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Old 22-July-2002, 06:56 PM
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On 2002-07-22 12:57, Chip wrote:
jumbo, (pointing out the fallacy in hokey pokey's "thinking") wrote:
"...If the source of the debunking is a government front i guess every physics textbook writer, physics lecturer and student must be in on it too."

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That is clearly a possibility.

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Every physics textbook writer, physics lecturer, and student -- going back to the Industrial Revolution (approx. 1760-1830,)
and beyond...(We'll have to invent a new word for ridiculous, which is too mild a description of that reply!)
It's ridiculous but true, but I'd add a word. "That is clearly an INFINITESIMAL possibility" [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Old 22-July-2002, 06:57 PM
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Since the physics of space travel are mostly Newtonian, we'd have to go back to the late 1600s and early 1700s and convince old Sir Isaac to fudge his masterwork.
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Old 22-July-2002, 07:14 PM
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Since the physics of space travel are mostly Newtonian, we'd have to go back to the late 1600s and early 1700s and convince old Sir Isaac to fudge his masterwork.
Simplicity itself. You see, it all goes back to Roswell. We just used the temporal relocation devices we back engineered from the alien craft. That allowed us to see that JFK was going to give us a deadline we couldn't possibly meet, so we went back to see Newton, cajole him into fudging his work (he was part of the Illuminati, see, so it wasn't hard to convince him) so we could fake the moon landing.

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Old 22-July-2002, 10:45 PM
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So all those experiments we did in High School to work out and verify Newtonian Physics were all fake too? I always thought my Physics teachers were dodgy.
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Old 22-July-2002, 10:58 PM
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With time-travel capability NASA could have jumped ahead in time and selected dates for the flights that they knew were free of any solar particle events.
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So all those experiments we did in High School to work out and verify Newtonian Physics were all fake too? I always thought my Physics teachers were dodgy.
Me too. In my lab we found that ALL of the theories were fake. But the evil professors and lab assistents would not listen to us! They discounted our evidence on "improper" use of equipment, "sloppiness" in setting up the conditions, and "carelessness" in our measurements.

So what if we couldn't reproduce our results? That only PROVES that there are no consistent laws in this universe!
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Old 22-July-2002, 11:32 PM
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Actually, thinking about it, our Physics experiments almost never worked. Maybe Physics is wrong? Or was I too busy staring the a** of the girl who sat in front of me?

[whimsey](Wonder where she is now, and if she's still got a great a**?)[/whimsey]
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Old 23-July-2002, 12:11 AM
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With time-travel capability NASA could have jumped ahead in time and selected dates for the flights that they knew were free of any solar particle events.
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Ah, but that would violate the Blinovich Limitation Effect. They could only go into the past.
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Old 23-July-2002, 03:15 AM
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"Hokey-Pokey is a troll, doo-dah, doo-dah"

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LOL John! I know what you mean. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Come to think of it,at uni my lab experiments rarely worked correctly, and i also spent a fair amount of time um,seeing the sights. The war cry of the 1st year physics student seemed to be." Error bars, but if i draw those you cant see the result,they`re 3 times larger!"
Theres a trend developing (with the dodgy results and the staring, at least in the uk it seems)
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Old 23-July-2002, 10:43 AM
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As we all know, there is no proof that natural numbers - and the whole mathematics build on them - are really existing. Here comes Peano with his axioms. AXIOMS! Anyone with an open mind knows that an axiom is just another word for a lie no one can disprove.
Maybe two and two is five and O'Brien and my little son are smarter than I. I'm indoctrinated since more than three decades with this natural numbers/Peano BS. I'm narrow minded.

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Old 23-July-2002, 04:24 PM
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Maybe two and two is five

It is, for sufficiently small values of five.
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Maybe two and two is five

It is, for sufficiently small values of five.
Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? Seems to me that sufficiently small values of five would only be achieved (in this instance) by adding sufficiently large values of two. {mode:1968} Cause and effect, man, cause and effect. {/mode:1968}

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Old 23-July-2002, 05:35 PM
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If you talk to some 'o these accountants, CEOs, CFOs and what not, 2 + 2 = the Fifth...

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Old 24-July-2002, 01:17 AM
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"It's five Jim, but not as we know it..."
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Maybe two and two is five

It is, for sufficiently small values of five.
(clinton voice)It all depends on what the meaning of the word "five" is.(/clinton voice)
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Old 24-July-2002, 12:08 PM
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Well, I think 'and' and 'is' are much more items we should discuss in depth than 'two' and 'five'. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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It may be a little late in the thread but I'm new. I was at Jack White's site. Doesn't look like you can even post unless you "donate" $20. Screw that! Bad Astronomy is free!

Also, congrats to JayUtah for the most comprehensive moon hoax debunking site on the net--and I've seen lots of sites.
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Old 25-July-2002, 03:05 AM
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Jack White's posts at JFK regarding Apollo are being discussed at http://www.apollohoax.com/forums courtesy of a fellow named 'eagle'.
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Old 25-July-2002, 07:07 AM
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The policies at JFK Research are draconian. You must pay for post access, or demonstrate that you are unable to pay. You must represent that you are a JFK researcher, and the administrator (Mr. Rich della Rosa) does not accept "posing" as a JFK researcher just to talk about Apollo. In short, Mr. della Rosa is not willing to ban Apollo discussion, but neither is he willing to accept it as a full-fledged topic.

In case it's not obvious, JFK Research is basically a platform for Jack White to ramble essentially unchallenged about whatever conspiratorial topic catches his fancy. Any serious challenge to Mr. White's conclusions is interpreted to fall under the forum's strict behavior guidelines. Since refuting many of Mr. White's conclusions involves pointing out that Mr. White doesn't seem to know much about Apollo, or the photographs taken during it, or photographic analysis in general, those are easily dismissed as a "personal attack", which is grounds for dismissal from the forum. The problem is that Mr. White's conclusions are characterized by his supporters as coming from an expert and eminent photographic analyst. If that is the case, then Mr. White's understanding of these topics is not only relevant, it's the only thing that's relevant.
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