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I've heard for many years that there are some who insist that the moon landings were an elaborate hoax, with various reasons given for the deception.
So tell me. What explainations have you heard why the moon landings were a hoax.
The feeblest one I've heard was that when the Apollo 1 capsule burned, killing astronauts Grissom, Chaffee, and White, NASA could not determine the cause of the fire (the oxygen explaination was only part of the cover-up). They decided to fake the rest of the missions to avoid loss of human life. They didn't want the public (or the Russians) to think we had dropped out of the space race. Missions were launched, but they were unmanned missions using robotic explorers, and the film of men exploring the moon were faked using desert locations and hollywood movie sets commandeered for the purpose.
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The whole fake moon landing thing is just about as bad as people who say there is no such thing as plate tectonics. They need to really look at the facts.
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No, what they need is to be thrown into the ocean right where the plates are pulling apart, so they can see it firsthand. And the moon people need to be put on the moon and left there, for the same reason. :-)
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But they did land on the moon. They have the tom Hanks movie to prove it! (Forrest Gump ruled). Oh wait, that would be too easy to prove. No. They faked it to bluff the Russkies.
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Well, I though Baloo was back, with his old friend Cecil in tow. But no. T'was not to be. One look at the date told me all I needed to know. And that was that this thread was old.
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I think we should smack Jeff K around a bit because he keeps doing this... Then archive all threads more than 3 months old. And smack Jeff K around some more.
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------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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We could pelt him with t******. That would hurt. And leave big Urple bruises.
------------------ "This is such an amazingly minor complaint. Does anyone actually watch episodes anymore, or is it just a notebook + pause button exercise these days?" -Sol System on what constitutes modern day Star Trek watching, 02-22-01
------------------ "This is such an amazingly minor complaint. Does anyone actually watch episodes anymore, or is it just a notebook + pause button exercise these days?" -Sol System on what constitutes modern day Star Trek watching, 02-22-01
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