02-05-2013, 01:07 PM | #61 |
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I'm convinced that Lance Armstrong never walked on the moon. It's too far to bike, even when doped.
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02-05-2013, 01:52 PM | #63 | |
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From the BBC article I linked to in a previous post:
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Other non-fiction books are in the same position as autobiographies, as they ought to be. Inducing people to buy them by making fraudulent claims about their contents would be actionable. |
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02-05-2013, 08:03 PM | #66 |
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Does the fact that the Apollo astronauts left a mirror on the moon surface, which you can use to measure the Earth-Moon distance by firing a laser to it and measuring the time it takes to come back, alter your doubts in any way?
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I'm prepared to bet that the answer is no.
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02-05-2013, 08:50 PM | #68 |
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This is so much irony in trying to sue Lance for false advertising. Lance or his publisher would have to make statements that do not match the contents of the book in order to be charged with false advertising.
For example if the publisher said "This is a story about a guy named Lance Armstrong who never used EPO in his life won the Tour de France" that would not be an example of false advertising. If on the other hand the publisher claimed "100% of the contents is true, we fact checked everything before it went to print" and that in the book Lance makes outright denials of ever using EPO, then and only then could it be considered false advertising. Last edited by Goshzilla; 02-05-2013 at 08:57 PM. |
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I believe the timing for the very first landing was politically critical, and after it was "archieved", NASA could have taken their time to properly prepare for it in the repeats. I probably should not have said "undecided", as I am not looking to decide either way. To cover up a fake, by repeating it non-faked afterwards is pretty convincing - both ways. One camp will say: HA, told you so, it was faked, so they had to redo it for real this time. The other camp will say: HA, if this one wasn't faked, why should they have bothered to fake it the very first time? To clarify: I am not saying EVERY moon landing was a fake, but that there is a chance that the first one was a fake just to stick it to Russia. |
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I hate myself for getting involved in this, promised myself I should stay away. Just can't do it.
For arguments sake, let's assume Apollo 11 was staged. Never happened. Don't you think the Soviet Union would have the technical means to reveal such a hoax? Do you realize what the US status would be on the international stage today had such a hoax been proven? Da, somewhere between Venezuela and Mali. |
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02-05-2013, 10:26 PM | #72 |
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There is no mirror. It's a silver dollar that was thrown up there by George Washington.
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02-06-2013, 04:17 AM | #75 |
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Something, indeed, which I have personally done! It's not a mirror, by the way, but a prism, called a "laser corner reflector". They were left by all six of the landing missions.
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