So I have this professor that discussed the book Dark Mission today in class and described it as the ultimate proof that we really didn’t land on the moon and that NASA is making this all up.
Apparently, there are glass structures on the moon? Cities of light? Huge skulls? Unfortunately, we never see this with our THOUSANDS of telescopes that can clearly see the moon and we don’t have any shots of this super glass city. But that’s beyond the point. He was also watching videos online “debunking” photos on the moon. Eventually, everyone was talking about how the moon landing might have been staged.
Does everyone feel this way? Does this hypothesis have any real basis?
Even a PhD can still be an idiot. Glass structures?! That’s a new one. I’d transfer out of his class and/or ask for a tuition credit for gross incompetence.
Damn straight. And if he also thinks 9/11 was staged I’ll pop him one too!
By Og’s blessed smelly toes we landed on the moon.
Satisfied?
What did you (or yor Prof) find compelling about this book (never heard of it myself, you have a link?)?
But…any green cheese?
No one can every get a good shot of the flying pink unicorn in my garage either for some odd reason…
Every attempt at debunking I’ve seen on this subject has been done by folks who haven’t a clue what they are talking about. They have all (without exception) been completely horseshit. I still remember some old debunker bastard doing an OJ like stunt with a space glove (you can’t wear gloves in space! See! Hilarious that the guy didn’t have the first idea what he was talking about or how stupid it made him look to anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of how a vaccume works)
I have a CSICOP (or maybe it was Skeptical Inquirer Magazine) laying about somewhere that went into all this in detail. I remember some guru with lines and angles written all over the photos supposedly showing that the landing HAD to be a fake. After the skeptics and experts were done with him he sort of slunk away and asked for a refund from the school he went too… It was pretty bad.
The glass structures moonbattery is from Richard Hoagland, the same guy who thinks the hill on Mars is a face.
ETA: I see he also wrote the Dark Mission book you looked at in class, so maybe you already knew the name. Hoagland is completely off his rocker, and it sounds like your professor is as well.
Unless… he’s conducting a class exercise in critical thinking.
So let me get this straight. The perfesser in question is using “facts” promoted by someone who says that NASA is covering up artifacts discovered by the Apollo moon missions to argue that NASA could not possibly have landed on the moon.
Well Appollo 11 crew set up a laser reflector on the moon that has been used to measure the precise distance from earth to moon at various places in their orbits. These data began to be reported not long after Appollo 11 set up the reflector. They cannot have been measured from anything other than a precisely aligned laser reflector. That means that because the robotic equipment of the time was so primitive, there is no other way for that reflector to have been instaled and aligned so precisely by a robot. Therefore it had to have been done by a human who landed on the moon.
My astronomy professor tackled this one class session. After systematically attacking each of the most popular moon landing hoax theories, I had to raise my hand.
“Plus, don’t you think if they recorded this all on a movie set, they’d have done another take so Neil Armstrong could get his ‘one small step’ line right?” :smack:
The Moon itself is an illusion. We only think we see the Moon, and so have our ancestors for thousands of millennia, because God put it there to test our faith, in much the same manner as how He created dinosaur bones that appear to be millions of years old.
We did send spacecraft to where the Moon appears to be, and the astronauts who landed on that patch of blank space actually do believe they landed on something solid – the Moon-Illusion is so powerful, they were actually able to defy physics & gravity by jumping up & down and driving a land rover over what’s actually nothing. THAT’S how deep the conspiracy goes.
UGG! We landed on the moon. If there is one piece of credible science to dispute the moon walk, I would like to see it.
But, of course, the World Trade Center was a massive conspiracy. The planes were drones and the destruction of two iconic skyscrapers was actually a planned implosion by our brilliant government. All those people supposedly on the planes were actually CIA operatives. Don’t forget JFK was shot with a magic bullet.
Oh no, not behind his back, right in front of him, in front of the whole class, pointing a finger at him amid the histerical laughter is a plus.
Really, this people have stones for brains, it´s fun to point and laugh at such specimens.
Does this guy have tenure? If he spouted this stuff I would be at the Dean’s office bitching my head off about that nonsense. If he can’t even think rationally, how the hell is he going to teach you properly?
