Re: [nukkad] Did Man _Really_ Land On Moon?

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i had forwarded these mails to one list populated by persons interested
in astronomy (not astrology). please do consider there replies.

fwding REPLY 1.

-vulcan
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Art Rabeau wrote:
From: Art Rabeau <Rabeau.Art@oscsystems.com>
To: Astro_l <astro-l@uwwvax.uww.edu>

>> "V. Sudarshan" wrote:
>v.sudarshan@india.com
>>
>> Dear Venugopal,
>>
>> I am afraid that you are wrong. A book was published way back in the
>> 60s itself. The US government banned the book. However, several copies
>> clandestinely found its way through various sources. I have myself
>> seen a photocopied version of such a book (in really poor condition)
>> with one of the ISKCON members in Mumbai.
>>

A book?  What book?  Banned by who? When?

>> ISKCON members use this book to state why its not possible to land on
>> the moon. Its mostly used to corroborate a fact from some Hindu texts
>> which describes the difficulties in landing on the moon.
>>

And some religious fundamentalists say the Bible proves the Earth is
6000 years old.

>> While I do not personally subscribe to the fact (whether or not) man
>> did actually land on the moon, I must say that the book (or whatever
>> is available) makes interesting reading. It has photos and lot of
>> research. I have copies of the original moon photos from the 60s and I
>> did find the problems mentioned in the book. Maybe there are answers -
>> simple ones but NASA never came out with it! Rather they banned the
>> book.

NASA doesn't spend much time refuting the Flat Earth Society, either. 
And again 
-- What book?  Banned when?  And there are books published every day
claiming many things even sillier than this.  So?

>>
>> What is currently available by mail order is clandestine. They are
>> only photocopies of part of the original text. In some cases only the
>> odd numbered pages are there. The author died in mysterious
>> circumstances. Someone else is marketing the photocopied remains and
>> making money. Anyway if you are interested, just drop into ISKCON at
>> Juhu Mumbai and get in touch with a sanyasi. You will get to see the
>> text.

Ah yes.  Poor copies.  Clandestine.  The author (what author) "died in
mysterious circumstances".  Of course.  If you believe this "book", why
not "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" too?

>>
>> And yes, the Russians did not refute it because they also sent people
>> to the moon and for obvious reasons they could not refute it either.

They _also_ sent people to the Moon?  Gee, I thought we didn't get
there!

>> (This was sometime after the Americans moon landing and the book
>> coming out). Out of curiosity I asked a scientist in one of the space
>> centres the claims.

"A scientist".  Of course.  Well, several former space-program types
have made noises about things.  Noah's Ark found.  The world will end in
1985.  There's an alien face on Mars.  So?

I was told that many things had to be made larger

<snip>
>> Anyway time will reveal all..... Truth will prevail

Time already has revealed all: Men landed on the Moon six times.  Truth
has prevailed, but clowns like these are not interested in the truth.

>> Regards,
>> Sudarshan




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