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ticus, from lna, moon. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]
Posted on 09/10/2002 5:31:19 AM PDT by Cagey
Beverly Hills police said they are investigating a complaint that Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin struck a man in the face Monday after the man asked Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he had been to the moon.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If this person thinks that the Moon Shot was a hoax, then no wonder some bigots claim Holocaust has never happened. I wonder if he needs proof that his great grandparents ever existed: he never met them personally, after all.
nticus, from lna, moon. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]
Sort of like this:
Police Constable Pan Am Sketch - Monty Python's Flying CircusPoliceman: (Graham Chapman) Right. Right! RIGHT! Now then! Now then! Your turn.
Chemist: (Michael Palin) Aren't you going to say 'What's all this then?'?
Policeman: Oh! Right, what's all this, then?
Chemist: This man has been shoplifting, officer.
Policeman: Oh, he has? Yus?
Chemist: Yes.
Policeman: Are you trying to tell me my job?
Chemist: No, but he's been shoplifting.
Policeman: Look! I must warn you that anything you may say will be ignored and furthermore, given half a chance I'll put my fist through your teeth. F'tang. F'tang.
Man (Eric Idle): But officer, this man here...
Policeman: I've had enough of you. You're under arrest.
(He makes noises of plane flying and firing.)
Chemist: Officer, it wasn't him. (indicates shoplifter) He's the shoplifter.
Shoplifter: (Terry Jones) No I'm not.
Shoplifter's Mate: (sticking his head out of mac) He's not, I'm a witness.
Policeman: (to chemist) One more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy.
Chemist: Heresy. Blimey. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Policeman: Shut up! F'tang. F'tang. Oh, that's nice. (he takes an object off the counter and pockets it) Right. I'm taking you along to the station.
Man: What for?
Policeman: I'm charging you with illegal possession of whatever we happen to have down there. Right. Lunar module calling Buzz Aldrin. Come in. (makes plane noise again) Raindrops keep falling on my head, but that doesn't mean that my...
(Caption appears on screen: 'AN APOLOGY')
Voice Over: (John Cleese) The BBC would like to apologize to the police about the character of Police Constable Pan-Am. He was not meant to represent the average police officer. Similarly, the reference to Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut, was the product of a disordered mind and should not be construed as having any other significance. Photo of Buzz Aldrin.
(Superimposed caption on the screen: 'THE BUZZ ALDRIN SHOW STARRING BUZZ ALDRIN WITH... (CREDITS)' Cut to Gumbys as at start of show.)
Gumbys: And now for something completely different. (jump cut to female Gumbys; then back to original shot) Oh that was fun. And now (CAPTION: 'THE END') The end, The end! The end! The end!
Regards, Ivan
What's his FReeper screen name?
Michael Rivero :o) fsf
There isn't any telescope good enough to see anything we landed on the moon. From A site debunking the hoax believers:
Earth based telescopes should be able to see the Apollo equipment
A telescope's diffraction limited resolving power depends linearly on the aperture of the telescope. Groundbased telescopes also have to look through the murky and turbulant atmosphere so without corrective techniques that are just now becoming common in large telescopes (called adaptive optics), a telescopes resolution is limited by the atmosphere to about 0.5-1.0 arcseconds (3600 arcseconds are in one degree and 360 degrees around the whole sky). That limits groundbased telescopes to a resolution of about 2 kilometers on the moon. From space, a telescope is limited by its diffraction limited resolution. For the Hubble Space Telescope, that is a little less than 0.05 arcseconds or about 90 meters at the distance of the moon. To resolve the LM descent stage which is about 10 meters across, one would need to have a resolution better than 10 meters, perhaps 2-3 meters which means we need a telescope some 30 times larger than the HST in orbit around the Earth to resolve the largest equipment left on the moon.
--Boris
Sorta like the people who want "proof" of evolution ... or "evidence" that Saddam is building WMD's.
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