Moon Hoax

[den]

Last night Channel 10 replayed the "Moon Landings Were Hoaxed" programme.

I want to ask the pro-Hoaxers, "Where did the moon rocks with no water come from?"

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[charles.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, you inspired me to check Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Page (http://www.badastronomy.com/), on which he has a pretty thorough debunking of the show (http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html). He apparently recently did an interview for the Aussie 60 Minutes about the moon landing "hoax" theory, transcripts of which can be found here (http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2003_03_09/story_777.asp).

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

"Where did the moon rocks with no water come from?"

Hollowed out chunks of styrofoam sprayed grey ala Logan's Run:D?

I really should see the film Capricorn One one of these years. It's *the* film that purported the fake moon landing idea:D.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

The other way around, actually. The "moon hoax" nonsense inspired Capricorn One.

However, it became rather solidly part of the "Joe Public" "knowledgebase" as a result of that film--it was a fringe notion before.

Well, it's still a fringe notion--but boy, are we developing a big fringe. ]:-/

===|==============/ Level Head

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

The April issue of Fortean Times has a big article on the MOon hoax theories lunacy.

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There aren't any rocks with no water in them. They're part of the hoax. The government will show you rocks they say are from the moon, and they'll show you data that purports to prove these rocks have no water, but they won't let you conduct your own experiments. And even if they did let you conduct your own experiments, you can bet they'd make sure they had some rocks that would pass the test...

Incidentally, when I was in university, I actually got to handle lunar soil samples. One of my astronomy professors managed to borrow a lucite slab containing six different lunar soil samples from NASA. Very cool to hold in my own hands something that came from the moon...

Or, at least...they said it came from the moon...it could have just been dirt... *grin*