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Best Apollo remembrance moment this year...

Y'know those whiny bastards who say that we never really went to the moon? One of them accosted Buzz Aldrin - And Aldrin punched him in the face. It's about frickin' time someone did that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4

(Okay, so I guess this happened in 2002 - I never saw it or heard of it before. According to Wikipedia: "On September 9, 2002, filmmaker Bart Sibrel, a proponent of the Apollo moon landing hoax theory, confronted Aldrin outside a Beverly Hills, California hotel. Sibrel said "You're the one who said you walked on the moon and you didn't" and called Aldrin "a coward, a liar, and a thief." Aldrin punched Sibrel in the face. Beverly Hills police and the city's prosecutor declined to file charges.")
 
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some people are oxygen thieves...
 
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I love that. Buzz was willing to be civil, if very annoyed, until the guy called him a "coward". That did it. :D
 
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flyingcheesehead said:
Y'know those whiny bastards who say that we never really went to the moon? One of them accosted Buzz Aldrin - And Aldrin punched him in the face. It's about frickin' time someone did that!
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Well, he was asking for it...

But do you know what I find REALLY funny? The things that they claim "prove" that the moon landings were fake boil down to "it doesn't look like the 1950's 'B' grade science fiction movies". The only way that photos could have come back looking like the maroons say they "should" would be to fake them...
 
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Note to self: Don't pick fights with guys brave enough and smart enough to fly to the moon.
 
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I'm pretty much a non violence kind of guy but that freeking ROCKS! Go get em Buzz!

Hey, I just remembered, I have his email address. Maybe I'll tell him myself!
 
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Good for him he got what he deserved, in my estimation.
 
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wby0nder said:
I'm pretty much a non violence kind of guy but that freeking ROCKS! Go get em Buzz!

Hey, I just remembered, I have his email address. Maybe I'll tell him myself!
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While at it, maybe invite him to join the board. It'd be cool to think we may be discussing high-wing vs. low-wing with him!
 
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In 1988 or 1989 I was at a booksigning for "Men From Earth." (yes, I have a signed copy)
In the general chatter somehow someone asked to Buzz what he thought about the whole faked moon landing thing. He very calmly looked at the guy and said "I'm absolutely sure it was real because I was there, however if it was a fake, it was a REALLY good one."
 
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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged the Apollo 11 site as well as 4 of the other 5 Apollo sites.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

So... I'm going to go on a limb here and guess the next claim will be "Photoshopped!". :rolleyes:
 
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Man, look at that hi-res picture of Buzz Aldrin and the LEM. Words cannot capture how brave these rascals were and are.

Look, in particular, at the LEM's general appearance. It looks like a poorly-assembled mobile home. Guess she was good enough!
 
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A recent news report said the images were sent to Cambera, then sent on to the US via a satellite. The tapes from Cambera were lost so all they have is the rebroadcast images. The originals were much clearer.
 
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silver-eagle said:
A recent news report said the images were sent to Cambera, then sent on to the US via a satellite. The tapes from Cambera were lost so all they have is the rebroadcast images. The originals were much clearer.
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The whole messing up of the tapes is giving the tin foil hat brigade a field day

In western Australia during the live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing, several people saw a very unusual occurrence. One viewer, Una Ronald watched the telecast and was astonished with what she saw.
The residents of Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, actually saw a different broadcast to the rest of the World. Just shortly before Armstrong stepped onto the Moons surface, a change could be seen where the picture goes from a stark black to a brighter picture. Honeysuckle Creek stayed with the picture and although the voice transmissions were broadcast from Goldstone, the actual film footage was broadcast from Australia. As Una watched Armstrong walking on the surface of the Moon she spotted a Coke bottle that was kicked in the right hand side of the picture. This was in the early hours of the morning and she phoned her friends to see if they had seen the same thing, unfortunately they had missed it but were going to watch the rebroadcast the next day. Needless to say, the footage had been edited and the offending Coke bottle had been cut out of the film. But several other viewers had seen the bottle and many articles appeared in The West Australian newspaper.
Western Australia received their coverage in a different way to the rest of the World. They were the only Country where there wasn't a delay to the 'live' transmission. Bill Kaysing says 'NASA and other connected agencies couldn't get to the Moon and back and so went to ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in Massachusetts and asked them how they could simulate the actual landing and space walks. We have to remember that all communications with Apollo were run and monitored by NASA, and therefore journalists who thought they were hearing men on the Moon could have easily been misled. All NASA footage was actually filmed off TV screens at Houston Mission Control for the TV coverage... No one in the media were given the raw footage.'
Bill Wood is a highly qualified scientist and has degrees in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and a space rocket and propulsion engineer. He has been granted high security clearance for a number of top secret projects and has worked with Macdonald Douglas and engineers who worked on the Saturn 5 rocket (the Apollo launch vehicle). He worked at Goldstone as a Communications Engineer during the Apollo missions. Goldstone in California, USA, were responsible for receiving and distributing the pictures sent from the Apollo to Houston. He says early video machines were used to record the NASA footage here on Earth by the TV networks. They received the FM carrier signal on Earth, ran it through an FM demodulator and processed it in an RCA scan converter that took the slow scan signal and converted it to the US standard black and white TV signal. The film was then sent onto Houston. When they were converting from slow scan to fast scan, RCA used disc and scan recorders as a memory and it played back the same video several times until it got an updated picture. In other words the signal was recorded onto video one then converted to video two. Movie film runs at 30 frames per second, whereas video film runs at 60 frames per second. So in other words the footage that most people saw that they thought was 'live' wasn't, and was actually 50% slower than the original footage!!!
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http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html


See that is why the tape are 'damaged' :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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Yep. Billions of dollars spent, and it all gets ruined by a coke can left by a careless stage worker! D'OH!

:rolleyes:

But it's no use talking to the tin foil hat crowd. Even with the LRO providing imagery of the moon sites, a friend of mine has already said that it's a poorly photoshopped image. He'll basically need to set foot on the moon himself before he'd actually believe it.
 
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<sigh>
 
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This is still my favorite remembrance
 
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While watching the landing I'm thinking if a reaction jet jammed open (which happened on Gemini) and they ended up sideways there would be two bodies on the moon to see now.

Watching the US flag being planted I remember the tin foilers saying it was obviously flapping in the "breeze" AND THERE IS NO AIR ON THE MOON!!!!! but somehow the "breeze" dies down completely and forever once no astronaut is touching the flagpole. :nono:
 
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My only question is why it doesn't happen more often. When I first started going to the northeast regularly, I was amazed by the verbal abuse some of them dealt to each other, and even more amazed that anybody would take that crap. Evidently they do it different back there, they would have been in three fights before coffee break if they tried it here.

I made it pretty clear early-on that we could talk about whatever anybody wanted to talk about, but we didn't talk to folks like that where I grew up, and that crap was a sure-fire trip to fist city and they weren't going to like the ride. At the time, I think I could have backed it up. Now I would probably get my ass kicked, but somebody else would be seeing the dentist.

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Seems Buzz was a bit offended by one of the tin foil hat crowd.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/buzz-aldrin-punches-moon_n_241664.html
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Buzz is a real fighter pilot, a guy who will (and did) strap on a jet and take on an enemy pilot eyeball to eyeball with the winner flying away to get supper and the loser burning to death in flaming jet fuel - the real world not hollywood fantasy... You don't push a guy like that in the chest and make arrogant demands...

That was a nice right hook, btw... I've seen it before but I get a chuckle every time...

denny-o
 
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flyingcheesehead said:
Y'know those whiny bastards who say that we never really went to the moon? One of them accosted Buzz Aldrin - And Aldrin punched him in the face. It's about frickin' time someone did that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4

(Okay, so I guess this happened in 2002 - I never saw it or heard of it before. According to Wikipedia: "On September 9, 2002, filmmaker Bart Sibrel, a proponent of the Apollo moon landing hoax theory, confronted Aldrin outside a Beverly Hills, California hotel. Sibrel said "You're the one who said you walked on the moon and you didn't" and called Aldrin "a coward, a liar, and a thief." Aldrin punched Sibrel in the face. Beverly Hills police and the city's prosecutor declined to file charges.")
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The altercation between Aldrin and Sibrel never happened. It's a hoax! It was filmed on a sound stage in Burbank. Look at Aldrin's right leg, it's casting multiple shadows!
 
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roncachamp said:
The altercation between Aldrin and Sibrel never happened. It's a hoax! It was filmed on a sound stage in Burbank. Look at Aldrin's right leg, it's casting multiple shadows!
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Right!
 
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wbarnhill said:
So... I'm going to go on a limb here and guess the next claim will be "Photoshopped!". :rolleyes:
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Everything is photoshopped and staged, nothing is real. It's all a conspiracy including the conspiracy and the anti-conspiracy conspiracy. You could ship the whiney group to the moon and they still wouldn't believe it's real. Some people are just sickeningly pathetic and the only sensible thing you can do is toss them in a tree shredder machine feet first...and even then they wouldn't believe they're dying. IMO I think they've never done anything real in their life and are jealous of those who have so they attack them instead of getting off their lazy rear ends.

Calling a guy who walked on the moon a coward...that's about as far from being a coward as it gets. Mr mouth deserved to measure his length in the dirt. I would have certainly punched his lights out if I was in Mr Aldrin's shoes.

Back to your regularly scheduled chemtrail conspiracy. Imagine the trail that Apollo left behind during climbout...evil mind altering kerocene and oxygen all over the place brainwashing people into believing something that big actually left the ground...but it couldn't have left the trail if it never took off but it did therefore it didn't. Where's a tree shredding machine when you need one? It's time for a roundup.
 
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