The Astronaut Assault Hoax

Fox News ^ | September 13, 2002 | Rand Simberg

[NonZeroSum]

Bart Sibrel, a man who claims that man never set foot on the moon, also claims that famous Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched him in the jaw on Tuesday in Beverly Hills.

There's a small cottage industry of people who, like people who still believe that the earth is flat, or alternatively, that it's round but hollow, live in an alternate reality--one in which NASA was not capable of sending men to our sister orb in the 1960s. Unfortunately, it's not small enough. While just a few percent believe this, according to most polling, that still constitutes millions of people deluding themselves about what many consider the greatest achievement of the

[NonZeroSum]

Another Cover Up uncovered...

[Humidston]

Hey, I saw that video tape and I'm a witness! He raised his hand and rubbed his shoulder, but I swear he's innocent! Honest!

....I have my own video to prove it.

I loved this piece!

[Swordmaker]

The tape exists... and Buzz Aldrin bashed this idiot although not strongly. Aldrin was justified in striking the obnoxious idiot because the man was assaulting him... daring him to take action and poking him with his Bible. Mr. Aldrin attempted several times to remove himself from the vicinity of this dolt and each time the STALKER followed and repeated his assualt.

[Post Toasties]

Sibrel's nothing but a dumb four-flusher. Actually, with today's low-flow toilets, he'd probably qualify as a six-flusher:)

[Wondervixen]

The jackass used A Bible, likely not his Bible. Anyone with respect for the book doesn't go bandying it about for show like that buffoon did (fancying himself as a bailif).

I'd like to see him try a stunt like that in the presence of any member of the clergy or a judge. He'd be sternly repremanded by one & possibly found in contempt of court for mockery by the other!

[Tennessee_Bob]

he'd probably qualify as a six-flusher

I don't know - from what I've heard about the guy, he probably would just sit in there and swirl around, no matter how many times you pulled the handle.

[KneelBeforeZod]

now now... he might be dead on about some things. Didn't anyone see "Conspiracy Theory?" haha

[feedback doctor]

I know Isaw the video of the encounter, but in retrospect somehow the shadows just don't seem right. I think I saw the reflection of a soundstage in one of the windows as well. The writer of this piece might be on to something!

[Holofernes]

how much do you bet this maroon sues now for anguish or something? Tort reform now!

[DonQ]

There was some idiot making the same claims several years ago. I mentioned it to a friend who is a professional astronomer who had worked for NASA. He says that in every moon flight the astronauts deliberately did something for the cameras that proved they were on the moon -- like that golf ball that sailed off a mile. Considering these flights took place within a couple of years of Kubrick's 2001-Space Odyssey movie -- where moviegoers delighted in spotting the scientific gaffs -- it is not possible for those shots to be faked.

Additionally, with the very first moon landing the astronauts set up a laser retroflector (essentially a very complicated parabolic mirror that would reflect laser beams coming from earth back to their point of origin) -- this was planned and known to observatories, who reported getting their laser reflections within a minute or two of the astronauts setting up the reflector; something that couldn't be faked nor even done properly by robotics. Since it didn't rely on batteries or moving parts, that retroflector (and the others they set up at subsequent moon landings) is the only piece of equipment from the first landing that still works.

[catonsville]

He also called Aldrich a "coward" something you do not do to an astronaut, old guy or not.

Buzz is in great shape so the slob who asaulted him got away with a mimimal thrashing.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Anyway, for most of them, it doesn't matter to their everyday lives, but for a few, like Mr. Sibrel, it becomes an obsession.

Like voting 10 times for his favorite RAT candidate?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Does this guy also believe that James Trafficant and David Westerfeld were set up?

[Lockbox]

Hey Mr. Sibrel, how about some respect for your elders? Or maybe a 72 year old will “Moon Walk” all over your 37 year old body.

[NonZeroSum]

Do you really believe that he's being serious?

[aruanan]

Anyway, while socking Bart Sibrel in the jaw would be a magnificent accomplishment, worthy of recording in the historical annals of come-uppance-- and the story of “one small punch for a man, one giant blow for intelligent mankind” is truly inspiring -- I just don't believe it really happened.

Jay Leno showed the tape this week.

[Hitlerys uterus]

This guy in the article, along with the flat and hollow earthers are a bunch kooks! Of course man has gone to the moon. Why, just the last time I was abducted I was taken to Elvis' secret base on the moon. He sends his love and aloha from Mare Imbrium. Klaatu barada nikto, everybody!

[PatrioticAmerican]

The Flat Earth Society is made up of liberals. 'nuff said?

[Bigg Red]

“one small punch for a man, one giant blow for intelligent mankind”


Good one!

[concentric circles]

66 combat missions flown over Korea, 2 confirmed kills. Aldrin is a jet jockey, he's not going to take a whole lot of $#%t from anyone.