LOU REED
please read the following article from professor coyote, answering a person named dingo
Yes, it is my sad duty to report that the entire Apollo Mission series of "moon landings" was indeed a hoax, and a rather poorly perpetrated hoax at that. A recent Fox Network television special was devoted to this subject, but while its conclusion as to the fraudulent nature of the purported moon landings was quite correct, as a scientist, I found some of the data and methods used to be somewhat less than convincing scientifically. I began, The lunar surface? This is one of thousands of photos which clearly show fixed shadows, which are impossible at the lunar surface, because there is no gravity on the moon to hold the shadows there. Note also that no craters are to be seen in this photo.
Therefore, to do a bit of my own independent research into the moon landing hoax. Although I uncovered literally thousands of pieces of information which prove convincingly the entirely fraudulent nature of the entire Apollo program and its non-existent "moon landings," I'll concentrate on four major points here, evidence that is undeniable scientifically, yet easily understandable by the reasonably well-informed layman.
Here are the key points:
1. Scientists have known for a very long time that the moon emits no gravity, yet the photos and film footage that NASA continues to present to us as "genuine" clearly show shadows cast on the moon's surface by astronauts, shadows which are fixed to that surface, in precisely the manner shadows cast on the surface of the Earth are fixed to that surface by gravity. How can this be? Science teaches us that on a world like the moon, which emits no gravity of its own, shadows cast on its surface would simply fly off into space. DUH! Apparently the not-so-wily NASA frauds did not count on even a casual investigation by a real scientist, like me.
Even when observed with a modest binoculars or telescope, the moon is saturated with craters. Where are they in supposed "moon landing" photos?
2. Look carefully at any of the photos that are claimed by NASA to be taken at the surface of the moon. Do you see any craters? A quick look at the moon through even the most modest of telescopes or binoculars reveals hundreds upon thousands of craters of all sizes literally covering every part of the moon's surface. Yet photos of the moon's surface that NASA claims were taken by astronauts, on the surface of the moon, during the course of these supposed moon landings do not display even a single crater. Where are they? One supposes that the craters are on the moon, a place where the astronauts, most assuredly, were not.
I actually attempted to ask precisely this question of Cleveland Keyes, former Press Liaison for the Apollo Program, now living in a nursing home in Clearwater, Florida, via a collect phone call in 1996. His response to my query was very typical of NASA doublespeak, "What, are you stupid or something?" Well perhaps, Mr. Keyes, but as Forrest Gump says, "Stupid is as stupid does." I, at least, am not stupid enough to attempt to claim that photos supposedly taken by astronauts on the surface of a world whose most prominent geological features are craters, but which in reality display a landscape quite untroubled by craters, and were probably taken in an empty parcel of industrial land in Barstow, California, are genuine.
KEITH RICHARDS
as if it were being moved slightly by a breeze, which is clearly impossible on an airless world such as the moon.
Shame on Fox Network for this shoddy bit of science in claiming this, and to NASA as well, who could have easily rebutted this claim by rightfully reminding viewers that the solar winds can be quite gusty at unsheltered locations on the moon. These solar winds could certainly have been the cause of the slight movement of the flag, if the astronauts and the flag A Selenite (Moon-man)
had actually been present on the moon (which they weren't). This scarcely leaves NASA off the hook however. A far more serious question should be raised which casts even deeper doubts on the authenticity of the series of photos and footage of the US flag being raised on the surface of the moon: How could a US flag be raised on the moon?
The moon is not a US state, territory or possession. How then could a US flag be raised there? Certainly the Selenites (Moon-men) would have challenged this act of US nationalist aggression and expansionism, and staged huge protests, perhaps even violent ones. Yet none are evident either in the photos released by NASA nor were any such acts of civil unrest reported by earth based observers.
4. This is perhaps the most damning piece of evidence of all that the entire Apollo Mission "moon landings" were a stunningly inept attempt to perpetrate a gigantic hoax on a worldwide scale. Carefully study the three images I downloaded earlier today from the NASA's own official website (www.nasa.gov). These are photos or illustrations appearing in different areas of that same website of the same Apollo "moon mission." Do you see something wrong here? Yes, that's right! Each photo or illustration depicts an entirely different spacecraft, each being claimed to be the same Apollo mission!
One "moon mission," three clearly different spacecraft. Which is the real Apollo spacecraft? None of them, obviously. "That's my story and I'm stickin' with it." is the unofficial NASA motto, it would seem - no matter how foolish it is.
So, if the "moon landings" are entirely bogus, and this is unquestionably the case, precisely what use was made of the funding that the US congress granted NASA to accomplish these provably phony lunar missions? It has been estimated that the US congress, over the length of the Apollo program, provided funding to NASA and its associated agencies to the tune of over $980 octillion dollars. Clearly this amount of money was not expended in the production of so clumsy a deception as the entire Apollo program was.
I attempted to answer this question by personally contacting George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic special effects production company, famous, of course, for its incredibly realistic (and expensive) special effects work in such films as the Star Wars series, and enquired how much it would cost to recreate the sort of film sets, special effects, and anything else required, necessary to create a hoax on the scale of NASA's Apollo lunar program. I was told that, even including cost overruns, and any other foreseeable problems, Industrial Light and Magic could create a far better special effects extravaganza for under $15 million.
So, what happened to the money that was entrusted to NASA? We will probably never know precisely. Undoubtedly those employed by NASA and its affiliated agencies, such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had a decade long party, at taxpayers' expense, the likes of which has not, nor hopefully will not witness again.
Some inkling of how the massive public funding wasted on this huge "moon landing" hoax may have been abused can actually be seen within the ranks of our own BPE membership, as one of our own, whom I shall not name, is actually an employee of JPL, and is known to live on a 300,000 acre oceanfront estate in Malibu, California, and is known to purchase daily, and discard at the end of the day, solid gold, handmade luxury and sport vehicles since 1967. But that is the subject of another piece.
JIMI HENDRIX
