Comments on: Moon landing not faked

By: GregS

GregS — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:15:00 +0000

“Collin’s photographic argument should put a final nail in the conspiracists’ theory for good.”

And yet it won’t. No amount of rational refutation will convince the conspiracists because for most of them their belief in the conspiracy isn’t based on reason. They believe it because they want to believe it, and any evidence to the contrary is just dismissed or explained away. Once someone elevates his feelings above his rationality, once he goes by his feelings and he turns his mind into a tool for rationalizing those feelings, rational persuasion becomes almost impossible.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:09:00 +0000

This dude fucking rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty–HHErH4Q

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t around back then.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:59:00 +0000

NO! It’s a PROfessional cover-up perpetuated by the true masters of the Denver Airport.

By: Jake Rennie

Jake Rennie — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:25:00 +0000

They’ll just think the Galactic Jewish Reptile Media Conspiracy takes them seriously enough to refute them.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?

By: David J. Weiner

David J. Weiner — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:16:00 +0000

yeah, this.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:14:00 +0000

No self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be so easily fooled and deterred. All you have to do is invent a conspiracy to discredit your conspiracy and you can read the signs either way. Both publicity and silence (concealment) give the same result. Foolproof! See?

By: waetherman

waetherman — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:00 +0000

Worth watching to the end; http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWgXM6I_bvE

By: bzishi

bzishi — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:21:00 +0000

How do we know that the US government didn’t just use the reverse engineered technology they recovered from the Roswell site to make the videos? The real conspiracy isn’t that NASA faked a Moon landing. It is that the US government hid the first actual one performed in the 1940s where they used alien technology.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:42:00 +0000

I thought the Mythbusters "Moon Hoax" episode was pretty comprehensive, covering all the various supposed discrepancies.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:44:00 +0000

*persecuting

By: NelC

NelC — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:08:00 +0000

Sure, he played “What a Wonderful World”. It had a few bum notes, but it’s not easy playing a trumpet in a pressure suit.

By: cub

cub — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:05:00 +0000

like a Silver Jews/The Jesus Lizard supergroup?

By: dasanjos

dasanjos — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:03:00 +0000

Aldriiin Punch! – That’s where Captain Falcon learned his moves :)

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:18:00 +0000

Killing zombies with nails is silly… shotgun blast to the head is the correct answer.

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:55:00 +0000

The Google picture thingy says it’s a B. Kliban cartoon. He’s the cartoonist that did those funny cat cartoons in the mid 70s.

By: s2redux

s2redux — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:16:00 +0000

Plus, you now know the genesis of the final scene involving Dick Thornburg in Die Hard: “Did you get that?” (Immediately after being punched by Aldrin, Sibrel asked his cameraman, “Did you get that on camera? Did you get that on camera?”)

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:31:00 +0000

So… Did Louis Armstrong ever play the trumpet on the moon?

By: plyx

plyx — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:35:00 +0000

I wonder if the moron who came up with the theory that Kubrick planted “evidence” of his part in the “hoax” all throughout the Shining ever considered that he was just trolling the conspiracy theorists? The first theory was in 1974 in the book ‘We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle’ while the film released in 1980. Derp.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:23:00 +0000

You mean that he was never on Oprah’s television show. You don’t know if he was ever on Oprah.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:18:00 +0000

Even if they’re not named Alice?

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:05:00 +0000

”jew-lizard trickery”

there’s an awesome band name in there somewhere…

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:49:00 +0000

We could just use lasers like they have in TVs and movies. Those look awesome.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:44:00 +0000

Louis Armstrong died in ’71, never was on Oprah.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:41:00 +0000

Never heard or saw of this before. Goddam that felt good to watch.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:39:00 +0000

No, he is clear in the video, stated (b) not (a)

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:32:00 +0000

And, they could claim that the lander was unmanned.

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000

The difficulty with that is, you need a rather powerful laser to bounce a signal off the retroreflectors; a pencil-width, well-collimated laser will have expanded to a mile diameter by the time it reaches the retroreflector, with attendant attenuation, and similar attenuation by the time it comes back — thus, you also need a powerful telescope to pick up the returning signal, and unless the conspiratorial enthusiasts build the equipment themselves, they can always say it’s been backdoored.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000

I imagine the people with the skills necessary to either build or assemble such a rig (so they know it isn’t a hoax itself) aren’t the types to believe in faked moon landings