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Yes, I'm sure these folks in the Air Force are just cushy.
Originally posted by FoosM
Originally posted by DJW001
What does being a USAF pilot have anything to do with it? Besides him being a paid stooge for NASA?
Military officers have training and discipline. They can wear their fingers to the bone without whining like a little girl... or Jarrah.
I think your confusing the Air Force with other the military branches.
Said the man who declared some guy a "NASA stooge" with no supporting evidence.
Second, the astronauts WERE WHINING about it. Or didnt the numerous comments about how much their fingers hurt using the gloves gave you a clue? Further, your whole comment on the matter has no scientific support; your tossing shots of patriotic pablum into the air.
1. What does that have to do with anything?
Originally posted by FoosM
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by backinblack
It is odd though..
No man before or since Apollo has left Earths orbit..
Considering how quickly they managed it you'd think they would have continued..
It's not that odd really. With NASA's shrinking budget, the Apollo program was discontinued due to its high costs.
Let me then ask this question, do you know if Apollo 18, 19 or 20 was already paid for by the tax payers?
edit on 5-9-2011 by FoosM because: edit text
Originally posted by FoosM
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by FoosM
How am I busted?
To be clear, what exactly are you busting me on?
You were implying that Armstrong was describing his boot prints while he was still on the ladder, weren't you? In any event, since you can't see his face, how would you know he wasn't looking down?
No.
Please keep up with the conversation before making accusations.
I note that you avoided correcting DJ as to what you "actually" said. First you tried the false disingenuity gambit, then moved on to the flat denial.
Originally posted by FoosM
Notice, he was still holding on to the ladder, and offering a description of the surface without skipping a beat. Did you see him bend down to check his feet?
Or could an adult male possibly have had a barbecue at some point in his life? The world may never know.
By the way, Neil could have just given the public a clue to what was actually used for the ground in staging the landing. Powdered Charcoal. Where did Neil get this descriptor from? Was he an artist? Did he brush his teeth with it?
The video is fake. How could a metal object flutter? If that was the case, then the hammer should flutter as well. So no, the sequence does not have to take place in a vacuum. Although, there were vacuum chambers large enough to film that particular scene.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Do you get paid a bonus every time you use the phrase "Gulf of Tonkin?" Seriously, you keep bringing it up as though it were somehow relevant, even though its not.
Were you on the moon missions? What is it you are choosing to believe? It makes little sense to mock someone for believing what they have been told when your argument is only that you believe what you have been told.
Originally posted by FoosM
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Do you get paid a bonus every time you use the phrase "Gulf of Tonkin?" Seriously, you keep bringing it up as though it were somehow relevant, even though its not.
Its relevant to when the lie happened.
And who lied and the consequence of that lie.
Originally a nickname used to refer to former U.S. President Richard Nixon. It was actually coined by Democratic politician Helen Gahagan Douglas during the 1950 U.S. Senate race in California because of Nixon's usage of dirty tricks to gain an advantage.
Nixon was also a staunch anti-communist. He served on the House Committee for UnAmerican Activities. Publicity surrounding the case of Alger Hiss thrust Richard M. Nixon into the public spotlight, helping him move from the U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate in 1950, and to the vice presidency of the United States in 1952.
His campaign committee in Whittier, under the direction of attorney Murray Chotiner, had sent 68,500 leaflets to registered Democrats in envelopes emblazoned with the words AS ONE DEMOCRAT TO ANOTHER! It was true that California's cross-filing laws allowed Nixon to run in the Democratic primary, but he had little hope of winning, and in any case he was not a Democrat. The campaign material failed to disclose his party affiliation, referring to him simply as Congressman Nixon, "The Man Who Broke the Hiss-Chambers Espionage Case."
Nixon: I still think we ought to take the North Vietnamese dikes out now. Will that drown people?
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
Nixon: No, no, no, I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too much.
Nixon: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?...I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.
He was the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life. President Nixon lied to his wife, his family, his friends, longtime colleagues in the US Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater in his memoirs, Goldwater (1988)
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Ok, I'll start using Watergate as an example. Nixon wasn't a crook because he said so on TV, right?
Who was president when ALL Apollo's "landed" on the moon? Hint: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
Apollo 11. July 1969. Nixon was president.
Apollo 12. November 1969. Nixon was president..
Apollo 14. January 1971. Nixon.
Apollo 15. July 1971. Nixon.
Apollo 16. April 1972. Nixon.
Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president..
Nixon had the nickname "Tricky Dick" for a reason.
Originally posted by FoosM
Let me then ask this question, do you know if Apollo 18, 19 or 20 was already paid for by the tax payers?
Originally posted by FoosM
Armstrong could not possibly have done this if he was in the shadow side of the LM.
Where did Neil get this descriptor from? Was he an artist? Did he brush his teeth with it?
Originally posted by FoosM
Although, there were vacuum chambers large enough to film that particular scene.
Ok, I'll start using Watergate as an example. Nixon wasn't a crook because he said so on TV, right?
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Ok, I'll start using Watergate as an example. Nixon wasn't a crook because he said so on TV, right?
And Apollo is a hoax because Jarrah White said so on YouTube, right?
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by FoosM
Were you on the moon missions? What is it you are choosing to believe? It makes little sense to mock someone for believing what they have been told when your argument is only that you believe what you have been told.
But many people never believed that the government was telling the truth about the Gulf Of Tonkin incident, and the lie was completely exposed by the "Pentagon Papers" less than ten years later! Where are the "NASA Papers?"
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Ok, I'll start using Watergate as an example. Nixon wasn't a crook because he said so on TV, right?
Who was president when ALL Apollo's "landed" on the moon? Hint: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
Apollo 11. July 1969. Nixon was president.
Apollo 12. November 1969. Nixon was president..
Apollo 14. January 1971. Nixon.
Apollo 15. July 1971. Nixon.
Apollo 16. April 1972. Nixon.
Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president..
Nixon had the nickname "Tricky Dick" for a reason.
And you think this is evidence that the moon landings were faked? How does that work - is it that everything Nixon said was a lie??
Because if so then I guess the vietnam war was a fake too? we know that can be mashed up in a studio......
Sure Nixon lied about stuff - but unless you are going to say that he lied about EVERYTHING (and I'm not seriously suggesting that you do) then you also have to admit that he told the truth about some stuff too.
So then you ahve to sort out the lies from the truth - and to do that you have to look at the actual evidence for and against the event - for which his tenure as president is completely irrelevant.
edit on 5-9-2011 by Aloysius the Gaul because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
William Safire isn't he a well respected writer? If Safire wrote this for Nixon and doesn't give mention to Collins then perhaps this speech wasn't a speech at all... but a threat to the life of Armstrong and Aldrin should they screw up and let the secret out. There is also the 2nd memo which leaves the astronaut names blank
Source www.thesmokinggun.com...
which makes the 2nd memo more suitable as a warning to every subsequent Apollo mission.
In jurisprudence, duress or coercion refers to a situation whereby a person performs an act as a result of violence, threat or other pressure against the person.
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by FoosM
Let me then ask this question, do you know if Apollo 18, 19 or 20 was already paid for by the tax payers?
They were, yes.
Originally posted by jra
You do understand that the Apollo missions weren't filmed in small 1 to 2 minute scenes, like you see on youtube. The video can go for hours uncut at times, with the astronauts moving all over the place. The largest vacuum chamber would still be too small to fake the Apollo missions, plus it doesn't solve the 1/6th gravity that you'd have on the Moon. How did they fake the 1/6th gravity? I keep asking this, but it always gets conveniently ignored. (I wonder why...).