So now Daily Static is in on this, too? Yegads.
I wonder… maybe I should copyright the Moon Hoax idea. Then people would have to pay me to use the idea, and I could sue YouTube to take down anything mentioning the words "Moon" and "Hoax" or "fake"… except I’m not an evil jerk. Oh, those pesky morals! They’ll never let me get rich in a quick and easy way.
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September 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Phil: This is completely off topic, but I thought you might see this sooner by posting this in the comments rather than sending an email.
So anyway, I am a Detroit Lions fan and in the game on Sunday our quarterback, Jon Kitna, was knocked out of the game with a concussion in the 1st quarter. In the 4th quarter the medical staff gave him an OK to go back in the game, which he did and led the Lions to a victory. Here’s where it gets interesting (for non-Lions fans), after the game Kitna attributed his returning to the game as a Miracle and that god had healed him. Now, I love the guy, he is a great QB, but it drives me nuts when atheletes bring religion into the game. In a Lions blog that I read a reporter wrote a story with a minor comment stating that he didn’t think it was a miracle, just that Kitna is a tough player. This little article has caused one of the religion good vs. religion bad comment wars that I am sure you are familiar with. I joined in a little, but it was funny how the sames things that were said about one of your creationists posts were showing up on a football site. Here is the link if you are interested…
http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2007/09/kitna_proves_toughness_on_off.html
Love the site, by the way…
September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Phil, you do realise that userfriendly is mocking moon hoaxers right?
The followup strip from today exapnds on the running joke of making fun of Stef the marketing douchebag for believing the moon hoax [word deleted by The Bad Astronomer].
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/07sep/xuf010718.gif
September 18th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Thanks David; I got it.
Also, please refrain from using colorful words on the blog, please. Thanks.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
It’s the skeptic mantra: “If I only didn’t have a conscience…”
September 18th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Um, am I the only one who’s getting a different comic when I click the link?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
There’s a nag strip. Illiad uses them occasionally to get members. Give it thirty seconds, and it will go away.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
>I wonder… maybe I should copyright the Moon Hoax idea.
Phil, I see nothing wrong with you trying to copyright the Moon Hoax idea. It would be wonderful to see Moon Hoax believers paying for their stupidity.
Cheers
Folcrom.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Phil, I have been having a colorful discussion via e-mail with one Bart Sibrel. Since I don’t want to put anything crude on the blog, I’ll refrain from putting it up here, but I think you would get a kick out of it!
September 19th, 2007 at 4:39 am
DaveKan, it would be interesting to see how Jon Kitna feels now, physically that is.
On St Valentine’s Day 2003, a Friday, I was whacked by a dead branch falling off a huge gum tree in our neighbour’s back yard. It hit me on the forehead & nose (much to the amusement of a long time friend who always said I had a big schnozzle!), also hit my right upper arm ripping the sleeve off my shirt and leaving a large bruise.
The following day was the Avalon International Air Show for which we’d had tickets for several months. With nose covered in flesh coloured plaster I was there, revelling in the roar of the jets & the smell of aviation fuel, loving every minute of it & feeling great. Woke up Sunday morning, felt like I’d been hit by the proverbial truck. I had concussion & felt lousy for a week.
My theory (in the sense that fundies say “evolution’s only a theory”!) is that the excitement of going to the air show kept the concussion at bay for 24 hours. So, is there any info on what condition Mr Kitna is in now? I’m quite happy to have my “theory” blasted out of the water
September 19th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Pity, the concept of a faked moon landing is an idea and can’t be copyrighted. But go right ahead and copyright any expression of an instance of faked moon landing. Or you might try trademarking it. You in the faked moon landing business?
September 19th, 2007 at 7:11 am
James:
> Pity, the concept of a faked moon landing is an idea and can’t be copyrighted.
Well, that’s the way it’s supposed to be, AFAIK. But, in these days when you can get a patent on “one-click shopping” (read “using cookies to remember you”) and using a “sliding window” to allow 2-digit years to mean something other than 1900-1999, one has to wonder. I understand that patents have been granted on plants that have been discovered in nature. (As opposed to grown in a lab via cross-breeding.)
Perhaps he should trademark specific phrases, like “how come we don’t see any stars”, and “you’d never survive a trip through the Van Allen belt”?
September 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
You cannot patent a phrase or expression. You can trademark it, but not patent it.
You cannot copyright the Hoon Hoax idea. Ideas are not copyrighted, only the particular expression of them. The words you put down on paper or electronic form to express the concept of the Moon Hoax are yours to protect, but the idea is free for others to take.
In any case, Phil would likely face legal issues to using any form of protection for Moon Hoax arguments, because Kaysing, Rene, Sibrel, et al have already beat him to them.