08-May-2005, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
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Brave man fighting an entire family of Moon Hoax believers !
This man should have a medal !! 
From http://www.livejournal.com/users/randall/113640.html
"One topic in particular came up over dinner, that they all decided to needle me with, because they know it galls me... and this is their passionate belief that we did not, repeat not, go to the moon with the Apollo program. That it was all faked.
Now, you can imagine, knowing me, that I find this kind of thing to be not only ridiculous but offensive. So we had a nice table debate about it... unfortunately with the entire family, including mom, ganging up on me. I tried to tell them that the Van Allen radiation belt was not dangerous unless the astronauts had *lingered* in it, which they did not... I tried to point out that alpha, beta, gamma, and x-rays are all different, and repelled in different ways... I tried to tell them that there is really nothing tricky about going to the moon... and that the reason we didn't go back is because no one cared about it once we were there. I tried to tell them that the so-called photographic anomalies are all easily explainable. That late 60's technology WAS up to getting us to the moon.... that, above all, IF the moon landings had been faked---it would have been a huge conspiracy, and SOMEONE would have talked... and moreover, the Russians would have found out, and made the US the world laughing stock for it.
They scoffed at everything I said and remained firm in what they believed in, because they'd been won over by crackpot non-scientists who think they know better than real scientists, who think they see falsity in the most easily-explained things, and dream up huge conspiracies instead of accepting the simple fact that we could and did go to moon. (I forgot to ask if the Lonsky's had heard of Occam's Razor)."
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