Moon hoaxers are idiots
There. I’ve said it.
Moon hoaxers are a particularly stupid breed of humans who, for some reason, seem to think that there was a vast conspiracy that started in the 1960s and that continues to this day.
At that website where I do most of my professional writing, I made a post about a company that’s planning on giving away astronomy software on Monday, the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. While writing the post, I worked in some information about a presentation that my wife and I gave at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center west of Denver tonight.
Well, sure enough, just mentioning Apollo 11 was enough to bring out a couple of hoaxers. The fortunate thing is that these two people were too stupid to figure out how to use our comment system, so the comments were entered into the system where I could view them, but they never made it to public viewing.
One comment (verbatim) — “That flag still waving at me tells me that something does not look right. Or there is wind on the moon, therefore its livelable.” Hello, Jojo, you fucking idiot. You might want to do a little research on that thing called the Internet. The flags on the moon would have drooped if they hadn’t had a spring inserted near the top edge to hold the flag out. Drooping flags don’t look good in pictures, that’s why they put the springs in there!
No, there’s not wind on the moon. In fact, if you go look at the pictures taken last week by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft that’s in orbit around the moon, you can still see the tracks left by the Apollo 14 astronauts as they dragged a cart containing scientific instruments and tools from the Lunar Module to a remote location.
Idiot Number Two, Nathaniel G., says “With all respect Iiam one that can not believe that NASA put anyone
on the moon. NASA would have returned to collect moon samples. In 30 yrs we have not been back, and no other country has put anyone on the moon. Sorry I just can not believe it ever happened.”
Well, Mr. Dolt, you’re forgetting that for some reason idiots like you keep making it into Congress, and they keep the NASA budget pretty well at bare bones levels, usually between .5 and 1 percent of the total US budget. There’s a reason we haven’t been back in 40 years (not 30, you ignoramus) — money. We’ve been spending money on the Space Shuttle program, the International Space Station, and the many interplanetary probes as well during this period. Since there’s not a lot of money to go around, there’s been no budget for going back to the Moon. It costs money, fool.
In addition, Obama and his crew are too busy putting our nation into a deficit that we’ll never be able to pull out of to spend the few hundred billion it would take to get us back to the Moon to stay. The entire cost of the Apollo program (in 2005 dollars) was about $135 billion over ten years. Obama and Congress just wasted $787 billion on nothing in their so-called “stimulus” program. You won’t see them spending that amount of money on space and technology programs, because most of the welfare kings and queens who supported Obama are too uneducated to work in programs like this.
You’re also calling my wife a liar, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who worked on the Apollo program. Barb got to see the Apollo 15 launch in person, and it was one of the events that made her go into her 30-year career in the space business. Just because YOU didn’t see it, Nathaniel, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
These idiots are as stupid as those who think that the Earth is flat, that 9/11 never happened, and that the Holocaust didn’t kill more than 6 million people. For some reason, you can throw facts at them all day, but they’ll look at one discrepancy in a photo (or at a heavily PhotoShopped picture), and believe that before listening to reason. As I mentioned before, there were hundreds of thousands of people involved in the Apollo program. How do honestly think that there could have been a conspiracy made by that many people, and that after 40 years not one of them “spilled the beans”?
Can you tell that idiots irritate me? It’s one of the reasons I can’t stand the current crop of politicians in Washington, DC. I’d better stop before I burst a blood vessel!
