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danny_galaga:
you know, i used to dig all the alien conspiracy theories, and faked moon landings etc when i was a kid. i loved the movie 'capricorn 1' (incidentally, apparently there is a remake in the works). loved eric von daniken, all that stuff. but after about sixteen i started to be able to discern silliness from facts. you can only really doubt the moon landings in the most philosophical of ways, boiling down to 'is anything real?'. if you accept normal everyday life is real, then so too are the moon landings in my opinion.

now to watch the vid  :)

watchd  :applaud:

i was wondering why this came about. this is why:

"The controversy recently emerged from cyberspace in the person of Bart Sibrel, who has made a film questioning the Apollo Moon missions and who confronted astronaut Buzz Aldrin at a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9 and demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had in fact walked on the moon."

ChadTower:

Honestly, why would someone get up in an old man's face like that?  It's not like he is a war criminal or a child molestor even if they did fake the moon landing.  There are just way too many losers out there now trying to get a little net notoriety by doing crap like this and getting it on youtube. 

Good for Aldrin... hopefully he had some younger folks with him that could stomp that dude's ass the way it should have been done.  No man should stand there and take verbal abuse like that in a social situation.

SavannahLion:
Yeah, that's what makes the whole thing so damn funny about the conspiracy theorists. They're a bunch of ill-informed armchair sleuths with virtually no background in any conspiracies they theorize about. eg, any decent photographer will know why stars are virtually non-existent in many of the photos taken. Present these facts to any conspiracy people and they'll poo poo them.

The few so-called engineers or scientists they do have supporting their theories are all crack pots anyways. Sure, I'd believe your theory about UFO's building the pyramids if only... well... you know... if your perpetual motion machine actually worked!  :laugh2:

ahofle:
I also have to laugh at the moon landing conspiracies.  Besides all the items already mentioned, the simple fact that the Saturn V rocket was filmed and viewed in person by hundreds of thousands always seems to be ignored.  That thing dwarfed all previous launch vehicles such as Mercury and Gemini's and had enough power to exceed escape velocity and propel the craft toward to moon at 25,000 MPH.  I would say that was definitely the most complex and challenging part of the entire process.  Seems like a massive waste of PhDs and money if the plan is to just doctor up some photos.  :laugh2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V

Also, the only way that clip of Buzz Aldrin could have been better would be if he gave him a cock punch.  I can't think of a better application than that situation. 

Dartful Dodger:
I'm curious as to why we(or any other nation) hasn’t gone up since.

I know it’s expensive, but so are all those useless shuttle missions.

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