It sad... These moon deniers are just continuing evidence of the gowing ignorance coming out of our education system.
They just believe anything that some smooth talking talk show personality puts out there. Since they can't make sense of the real world through knowledge and learning and education, they grab onto to crazy ideas of others so that they have some sense of belonging to a community of like minded people.
There was a report last week about more than 50% of high school graduates in Maryland have to take remedial math before they can begin their college education. And we are not talking about high math, they can't even do basic math like multiply 7 x 9. There is no value to arguing with these people or bringing them fact, because they lack basic fundamentals of science and physics on which to build understanding.
Witness the the growth of "belief" based knowledge as opposed to science based knowldedge. And attempts to make them equal...
I fear for our future.
Bob
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of John P.
Toscano
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:53 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Evidence of moon landings....!
William Leijenaar wrote:
The news is full again of the moon landings, where NASA
claims to have new evidence, which makes me laugh again. I have the same idea like LeRoy, KD8BXP. When the information is only from one source it is not reliable at all, every scientist should know.
This doesn't mean that I state no man has been on the moon,
for me it is just not clear.
William:
If one is truly skeptical of the truth of NASA's claims to have landed men on the moon and brought them back to earth safely, then it is only natural to claim that nothing that NASA says will be accepted as proof of having accomplished the deed. The only thing that NASA
could do to
convince a true skeptic is to land that person on the moon and
bring
them home again. (Wouldn't that be a treat?)
On the other hand, we should be clear that NASA is *NOT* claiming that these pictures are "evidence that they really were there".
They are
(rightly) very proud of the extreme resolution of the pictures
coming
from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and wanted to
"show
off" how good the pictures are. Of course, they chose to image targets that would pique the interest of as many folks as possible.
For that
reason, choosing to show photographs of the moon landing sites
surely
fulfills the criterion of generating lots of interest.
You are certainly entitled to your disbelief. But attributing
these
photos to a claim by NASA as evidence of the moon landings is a little bit too negative for my taste. I think that they are fully aware of the fact that any "proof" they could provide would be discounted
by the
skeptics because of its source. The web pages I saw never said anything about offering proof of prior successful landings on the moon. They are simply "showing off" their latest interesting photos.
By the way, do you also believe that all of the fantastic pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope were created in Photoshop instead
of being
real images of far away space objects? Oh, sorry, that's a bit
off-topic, and only a rhetorical question. No need to reply to
that.
I would like to see pictures from another nations
satellite, in higher resolution. I believe we will soon know, as there are several countries wanting to go to the moon. I am looking forward to their pictures and the state of the equipment left on the moon, in case the landings were no film studio work :o)
I, too, would welcome more pictures! (See, it really is an interesting target to photograph!)
For the moment I keep it more close to the earth with my
small transponder work,
The AMSAT community is indeed highly indebted to you for your hard work in this area. Thank you very much for your efforts in making
small
linear transponders for satellites.
Maybe in the future there will be a chance to have a
moon-ponder :o)
Maybe, and maybe not. But if no one ever dreams of it, it will certainly never come to pass. Wanting to take the journey is the very
first of
many, many steps in the journey, but one that is not optional
if the
journey is ever going to be undertaken.
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