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Is This YouTube Video Proof That NASA’s Moon Landings Were Definitely NOT Faked?

Jan. 21, 2013 10:26am Liz Klimas

S.G. Collins Says It Wasnt Technologically Possible to Fake a Moon Landing During Time of Apollo Missions

Apollo 11 moon landing. (Photo: NASA)

Since the very beginning there are have been conspiracy theories that the moon landings made on NASA’s Apollo missions were faked. The doubt cast on moon landings is such an evergreen story that it’s reported on in one way or another by someone every year, but a Dutch man is making a compelling case that could show once and for all it was not the work of an elaborate hoax.

S.G. Collins, the writer and director of Postwar Media based in Amsterdam, released a YouTube video in December 2012 that essentially says the technology at the time was not sophisticated enough to adequately fake such an event.

“Did people go to the moon in 1969? I’m not totally sure — I wasn’t on the moon then,” Collins says in the video. “Did they fake going to the moon? No, I’m pretty sure they didn’t. Because they couldn’t.”

In his video “moon hoax not,” Collins said the technology to send man to the moon was in fact available at the time, but not the technology to fake it on video.

“The later you were born, the more ‘all powerful’ movie magic seems,” Collins said.

Collins addresses some of the “flaws” that have been called up by those doubting the moon landing:

Should have seen stars? Collins said that we wouldn’t see stars in the moon landing images because the camera was set to expose in broad daylight.

The image on the left is the original. The image on the right shows what the photograph would have looked like if the camera’s exposure was set to capture stars. (Image: YouTube screenshots)

Flag waving the breeze? Collins said this isn’t the case, it is wiggling in a vacuum after being let go. TheBlaze has reported before that the flags were also said to be designed to remain out stretched with a waving effect.

Shadows stretch unrealistically? No they don’t, Collins said. “Go outside sometime and see how shadows work.”

What’s more, Collins said that it wasn’t yet possible to fake what we saw on TV. “Why are people missing this?” he asked.

Collins goes on to address the different types of cameras that were used, were technologically available at the time and what their capabilities were.

Watch Collins’ debunking (Note: some strong language):

On the blog side of his website, Collins addresses some of the criticism he has received about his video:

some of the editorial pushback on my ‘moon hoax not’ movie is all about how the government in those days already had technologies much more advanced than anything i can imagine. including the powerful electronics needed to record hours of continuous overcranked video.

my feeling is that if indeed they had such electronics, then [a] we can’t argue that their navigation computers weren’t powerful enough to get them to the moon, and [b] that technology would likely have trickled down to the private sector at least a decade or two sooner than it did.

so assertions of technological omnipotence tend to persuade me that the americans could and did go to the moon — not the other way around.

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welovetheUSA
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:00pm
I choose to believe we went to the moon…I donot want to think that all those involved would lie about such a event.

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- Bermuda Onion
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:47pm
  I would love to send Obama to the moon.
  
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- selfd59
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:51pm
  That’s probably the best reason to reject the moon landing conspiracy idea. Too many were involved..it’d make too good a lucrative book opportunity for someone in the know to spill the beans. There are reasonable explanations to anomalies seen in moon mission photographs. It just proves that video and photo evidence isn’t always conclusive.
  I’d rather hear about what our Astronauts found when they got there.
  
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- SquareHead
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:10pm
  I appreciate your candor, that you CHOOSE to believe in the moon landing, despite the facts. Regarding all involved, it is the same as the Manhattan project were 130,000 people was involved in the initiative to create the nuclear bomb. How many of then knew what was happening?
  
  To make it easier for yourself to CONTINUE TO CHOOSE TO BELIEVE don’t watch the links posted below.
  I did and I can no longer believe it, and I must admit that there is little tangible benefit today by coming to the conclusion that it was faked. In 10-20 years to believe in the moon landing will be like believing in Wizard of Oz. NASA’s reaction to all the info is almost as convicting as the evidence itself. I looked everywhere to try to prove that it was true, only to find an occasional straw men argument, done by people other than NASA.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMvQTNLaUE&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciStUEZK-Y&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL98p0wZ7g&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fDybPDtsrY&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MalYSn_qIU4&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
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- Starkadder
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:36pm
  @SQUAREHEAD
  Any talk of conspiracy in faking the moon landings fall flat on their face when confronted with one inarguable FACT.
  Telemetry.
  The Soviets (our enemy at the time) were monitoring the telemetry of the broadcasts, if those broadcasts had come from anywhere other than the moon it would have been exposed by the Soviets and the Chinese.
  To insist that it was faked is to insist our enemies colluded with the conspiracy.
  
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- Bro. Chuck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Its kinda simple really…..
  
  Folks today can’t make the reach and embrace that “will” that we had back then to actually push ourselves to do something like that…
  they themselves wouldn’t believe in it, so why should anybody else?
  
  Every Sunday when disney would come on, what would happen?
  “when you wish upon a starrrrrr”
  kids grew up with visions….
  aspirations…
  
  it was a different time – a different place even…
  about overcoming differences to work together to overcome a challenge !
  
  what do we have today?
  a bunch of “least common denominators” screening “they” don’t believe -
  or “they ” don’t like something…
  Or, “they” aren’t gonna do anything where they have to step outside of their lil bubble world or put themselves out….
  
  This is why folks are turning inwards to themselves -
  unwilling to see beyond and embrace anything “higher”…
  
  Thats why when all hell breaks loose around here, you’re gonna have a bunch ‘o crying whiners
  tryin’ to get up in the Lord God Almighty’s Face and scream -
  its not fair…
  or, I didn’t believe this…
  you were supposed to be …… (you fill in the blanks)
  
  I was a lil kid watching those rockets lift off -
  watching walter cronkite follow the blips…
  listening to the beeps & cracklin transmissions….
  
  yup, we did it.
  
  safe to say we could never do it again, though…
  
  Be Bless’d!
  
  Bro. Chuck
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:19pm
  “Is This YouTube Video Proof That NASA’s Moon Landings Were Definitely NOT Faked?”
  
  No, ’cause ALICE has already been “to da moon”.
  (“One of these days, Alice! One of these days! *POW* *ZOOM*)
  
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- auhunter
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:21pm
  I was there for the launch and the recovery, if they didn’t go to the moon, where were they during that time. We weren’t tacking them at any of the massive telemetry sites NASA had around the world at that time except by radio. in which there was a considerable time delay between transmission and receipt. NASA wouldn’t have blown all that money on a hoax, knowing that sooner or later the truth would have come out and they would have been shut down. Where did they get the rock they brought back, they didn’t have it when they left, and they sure as hell didn’t stop at any rock and gem shop along the way. I participated in either the launch or recovery of every mission up to the first launch of Discovery. They were all for real, with all the hazards and mishaps along the way.
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Mythbusters had a good episode debunking all the moon hoax myths.But then, Alex Jones would say they were part of the conspiracy.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:12pm
  The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead – Benjamin Franklin
  
  Considering how much stuff gets leaked from the highest levels of government on a regular basis, it’s a HUGE leap of faith to think all those people kept the secret for all this time.
  
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- freeberty
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:15pm
  I going out on a limb and say that this video proof has been faked.
  
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- carltonnewman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:18pm
  According to the book Alternative 3 by Leslie Watkins http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZK.htm there were already space colonies on the Moon and on Mars in 1962.
  
  In 1970 I applied for a job as a Computer Operator at the Pasadena, Calif Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The person interviewing me eagerly showed me what they had accomplished with some of their technology. They were able to take a photograph of a person and strip them, article of clothing by article of clothing, until they were naked. A facemask would be totally useless in concealing ones identity as they could digitally remove it and expose your face. They were likewise able to remove cloud and fog cover to see, perfectly clearly, what they were looking at. They could also re-align buildings shot at obtuse angles so they appeared “full face” straight up and down.
  
  It is said that the technology released to the public is roughly 50 years old by the time the public has access to it. Think about that.
  
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- From Virginia
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:43pm
  @Bro Chuck – Yep! To everything you said! Shoot, we can’t even build the Hoover Dam today and it was built back in the 30′s. We’d never be about go across our country to build railroads, freeways or string telephone wires. Some busybody would get in the way and file 257 (I’m lowballing) lawsuits to halt construction.
  
  We live in a sucky age and I really despise at least half of my fellow Americans.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:55pm
  Well, obviously if the State of Hawaii Health and Human Services Department and the Republican Governor at the time were able to conspire to create and issue a fake birth certificate, then anything is possible.
  
  Given all the photos and video that was faked of the launches, the recoveries, the initial EVAs, the three deaths in Apollo 1 in a test on the pad, the near deaths in Apollo 13, all those photos and videos from the command module as well as the LIM, all those fake lunar rocks, all those biographies and the belief that the moon was created from a collision with the Earth?
  
  Dang, it would have been cheaper and easier just to go to the moon.
  
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- John 1776
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:24pm
  Hard to believe there are those who think it was faked. China and the USSR would have had a propaganda field day! There were items left on the moon that were set up during the landing including corner-cube reflectors that have been used to track variations in orbit since 1969 and are still used today. The sites and the areas disturbed remain visible as well. Of course, seeing how well the concept of “climate change” has been sold to the public, I guess some people will believe anything.
  
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- Texaslockstar
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:42pm
  I do agree we have more to worry about than “if we went to the moon” , I mean obama is still in power for 4 more long years. But this has come up in conversation before . Every timr it happens somone throws out “all the people involved ” . Let me tell you honestly , it would be easier than you think to fool the people involved. They sat in a room watching a moniter thinking they are doing a job when in reality they are watching a computer program from another room. Did we go ? I don’t care. Should we go again? If we really can we should , but wait till obama is out of office so he gets no credit. Now solve the JFK thing. One shooter or more?
  
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- FatFreedom
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:28pm
  Squarehead.
  
  You underestimate the ignorance of people and even those on the right!
  The sheep here will never watch those movies, as they are afraid to find out the truth. I am amazed at all the the post here are like something one would expect from a communist dictatorship, who buys the official story blindly, despite 45% of the readers here don’t believe the moon landing ever took place.
  
  I have not seen any comments here from the Sheep, that refutes any of the charges in the movies you posted.
  
  It would be like getting a Liberal to read TheBlaze, or dare to engage in an instinctual debate with someone on the right. Few dare as most will only name call and run of and watch MSNBC, and read NY Times and sign Hope and Change.
  
  I used to think that conservatives would not act like liberals in that sense, but I was wrong, as we can see here 59% of the readers will NEVER DARE TO WATCH the links you posted.
  
  In 2030 the same people will deny that they actually did believe anyone went to the moon, as younger generation has not the emotional investment in the Apollo Program, and the blind faith in the moon landing.
  
  You and I can say that we looked at the facts and faced ridicule for speaking up about the obvious :)
  
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- bigdaddyt46
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:40pm
  @bermuda
  
  not me that’s still too close to America
  
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- Awakening Day
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:18pm
  Starkadder,
  Russia developed deep space tracking/telemetry the year NASA promptly cancelled all further Apollo missions.
  
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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:19pm
  If for no other reason that’s why you have to know we went. Human nature. That many people cannot keep that big a secret for this long.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:49pm
  People who think the moon landing
  was fake
  VOTED for OBO They think he is real.
  I know I know They will say they did’nt ,
  But untill they show proof on U-Tube
  Dont believe them…
  
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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:06am
  “Moon landing conspiracy theorists are idiots… But I don’t believe we killed Osama”
  - Every Blaze-Banger on the site.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:28am
  Osama who
  I thought we killed Usama
  
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- siquijorisland
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:40am
  Some thing that so many people have ignored is the two groups of United States ham radio operators recorded directly from the moon. Additionally one group in europe also directly recorded directly form the moon they were interested in in that fact that no information was held back from the public.
  chick it out online ham radio listen to moon landing
  
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- siquijorisland
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:53am
  One of three groups to record message directly from the moon real non government groups who real facts have been ignored by the conspiracy theorists. this says a lot about the doubters in society.
  Eavesdropping on Apollo 11
  Chris Graney
  christopher.graney@kctcs.edu
  The nearly forgotten story of how a radio amateur successfully detected transmissions from the first men to land on the Moon.
  
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- ttexlax
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 2:33am
  Disturbing to me simply because the current results of the poll show 40% believe the landing was faked. I am sure the liberal media is pleased to see their propaganda tricks are working so well on a very dumbed down USA.
  I would be curious to see the same poll with each nations votes listed separately to indicate just how stupid we have allowed ourselves to become compared to other communities of this planet.
  
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- SquareHead
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 8:14am
  I tried to post 10 questions that prooves the moon mission was faked, which is taken from the video links that I posted. But appearantly TheBlaze refuses to post those posts! I thought that “The Truth LIves Here” Apparantly not :(
  
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- enzomedici
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 9:06am
  Well, the video’s argument is hilarious. We didn’t have the technology to fake a moon landing but we did have the technology to actually go there? haha. If we had the technology to go to the moon, we most certainly had the technology to fake it. I believe we wen there, but to say we couldn’t fake it is ludicrous.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:23am
  I always wondered how they got the video of him coming down the ladder for the first time…….. Was there a camera crew waiting for him ? Did he set up the camera then go back inside , and then come down again ? Hmmmmm this always puzzled me…
  
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- tokyr
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:07pm
  @Squarehead..It was nothing at all like the Manhattan Project. Everyone at Nasa knew exactly what was going on and all worked together to insure success. Starkadder was correct , when he said the Soviets would have been the first to expose the hoax had it been one. Are you saying that all 6 landings have been a hoax? The videos you posted only prove that with todays technology, you can make anything look any way you want. I was 16 years old in “69″ and remember it all well. In my opinion, Your worthless efforts to try to discredit the achievements of our space program are rather pathetic. Oh but its on youtube, it must be true! lol thanks for the comedy relief.
  
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- Smoovious
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:31pm
  @Bro. Chuck
  
  We, as a country, were made up of very different people, back then. We’re too cowardly across the board today.
  
  Back then, we were made of much stronger stuff… and we’ve had it too easy in our generations… we can’t imagine the kind of strength and resolve to accomplish something so fantastic as landing on the moon, in a time where nobody had ever done it before and we were still just beginning to get above the atmosphere.
  
  We’ve gone soft and weak and cowardly, and that is reflected in the quality (or lack thereof) of the individuals we choose to represent us in our government, from federal to local.
  
  We shun those who can actually tackle the big problems and would actually have a chance to accomplish something, instead choosing to play it safe by sticking with those who are too afraid to stand up for something.
  
  Those attitudes reflected ourselves then, and they reflect us now.
  
  We’ve become a nation of cowards. Plain and simple.
  
  And it is our own fault.
  
  – Smoov
  
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- TROONORTH
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Sorry squarehead, those videos are childishly simple minded and have been de-bunked years ago. If you want to believe that The United States never landed men on the moon that is your right. But you are dismissing the greatest achievement, the most important event of the 20′th century and the brave men who did it and their finest hour.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:21am
  I understand Elvis’ death was a hoax too. For the longest time I heard Elvis was still lurking around. but not so much anymore. The last I heard, he locked himself into a filling station bathroom. Since then he’s pretty much vanished. I wonder if Hillary was using the same bathroom. That would explain a lot.
  
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SteveSD
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:58pm
Ummm… guys?

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures, from lunar orbit, of every Apollo landing site except Apollo 14 in 2009. Not only can you see the ascent frame remains and the flags, but you can actually make out the trails of the footprints on the lunar surface, in exactly the right places. This is SO not an issue.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
  I think conspiracy theories are natural, to be expected & to an extent healthy.
  
  I think it is a way of people to lash out are perceived & real conspiracies & unfairness.
  
  I wonder what percentage of people believed in a flat earth now compared to 20, 40 or 50 years ago?
  Has it decreased? But are there the same # of people that believe in various conspiracies?
  
  I could see the number of people believing in conspiracies increasing slightly but people believing in a flat earth decreasing. It is not the conspiracy du jour & other things bug people more.
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:56pm
  Well, maybe, but… but… but…
  
  …but wouldn’t they *WANT* us to believe that, so they’d photoshop it in?
  
  lmao
  
  What you can’t fake is the absolute fact that the Mythbusters have busted every single moon-hoax myth, except one.
  
  http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing
  
  Oh- and the one they confirmed absolutely proves that man has walked on the moon.
  
  Sorry to break the news to you Alex Jones and Coast-to-Coast AM listeners… you’re dopes.
  
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- SquareHead
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:28pm
  @LEFTFIGHTER
  
  I wish I could still believe it, like you. I set out to disprove the hoax myself, and in so was convinced that we NEVER did go to the moon. Look at the links posted below for yourself if you dare:0
  
  Mythbuster’s as an authority goes to show how gullible this TV generations are.
  They used a construction light to simulate the sun that should have been placed a mile away and not 25′ as they did, to represent the 1:50 scale of their model.
  
  The hurt for us that took so much pride in being the first to the moon is almost unbearable, and I never told my WW2 father in law, while he was alive, as I know that it would have killed him. But the fact is that Americans needs to wake up to the fact that USA, the best place on earth, and what has been a shining city on the hill to quote Reagan is not infallible. NO government ever was, but we need to look honestly at our past, so we can better influence the future.
  So acknowledge that we faked the moon landing. The rest of the world that has access to the videos below already are mocking our faux accomplishment
  
  We need to be skeptical as our founding fathers was, and as our Constitution demands, if we plan to keep it.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMvQTNLaUE&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciStUEZK-Y&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL98p0wZ7g&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Yes, Steve, I remember hearing early summer of 09′, “the LRO photos will put it to rest”. We waited and waited. Then about the winter the images were released, and everyone looked and looked, but no clear images could be seen. Every once in a while someone (a believe till I die nut) would say here is one, and it was just a blurry rock. NOBODY could find a clear pic of ANYTHING. Now that three years have passed, BAM, crystal clear images of flags and limbs and footpaths NONE OF WHICH COULD BE FOUND THREE YEARS AGO.
  
  You see, less than intelligent person, there is this thing called THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT. The “advanced space ship” claimed to have reached the moon was not shielded enough to prevent exposure to the VRB, it would have been too heavy. One space shuttle mission went into the VRB, but the astronauts ACTUALLY REMEMBERED THE EXPERIENCE. In that experience they stated paraphrased “It looked like shooting stars streaking across our field of vision, with our eyes closed”.
  
  Next people like you will be claiming occupants of the twin towers witnessed the tower “sway back and forth like a pendulum” like people inside the Empire St Bld stated when Old John Feathermerchant struck in 45′. GET OFF YOUR UNEDUCATED HORSE.!.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 9:44am
  Why are we even debating the moon landing again??? Is this just to make anyone who asks conspiracy questions look just as stupid? What is alinsky’s rule about ridicule to shut people up? Truthers? Birthers? What shall we call those who question the facts around Sandy Hook…Hookers?
  
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AtkRWC
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:57pm
The same people who think the Moon Landings were fake…think WWF is REAL!

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lefthook37
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:52pm
Look ….once and for alll we went to the moon …the landing was real… we walked on the moon….I know……I was there…..!

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- AgentP
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:05am
  U tell um, Buzz!
  
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Sgtrocknroll
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:51pm
If you want the REAL truth about the moon landings and all things Lunar, go to http://www.thelivingmoon.com for the answers!

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Jim S
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:49pm
Who is this article for? Missing the Alex Jones crowd? Need more FEMA coffin ad revenue? Preppers not tuning in ?..Let’s tackle the Earth circles the Sun or Sun circles the Earth raging debate. Jesuits and NWO and illuminati..Lightworkers..alien abductions ..this opens a whole new demographic for The Blaze… 3 day weekend..no editor on duty…sorry I forgot…

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- Paool
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:35pm
  Apparently it was written for about 42% of Blaze readers (as of 1/21 @ 4:34pm) who think the landing was a hoax.
  
  People just seem to love a conspiracy theory more than a success story. Sad.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:46pm
I’m still up the air about whether it happened or not.

Most of the “debunking” I’ve seen, icluding this, where people are trying to claim they can prove that it wasn’t faked is mostly nonsense. That doesn’t necessarily mean it was faked, but the people trying to prove it’s authenticity haven’t done it any favors to this point.

And the main issue with believing it did happen is that that there were plans both by us and the soviets to continue landing there, put permanent installations on the moon and possibly colonize it. They gave up on it for a reason, and it wasn’t because they weren’t interested anymore.

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- HYPNOTOAD
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:24pm
  ROWGUE: Who cares where you stand on this? You gave the typical predictable stupid answer you always give.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:25pm
  You poor thing, America’s NASA DID land men on the moon, you can believe it. The program stopped maybe to concentrate on a space station (VERY expensive), which would be needed for staging equipment for transport to the moon (VERY expensive), and a space shuttle to ferry men and equipment to the station (VERY expensive), and then there’s a space ship to make the trip, land, unload & load, and take-off for return (VERY expensive. All the while there was this little Viet Nam thing going on (VERY expensive).
  Time to move on to more important matters, like how a marxist socialist got elected president, and then manage to win a second term after nearly bringing the country to its knees.
  
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- Average_Joseph
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
  The real unanswered question is not if we landed on the moon but which moon did we actually land on?
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:32pm
  Well no air, water, food..makes a colony difficult. During and after the Apollo program, we actually developed other programs, Earth station, Hubble etc that really made a Moon base a waste of money. In addition, they realized that IF they did build a city/community on the Moon…you wouldn’t be sure if it was there anyway..kinda up in the air about the whole thing…
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:00pm
  Right… so the Mythbusters (aided by the Scientific Method) didn’t prove anything?
  
  http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:11pm
  No the mythbusters didn’t prove anything. There wasn’t anything scientific about anything they did. They claimed to not be able to reproduce the footage, but that doesn’t prove anything except that THEY were unable to reproduce it. Most of what they did was intentionally designed to fail.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:19pm
  So they abandoned it because it was useless and expensive and there were all the limitations of low gravity, no air/water, etc. But they then decided to embark on an even more useless project that is exponentially more expensive, with all the same limitations. Okay I’m convinced now.
  
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mcmeador
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:41pm
Geez, that guy creeps me out.

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Bill813
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:34pm
Discovery channel’s Mythbusters debunked the conspiracy theories a few yeara ago, including the one about the flag. As others noted, it’s scary that over 40% buy into this nonsense.

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- Techcon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:53pm
  Yes, that program (Mythbusters) was quite good, including the end, when the bounce a laser beam off the retro reflector left by the astronauts.
  
  As for hoaxing “something,” one doesn’t generally do it SIX times (for fear of being caught) and throw in a colossal failure (Apollo 13), ta boot.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. “Once and for all” has already been done lol.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:45pm
  Tech-
  maybe apollo 13 was the real first try….
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:13pm
  LMFAO, you mean the same Mythbusters that stated unequivocally they would NEVER address anything to do w/ the twin towers.
  YEA, REAL OPEN MINDED PEOPLE TO HANG YOUR HAT ON.
  
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THERAPTURCOMES
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:18pm
Did we go to the moon or not? I don’t really care but I do know one fact that is indisputable. The government has always been way ahead of the civilian sector in technology.

If we had so bad of video technology then who or what technology panned the camera up as the lunar module blasted off from the moon surface?

Like I said, I am more concerned with if people believe upon Christ in these last days before the resurrection/rapture takes place

1 Cor 15:1-4 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

The resurrection/rapture is about to take place and you do not want to be left behind for the horror of the 7 year tribulation

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- Driftpin
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:16pm
  It is amazing how hung up we can get with the meaningless things of the world. The silly arguments, debates and division we have toward others when Christ died not to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved. We only have one shot at it, there aren’t going to be any do overs and here we are debating if technologies existed to go to the moon. I do believe as well we are living in the end times that God described in 2nd Timothy 3 (all of these things have come and are here) and in chapter 4 the people heaping to themselves teachers, having itching ears is apparent by anyone who looks at the condition of our churches these days.
  
  Revelation 3:20 Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with me.
  
  BTW. Those looking to argue with me about theology can go somewhere else. I learned long ago that arguing the things of God over the Internet is like banging my head against a brick wall and is unfruitful.
  
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- 1ONE1
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:23pm
  If a pre trib rapture doesn’t take place I hope you don’t loose faith because you were counting on it.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:39pm
  “government has always been way ahead of the civilian sector in technology.” – yes, certainly because they have a bottomless wallet and contract private companies.
  But remember the To The Moon effort was by brute force, utilizing a great big rocket with a little tiny pay package, and the computers involved were less powerful than those in your car. All and all a very dangerous mission, a landmark achievement, but not beyond the capability of the generation, and those daring young men in their flying machines.
  
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- MBarne4908
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:10pm
  The Camera was done by remote control in Houston. This was chronicled in the HBO series, From Earth to the Moon. There are detailed books by the people involved, the astronauts, thousands of people who were actually there. The “Conspiricy theories” always discount the character of the astronauts. These were test pilots, scientists, people who could not be bought because integrity was everything. The conspiricy theories on this are so Universally stupid and countered so easily. You have to work hard to believe such nonsense.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:16pm
44% of voters in this poll believe the moon landings were fake?

Good Lord. I’ll be in the corner in a fetal position for a while.

Our education system has failed. Badly.

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- aki009
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:38pm
  I’m right behind you. These induhviduals need to read books like “How Apollo Flew to the Moon”, “Apollo Guidance Computer” and “Digital Apollo”. But I have no idea how well these 44% are able to absorb the content of the books.
  
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- dtrent387
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:43pm
  their are some people who can’t help but think that their is a conspiracy behind everything
  
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- afnewyorker
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:55pm
  Yeah, I noticed that too. It’s kinda depressing, although they are probably all Alex Jones fans…
  
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- K Chad Roberts
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:14pm
  I cannot believe that number either… how can so many people deny something like the moon landings… This guys presentation was qualitative, sure, but there is NOTHING on the counter argument that holds up to logic.
  
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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:32pm
  Dear Flag..,
  
  The lack of logical and critical thinking skills is a scandal. Our education system has done so much damage.
  
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Bua
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:10pm
I was there in mission control when they landed—–and they landed and walked and did all of the things there on several different occasions that were shown to public .The doubters are today’s flat earth people who are probably all Obama supporters—-who aren’t really smart enough to even be an athletic supporter.

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- Gargent_Furball
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:22pm
  Amen !
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:26pm
  that just makes you part of the conspiracy….That is how conspiracy theories work. You worked for the government. The government lies constantly. So there you have it. lol.
  
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- escape_from_socialism
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:32pm
  I have watched a movie series on youtube about people, who ware in that project. They went step by step on every component. How they developed suits, navigation, all the vehicles. Great movie. I would give a title, but can’t remember. BTW Lockheed made SR-71 in 1965, so the technology was there.
  
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- imnotherbert
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:41pm
  @ESCAPE_FROM_SOCIALISM:
  
  I believe the series you are thinking of is called “Moon Machines”. It was done by the Science Channel, I have it on DVD. They went behind the scenes into the creation of all the various components, it is fascinating stuff and well worth a look for fans of the Apollo program.
  
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Advection
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:31am
Believe photos of moon taken from satellites currently orbiting earth.

http://www.newswarped.com/2011/09/new-nasa-photos-prove-moon-landings-not-a-fake/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/17jul_lroc/

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krenshau
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:21am
I think it was and is possible, but it seems unlikely that they did, to me anyway. If they can tell me how their tiny, thin spaceship got through the radiation belt I would be more agreeable. I also think that it would have made more sense to fake it for financial reasons, but I wasn’t there so I guess it’s possible that they did it. I know the space station has issues with radiation, even though it’s better built, and they still have it hanging over the earth.

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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:27am
  Agree! But, of course, I am not scientist – just curious about the earth and what scientists present as “factual” information about the history of earth.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:43am
  We landed on the moon in the middle of the Cold War. The Soviets had the means and the motive to debunk everything we faked, but they never did. Was the Cold War faked, too?
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:13pm
  The radiation belt is a problem for satellites and space stations because they are repeatedly exposed for longer periods of time. Each moon voyage would have spent relatively little time in the radiation belt. In fact, the astronauts would have had greater exposure to solar radiation. It’s not as though scientists were ignorant of the radiation belt.
  
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- Dano.50
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Advection,
  
  I’ve stumped people with the same reasoning.
  
  If the landing had been faked the Russians would STILL be going on about nailing the U.S. over it.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:33pm
  except that they may have been fooled just like the rest of the world. It is one thing to suspect and another to prove. The russian program was more advanced than the American one. While I personally believe they did the landing, I wouldn’t doubt the government lied about when they did it. I wouldn’t doubt the fact the government would lie to the people to make them seem more successful than they are or were. And they easily could have faked it in a studio in Lancaster, CA. Wouldn’t require any crazy advanced camera’s as this guy claims. The footage doesn’t look much different than 50′s sci-fi flicks.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:15am
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We’ll never go again as a country…….

Ralph has a better chance sending Alice to the moon……

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scootervanneuter
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:12am
Interesting – smart enough to understand film technology, stupid enough to be a liberal

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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:19am
  As far right as possible without being a card carrying Libertarian . . .oh, that’s right they wouldn’t make us carry cards. Just a little open-minded and agree that the gov’t lies all day every day . . .even before coffee.
  
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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:21am
  Sorry. Need Coffee. Of course you were referring to Collins. Sometimes I think it’s all about me.
  
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ktywck
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:02am
I have been adoubter for a long time . . . the Van Allen radiation belt was a big reason . . . yet, my daughter is a tv/film student and this info he gives is soo true. And if you watch all the way to the end, he tells us why it’s not really important to find out if it was a hoax. He didn’t mention the seed vault being sealed or the global coastal event . . . but, he is so right.

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- Kumo
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:27am
  I am pretty sure the original trajectories to and from the Moon used by the Apollo crafts helped them to avoid the Van Allen belts
  
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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:04pm
  What tragectory exactly, is that –
  “The Van Allen Radiation Belts are trapped in the Earth’s geomagnetic fields. There are two belts which are toroidal (shaped like donuts or bagels) with Earth at the center. Both belts, an inner belt and an outer belt, are composed of plasma (highly energetic charged particles such as electrons and protons).”
  
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Guitar Master
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:57am
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They should replace David Gregory with this dude, shouldn’t they?

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Canada_Goose
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:50am
I though Google Moon pretty much settled this with actually showing images of the equipment left over from the Apollo missions. Given the dislike of anything Google related here at the Blaze I am not really surprised this is not mentioned.

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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:11am
  Umm, so no way to fake photos ??
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:47am
  @KTYCK
  
  Did they also fake moon rocks and soil? NASA sent that material all over the world, and its been studied studied for over 40 years, but nobody has ever discovered any terrestrial micro fossils or other reason to doubt the evidence.
  
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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:05pm
  I meant the Googley photos . . . . they have their own agenda.
  
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Laugh-ler14
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:46am
How is it possible that this is still being questioned? Of course we had the technology to go to the moon and we still do today. The only question is why we havent gone there since. Hell, i’m only 27! I want someone to at least be shot to the moon or mars once in my lifetime. I think a good ol’ space race would be good for the economy. i am always weary of gov’t spending, but at least it would be on something cool.

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Hell of the Upside Down Sinners
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:45am
Really….38% think we didnt land on the moon? Go google “satelite photos of moon landings” there is a lunar orbitor that took pictures of the moon landing sites. Unless they are some really good photoshops you can see the lunar lander and even tire tracks from the rover.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:55am
  Can you see this on Google to?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X5oucqQe4
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:09am
  I don’t believe the poll numbers either, and I’ve seen this before. It’s simple to vote multiple times to skew these polls, but what they cannot do as easily is generate convincing posts that corroborate the poll results. When you see half of the people in the poll think the moon is made of cheese, but there is only one person posting BS in the forum, you know that poll was trashed.
  
  It seems that this website is another favorite place for liberals to try and alter everyone’s perception of reality. First they alter poll results, then they report the fake result to friends to prove how gullible Blaze readers are.
  
  If you have to manufacture evidence in order to prove your beliefs, because there is no evidence to support your beliefs, then you’re self deceived, and your beliefs are false.
  
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- VegasGuy
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:18am
  The poll now ticks off at 40% who are non-believers. I had no idea there were so many conspiracy theorists here. As someone who watched it on a tube TV all I can say is how sad. How very sad.
  
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- AZgirl9000
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:19am
  Advection, you’re so right. Liberals post blatantly racist fake comments, too, as “proof” of what all Blaze readers “really think”.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:36am
  @VEGAS
  
  I saw the numbers go as high as 43%, which is absurd. I could make the number change, if I were so inclined, but why should I play their games?
  
  @AZGIRL
  
  Yep. I’ve seen ridiculous posts by obvious “party crashes”. It’s the price we pay for venturing into the “interweb”.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:43am
We went and we landed and came home again, end of story.

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KingCanon
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:38am
I watched the entire arrogantly worded vid. It’s as convincing as it gets that
NASA could not have faked the live coverage at that place and time in history.

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theninthplanet
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:37am
Slow news day Blaze?

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- ktywck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:23am
  ANYTHING not associated with the coronation is appreciated.
  
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- jlancecombs
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:27am
  Blaze often does “human interest” stories. It’s one of the reasons I frequent this site.
  
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Mandors
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:33am
The real conspiracy is why nearly 50 years later we have not progressed at all in space travel.

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- Zipit
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:42am
  Going backwards!
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:55am
  Because Bathhouse Barry changed the Space Shuttle for a Muslim camel….
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:15pm
  The lunar landing is real. Sandy Hook? It’s beginning to look like that is a hoax.
  
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- Ya_think
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:51pm
  It is because of money, they can’t afford all the things they want to do so they went with the Mars rover.
  
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