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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hehehehehe, now this is a good one. The "Van Halen" belt:

"Houston, we have a problem. An undertermined abstract whining noise is pounding our eardrums. NOOOO, the pain.. NOOOOO....." ... and then silence...
Van Halen did it again . Hehe. Nice one Tiger! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Edit: hhmmm one should read the whole thread before responding. there are already a zillion jokes in here going "Houston we have a problem". If i weren't so darn lazy i would delete mine. If you read this far: sorry for waisting your time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
But why are you still reading this?

[ March 05, 2003, 22:43: Message edited by: minipol ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where's the proof? In one of your books?

* minipol just couldn't resist and now hides in the closet with one of Fyron's physics books as his only weapon *

Oh by the way, as i said before i think they did go to the moon but that the movie was fake. Big difference off course. The camera they had with them, seen in a few of those shots in the movie was incapable of making the shots at that kind of temperature or better differences in temperature.

[ March 05, 2003, 22:50: Message edited by: minipol ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where's the proof? In one of your books?

* minipol just couldn't resist and now hides in the closet with one of Fyron's physics books as his only weapon *

Oh by the way, as i said before i think they did go to the moon but that the movie was fake. Big difference off course. The camera they had with them, seen in a few of those shots in the movie was incapable of making the shots at that kind of temperature or better differences in temperature.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">At the time, much of the news coverage was specifically labelled as "Simulation". The actual live pictures I remember were of rather poor quality, to say the least.

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Ruatha, i'll check out the links

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I thought the guy (not that I know who that was, I'm just stabbing in the dark) who was behind Capricorn One was someone who believed the moon landings were a hoax and wanted to make a film on a similar issue to 'show how it could be done'.

Not that I've heard any convincing arguments that the landings were actually faked - on Amazon.co.uk (not .com) try searching for the book Dark Moon and its reviews for a good example of pseudo-science being used to sell books (and being viciously debunked by those who know better).

Try here
(second review on this page really has a go at the book)

Re: OT. Where they really on the moon?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I personally think that we did get to the moon. I was just responding to the notion that the perpetration of such a hoax would be impossible.

Nothing is really impossible. Probable? Well now, there's the kicker.

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FX weren't that good back then, a fake wouldn't have been believable.
But it's quite plausible it wasn't live, and the astronauts were secretly safe back home before they dared to make it public.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Of course, the best proof is that the astronauts left reflectors on the moon that had signals bounced off of them quite regularly.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is believable. Why would they want to show them getting to the Moon, but dying before they got back? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Of course, the best proof is that the astronauts left reflectors on the moon that had signals bounced off of them quite regularly.[/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is indeed good proof. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ March 06, 2003, 05:48: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The only reason that I would disagree with that is, again, that the Russians would have known, as would many other nations, because they would have been able to track when the spacecraft left earth orbit, and I doubt they would have cooperated. For that matter, it would have been hard to sneak an early lift off past the American public since the launch of a Saturn V was a fairly spectacular thing that was visible over a wide area.