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Offline Bob B.

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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #690 on: September 26, 2014, 06:23:24 PM »
C++ is incredibly baroque.  Try Python instead.

Thanks for the suggestion.  When I find the time to get back into programming, I'll look into Python.

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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #691 on: September 26, 2014, 06:36:08 PM »
Bwwwhahaha! First thing that popped into my head (after my keyboard got spattered with coffee)  was.....

Well spotted.  And wouldn't Peter O'Toole, ca. 1962 have made a much more dashing astronaut?
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #692 on: September 26, 2014, 07:27:39 PM »
It is posts like the latest from Jockndoris that make me wish this forum had a BS flag emoticon like GLP.
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #693 on: September 26, 2014, 07:45:08 PM »
If anyone had reported them for any reason they would have been called lunatics as everyone knew they were on the Moon.

I'm just actually going to just leave this sitting here for Mr Burns to ponder.

Nevertheless according to the book a "military fellow" came to the golf course from the "Military Base" and told Armstrong & Co. that they were wanted back at the base so they could be "collected."  (Because that's how American military men talk.)  So not only did they go cavorting about the golf course when they should have been assiduously not almost getting caught again, they left word back at "the Military Base" that they were going golfing.  And no one apparently thought that was a problem.
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #694 on: September 26, 2014, 07:59:41 PM »
It is posts like the latest from Jockndoris that make me wish this forum had a BS flag emoticon like GLP.

Here, use mine

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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #695 on: September 27, 2014, 03:32:41 AM »
And obviously, no one on golf courses ever has a camera.
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #696 on: September 27, 2014, 11:59:11 AM »
And obviously, no one on golf courses ever has a camera.

Not to help his case but I played a lot of pre-phonecamera golf and the only time I ever saw cameras on golf courses (non-tournament play) was during golf lessons. Cameras were not usually something players included in their golf bags, at least with anyone I knew or played golf with. Granted, I never golfed on a military-only course.
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #697 on: September 27, 2014, 12:27:18 PM »
Granted, I never golfed on a military-only course.

Then you and JnD have something in common...

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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #698 on: September 27, 2014, 12:32:59 PM »
Granted, I never golfed on a military-only course.

Then you and JnD have something in common...

I hope that's the only thing.  :D
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #699 on: September 27, 2014, 04:37:28 PM »
Funny how I've not been offered a free copy of this pamphlet (no, I don't want one).

I can think of at least two possible reasons.
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #700 on: September 27, 2014, 05:17:33 PM »
I am waiting for the copy on a roll of "NASA mooned America." I am sure I will find it thoroughly absorbent absorbing. :)
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #701 on: September 27, 2014, 06:21:21 PM »
here is my answer to the third part...

After reading that I really only have one question left for you, Jockndoris. What is it you gain out of telling these obvious lies?
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #702 on: September 27, 2014, 09:50:04 PM »
And obviously, no one on golf courses ever has a camera.

Not to help his case but I played a lot of pre-phonecamera golf and the only time I ever saw cameras on golf courses (non-tournament play) was during golf lessons. Cameras were not usually something players included in their golf bags, at least with anyone I knew or played golf with. Granted, I never golfed on a military-only course.

All I'm saying is that it would have been possible.  And if anyone there had a camera, a picture could have been taken and then published, thus destroying the "lie."
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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #703 on: September 27, 2014, 10:04:16 PM »
Well, it isn't just a golf course. It's on a military base; he had to get in there. And it is in Hawaii, which means he had to get there. Now, he's not flying today, but there are still a lot of observers involved in that chain, and several of them are specifically tasked with making sure they know who is on the plane or coming through the gates.


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Re: Good books about the moon landings hoax?
« Reply #704 on: September 27, 2014, 11:52:46 PM »
You have mentioned Clarke in connection with his major patent, which was for placing communication relays in GS orbits.
Clarke famously declined to apply for a patent on the geostationary communications satellite. He said patents were nothing more than licenses to be sued, and he had better things to do than waste time in lawyer's offices.

Having been involved in a few big patent lawsuits, I'm strongly inclined to agree.