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Old 27-August-2008, 10:11 PM
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Reminder: The episode is airing tonight on The Discovery Channel in the US.

I'm on MediaCom at Central Time(US), and it shows the Mythbusters Moon Landing episode at 8:00 pm.

Apparently they're only looking at Apollo 11, so the hard core HBs may find some wiggle room.

Not like they wouldn't anyway.
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Old 27-August-2008, 10:41 PM
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Oh come on now, they have more wiggle room than that. The Mythbuster guys were in special effects in Hollywood! Heck, the Illuminanti/NASA probably hired them with Kubrick to make the fake landing.
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BA Blog: Mythbustin’ the Moon Hoax, Part V: The review!

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I was able to get an advance copy of the show — I have powers beyond those of mortal men… or maybe I’m just on a Discovery Channel mailing list for the show, and I asked for a DVD when they said they’d send them to journalists — and let me say, it’s really good. One of their best, in fact! I can’t reveal the results of their tests, but I will say that however each of the tests did in fact turn out, I could see why they came to the conclusion of "busted, confirmed, or plausible" for each.
(Reminder: be careful with spoilers.)
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Old 28-August-2008, 01:25 AM
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Looks like I'll have to give the B.A. some good-natured ribbing about whose name he obscured in the credits frame capture.
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Old 28-August-2008, 01:33 AM
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Looks like I'll have to give the B.A. some good-natured ribbing about whose name he obscured in the credits frame capture.
Heh. Yes, I noticed that too. I could still make out your name, though.

Maybe an underline or arrows would have been better?
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If it helps, Jay, your name is the one that jumped out and allowed my to use my cat-like reflexes to hit the pause button (on the 18 billionth try). I didn't notice Phil's until I finally got the frame frozen.

...of course, they listed Phil first, so they must like him better....

Oh, and I'm starting a thread in Small Media with the spoiler warning for those of us who saw it, or don't want to wait for it to air in Europe. (Unless it's been started already).
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Old 28-August-2008, 04:03 AM
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You could argue that BA's name comes before Jay's alphabetically....
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Old 28-August-2008, 04:06 AM
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Phil had a more direct role, and has an established relationship already with them. It's quite proper for him to receive higher billing, if in fact the order of listing has any significance. Phil and I discussed some of the issues between ourselves, and then Phil presented our consensus to the producers. I additionally consulted with the producers a bit myself on the finer points of photometry.
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Phil had a more direct role, and has an established relationship already with them. It's quite proper for him to receive higher billing, if in fact the order of listing has any significance. Phil and I discussed some of the issues between ourselves, and then Phil presented our consensus to the producers. I additionally consulted with the producers a bit myself on the finer points of photometry.
...I was just give'n you a hard time...
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And still the woo-woos are arguing that they have pix from Life Magazine that prove it's all a hoax.

They won't present it, because it would mean tearing out pages.

One of them told me this just minutes ago.


I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP!
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Old 28-August-2008, 04:08 AM
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Where can I buy the DVD?
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And still the woo-woos are arguing that they have pix from Life Magazine that prove it's all a hoax.

They won't present it, because it would mean tearing out pages.

One of them told me this just minutes ago.
Yeah, because its not like you can just put the whole magazine into a flatbed scanner open at the right page rather than having to rip out the page.
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Looks like I'll have to give the B.A. some good-natured ribbing about whose name he obscured in the credits frame capture.
Perhaps, he was, um, distracted by the image behind the credits.
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Yeah, because its not like you can just put the whole magazine into a flatbed scanner open at the right page rather than having to rip out the page.
Well, if Hoaxers had such skills, they probably wouldn't be Hoaxers...
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Well, if Hoaxers had such skills, they probably wouldn't be Hoaxers...
That's why they don't edit their posts: They don't want to get White-OutTM on their monitors.
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Nitpick: their model Neil Armstrong has a red stripe on the helmet to indicate that he's the commander (something Adam specifically notes). But the red stripe wasn't introduced until Apollo 12.
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The BA said on the blog that he was going to tease Adam about the stripe.
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Nitpick: their model Neil Armstrong has a red stripe on the helmet to indicate that he's the commander (something Adam specifically notes). But the red stripe wasn't introduced until Apollo 12.
Nitpick: The red stripe was introduced on Apollo 13, not 12. Of course, it didn't make its debt on the lunar surface until Apollo 14.
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Nitpick: The red stripe was introduced on Apollo 13, not 12. Of course, it didn't make its debt on the lunar surface until Apollo 14.
Nitpick: You meant "debut.'
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Nitpick: You meant "debut.'
Nitpick: You used a double quotation mark at the opening, and ended with a single quotation mark.

Try to nitpick that!
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Nitpick: You used a double quotation mark at the opening, and ended with a single quotation mark.

Try to nitpick that!
Nitpick: Your comma is not justified according to standard English usage. (Yes, I'm reaching.)
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Nitpick: You used a double quotation mark at the opening, and ended with a single quotation mark.

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Old 30-August-2008, 08:21 PM
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Sucks when you mess up correcting someone elses mess up...
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Old 30-August-2008, 08:24 PM
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I got a couple of Moon Hoax Believers to agree to read JayUtah's site. Maybe all hope is not lost.

ETA: On of them came back with this imminently logical response:

"Lens Flares! Ha Ha Ha!"
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"Lens Flares! Ha Ha Ha!"
Captain disillusion makes it pretty funny...
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Old 31-August-2008, 04:37 AM
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At least they're attempting to address the content, if only to specifically sidestep it. Most people led to Clavius unwilling simply say it "must" be a government disinformation site and leave it at that.
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Nitpick: You meant "debut.'
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Nitpick: You meant "debut.'
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Eminently.
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