HBs try to spoil NASAs moment at Mercury.

[graham2001]

The space probe Messenger has reached Mercury. Guess what in one article the first comment reads:

In the unlikely event this is published, please take some time out of your day to google nasa mooned america and read about it.

See

www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/getting-messenger-probe-into-mercurys-orbit-is-like-a-giant-game-of-billiard-balls-says-scientist/comments-fn5fsgyc-1226023799785

Thankfully most of the replies give this nasty troll short shrift, it seems the Mythbusters episode has done some good

[supermeerkat]

I love how conspiracy nutjobs claim the moon landing was filmed on a movie set, then they point out that the flag was waving in the wind. Don't they realise there's no wind on a movie set because it's indoors?

Some nice troll trolling going on.

[abaddon]

Mar 18, 2011 10:09:54 GMT -4 graham2001 said:

The space probe Messenger has reached Mercury. Guess what in one article the first comment reads:

In the unlikely event this is published, please take some time out of your day to google nasa mooned america and read about it.

See

www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/getting-messenger-probe-into-mercurys-orbit-is-like-a-giant-game-of-billiard-balls-says-scientist/comments-fn5fsgyc-1226023799785

Thankfully most of the replies give this nasty troll short shrift, it seems the Mythbusters episode has done some good

Whoever he is, he got stamped on pretty darn quick.

[Ginnie]

... and from the other side:
If you get a big enough telescope, you can see the remains of the lander on the moon.

[graham2001]

Mar 19, 2011 21:53:06 GMT -4 Ginnie said:

... and from the other side:
If you get a big enough telescope, you can see the remains of the lander on the moon.

But even that gets stamped on pretty quickly and with the right answer:

Unfortunately, no such telescope exists. The Lunar module descent stages are so small that they cannot even be seen by the Hubble space telescope. However the LRO has returned pictures of all six Apollo landing sites, showing the descent stages, experiment packages and dark patches of disturbed dust where the astronauts walked. Google "LRO Apollo Landing Sites Revisited".

[graham2001]

Here we go again,

Interesting. However, this is nothing compared to what used to be available just a couple of years ago at the Clementine Luna Image browser (official US Navy satellite)and also from decades old NASA publications depicting objects, buildings and air brushings on the moon (eg right angled objects, perfectly straight lines and what appears to be earth/moon moving equipment). Either there is truly a cover-up about what is out there or there is a clear agenda by some who desperately want us to believe in ancient interstellar activity or indeed aliens who will suddenly become a threat to mankind after thousands of years in order for the world to unite as one. "Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." John Dewey, New York 1917. Either or, we are being manipulated - again.

Not only is the HB reviving something that was laughable when it was proposed back in the 70's, but I've got a feeling the authors of the article wanted that sort of a reply.

See:

www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/x-on-mercury-the-new-face-on-mars/story-fn5fsgyc-1226046852918

[aarontg]

If anyone dares to try to say that NASA faked the moon landings,they can take that up with the Russians.The Russians know we went.I strongly encourage to read the thread I posted at the Apollo reality forum called"an interesting article."It's an interview with Alexei Leonov in which he excoriates the HB's.

[PhantomWolf]

HBs just say the Soviets were in on it.

[gillianren]

Wheat! Wheat, I tells ya!

[aarontg]

HB'S will say anything to protect their ludicrous idea.

[Glom]

May 1, 2011 4:24:20 GMT -4 aarontg said:

HB'S will say anything to protect their ludicrous idea.

Including things that are even more ludicrous. HBism is recursive ludiocy.

[aarontg]

I have to agree with Glom.The thought that the Russians would be in on the hoax Just reaches the height of absurdity.If anyone stood to benefit,it's them.How stupid.

[randombloke]

Never mind that even if they were being bribed with food-stuffs (not that any HBs have provided evidence for that) why haven't they just announced the hoax and produced their half of all the documentation and correspondence to prove it at any point since the fall of communism?

It's not like they somehow need the US to remain a credible threat to their own people or whatever these days, or that they couldn't find some way to benefit from a drastic fall in the USA's reputation...

(the answer is, of course, that communism never 'fell' and that it's all a conspiracy between the former soviet states to lull 'the west' into a false sense of security )

[twik]

May 10, 2011 5:28:46 GMT -4 randombloke said:

(the answer is, of course, that communism never 'fell' and that it's all a conspiracy between the former soviet states to lull 'the west' into a false sense of security )

I think that, for me, is the dividing line between a hoax believer who is mildly gullible, or mischievous, or whatever, and someone who's gone straight round the bend - when, to preserve your conspiracy theory, you have to propose that every major political event that's happened in the past 60 years of so has been a fake.

[gillianren]

And we've had a couple of "the Cold War never happened" types. When they've reached that point, what do you say?