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word
They will be in such serious trouble, word, that they may be looking for real estate on our satellite - when they are there, they can check if the moon landing was real.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 28, 2006 at 7:41 PM
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TAPS
I was exactly the same as you, Taps. I remember seemingly holding my breath for the whole time until they got back to Earth.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 27, 2006 at 3:41 AM
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Whacky
As long as they don't keep reducing the number of planets, Whacky. Anyway, Pluto was a bit of a dog.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 27, 2006 at 3:40 AM
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Johnmcnab, Great post! I love reading your stuff. I can remember exactly where I was watching that walk on the moon. My doubts were not that they would make it to the moon. My worries were that they would never get back. I thought they would be forever skeletons on the face of the moon. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on August 25, 2006 at 10:35 AM
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God question...and now Pluto isn't a planet anymore!
I'm confused...well more confused than usual.
posted by
Whacky
on August 25, 2006 at 12:48 AM
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Oh boy!
Somebody is probably in serious trouble for misplacing that stuff!
posted by
word.smith
on August 23, 2006 at 6:01 PM
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word
Exactly, word. I mean, I only have a two drawer filing cabinet and I could lose them in seconds, but NASA? Can you imagine the discussion -
"Where will we put these photos of the moon landing?"
"Oh shove them in a drawer just now, I'll think about it later."
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:46 AM
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Dennison_Mann
That is a very good point, Dennison. We would never have been told about 'original' tapes. I read an interview recently in which a NASA agent said that there were too many technical difficulties to solve prior to returning to the moon....Duh?
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:43 AM
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fourcats
Nothing would surprise me, fourcats. I was reading the other day about a religion which believes we live on the inside of the planet. I started laughing then thought, 'what do we really know about anything?' Only now have we discovered life 7 miles deep in the ocean.
Nothing I've ever encountered has led me to believe that we are a sweatshop planet - a bit like the China of the universe, you mean? If we are, we are making a really crap job of it. If we are making things to the alien's ideas, how do they acquire them? And there would be no need to find a method of communication if they are already in touch to give us these ideas - unless - unless they live amongst us.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:39 AM
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You have me wondering the same thing, John.
Those tapes are supposed to be of great value, aren't they? How do you 'lose' stuff like that? It's not like NASA can even be remotely compared to the harum-scarum filing arragements some of us (who shall remain nameless) have at home. Weird! 
posted by
word.smith
on August 23, 2006 at 5:39 AM
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jacenta
I've always assumed they were in a museum, jacenta, just like Fourcats suggests, and I was astounded to find out they were filed away and gathering dust - if they exist.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:21 AM
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bel
That's a good point, bel.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:19 AM
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kingmi
I have never doubted it, kingmi. But yesterday, looking through some online stories about the tape loss, I saw a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon and wondered why the flag's shadow was going in the opposite direction.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:18 AM
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BlackPearl
It is beyond belief isn't it BlackPearl. And to think they only started looking for them because of a new wave of disbelief.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2006 at 5:14 AM
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Conspiracy Theorists Abound!
If the moon shots were really all a hoax then, trust me, there would have never been the slightest whisper about "original tapes". There would have never even been original tapes. And surely, you and I would have never heard that they've mysteriously gone missing.
As a side note, leave it to the Americans to take a car with them wherever they go...even to the moon! I'm only surprised that the NASA moon buggie didn't have a bumper sticker on it.
Need real proof that Americans landed on the moon? Then I invite you to come and witness the next Space Shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nearly 40 years later and America has no interest in returning to the moon (despite clearly having the capability) because they already know what's there: nothing that'll make money for NASA.
When thinking of Americans, follow the money...always follow the money!
DM
posted by
Dennison..Mann
on August 23, 2006 at 3:17 AM
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one would think the tapes would have been entombed or on display at a
museum. i'm in agreement with the stolen scenario.
now, on to this sci-fi stuff and your comment about how stuff that was written about has been invented. i have for years harbored questions over which came first, the sci-fi writer writing the fantastic ideas that become fact or the sci-fi life/alien life force that actually exists around us, the myopic, self-obsessed humans that we are, shaping us with knowledge to make us create for them ideas already in existance. are you following me here?
are we really just a sweatshop planet, providing the labour to create machinery for the benefit of an advanced race? are they guiding us into inventing machinery that will bridge the communication gap? are we thinking we're coming up with this stuff on our own when we're really being manipulated?
posted by
fourcats
on August 23, 2006 at 12:46 AM
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johnmcnab...
Seems to me, protecting the original tapes would rank top priority, it is perplexing to me that they didn't.
posted by
jacentaOld
on August 22, 2006 at 10:20 PM
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Leave it to the Government!
posted by
bel_1965
on August 22, 2006 at 9:12 PM
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johb, when they walked on the moon I was dating my darling from S. America.
Her grandfather was convinced that it was a spoof. She had to describe his fantasy for me, which included an elaborate set, soundstage, etc.
posted by
kingmi
on August 22, 2006 at 7:18 PM
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What?! Lost the original tapes?
I hope somebody got fired for that. More likely, somebody stole them or accidentally destroyed them, and NASA brass is too embarrassed to admit the truth. For goodness sake! Okay, so the moon landing is a little before my time, but I've never doubted it. Goodness gracious! Who loses something like that? Damn genuises. :)
posted by
BlackPearl1
on August 22, 2006 at 6:59 PM
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