OT. Where they really on the moon?

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Could a fuzzy black-and-white television image be used to fool the public? Let's look at history. In the mid 1950's Time Magazine had on its cover "The Smartest Man in America" who was the latest winner on the popular TV game show The Sixty-four Thousand Dollar Question. It was later proven in a court of law that the man knew the answers in advance.

Completely irrelevant. Proving that a guy can lie on national television and get away with it (for a while) isn't remotely close to proving that you can fake a moon landing.

Originally posted by Aloofi:
It isn't an "utterly uncredentialed journalist" who is asserting that the Apollo 1 fire of January 27, 1967 that killed what would have been the first crew to walk on the moon just days after the commander, Gus Grissom, held an unapproved press conference complaining that they were at least ten years, not two, from reaching the moon.

Read this sentence carefully and you'll notice a funny thing; he doesn't actually say what Grissom's son is "asserting". We can infer what he means from context, but the fact that he trails off without finishing his sentence shows that either a) he's being deliberately misleading or b) he's a lousy writer. Of course, it could be both.

Originally posted by Aloofi:
It is the dead man's own son, who is a seasoned pilot himself, and who has in his possession forensic evidence personally retrieved from the charred spacecraft (that the government has tried to destroy on two or more occasions), who is making this accusation.

What accusation? What kind of forensic evidence?

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Mr. Medved, have you personally retrieved evidence from the space capsule to support your theory that this credible first hand assertion is unfounded?

*What* credible first hand assertion? And what makes it credible? The fact that Sidrel believes it? No, that just makes *him* credulous.

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Anyone with the slightest open mind and truly objective thinking can conclude that when the assassin of President Kennedy was assassinated himself three days later, that something was awry.

In other words, if you're not a conspiracy theorist like Sibrel, you're close-minded and unobjective. Sorry, don't buy it. Of course, that's just the sort of thing we would *expect* a conspiracy theorist to say, isn't it? It must be evidence of a sinister conspiracy by conspiracy theorists to dupe the unsuspecting public into buying their stupid books and videotapes!

Originally posted by Aloofi:
The moon landings cover-up is even grander, yet, obviously, not the first, and it is certainly not the first time, or the Last, that the press at large was completely wrong.

And I doubt it's the first time, nor the Last, that Bart Sibrel has been completely wrong.

Originally posted by Aloofi:
I sent a copy of this lost footage to every United States Senator and Congress Member (five hundred thirty-five), plus the president and the current director of the General Accounting Office. I have heard back from only four.

Maybe that's because they have better things to do than waste their time trying to argue with attention hounds like Sibrel.