Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors (moon landing nutbars)

[Blue_Tires]

Source: The New York Times

They walk among us, seemingly little different from you or me. Most of the time, you would never know of their true nature — except that occasionally, they feel compelled to speak up.

Take an example from Lens, this newspaper’s photography blog. A recent feature,“ Dateline: Space,” displayed stunning NASA photographs, including the iconic photo of Neil Armstrong standing on the lunar surface.

The second comment on the feature stated flatly, “Man never got to the moon.”

The author of the post, Nicolas Marino, went on to say, “I think media should stop publicizing something that was a complete sham once and for all and start documenting how they lied blatantly to the whole world.”

Forty years after men first touched the lifeless dirt of the Moon — and they did. Really. Honest. — polling consistently suggests that some 6 percent of Americans believe the landings were faked and could not have happened. The series of landings, one of the greatest gambles of the human race, was an elaborate hoax developed to raise national pride, many among them insist.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14hoax.html?_r=1

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ladies and gents, i present to you the typical Ron Paul voter.....

[hobbit709]

1. Ignorant nonscience inclined Luddites.

[Chemisse]

2. It is just too hard for their limited imaginations

to fathom. Combine compromised intellect with paranoia, and presto: moon landings were all a fake.

[onehandle]

3. I'll bet there is some overlap with the "Hunt the Boeing" crowd. nt

[billyoc]

5. And the Illumi-nitwits.

[snooper2]

6. and the thermite ceiling tile crowd

:rofl:

[LeighAnn]

15. Did you see it?

There were thousands of us on DU at the beginning of this decade that hunted for the Boeing and never did find it. Did you?

[onehandle]

16. Witnesses.

Some Eyewitness Accounts.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blflight77w.htm

Proof.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.asp

More proof.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread79655/pg1

[fascisthunter]

4. shorten it to, "moonbars"

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. No-Mooners

:rofl:

As kookoo bananas as the No-Planers and their ilk. Literally LUNA-tics.

[ramapo]

8. Sometimes I wonder....

Do we have the capability to go to the moon today with all our advanced technology?

Do we have a rocket with sufficient lift?

My wristwatch probably has more compute capacity than did the LEM. Are you trying to tell me that my wristwatch could get me safely down to the surface of the moon?

That "supposed" excursion was 40 years ago.

I find it mind-boggling and not a little bit depressing that we managed to put much of the amazing achievements of the 1960s-early 1970s space program through the crusher. Today we have engineers trying to figure out how to build Saturn 5 replacements. Growing up, I never thought I'd watch our space program in retrograde. But that is exactly what we've had for 35 years. Sad.

[eShirl]

11. I think much of that can be attributed to chronic under-funding

the engineers have to do more with less

[Libertas1776]

9. We got to the Moon

because of the Cold War. We spent billions and created innumerable amounts of advanced technology that got us there and beyond because of our race with the Soviets. I guess we need to start a new Cold War, yes? I'm looking at you Canada. :crazy:

[TrogL]

18. You do remember what happened last time, right?

That's right - blame Canada.

[ellie]

10. The way to shut

these loons up is to passionately talk about the aliens the astronauts saw mining the moon. God, I love that story!

[pipi_k]

12. Doesn't matter what they believe...

since that 6% of Americans don't exist anyway.

They were never born. They're figments of their own imaginations...



:evilgrin:

[pattmarty]

13. No, that 6% is the rock solid, Limbaugh loving base of the Republican party!!

[zipplewrath]

14. Which photo?

"including the iconic photo of Neil Armstrong standing on the lunar surface"


I'm curious which one they think that is. There are precious few of Armstrong at all. 2 that I know of. 1 is a reflection of him in Aldrin's visor, and the other is a long shot taken by Aldrin of a panorama with Armstrong's back to the camera. Neither is particularly "iconic".

[DavidDvorkin]

17. Speaking as someone who worked on the Apollo program

at NASA in Houston, I wish I'd known it was all a sham. I wouldn't have bothered with all those late hours!