Comments on: Skeptics Guide 5×5 and Apollo

By: Tom Reesor

Tom Reesor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:54:39 +0000

It is my duty to inform my fellow skeptics of a conspiracy so immense, so huge, that it dwarfs all other conspiracies by comparison. We must all be made aware for nearly 4 decades the United States government has spent billions of our taxpayers dollars in perpetuating the absurd myth that men have walked on the moon. I discovered this by playing backwards a Top Secret 18-1/2 minute audio tape found hidden inside a pumpkin.
The “astronauts” who claimed to have walked on the moon are actually Government Agents, & belong to a Top Secret coterie which was created & is controlled by 100 United Nations meteorologists,who also created the Global Warming myth. Thru their Government-built laboratories they have also created AIDS, bird flu, & Texas Mad Oprah disease. They have already started terrorism by anthrax; next come terrorism by Amtrak! Their Top Secret laboratories are hidden deep inside a spider hole underneath a Taliban-built cave complex beneath the Grassy Knoll in Dallax, TX, whose entrannce is cleverly concealed by a white Fiat belonging to a mysterious man named Raoul. I discovered the exact location on a government map secretly published on the back of a box of Kix cereal.
The government has also hatched one of the most dastardly plots ever attempted against the USA. They are removing the mercury from our drinking water, thereby to sap & impurify our Precious Bodily Fluids. This has already affected this great country of ours. Recent Top Secret tests have proven the United States of America has dropped down to 14th in mathematical abilty thruout the countries of the world, but at least we are still in the top 10!

By: Tom Brown

Tom Brown — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:21:01 +0000

As always Phil does a great job. In reference to the “no stars” argument: there aren’t stars in Russian moon probe pictures either. Pictures taken by Russian and American manned spacecraft don’t have stars in them [look at the famous pictures of Leonov and Ed White's space walks for example]. Look at the pictures of Shuttle and Space Station Spacewalks, no stars! When the camera is set to photograph something that bright, stars just don’t show up [the same applies if you are photographing someone walking through a parking lot under bright lights, of course]. Of course there is an Alice in Wonderland quality to a claim that the fact you can’t see stars in Moon pictures proves that NASA had Hollywood fake the pictures and the movie makers “forgot” to matte the stars in to all the pictures, something they routinely have done in space movies for years before anyone actually went into space!

Also, if the craft didn’t go to the moon, as the hoaxers who say we were just in Earth orbit seem to claim, countries around the world, especially the Russians would have known this on the first day. Just imagine an Apollo passing overhead once every 90 minutes for two weeks in earth orbit and remaining unnoticed [or did the Russians "forget" to mention it?].

As for the claim that Von Braun went to Antarctica to collect Lunar meteorites, remember no one knew that there WERE lunar meteorites until we got real moon rocks back to compare them to. Neither Von Braun, nor any geologist [who would be a more likely collector] would know which meteorites to pick up. And for those who claim that moon rocks were just cooked up in a lab, remember that the samples from the three Soviet Luna sample return missions [the first of which succeeded about a year after Apollo 11] proved that our moon rocks were real.

P.S. has anyone checked to see if Von Braun actually went to Antarctica anyway?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:57:17 +0000

It’s ok Jonny. Like Rebecca said, when Phil came, I got off. So it worked out for everyone.

Besides, it was either Phil talking about some of what he knows best or me reading my lines straight from Phil’s site. heh

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:07:38 +0000

Is this something I can find on iTunes? Gotta go look…
RDTAB
Yup, in Charlottesville…

By: Don Snow

Don Snow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:09:36 +0000

I seriously doubt the Apollo missions were hoaxes. I cannot grant credibility. to thousands of people keeping secret that missions from 1969 to 1972, three years, were all hoaxes.
That’s humanly impossible, imho.

By: Jonny_eh

Jonny_eh — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:01:57 +0000

Not only did you bump Mike, you didn’t even notice! I think Mike deserves an apology, after what he did for you.

By: moioci

moioci — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:20:32 +0000

I’m looking for ammunition for discussions with folks, who though not full-on hoaxers, may be hoaxer-friendly. Recently an intelligent guy asserted that you can’t see stars from the surface of the moon. When I disputed this, he responded that “none of the astronauts you’ll ever talk to will say that.” Having not spoken with any of the 9 surviving moon-treading men (not counting Michael Jackson), I didn’t have a response to that. Later, searching online for interviews that would dispel that myth, I found an article from Discover ca. 1997. None of the astronauts mentioned seeing stars. In fact, Schmidt talked about the sky being a very shiny black, like patent leather. So, please, can anyone point me to such an interview?