User talk:Haddock420

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Hello, i saw you were listed on the Wikipedia:List of drug-free Wikipedians, but as one of the funny ones, and i invite you to read this and add your name or something else if you want. You may also want to put your name here: category:wikipedians by fields of interest under drugs/drug addiction. cheers! --Ballchef 13:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

1969, 2007

You are not alone. The Apollo programm was a hoax. It was telling and selling shit to people and still is. I have Bill Kaysing´s book at home: We Never Went to the Moon. The 30 Billion Dollar Swindle. I have read it. Kaysing cites NASA clearly: The fucking rocket of Apollo 11 weighted some 3000 tons. The Saturn-V engines delivered around 120 tons thrust. It´s easier not to trust them than to trust them. Kind Regards, Filmtechniker alias 80.219.86.190 17:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Awesome. Haddock420 00:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I didn't actually respond properly to this when I first saw it over a year ago, I just thought "Hey it's some crackpot being a moron." But I really do feel the need to respond to this. I know the guy who posted it isn't gonna read it, but still, I feel I should give this a proper response.

Firstly, according to Wikipedia, Apollo 11 weighed 46,768 kg, which is 103,105 pounds. That's 103 tons. So if your figure of 120 tons thrust is correct (I don't know if it is, I'm not going to bother looking it up), the rocket would've launched.

Secondly, what the fuck is wrong with you? Those astronauts risked their lives to help prove that space travel was a feasible goal. They were the first humans to land on a non-terrestrial body. At the time (and still even today) space travel was a dangerous and experimental thing. They knew they could die out there, but they still did it. What you said is unbelievably disrespectful.

Now, if the moon landing was actually a hoax, I would want to know about it. But I've looked up this stuff before, it wasn't a hoax. For every piece of evidence indicating it was a hoax, NASA has a perfectly valid scientific rationale for it. Why does the flag look like it's blowing when the moon has no air and thus no wind? The astronauts twisted the flagpole to get it into the ground, and since there's no air to create resistance, the flag contiued to move under its own inertia.

I have to admit, some of the evidence to the moon landing hoax does seem very convincing.... until you read into it, then you realize that's it's bullshit. Don't buy into conspiracy theories just because you want to be one of the people who "knows the real truth". Buy into them because they're true. If someone presents you with a conspiracy theory about something, don't accept what they say at face value. Research the evidence on your own, see if it checks out, and if it does then sure, go ahead and believe it. But to blindly believe a conspiracy theory is just as bad as blindly believing the government, which is something you conspiracy nuts love to chastise people about.

Grow a fucking brain. Haddock420 (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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