Posted on 09/11/2002 10:32:28 AM PDT by TomB
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) -- A man who publicly confronted astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin over whether he actually went to the moon said that the Apollo 11 hero almost sent him into space with a punch to the jaw.
Bart Sibrel, an independent filmmaker from Nashville, Tennessee, said he was trying to conduct an ambush interview with Aldrin outside a hotel in Beverly Hills when the astronaut punched him and ran away.
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The videotape looks fake to me. Look at the angle of the lighting on Aldrin's fist. Did you notice the way his fist seems to disappear just before it hits the jaw?
The astronauts I've talked with are put out with how little has been accomplished in the decades since.
Neil Armstrong had the right idea.
After the Apollo 11 flight was over, the first man to walk on the moon took a hike.
I'll have to give it a listen as well, as I have a feeling O'Reilly will air it tonight!!
Such as Frank Borman being the president of Boeing? Yeah, right.
O'course, Senator John Glenn was a member of an institution that churns out bogosity by the ton, but it's hardly fair to call the Senate a "bogus institution."
These men, including Glenn, are heroes. I had to watch "The Right Stuff" last night on HBO3 to get some respite from the endless wailing -- very little being genuinely respectful to the dead -- that began this past weekend. And to remember when we conquered frontiers.
That's a great movie.
Go and read the accounts of how Neil Armstrong had to steer Apollo 11 past a field of boulders, in order to make a safe landing on the Sea of Tranquility, and just try to say that again with a straight face.
The astronauts insisted on considerable autonomy during missions to respond to changing conditions, and it has often become essential. It was the Soviets who turned their cosmonauts into mere passengers, with every system radio-controlled from the ground. (Until Mir.)
Go Buzz Go
Calling a person a coward and a liar justifies that person to give you a right hook to the jaw.
In times past, calling a person a coward and a liar is grounds for a duel on the street at high noon.
Sibrel's website, Lunar Anomalies.com is where he sells copies of his video tape, which "proves" that the moon landings were faked. The film he calls "31-year-old mislabeled, unedited reel of footage" is actually just some coppy and blurry footage before a NASA news conferance.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am all for making a buck. But this guy Sibrel is a fraud. Calling someone a coward and a liar are "fighting words" in my opinion, and Aldrin had every right to respond.
If you'd like to give Sibrel a virtual knucle-sandwich, then visit is contact page.
They are incredibly brave passengers. All rockets are designed to just barely not blow up -- sometimes they do anyway.
Me, too. Looks like Buzz's right stuff is still intact.
Anybody have a link to the video? I'd love to see it!
You are so right...there are a lot of idiots in this world who would have a lot better manners if they got their butts kicked now and then. Nothing like carrying one's teeth home in a paper bag to emphasize the importance of good manners.
Go Buzz
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