Maybe we could turn this into a daily ritual...

From the Apollo 13 board on the Internet Movie Data Base, paraphrased for sanity:

Yes, millions of idiots with no basis of knowledge whatsoever...

Wow. I'm convinced. Please provide the link so I can see the raw form of this.

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The "only one mission" and "center of a nuclear explosion" statements get my vote.

That guy is loads of laughs. In another section he wrote..

heh, I wonder if this guy knows that mankind has done alot of amazing things before colour tv was invented?

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I just tried to google it. It is amazing how many webpages have both "loooooooong" and "nuclear explosion" on them!

For the link in the OP:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112384/...22942#55022942

but you may have to be a member of IMDb to see it..... free to regsiter though...

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Are we alone in the Universe? Are we the only intelligent life? Who knows? But the universe is so BIG, it somehow seems such a waste of space if we are ....

Uh, if color TV didn't exist in 1969, what were all those color NBC peacocks I saw? If anyone needs a reference, this website says "The first commercial television program on color film was an episode of Dragnet that aired in December, 1953.", though it does concede that "But it was not until 1966 that NBC became the first network to show the color we all now take for granted on all of its programs. ".

Particularly funny on a site about media, like IMDB.

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bugmenot.com works too.

edit to add: wow, IMDB stinks! Every link I click goes to a full page ad, then you have to click again to get past the ad! What are they thinking over there??

If you are logged in you can see the entire thread as "flat" which means that act like the normal board here, though since people tend not to quote who they are replying too (because they would usually be linked to that post,) it can be tricking reading on occasions.

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You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

Well, at least that part was right.

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I feel there should be a page made to capture the more entertaining utterances of the HB's. A tribute thread was made for Moon Man (he of the "What is our atmosphere made of, that keeps the vacuum out?") However, gentlemen like Interdimentional Warrior and the recent Kilter need recognition too.

Sorry I'm not up to being these gentlemen's Boswell, however. I'm just not organized enough.

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That's funny. We had a color TV in the mid '60s. I watched the moon landing on a color TV (though obviously the lunar transmissions were in B&W). Electronic Desk Calculators were out, just expensive:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9100.htm

Oh, that was in reference to the line:

Calculator computers were the size of rooms back in 69 and somehow we went to the moon in 1969 only once in over 40 years

Only once. Heh.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

By 1969 or 70, IIRC, networks had dropped the 'in color' label on all shows since they were all in colour.

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Objective <-> judging behaviour

(oh, and it's needless to say that on top of that the reaction of "you guys" was misrepresented in that quote)

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A group of us watched Armstrong's first step on my roommate's color tv.

And - being an engineering student - about everyone I knew had a TI something-or-other. They were pricey, but student-affordable. From Wiki, "TI also invented the hand-held calculator in 1967..."

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Fah! I will not believe you Disinfo Agents!

I know the truth... 1969 was ancient times when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

Besides, the Moon landings couldn't have occured in 1969, because the Ultimate Pinnacle of Human Achievement did occure until 1976 when I was born.

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No, the ultimate human achievement in 1976 was that I graduated high school.
Ok, I'm going back to my rocking chair now.

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Here's my suggestion for the quote of the day (10/02/06)


From the Hare Krishna science website.

"The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched, concluded, and perfect. The Vedas state that the moon is 800,000 miles farther from the earth than the sun. Therefore, even if we accept the modern calculation of 93 million miles as the distance from the earth to the sun, how could the "astronauts" have traveled to the moon--a distance of almost 94 million miles--in only 91 hours (the alleged elapsed time of the Apollo 11 moon trip)? This would require an average speed of more than one million miles per hour for the spacecraft, a patently impossible feat by even the space scientists' calculations."

haha, and he's still at it...

hmmmm....

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Oh wait, this goes completely against another quote:

And that's about it for quoting an admin without getting banned from this board.

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