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some waygug-in
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Bulsajo

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: |
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http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax-jw.htm
"The purpose of this Web page is to provide refuting arguments to 'moon hoax evidence' presented at the JFKresearch Assassination Forum. The JFKresearch forum is, in essence, a platform for Jack White to present his conspiracy theories regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination. Anyone who agrees with Mr. White's opinions is welcomed to participate in the discussions. However, anyone who disagrees too vehemently with Mr. White is typically banned from the forum.
In 2002 Jack White decided to turn his attention to the alleged Moon landing hoax and used the JFKresearch forum to present his evidence. Joined by Bill Dines, the two men made numerous posts to the forum alleging that photographs from the Apollo lunar landing missions of 1969-72 had been faked. One of the forum members, Jim Bartlett, asked me to intercede on his behalf and refute the claims being presented on the forum.
I had gained 'read only' membership to the forum and had my responses to the alleged evidence posted by Mr. Bartlett. After several of my refutations had been posted, Mr. Bartlett was informed that my participation in the discussion was no longer welcomed. The excuse given was that I apparently was not a JFK assassination researcher, thus I was not permitted to post to the forum. I find this ironic given that no one on the forum was discussing the JFK assassination at the time of my banishment.
This Web page was established to complete what I had started, that is, to refute the claims of Jack White and Bill Dines. Mr. Bartlett was kind enough to post a link to this site on the JFKresearch forum for those persons interested in reading a dissenting viewpoint. Originally created in April 2002 for members of the JFKresearch forum, this page received an upgrade in January 2004 to make it more appealing to other readers. Below you will find my original 2002 refutations along with comments added in 2004. "
http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm
"On February 15, 2001 the FOX television network aired a program titled Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon? This program showed alleged evidence that NASA faked the moon landings. This hoax theory has been around for several years, but this is the first time it has been presented to such a wide audience. Since this Website, Rocket and Space Technology, is dedicated to the men and women who brought the moon landings to fruition, I feel the time is right for me to speak out on this topic.
This TV program capitalizes on America's fixation with government conspiracies by sensationalizing the notion that NASA perpetrated a multi-billion dollar hoax on the world. In my opinion, the FOX network acted irresponsibly by airing this program. What they produced is a TV show filled with sloppy research, scientific inaccuracies and erroneous conclusions. To support such a absurd theory and to cast doubt in the minds of the American public is an insult to the courage of the astronauts and the brilliance of the engineers who worked to achieve mankind's greatest technological feat. FOX is apparently only concerned with ratings while exhibiting total disregard for the integrity of America's true heroes.
Some of the most prominent advocates of the hoax theory are Bill Kaysing, author of We Never Went To The Moon, Ralph Rene, author of NASA Mooned America, David Percy and Mary Bennett, co-authors of Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle Blowers and, more recently, Bart Sibrel, producer of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon. These people, and other hoax advocates, usually point to alleged anomalies in the Apollo photo and video record as evidence of their claims. The FOX program featured many of these claims while providing very little refuting evidence or testimony. Below are my comments refuting both the evidence presented in the TV program and many other common hoax allegations. I invite you to draw your own conclusions, but I suspect you will find the facts speak for themselves. "
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| In my opinion, the FOX network acted irresponsibly by airing this program. |
What?!? The station that brought us 'Alien Autopsy'? How could that be?
"LOOK! LOOK! OH MY GOD, YOU CAN SEE THE STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS!!!!"
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some waygug-in
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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And Jack's response to the critics:
http://www.aulis.com/nasa6.htm
Even I can see that some of the information on the "debunking site" is false.
Check out their explanation for the "size of the mountain" .
At first glance, what they say seems to make sense, but look at the pictures closely. How could the the lunar module appear so large when the mountain is farther away?
I am puzzled by this.
Look at the rock to the right and behind the LM. Why is it the same size in both pictures? Something doesn't add up. |
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Bulsajo

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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Something doesn't add up. |
Exactly.
And that 'something' is this dumb-ass conspiracy theory.
Occam's razor.
Look at how inept the US government has been on a wide range of international and domestic, scientific, political, military and financial issues over the past 40-50 years. Now, I'm not saying the US govt have been a complete bunch of keystone cops or anything, but show me a government policy or operation on a national scale (i.e. with a large Congress-approved budget and at least one oversight committee) that has gone off perfectly, without a single hitch.
And yet, we are supposed to believe that this perfect cover-up involving hundreds and quite possibly thousands of people has been so successful that there has never been a single leak or piece of physical evidence?!?
No 'evidence' exists except analysis of photgraphs released by NASA.
And no NASA scientist, engineer, executive, astronaut, movie director, set-maker, accountant, security guard, janitor, nor garbage man has ever come forward with a single piece of physical evidence or a confession- anonymous or otherwise- to the people attempting to portray the Apollo program as a hoax (or anyone else for that matter) because:
A) The government had them all killed, and anyone living claiming to be a former member of the Apollo projects is in fact a body-double planted by the Secret Service. BTW, the ultra-secret govt hit team that killed them all was the same team that shot the Kennedys,
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B) In return for their cooperation they and their families all lead opulent lives of ultra luxury in penthouse suites in Rio and Buenos Aires (and this is the real reason for the size of the deficit),
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C) they are all- with absolutely no exceptions- true patriots and will carry the secret to thier graves for the good of the nation.
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D) Aliens abducted the entire project team and brainwashed everyone else into not noticing they are missing (except for yourself, Frank White, and few select �bermensches who, due to yoursuperior intellects, have found that the aliens' brainwashing technique was not entirely successful).
Say if the Apollo project was a hoax, when did these hoaxes start? I mean, what technical aspect was just too difficult to perform? The taking off part? The orbiting the moon part? The landing part? The taking off from the moon part? The re-entry?
I ask because if the Apollo program is a hoax then isn't there an excellent chance that other space programs, by both the US and other countries, could be fakes? Why haven't they been investigated?
Is Space Station freedom a hoax? Mir? Skylab? The Mars landings?
The Gemini program? The Mercury program?
GPS satellites, satellite tv, Sputnik?
BIG CLUE: This isn't a rocket scientist or other form of physicist asking these questions. It's not a world renowned photographer or photographic forensic analyst asking these questions- it's a conspiracy theory junkie who has used up his JFK vein and is looking for another fix. |
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some waygug-in
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm.
So what do you think of this then?
"If some of the film was spoiled, it's remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment."
Dr Brian O'Leary, astronaut
So perhaps they went to the moon, but made some fake footage because the real stuff was destroyed?
And contrary to your claim that there is no other evidence:
What's this?
For over five years two independent video producers have been researching the Apollo record. These two researchers, David Percy and Bart Sibrel working in Europe and the USA respectively, both received an extraordinary videotape of raw material from NASA.
The front up caption on the video reads:
This film of the Apollo 11 Mission
was produced
as a report film by
THE MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER
and is not
for general public distribution
This footage, originally recorded on Ampex VR 1100/660 video machines at the Apollo Station, Goldstone, California—purporting to be live TV transmissions from the craft on the way to the Moon—is clearly dated by NASA 18, 19 & 20 July 1969.
On this tape are a number of ��behind-the-scenes�� sequences from the CSM, accompanied by audio relayed from both Goldstone and Mission Control in Houston instructing the crew as to when to say their lines. These prompts were never intended to be heard by the public, nor were the contrived shots of the Earth from the craft��s window ever intended to be viewed by the public in such a raw, unedited state.
If Apollo 11 was really on its way to the Moon why were the three crew members apparently staging segments of their journey?
Evidence contained in this revealing footage strongly suggests that this mission was only in low Earth orbit on the dates in question and not travelling to the Moon at all. |
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Bulsajo

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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm.
So what do you think of this then?
"If some of the film was spoiled, it's remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment."
Dr Brian O'Leary, astronaut
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What do I think of it? Are you serious, man?
"If some of the film was spoiled, it's remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment."
That's a whole lot of qualifiers, or hadn't you noticed?
And sure, I could completely see him making such a forceful, unambiguous, and authoritative statement, especially if it comes after having been bought a couple of drinks at the Launchpad Lounge.
Hell, I'll even go out on a limb here and agree with him!
MAYBE IF SOME of the film was spoiled it is indeed REMOTELY POSSIBLY that NASA MAY have shot SOME scenes in a studio to avoid embarrassment!
But regardless, could we skip ahead to the quote where Dr. Brain Lemay says
"I particpated in a secret plan over at least a 4 year period to hide the fact that the Apollo project was a fake and that Americans never landed on the moon"?
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| So perhaps they went to the moon, but made some fake footage because the real stuff was destroyed? |
Right, because if they had NOT gone to the Moon and then said "Sorry, the radiation outside of the Van Allen belt futzed all our film up" that would have made perpetrating the hoax a lot easier, right?
Hey, uh, wait second...
So, um, why didn't you post a link to that other stuff?
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And contrary to your claim that there is no other evidence:
What's this? |
If there are at least two copies of this video (1 for each, because they are working on it from different continents) then there must be a lot more because they surely would have made duplicates (you know, in case 'something' 'happened to' them or the original)? So if this really is 'evidence'- as you claim- which proves such an astounding cover-up, I would have expected it to be distributed as far and as wide as possible so that people could learn the truth, right? Which means somebody at some point is going to convert this footage to a digital format and put it on the web, right?
So, could you post that link?
And of course NASA will have put out some sort of half-assed and lame statement refuting what they would consider to be "non-evidence
", right?
Could you post a link to that too while you're at it? |
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some waygug-in
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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I can't find a site that works. Maybe you can make it work.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/46333.html
There are several sites that perport to have the video on-line, but I can't make any of them work. |
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Bulsajo

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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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