Better not, Don. This sort of thing has come up before. The admin have strongly discouraged this sort of public speculation in the past.

If you're concerned, PM a mod.

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Oh okay. Thanks for the heads up Moose.

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Oh, man. That reads like some of the 9-11 stuff; you know, like: "... the WTC was blown up by the CIA, there were no planes hijacked that day... " that I get into on the internet.

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lines joint in faint discord,
and the Stormwatch brews
a concert of Kings,
as the white sea snaps,
at the heels of a soft prayer,
whispered

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Oh, man. That reads like some of the 9-11 stuff; you know, like: "... the WTC was blown up by the CIA, there were no planes hijacked that day... " that I get into on the internet.

It also reads like some of the JFK stuff, and some of the Pearl Harbor stuff, and some of the TWA 800 stuff, and some of the UFO stuff, etc. See a pattern here?

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

All of which were once, but are no longer, appropriate topics in the "Conspiracy Theories" section of this forum. Ah, the good old days!

Edit: I guess maybe UFO theories are still allowed, being astronomy related to a degree.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

That's part of the conspiracy!

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I was saved by my keyboard protector. Unfortunately, I was wearing neither bib nor diapers, so if you'll excuse me, I've a few clothes to change...

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I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol.

Mine: "Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that."

Heinlein's: "Staying young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods." "Freedom begins when you tell Ms. Grundy to go fly a kite."

But a most-unusual, KGB dwarf. As I reveal in my new book, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Hollow Moon ($49.95, Random Chance House, video available for $20 extra), the Soviets solved the Van Halen radiation belt problem by launching a lunar lander filled with rubles. Once on the Moon the money was used to purchase the services of Bryson the Moon Dwarf, who then acted out the role of Glorious Soviet Cosmonaut. This took care of radiation concerns, since the "cosmonaut" was already on the Moon.

Once this mission had been accomplished the Soviets, as they did with everything else, covered it up and basked in their unpublicized knowledge of having staged a real fake attempt to beat the US to the Moon, which they did, as seen from one perspective. Bryson retreated back inside the Moon once his job was done, and today lives in luxury while carefully monitoring the controls which keep the Moon from spinning (there is a crystalline rod extended from the Earth to the Moon which must be precisely controlled) and paying close attention to Russian money markets.

BTW, for his efforts, Bryson was made an honorary member of the KGB and is rumored to be a prime candidate to replace Putin or the conductor of the Moscow Opera.

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What do you want, he'd be like at least 150 years old even if he wasn't killed in a freak accident.

Anyone still has a copy of the july 1882, (or 1982, just to be sure) edition of Time magazine so we can settle this claim?

But 1882 must be the earliest record of a moon hoax.

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To the regular visitor of internet bulletin boards it is clear that it's an excellent idea your parents get to choose your real name.

Time didn't exist in 1882. Not until the 1920s, in fact.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

No wonder my inter-temporal transporter can't carry me further back than 1923.

Ah! it's not just mine then..

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And while with silent,lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
put out my hand and touched the face of God. JGM

The above quote has no religious significance whatsoever

What a feeble excuse! Obviously, this is just disinformation to "explain" why the archival copies no longer exist.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Just in case you guys are serious, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be 1982, not 1882.

CJSF

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

Talking about being overprepared....

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To the regular visitor of internet bulletin boards it is clear that it's an excellent idea your parents get to choose your real name.

But . . . but . . . 1982 is far too mundane! An 1882 article about a moon hoax claim and a "LEO troop-deployment platform with anti-ICBM capabilites" is far more interesting!

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Quite a risky HB claim. It takes only 1 person to own the july 1982 Time magazine to verify (...) this claim.

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To the regular visitor of internet bulletin boards it is clear that it's an excellent idea your parents get to choose your real name.

Ah, but how do you know that was the original July 1982 issue? (I'd better stop thinking in CT mode. It's getting just a little too easy.)

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

There is, after all, a first time for everything.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"