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>>Fredericks....have you been bothering those boys at NASA again?
siliconvalley.com
Posted on Tue, Oct. 29, 2002
NASA commissions book to prove moon landing really happened
By Seth Borenstein
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - More than 33 years after the United States landed men on the moon, NASA is spending more than $15,000 to convince people that it really did happen and that the space agency didn't make it all up.
Stubborn conspiracy theorists claim that NASA's six Apollo-program moon landings were faked. After decades of belittling and ignoring them, NASA has decided to fight back. It hired James Oberg, a Houston-based former aerospace engineer and award-winning author of 10 books on space, to confront skeptics point by point. Many scientists already have done that on the Internet, but skeptics remain unconvinced.
"Ignoring it only fans the flames of people who are naturally suspicious," Oberg said Tuesday in an interview.
Last year, Fox television twice broadcast a show entitled "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Really Land on the Moon?," and NBC's "Today" show staged a debate on the topic. Last month Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, punched a conspiracy theorist who had been pestering him to swear on a stack of Bibles that the landing was real.
After the Fox show first aired, NASA put out a one-paragraph press release titled "Apollo: Yes, We Did."
Yet a 1999 poll found that 11 percent of the American public doubted the moon landing happened, and Fox officials said such skepticism increased to about 20 percent after their show, which was seen by about 15 million viewers.
Stephen Garber, NASA's acting chief historian, said Oberg's 10-chapter, 30,000-word monograph "is not going to convince the people who believe in these myths. Hopefully, it'll speak to other people who are broad-minded."
The book will expose "space myths writ large (and will) look at some of these broader issues of how these myths get initiated and promulgated," Garber said.
Oberg "has got one hell of a job ahead of him," said skeptic Ralph Rene, a New Jersey carpenter who said he's self-taught in physics and has self-published two books. One book claims the moon landing didn't happen; the other criticizes Isaac Newton's grasp of physics. "I could care less what they do."
"It's a real shame that it has to be done," said Sonoma State University astronomy professor Phil Plait. He runs the badastronomy.com Web site, which debunks space myths, including the moon hoax.
"It's beneath NASA's dignity to give these twinkies the time of day," Plait said. "The problem is, if you ignore a problem, it doesn't go away."
But confronting conspiracy theorists usually doesn't convince them either, said historian Gregory Camp, author of "Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia."
"The true believers in that kind of thing already have the answers - at least in their eyes," Camp said. "It's incredible that a book like that has to be written.">>
Nothing, nothing, nothing would surpise me anymore.
But, hey, thanks for the link. You are at least beginning to "see" some of the fun and games behind this pattern of fraud and corruption.
Enjoy!!
Peace and God Bless!
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moonmovie.com
The Top Ten Reasons Why No Man Has Ever Set Foot on the Moon
10. "Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon was president at the time. He was the king of cover-up, secret tapes and scandal. Think about all of his potential antics that were not discovered.
9. A successful manned mission to the moon offered a wonderful pride-boosting distraction for the near revolt of the citizens of America over 50,000 deaths in the Vietnam War.
8. The Soviets had a five-to-one superiority to the U.S. in manned hours in space. They were first in achieving the following seven important milestones:
First manmade satellite in earth orbit...
First man in space...
First man to orbit the earth...
First woman in space...
The first crew of three astronauts onboard one spacecraft...
The first space walk...
The first of two orbiting spacecraft rendezvousing...
This put America at a perceived military disadvantage in missile technology during the very height of the Cold War.
7. Passengers of a spacecraft that went further than Earth orbit would likely have been subjected to lethal radiation. The Apollo missions were the only times ever that an astronaut, Soviet or American, left the safety of earth orbit and ventured into the deadly hazards of space radiation. See streaming video: "Radiation Belts."
6. Neil Armstrong, the first man to supposedly walk on the moon, refuses to give interviews to anyone on the subject. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies." Collins also refuses to be interviewed. Aldrin, who granted an interview, threatened to sue us if we showed it to anyone. See streaming video: "Buzz says, "Buzz Off!"
5. Newly retouched photographs correct errors from previously released versions. Why would they be updating thirty-year-old pictures if they really went to the moon?
With Prop ID "C"
After: "C" Removed
4. Rediscovered lost footage shows the American flag blowing in the wind. The wind was probably caused by intense air-conditioning used to cool the astronauts in their lightened, uncirculated, space suits. The cooling systems in the backpacks would have been removed to lighten the load not designed for earth's six times heavier gravity, otherwise they might have fallen over. See streaming video: "Flag blowing in the wind."
3. Enlarged photographs underneath the lunar lander's 10,000 lb. thrust engine showing the soil completely undisturbed. During ground tests there was grave concern for the vehicle falling into the hole the engine created as it descended. An oversight that they would have to keep for all subsequent moon missions. They attributed it to the effect of no atmosphere (except for the flag blowing in the wind!)
2. Rare, uncirculated photographs, allegedly from the moon's surface, show scenes supposedly lit solely by sunlight. Yet they contain shadows that do not run parallel with each other, indicating supplemental artificial light. Sunlight would cast shadows that would never intersect. See our streaming video: "Photographic Analysis" for some eye opening examples.
1. Recently uncovered mislabeled, unedited, behind-the-scenes video footage, dated by NASA three days after they left for the moon, shows the crew of Apollo 11 staging part of their photography. It's one-of-a-kind footage and is only available in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!" |
