Originally posted by 2nd Amendment
Sometimes I wonder if you ever actually read anything, Rik.
Typical strategy---I disagree with you, therefore I must not have read what you said.
I don't believe the landings were faked.
Now who's not reading? I never said you did believe it. You said you thought some of the images were re-done. I told you why that was so unlikely as to be nearly impossible.
There have been questions about certain images since the very first landing.
Really? Show me a site where a reputable source has questioned the images then.
The questions have been dismissed with the same explanations...until those explanations have been debunked and then new explanations have been manufactured.
Please show me a reputable source that has "debunked" the explanations.
There is nothing the least bit hysterical about the idea government would "polish" things for public consumption. It is, in fact, pretty much the history of government in a nutshell.
There is no such monlithic entity as "the government." There are myriad agencies staffed by a variety of different workers, some appointed, some civil service, plus all those different elected officials and judges. They don't move in one way in some monstrous union, despite what you may think. A decision to fake images from the moon landings would have had to have come from the highest source (Johnson or Nixon depending on which landing) and would have involved a LOT of different people. There is no way in hell it would have remained secret for long.
What does the number of individuals involved have to do with anything? How many people does it take to stage a photograph?
You really DON'T read what I say, do you? The number of people involved matters because the greater the number the greater the chance that someone would discover if any images were faked. And it would take quite a few VERY competent people to fake an image from the moon landing to the point where 30 years later no one had definitively proven it.
And how many people in the huge enterprise that was the space program actually ever looked at every single photograph, had the technical knowledge or personal experience to think something might be wrong AND the inclination to even consider it?
It wasn't JUST the people IN the program---those images were out there for public consumption. It was the entire scope of the scientific community in every single country, including the Soviet Union.
The truly hysterical thing is that there are still people who can be involved in RKBA who will then blindly consider everything else the government pukes up as Gospel.
What is hysterical is that there are still people who can believe in some vast government-wide conspiracy that has been kept secret for decades when the various government agencies and elected bodies can't even keep things secret for WEEKS much less years.
Government does stupid things, thinking it can never be caught because of the resources and intimidation factor.
Right...but they ARE caught. And they WOULD have been caught TWENTY YEARS AGO if they had actually faked images from the moon landings.
Government shooting itself in the foot over non-issues is what I find hysterical. Almost as much so as you still jumping on my case when you haven't got a clue what I'm talking about. Continue that TFL tradition.
