Jack White says moon landings faked in Australia

[Obviousman]

This is so rich - another one for the Pool Room.

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[gwiz]

And you're Australian, so you must be a NASA stooge. The number of people who have to be in on the hoax has just taken a major jump.

[james]

Crickey! (sorry, had to get that out of my system)

Out of all the top names in the HB camp. I find Jack White and his 'theories' (using the term loosely here) to be rather bizarre and sometimes, (all the time?) just downright ignorant.

My knowledge of Australia is somewhat limited, where could they have 'theoretically' done this? There aren't any area's in the outback that are completely devoid of vegetation are there? What about area's with large rolling hills/mountains? Of course I don't think there are any places on Earth that would be good enough to fake a Moon landing. I'm just entertaining the idea for a second or two.

[echnaton]

It is hard to know weather to laugh or cry at Jack White and company. Such pathetic reaching for a way to explain away the obvious.

[Cavorite]

james said:

There aren't any area's in the outback that are completely devoid of vegetation are there?

Not really, unless you count salt lakes. Even the Tanami Desert, which is right up there with the Atacama in terms of aridity, has a fair bit of spinifex (a very hardy grass species). Most of the deserts are a distinctly un-lunar red in colour. Enough red/orange to give Jack Schmitt a heart attack, I suspect...

james said:

What about area's with large rolling hills/mountains?

There are ranges of hills and small mountains that might suffice, but again, most if not all of them have vegetation. As well as quite Earthlike weathering.

[Jason]

cavorite said:

Not really, unless you count salt lakes. Even the Tanami Desert, which is right up there with the Atacama in terms of aridity, has a fair bit of spinifex (a very hardy grass species). Most of the deserts are a distinctly un-lunar red in colour. Enough red/orange to give Jack Schmitt a heart attack, I suspect...

Obviously they'll have to use the Australian outback when they fake a Mars landing instead.

[BertL]

So that would make the Autralian woman who had seen a cola bottle on the Apollo 11 files the whistleblower.

[Stout Cortez]

Let's use typical HB logic here to dispose of this right now:

1. Australia is on the bottom of the world.
2. Look at the photos of the astronauts. They are rightside-up.
3. Therefore, the photos could not have been taken in Australia.

No maths, just common sense!

And yes, I know I'm just being silly.

[frenat]

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong now. The real hoax is the existence of Australia. If they were really on the bottom then they should just fall off. Ergo, Australia doesn't exist. ;D