Moon landing Hoax^2

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim Green wrote:

> Larry!  Which hoax believers -- or possible hoax are you referring to?  Are
> you saying that I should believe the Federal Government carte blanche until
> I can conclusively prove them wrong????  Why is it that I can't insist that
> NASA prove FOX wrong?  On which side does the onus fall?  I am willing to
> look all the evidence of both sides.

NASA doesn't need to prove FOX wrong because most of their evidence is so
weak that a smart highschool student could see the flaws.  I've seen lots
of good "unorthodox" claims in the past, but this moon-hoax stuff is not
among them.

What probably happened is that someone who was looking at the moon photos
noticed a lot of weird things and decided that these were evidence of
fakery, retouching, etc.  In fact, they were evidence that unexpected
things happen in a vacuum environment.  They were also evidence that
people don't even know how OUR world works:  shadows in photographs MUST
be parallel, right?  After all, sunlight is parallel, right?  No, it
doesn't work like that. Go outside and take a picture at sunrise, and
you'll find that it's filled with non-parallel shadows.  Doh!


> At 01:39 21 02 2001 , Larry Smith wrote:
> > But I do agree with Jim that it is very unphysics-like to automatically
> > reject claims out of hand just because we don't like them or because we
> > don't understand them.  Of all people, physicists should be open-minded.

Suppose that I claim that pi equals 3.0000.  If you say that I'm wrong, I
will accuse you of rejecting me out of hand because you don't like my
idea, or you don't understand it.

See the problem?  Saying that pi equals 3.0000 IS WRONG.  Saying that
shadows behind boulders on the moon should be totally black IS WRONG.
Saying that the LEM exhaust should be bright flames and smoke IS WRONG.
Saying that the backgrounds of those two photographs are identical IS
WRONG.  Saying that the LEM footpads should be covered with dust kicked up
by the engines IS WRONG.  Error after error after error.  Pointing out
these mistakes is not "debunking".   It's called "pointing out mistakes."

Hmmmmm.  I got it.  NASA *did* fake the lunar landings... but the FOX show
was made by NASA!  Why?  Disinformation aimed at intelligent viewers.  If
they intentionally reveal the truth, but do this with such stunning
incompetence that all of their "evidence" falls apart when inspected, then
everyone with any brains will laugh at the whole idea, and the coverup is
preserved.

:)

Obviously FOX is part of the conspiracy.  Their goal is to distract anyone
from looking for airtight evidence of a hoax.  Call them up and demand
that they release all the good evidence which they are even now witholding
from the American People!


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