Post by supermeerkat on Feb 3, 2011 16:00:22 GMT -4
During lunch at work yesterday, I got talking to a guy who'd just started work and after a while the conversation moved onto the NASA shuttle launch (there had been something about it on the news this morning), and then the guy mentioned casually "It was all faked you know. The moon landings." I didn't argue the point and we carried on chatting, and when lunch finished off we went.
Later on I received an email from him, which I reproduce for your pleasure:
Because I didn't have much to do, I wrote a point by point refutation, but after 20 minutes I gave up, and I realised I just couldn't be bothered, despite all of the burning stupid. I found something better to do instead. Today I met that guy again, and he said "I see you couldn't reply to my email. No-one has been able to refute all of those claims."
There are some really stupid claims in his email. Has any one come across anything dumber?
Later on I received an email from him, which I reproduce for your pleasure:
- kubrick released 2001:a space odysey
- nasa need to make a show out of the moon landing to draw public attention and funding, so they change suit/ship designs to be similar to kubricks
- kubrick shoots the moon landing in the same set a year later, after meetings with nasa
- nasa mysteriously let kubrick use a million dollar camera on his next film, shot entirely in candlelight, there is only 1 of this camera in the world..
- in The Shining, the boys jumper has apollo 11 written on it, and the symbol of two children holding hands = the nasa gemini project
- theres proof the president agreed to shoot the fake moon landing, "just in case" the shuttle didnt make it, after billions of dollars and the countries international image and morale on the line, they just couldnt afford to NOT show the footage
-russia WAS waaaayyy ahead of USA in terms of space travel, usa needed to pull something out the bag to intimidate russia and prove their power, after they got their asses handed to them all over the place by the USSR already..
-photographic experts are said to have laughed at the footage, taking minuites to say, theres no f**king way that is real
-the footage was shot over 2hrs.. during that time the temperature on the moon would go from -50degrees, to over 100degrees, that change in temperature would completely destroy the film
-the footprints were calculated to be way too deep for the actual calculated weight and gravity
-the detail on the suits would mean they had to use a flash to even get CLOSE to that kind of detail, but you can see there is no flash in the helmet reflection
-you can also see they are using regular cameras with no protection on them, and theres no f**king way the cameras can shoot in moon-like conditions..
-also the flag blows in the wind
tldr: i assess both sides of the story and come to the conclusion that i think it was faked
Because I didn't have much to do, I wrote a point by point refutation, but after 20 minutes I gave up, and I realised I just couldn't be bothered, despite all of the burning stupid. I found something better to do instead. Today I met that guy again, and he said "I see you couldn't reply to my email. No-one has been able to refute all of those claims."
There are some really stupid claims in his email. Has any one come across anything dumber?