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

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Subject: Re: [nukkad] Did Man _Really_ Land On Moon?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:02:45 -0700
From: Dave Palmer <dpalmer@innoveda.com>
To: astro-l@uwwvax.uww.edu

>> I am afraid that you are wrong. A book was published way back in the
>> 60s itself. The US government banned the book. 

The US government is forbidden by the constitution from doing such a
thing. In the rare cases where they CAN restrict the release of
information, they have to show that it is clearly in the interests of
national security...and you can bet the rent money that if the
government had tried to restrict a PUBLISHED book about the civilian
space program--in the SIXTIES, fer cryinoutloud--the press and public
would have been all over them like a cheap suit. This was the period in
US history when people were marching in the streets protesting virtually
every aspect of the government.

>> ISKCON members use this book to state why its not possible to land on
>> the moon. 

Oh, now THAT one I'd like to hear. The Moon is a solid body with mass
and a substantial gravitational field in a fixed orbit in the very close
vicinity to Earth what about that would PREVENT a landing?

>>Its mostly used to corroborate a fact from some Hindu texts
>> which describes the difficulties in landing on the moon.

Not to disparage anyone's religion, but religious texts make notoriously
poor science books.

>> I
>> did find the problems mentioned in the book. Maybe there are answers -
>> simple ones but NASA never came out with it! 

NASA avoids answering claims like this for the plain and simple reason
that they are nutty and unworthy of serious response. But consider this:
if any of these claims had any serious validity--ANY of them--don't you
suppose that some respectable scientist SOMEwhere would have pointed
this out and become famous for it?

But that aside, most of the claims the Moon nuts make ARE trivial to
refute, and have been thoroughly and repeatedly discredited. That hasn't
stopped the nuts from continuing to spout them, however.

>>Rather they banned the book.

NASA has ZERO authority to ban books.

>> Someone else is marketing the photocopied remains and
>> making money. 

Aha.

>> 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.

Hah? This statement makes even less sense that the rest.

>> So many
>> photos were done for public consumption and the guy who did it for
>> NASA later on went to make sci-fi movies such as Planet of the Apes!

A pretty neat trick, considering that Planet of the Apes came out in
1968, a year BEFORE we went to the Moon. See:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063442

And one might point out that the type of special effects that one would
use in faking Moon mission photos, scenic, miniature, and flying
effects, are COMPLETELY different than the major type of effect used in
Planet of the Apes, that is, makeup effects.

*************** Regards, Dave Palmer  <dpalmer@innoveda.com>
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rapidly-dwindling time remaining in his life responding to your kind and
thoughtful letter about how he is going to spend eternity in a lake of
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