never happened and those who insist that the 9/11 attacks were planned by the government and that President Obama's birth certificate is fake: at the core, he said, is a polarization so profound that people end up with an unshakable belief that those in power "simply can't be trusted."

Adam Savage, the co-star of the television show "MythBusters," spent an episode last year taking apart Moon hoax theories bit by bit, entertainingly and convincingly. The theorists, he noted, never give up. "They'll say you have to keep an open mind," he said, "but they reject every single piece of evidence that doesn't adhere to their thesis."

[karlhenning]

They'll say you have to keep an open mind, but they reject every single piece of evidence that doesn't adhere to their thesis.

It's like he knows Rob Newman. Spooky!

[Sean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiktgzKGN14&feature=related

Go to one minute into this for Richard Hoagland talking about Nasa being the proponents in the background to this and keeping the Apollo hoax idea going (indeed some of its spokespeople are 'former' employees): the idea is to take the conspiratorial mind in the opposite direction to the real conspiracy going on, which is that many subsequent trips to the Moon have taken place- all classified.