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Post by echnaton on Jul 15, 2011 21:15:32 GMT -4
Putting that much emphasis on what a very easily be a slip of the tongue by a 70 something year old guy is just plain stupid.
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Post by laurel on Jul 15, 2011 21:18:10 GMT -4
Also his correct nickname is "Geno," not "Moonfaker."
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Post by lukepemberton on Jul 15, 2011 21:27:01 GMT -4
Also his correct nickname is "Geno," not "Moonfaker." There is Dexy's Midnight Runners song called Geno. I don't think it is about Gene Cernan though. ;D Every time one of the Apollo astronauts open their mouths these days, it seems to be more proof of the hoax. It really is getting tiresome. The other issue that grates me is when the CT crowd find 'evidence' that could have occurred on both the Moon and Earth, such as a shadow, and cry foul. I really just have to put my head in my hands at that point.
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Post by ka9q on Jul 20, 2011 4:03:24 GMT -4
That kid has a lot of growing up to do. Agreed, but I actually feel a little sorry for him and other kids like him. Most of what I ever said at age 14, even in a public forum, is long gone. But everything a 14 year old kid says today on a public Internet forum is permanently recorded and indexed, and it'll still be there in a few years when they start looking seriously for a good college. It'll be there a few years after that when they start job hunting. And it'll still be there when they turn 30, or 40, or 50, or 60...
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Post by Vincent McConnell on Aug 10, 2011 6:19:23 GMT -4
That kid has a lot of growing up to do. Agreed, but I actually feel a little sorry for him and other kids like him. Most of what I ever said at age 14, even in a public forum, is long gone. But everything a 14 year old kid says today on a public Internet forum is permanently recorded and indexed, and it'll still be there in a few years when they start looking seriously for a good college. It'll be there a few years after that when they start job hunting. And it'll still be there when they turn 30, or 40, or 50, or 60... LOL, good thing I'm not going to college haha. I'm enlisting in the Marine Corps. Expecting to leave for boot in under two years if my ideal plan works. If not, it will be three years MINIMUM. Anyway, Apollo was real. -Vincent.
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Post by supermeerkat on Aug 12, 2011 14:55:27 GMT -4
Anyway, Apollo was real. -Vincent. What made you change your mind?
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Post by Glom on Aug 25, 2011 15:45:02 GMT -4
I'll have a box of tissues ready, in case us "dicks" give him more of a prodding. At least the tears can be dealt with quickly. Now there's a post we're glad to not be on BAUT for. Anyway, to the contradiction of insisting that NASA couldn't do something hard but could do something harder, that's the basis of all hoax belief, since when you really look into, the technical and logistical challenges of faking such a thing make doing it for real seem trivial. In fact, that Mitchell and Webb video posted on the other thread makes fun of pretty much everything the OP is about.
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Post by ka9q on Aug 27, 2011 0:03:17 GMT -4
LOL, good thing I'm not going to college haha. I'm enlisting in the Marine Corps... Your plans could always change, you know. I have never been in the military, but I strongly suspect that one of the things they'll teach you is to always keep your options open. Yes, sometimes you're forced to choose. But there's never any point in burning your bridges when you don't have to.
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Post by gillianren on Aug 27, 2011 13:08:44 GMT -4
Heck, my boyfriend didn't think he was going to go to college--he joined the Army out of high school. But the GI Bill and a better life have beckoned.
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Post by ka9q on Aug 27, 2011 16:18:06 GMT -4
Besides, the issue here isn't college, it's employment afterwards. I doubt Vincent will want to make the Marines his entire career, so at some point he'll want to look for a job. It's a safe bet that employers already Google their applicants to see what kind of people they are, and the stuff you say today may well be around for decades. I'm not sure I'd want everything I said when I was 14 to still be around...
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Post by echnaton on Aug 27, 2011 16:35:34 GMT -4
Besides, the issue here isn't college, it's employment afterwards. I doubt Vincent will want to make the Marines his entire career, so at some point he'll want to look for a job. It's a safe bet that employers already Google their applicants to see what kind of people they are, and the stuff you say today may well be around for decades. I'm not sure I'd want everything I said when I was 14 to still be around... Some employers have stopped doing computer searches and hire a contractor to make a more objective assessment. They do this to avoid having knowledge of a bunch of irrelevant information that could cause problems in the future. Particularly in situation where initial investigations do not reveal the race or sex of job candidates to decision makers. Instead the contractor will characterize a prospective employee's web activities. This of course comes with the caveat that most of us will get hired by smaller employers that hire based on more personal contact. Places where fitting into the company culture right away is very important. Smaller employers may not be willing to spend the money for an outside characterization and some government offices have required that prospective employees provide passwords for social sites so the employer could check everything.
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Post by ka9q on Aug 27, 2011 16:37:26 GMT -4
some government offices have required that prospective employees provide passwords for social sites so the employer could check everything. Yeow. I certainly wouldn't want to work for an employer who did that. I assume this is presently limited to positions requiring a security clearance?
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Post by echnaton on Aug 27, 2011 17:56:48 GMT -4
some government offices have required that prospective employees provide passwords for social sites so the employer could check everything. Yeow. I certainly wouldn't want to work for an employer who did that. I assume this is presently limited to positions requiring a security clearance? It's illegal, but it hasn't stopped some officials from asking for it. Some elected officials think they can run their offices as personal fiefdoms. I'll see if I can find the article.
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Post by echnaton on Aug 27, 2011 18:06:04 GMT -4
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Post by ka9q on Aug 27, 2011 19:13:15 GMT -4
Absolutely. I'd delete those accounts before I ever turned over the passwords. It's bad enough that the government can already search any and all Internet traffic under the guise of 'national security', in real time and without any meaningful oversight. But that's the federal government. Local governments probably don't have that kind of access, so they're a little less subtle and therefore not quite as dangerous.
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