[KosmicKitty]

I think it’s a bit of a stretch there.

[Prospero]

It's become almost impossible to discuss space exploration in anything other than a stale institutional setting without the hoaxer and campfire crowd elbowing into the conversation.

Try to do a YouTube search for footage of the live television coverage from the moonwalks, for example. Thankfully there are other resources, for that particular example, and YouTube is a over-taxed sewer at storm surge, but my point is clear enough.

A two tier system of awareness is developing where science is either mixed up with ghost stories and political agendas or highly specialized science conference papers. Thankfully, noticeably late in life, I developed an appreciation for the latter, though even there it's difficult not to get into a shouting match with scientists so sequestered away from politics they've become tools of the lobbyist industry.

In short, it's telling that modern search engines can't discover the difference between ordinary and extraordinary claims. Telling of what, I'm not entirely sure.

[Joan Kerrey]

I think it’s a bit of a stretch there.

I believed that too until they found the empty coffee cup nearby