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In article <4586@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us  
writes:
> 
> 
>     Well  ,  it  sounds  like the willingness to cling to some kind of la-la
>    land belief that our  government  wouldn't  lie  to  us  about  the  moon
>    landings  won't  just  melt  in  the  face of straightforward ,elementary
>    mathematics ,and piles of circumstantial evidence. I guess I'll just have
>    to use even bigger piles of circumstantial evidence and MORE  math.  Here
>    goes:
> 
[stuff about astros not moving as much as 1/6 g might have permitted]

I just find it hard to believe, that a cover up that was so good as to fool  
_all_ the media could have been carried out.  But regardless of this, consider  
the very good quality pictures we got back from the moon...  Isn't it kind of  
weird, that although the government was able to provide great realistic  
pictures, they would not spend the extra bucks for some real low g effects?
The movie _2001_ had some pretty realistic 0g, but the U.S. government could  
not afford it for a massive cover up ?!?!


>     During Apollo 17 ,  astronauts  Cernan  and  Scmitt  began  their  first
>    assignment  by deploying and loading the Rover . Cernan apparently became
>    quite excited and his Capsule Communicator , astronaut Parker warned  him
>    that  his  metabolic rate was going up. That meant that he was using more
>    oxygen. Cernan replied  that  he  never  felt  calmer  in  his  life  and
>    indicated  to  Parker that he would take it easy . He mentioned to Parker
>    that he thought that it was due to getting accustomed to handling himself
>    in "zero g".
> 
>     Parker, an astronomer, then stated that he thought Cernan was working at
>    1/6 gravity. Cernan's reply was "Yes. You know where we are....whatever."
>    This remark suggests that Cernan wanted to avoid the discussion.  Perhaps
>    Parker  was  not  aware  of  the  high  gravity  situation  and  asked an
>    embarrassing question.
> 

All that you needed to avoid this problem was some quick editing!  Made for TV  
movies are better at catching dumb errors like these!

In addition there is also the questions:

- Why has noone in _authority_ ever spilled his beans
- You think the gov can trust all of Congress (and its staffers) to keep quiet?  
- If Congress didn't know about the cover up where did the $$$ go?
- Soviets would have made _VERY_ sure the whole world new about the fake, after
  all they could easily have told if transmissions were comming from the moon!
_ You really think that Nixon thought this was so important as to go through
  a whole other cover up :)

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