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"And yet, it does move!"
One of my favorite 70s movies is "Capricorn One". At least a decade ahead of its time, it's a conspiracy thriller in which NASA's first Mars mission is aborted at the last moment due to a technical cock-up. Rather than face massive budget cuts, the administrators decide that NASA will just have to fake the launch and the video footage from the red planet, and pretend everything went fine. Of course, things don't quite work out according to plan... A plot worthy of "The X-Files" ensues.
"Capricorn One" is fiction; but it seems that a few people think that there's something very suspicious about the Apollo missions to the moon. Let's start with The Leading Edge Research Group. This shadowy organization has a truly impressive web library covering every conspiracy theory ever floated, from the fiendish fluoridation which threatens our Purity Of Essence, to the Time Wars currently going on--in which US government time travellers are preventing a future in which Iraq drops an atomic bomb on Israel. You thought the bombings and sanctions in the Gulf made no sense? Well, now it can be told: They make perfect sense to agents from the 28th Century!
Don't miss the section on Future Life Progression, either. Yes, it's like Past Life Regression, only done in the opposite direction; startling insights and predictions are the result. Did you know that in 1998, the Soviets re-took East Berlin? That in May of last year, California sunk into the ocean after "the big one"? The Japanese financial collapse is obviously an attempt by the news media to cover up the real story--that as predicted, Japan has fallen into the sea.
If you're like me, you're probably thinking that the Leading Edge site is either the world's most elaborate SubGenius joke site, or evidence that somewhere some poor guy hasn't been taking his medication. But wait! Read what they have to say about "NASA Mooned America". Clearly this time the conspiracy is real, as the book doesn't appear in the database at either amazon.com or Barnes & Noble! Did NASA use its CIA connections to get the book supressed?
Richard Hoagland thinks we made it to the moon--but he also thinks NASA is involved in a coverup. His Moon Photographs constitute the evidence. Since these pictures don't exactly speak the usual thousand words, I'll explain what a couple of them are supposed to show.
First, let's look at the two pictures top left, which show three vertical lines of diminishing size; the tallest of the lines appears to have a slight visible curvature. The images are highly enlarged sections from the edges of official NASA lunar photographs. A cynical photographer might think that multi-element 1960s glass lenses, plus harsh lunar lighting, practically guarantees that the astronauts landed in the middle of Lens Flare City. Hoagland knows better, however: he's sure that the patterns of light are a real city, an alien crystal structure which floats silently nine miles above the lunar surface. A reflection in one of the multi-layered visor assemblies of an Apollo 12 astronaut, further down the page, shows a very similar pattern of light. That proves there must be a crystal castle, doesn't it?
If the name Richard Hoagland sounds familiar, it's probably because he got a lot of publicity over his discovery of a "face" in the Cydonia region of Mars. What I want to know is: why isn't he calling for an investigation into the other sinister face found on the surface of Mars? I did find reference to "another face to Cydonia" on the Enterprise Mission web site. I'm not sure what the bit about "Childhood's End" is about, but to me the image looks like one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
If you're wondering where all the wonderful crystal city and tetrahedral monument pictures come from, it's worth reading the Enterprise Mission's introduction to image processing techniques. Check out the list of Photoshop manipulations at the bottom of the page--a "dust and scratch" filter (which effectively blurs the image), then a sharpening filter twice, followed by a gaussian blur a few steps later? What is this, optical Chinese Whispers? Of course, some people have been a little less charitable...
I'd love to know the official position of the Flat Earth society regarding lunar and Martian cities. Unfortunately, the Flat Earth Society web site is an elaborate Discordian pastiche, revealed by the references to Robert Anton Wilson in their FAQ and the Discordian Calendar page. There was a real Flat Earth Society; it seems that they haven't made it onto the Internet yet. Luckily, Nathan D. Carlson has interviewed Flat Earth Society founder Charles Johnson, and put together a web site detailing Johnson's Biblically sound theories.
It turns out that that seemingly innocent movie I mentioned earlier on caused a lot of consternation at NASA. Ever wonder who framed OJ Simpson? Well, OJ just happened to star in "Capricorn One". Coincidence or conspiracy? Johnson is also sure that that shuttle explosion wasn't an accident... The United Nations know the truth as well, but they aren't letting on.
Meanwhile, Marshall Hall isn't one of those flat earth nuts. No way! He knows that the Earth is a sphere; he also knows that it's fixed in space at the center of the solar system. He knows this because the Bible says so. His Fixed Earth web site will explain the truth to you--as well as plugging his book, which again seems to be mysteriously unavailable at the online bookstores. The truth must be heard, however! The vile lie of that fellow Copernicus has overthrown Biblical truth in the public mind, leading to evils as diverse as Nietzsche and Marxism!
Origins of Man and the Cosmos provides more of the history of the Copernican hoax and its sinister links to the Freemasons, and explains how it was the vital first step in the atheist plot to destroy Christianity by promoting Evolutionism.
The home page of the Association For Biblical Astronomy agrees. They explain that the Bible doesn't teach that the Earth is flat at all; that would obviously be ridiculous. No, it actually teaches that the Earth's surface is a hollow spheroid, held up away from the core by a set of pillars. The Devil's Tower monument in Wyoming is an example of where one of the pillars has pushed out through the Earth's crust. If only scientists would listen, they'd find out how geocentrism can help them with superstring theory too.
Finally, some heartening information relating to this topic from the Catholic Answers, Inc web site: It seems that the Vatican has issued two Galileo postage stamps, by way of penance for the church's condemnation of his Copernican views. They do point out, however, that if Galileo hadn't been so tactless, all that unpleasantness could have been avoided...
With that in mind, I think I'll sign off before I end up on Vatican postage stamps myself.
mathew
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