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Whoopi Goldberg: "Who shot the footage?!"

Once again, the enormous stupidity that people will succumb to simply because they don't want something to be true.
 
Barbara Walters used to be one of the most respected names in journalism. This woman could have sit downs with presidents, popes and captains of industry.


Why the hell does she put up with the crap from Whoopi, Rosie, Joy Beyhar, and the rest of those cackling idiots?

She seems to have decided that each incarnation should have one or two reasonable, respectable voices that need to be drowned out by morons.
 
She's a movie star. She's never seen a camera without a cameraman behind it. She probably thinks they can't operate without a human attached.
 
She's a comic actress. She's taking the piss.
Actually she makes two interesting points-
First she's right about the flag. IT IS rippling. Note she didn't say "waving". We all know why it's waving. (It's on a spring, which someone flicked). She says "rippling". Now whether that's a residual Wagner stress field, or whether they did "starch it that way", I have no idea, but someone went to a lot of trouble to make it look like the flag was rippling in a breeze. I never spotted that. Maybe it took a feminine eye.

I also agree with her comment that the Moon Hoax CT is a "better class" of CT than most. For a start it's hard to check. You can't just nip outside with binoculars and look for the footprints; (and the current photos as shown on BAUT won't convince anyone but a believer).
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/17/apollo-landing-sites-imaged-by-lro/
- also, our Earth evolved sense of perspective and experience of horizons let us down when we view the original pics and films.

I remember the first time I saw a programme claiming a hoax, I was rattled. I had to sit and really think about it for a while.

Anyway, I'm only going on the clip linked here, so I don't know what else she may have said, but my gut feeling is that she was stirring it for a laugh. The fact she describes the hoax CT as such suggests she is intrigued by some of the questions, but far from convinced by it.
 
Link for that survey?
Ask Joy Behar.
Actually she makes two interesting points-
First she's right about the flag. IT IS rippling. Note she didn't say "waving". We all know why it's waving. (It's on a spring, which someone flicked). She says "rippling". Now whether that's a residual Wagner stress field, or whether they did "starch it that way", I have no idea, but someone went to a lot of trouble to make it look like the flag was rippling in a breeze. I never spotted that. Maybe it took a feminine eye.
Are you kidding me? Fabric ripples on its own.
I also agree with her comment that the Moon Hoax CT is a "better class" of CT than most. For a start it's hard to check. You can't just nip outside with binoculars and look for the footprints; (and the current photos as shown on BAUT won't convince anyone but a believer).
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...imaged-by-lro/
- also, our Earth evolved sense of perspective and experience of horizons let us down when we view the original pics and films.
If by better class you mean a bunch of rationals that have no basis in science that all conspiracy theories have then yes it is in a better class.
 
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Are you kidding me? Fabric ripples on its own.

No. It deforms in response to forces acting on it, one of which (not the only one) is gravity. To achieve that effect on the moon probably took some work.
ETA- Possibly counterproductive work, sadly. Having achieved a flag that looked like it was rippling (and waving) in a terrestrial breeze, the makers were promptly accused of fakery.

If by better class you mean a bunch of rationals that have no basis in science that all conspiracy theories have then yes it is in a better class.

I mean it's a better class of nonsense, yes.
 
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She makes even Chris Matthews seem to be of nearly average intelligence, in comparison, which is a big boost for him.
 
Once again, the enormous stupidity that people will succumb to simply because they don't want something to be true.


Why would anyone not want the moon landing to be true? It's probably the most awesome thing that's happened in my lifetime. Offhand, I can think of no downside to it.

What's not to like?

Rolfe.
 
We quit.

Actual response- given the politics of the space race, the only people with a real reason to hope Apollo was fake were the Soviets- who , so far as I know, never even hinted at the possibility, either because they just weren't that dim or because they didn't believe anyone else might be.

I think some of the early doubts about the photos and videos are honest, genuine and simply mistaken for reasons people like Phil Plaitt have explained many times;- having decades of experience in photoanalysis on Earth actually is the worst possible qualification for study of lunar photos. All your baseline assumptions about light and perspective are working against you.
 
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why would anyone not want the moon landing to be true? It's probably the most awesome thing that's happened in my lifetime. Offhand, i can think of no downside to it.

What's not to like?

Rolfe.

exactamundo.
 
I just re-watched the Mythbusters take on the moon landing, and the rippling flag was tested. The theory was that the fabric was moving because the astronauts were handling the flag as they planted it, and the residual motion of the fabric continued on its own for a while because there is no friction from air to slow it down. I'm sure, however, that no explaination will ever satisfy a crackpot.


What's the point supposed to be behind faking the moon landing anyway? Shouldn't there be some reason for going to all that trouble?
 
It was to distract us from the NWO takeover of the North Korean Horsefeather Mines.
 
Why would anyone not want the moon landing to be true? It's probably the most awesome thing that's happened in my lifetime. Offhand, I can think of no downside to it.

What's not to like?


It was teh Gubmint that did it, so it must be bad.




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