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Originally posted by Phage
1970:
Honolulu (AP) - The world's first customs declaration for imported goods from outer space hangs on Dr. Ernest Murai's office wall.
source
[edit on 8/6/2010 by Phage]
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bokonon2010
Oh. Now I understand.
You think Apollo 11 was a hoax. And somehow you think that the customs declaration proves it.
Thank you for the clarification.
1970 - the year after Apollo 11 has been faked
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bokonon2010
Pardon me. You don't think Apollo 11 was a hoax, you think the customs declaration is a hoax. Thank you for the clarification.
I must have misunderstood when you said this:
1970 - the year after Apollo 11 has been faked
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by DJW001
He doesn't get it....AT ALL!
This much has become painfully obvious.
If one wished to get all "technical" about it (and forgetting the humor, because it IS funny!) let's see.....
----The Astronauts could be considered to have been Diplomats...therefore, as is the case with most diplomatic travels, normal Customs and Immigration entry procedures are dispensed with.
----The "diplomatic" angle isn't quite correct, however, since the Moon isn't a formally recognized 'national' entity of any kind. It certainly isn't autonomous, nor does it possess any civilization, nor inhabitants, to have 'claimed' it as their territory. The Astronauts, as American citizens employed by the American government, 'landed' on quite literally a "new world", and even planted a flag of their country. This does not convey "ownership", nor even "territorial" status for the entire planetoid, but it could be semantically argued that they established the first American "embassy". Therefore, all the terrain they trod upon is considered "American soil", and they really did not embark on an international journey at all.
----The Astronauts were all active-duty military at the time, if memory serves. Therefore, technically, they were also exempt from "normal" Customs and Immigration procedures.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Anyone who sees this clever and humorous lark as some serious problem...needs to get their head examined!!!
Originally posted by bokonon2010
As I am from the natural science background,
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Originally posted by bokonon2010
As I am from the natural science background,
you clearly are not of the scientific community because I don't think there is a serious, professional scientist out there that would disbelieve the Moon Landing.
Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!
Popov placed the burden of proof on NASA,[1] and denied all Moon landing evidence, dividing it to five groups:
Visual (photo, film and video) material that can successfully be made on Earth, in cinema studios.
Obvious counterfeits and fakes, when visual material from ordinary space flights on Earth orbit is presented as Moon material.
Space photos, attributed to the astronauts but which by that time could already be made and were made by space robots, including American ones.
Devices on Moon (e.g., light reflectors)—by that time both American and Soviet automatic "messengers" had sent on Moon several tens of similar devices.
Unfounded, unprovable claims, e.g., for about 400 kg of soil, overwhelming part of which NASA keeps safe and gives only grams for checking.
Thus he concluded that the NASA claims on Moon landings are left unproven, and pursuant to science rules, in the absence of trustworthy evidence, the event, in this case the American Moon landings and their loops around the Moon, cannot be considered real, that is, having taken place.[1] He also confirmed Pokrovsky's results for the speed of the Saturn V at S-IC staging time (see above).[1][1] Popov accused the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee of trading the 1970s Détente for covering up the US Moon hoax and stopping the Soviet Moon programme.[1]
Originally posted by DJW001
No political agenda here. Remember, the Apollo program is history, not science. You cannot prove that Alexander the Great was real. You cannot use science to prove Napoleon existed (those bones in the tomb could be anyone.) You are welcome to believe anything you want.
So, do you admit that the Apollo 11 Custom Declaration is joke and hoax
[en.wikipedia.org...:_tricks.2C_fraud.2C_fiction],
endorsed by NASA and Department of Homeland Security?
Dear moderators, this is not off-topic or personal, but the analogy;
The ontological questions [en.wikipedia.org...] have to be clarified for the Apollo program research.
The opponent and others are often confused about it.