ddpalmer said:

Then in less than 24 hours NASA arranges not just the assassination but the cover up. And to this day no really proof has been found.

And even if you basic premise is true, why would they take such a big risk. Why wouldn’t they just sabotage the President’s plane? I mean they didn’t have any conscience, so killing a bunch of other people wouldn’t matter and with a mid-air explosion and crash all the evidence would be destroyed, much less chance of discovery and much fewer people involved.

Touché! This Roger idiot is an expert moon hoax propagandist. He’s probably the best they have to offer. He just throws it out there, deep and wide, like a Gatling gun. It’s ridiculous how complex the moon hoax has to grow in order to satisfy all the conditions of his claims. So many people had to be involved in the hoax to pull it off the way he suggests, that you have to wonder, who were they trying to fool? All but five percent of the population had to be involved in the cover-up — no doubt, the five percent of the population who believe it was a hoax? So why bother?

He doesn’t consider all the loose ends he leaves hanging. He never attempts to think out the logistics of his silly little schemes. It’s creationist mentality at its worst. He believes that if he throws a few stupid accusations out there, that’s enough to discredit the entire history of manned space flight. It’s best to ignore him. After blowing some steam, he’ll eventually slither away and disappear back under his rock.

        Roger said:

The Russians didn’t say anything about the van allen radiation or the fact that it would have been impossible to get a man there and back given the heat and cold and that a space suit probably would melt on the moon.

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Maybe it was that America knew some dirty secret of theirs. They could have made a deal not to tell if Russia does not tell the world America’s dirty secret.

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Did the Russians and US really have it at eachother? Maybe or maybe it was all a ruse to support their own military industrial complexes. It’s possible they are a lot friendlier under the surface than you think.

Jarrah? Is that you, son? You really need to go back to YouTube and leave these nice people alone.

        drbuzz0 said:

A lot of the posts on here are dedicated to idiots. I have to admit that.

The whole site is, isn’t it?

http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/07/moon-hoax.html

I expect this is awesome (as his Andrew Wakefield cartoon and his homeopathy cartoon were), but I haven’t yet read it. I wanted to pass it along first because I’m so tickled that he’s hitting this pet topic.

        Roger said:

Wow. A lot of people seem to be really committed to defend this and gang up on one guy asking the questions.

You are not asking questions, you are forcing your religions onto infidels.

        Calli Arcale said:

Moon hoaxing is one of my pet peeves. And I kind of typify this XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/386/

I keep trying (and failing) to find an Australian comedy site from years gone by with a spoof on the moon-hoax which pointed out all the shadow discrepancies and scientific errors in episodes of Button Moon.

My mother taught herself physics back in the early sixties because her girls-only school didn’t offer it as a subject because it wasn’t suitable for young ladies. Our generation at least gets equal access, even if the vast majority of science students are still male (especially in the physical / engineering sciences).

http://xkcd.com/386/

In my experience, most skeptical blogs and science-related forums are predominantly male. The ratio is shifting, which I find very encouraging. More girls are learning that it’s okay to be interested in science and stuff like that. Sometimes I wonder if the reason so much nonsense has prevailed for so long was because fully half of the population was raised explicitly to think they didn’t need science. And since that half of the population was also most of the teachers and caretakers for the next generation, a lot of boys also grew up with the impression that science isn’t important. I think girls getting interested in science is a great sign; it’s a bellwether for society as a whole.