I went and saw 'In the Shadow of the Moon' tonight and as I was leaving the cinema, I heard someone who must have been a Moon Hoax Believer say:

(emphasis mine)

Sadly circumstances prevented me from hanging around... I feel I may have missed a wonderful opportunity to save someone from the 'Dark Side'(tm).

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John Sladek, The New Apocrypha, pg 34.

I'd be interested to know what they meant by "Partly convinced"... do they now only believe certian aspects of the mission, or do they just feel less sure of a hoax?

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

The are partly convinced, but ...

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Funny how it only takes rumor, a youTube video or so to convince them it's a hoax, but it's like pulling teeth to get them to even acknowledge the massive evidence to the contrary may have even the slightest bit of credibility.
Society has become very "shallow" indeed...appearance over substance.

Hey look at all the people who don't believe the Holocaust took place - and the Nazi's took FILMS of the camps, the process and the disposals.

I shake my head everytime I see just how little history is actually taught to my son - they zip through the years so fast that broad swaths of history (and their lessons) are bypassed.... and if they are never exposed to it, it never happened as far as the kids are concerned.

Same here, as I was walking away I thought I heard the same voice talking about the cameras used to film Armstrong on the surface as he stepped down. I guessing that he was one of those people who thought that 'someone else' was on the surface 'before' Armstrong to use the camera.

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We all know those Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

John Sladek, The New Apocrypha, pg 34.

He may not have been talking about the hoax theory. I mean, he probably was, but as somebody who's had a lot of headaches over things heard out of context, I think I should just put the possibility out there.
Maybe he was fully saying
"Well that partly convinced me, but I still think computers were the greatest acomplishment of the 20th century."

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Or, "Well that partly convinced me that the money was well spent, although I still think there were more important things here on Earth it could have been spent on..."

But I can't help thinking that Graham's interpretation was probably correct.

There are some HBers who think that Apollos 11 and 12 were faked, that Apollo 13 was the first real attempt (which failed, of course), and Apollo 14 was the real first landing.

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So presumably the reason we didn't go back after 17 was because NASA spent so much money on going to the moon AND faking it that they were flat broke!

Well, it could have even been, "I didn't think I'd like nacho cheese on my popcorn, but after that movie Im partly convinced"

The joys of overhearing snippits of other peoples inane conversations.

"If it wasn't for my horse, I would have never spent those two years in college". Wonder if anyone else gets that reference.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Lewis Black.

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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)

Fifty obscure-refference ponits to Donnie! (I've only seen that one stand-up special of his, and that was my favorite part. I mean, who can't relate to that?)

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Hi, Scaramouche. Welcome to the board. You were right, the subject itself is taboo here but can still be referenced in a somewhat oblique manner, such as the post you mentioned.

No it's only space hoaxes these days. zzz

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Is this supposed to be somewhere else? Another thread maybe? `:]

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I'm in the library now, and I'm going to rent the movie mentioned in the OP.

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First part: HB. Last part: true, that's how we wound up with manned SRBs.

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And I saw the post here before the one in the other thread or I wouldn't have bothered welcoming him/her/droid, since it was obvious he/she/it wasn't really interested in this place, only causing problems.

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You're a coward and a liar and a thOOF - Bart Sibrel

On the other hand, it's not always such a bad thing they don't believe anything they're told anymore...

It's not a bad thing if you don't believe everything you're told; not believeing anything you're told is overkill.

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