Comments on: Moon Landing, Did it Really Happen?

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:28:31 +0000

I know I need to get to the beach. The last time I was there was the summer of ’04. When J gets his SSI insurance, I’m hoping they’ll help with the all terrain chair so I can take him to the coast… or at least use respite so I can go alone (it’s not that far from here!). Until then, I maintain the Earth is flat.

And no… he was stating that if it WAS a hoax, they would have exposed it eons ago… which they did not.

By: the scott

the scott — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:10:22 +0000

Ooh, so it’s the commies that are trying to claim the moon landing was a hoax. I get it now!

And yes, the world is flat, at least until you get over to the coast and you can see that it isn’t.. maybe you need to get to the beach…

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:51:00 +0000

The Earth *is* flat… at least it looks like it from my back porch and there’s also a huge grey wall that prevents me from falling off!

I logged onto Twitter and I additionally like what Eddie Izzard wrote:
eddieizzard: Russia had the first man in Space, America the first man on the moon. Due to rivalry, Russia would obviously have exposed any fake landing.

By: Ron Burkey

Ron Burkey — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:46:38 +0000

The problem right now with maintaining that it was a hoax is that 200,000-400,000 people (estimates vary) were involved in some way in the program, and half of them are still alive. I’ve encountered many people who were personally involved. It will probably become easier to maintain that it was a hoax in 50 years, when all of them have passed on.

By: the scott

the scott — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:18:34 +0000

I think that the “holocaust never happened” crowd has thinned out as they died off.. most of us were alive for the moon landing, however; many people are simply too stupid to grasp the concepts necessary to put a man safely on the moon, so immediately started trying to manufacture evidence that it never happened — if it never happened, then they’re not stupid for not being able to understand it. If one looks closely enough at anything one does not agree with, one can come up with tons of imaginary reasons why it’s “obviously not true”. It’s hard for me to come up with examples that do not involve religion here because the ones that fervently debunk all this stuff are the ones who live their lives based on faith. These sort of people also believed the world was flat at one point, because it LOOKS flat from most vantage points, and they were unable to fathom that it may in fact not be a pancake of dirt and crud perched on the back of a giant turtle.

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:41:11 +0000

But aren’t those people the minority? Just looking at the Apollo 11 footage, the number of skeptics was overwhelming. I do realize that this can easily tie into my discussion on religion and believers/non-believers, but we won’t go there

By: the scott

the scott — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:21:35 +0000

I’m all for skepticism, but the “we never landed on the moon” people are like the “the holocaust never happened, the jews made it all up” people. I wonder how much overlap there is with those people and the “i was kidnapped and violated by aliens” people.