The 1969 Moon Landing Was A Complete Hoax

First, your "authoritative" figure (Phil Plait) is an astronomer who worked in the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State Univeristy and recently quit his job to write books. His previous work with this issue includes: ~ Oops (I thought by researching him I might find something relevant to NASA, Apollo, the U.S. Government, etc.), nothing but a website where he argues the moon landing hoax, astronomy, and Hoagland Mars Debate. He provides no evidence to support his research (unlike Sibrel who has hours of documented inaccuracies of interviews with key Apollo personel). In fact, the guy even sells t-shirts on his site (classy) In fact, Phil Plait is nothing more than a skeptic (as he himself claims to be) who has an opinion (sounds familiar). So, in reality, there is no difference between Plait and Sibrel. They are both skeptics. However, just based on Internet material alone, Bart Sibrel has far more experience researching this topic. I am a firm believer that a person does not have to be an astronomer to know astronomy. This is true in all areas if the proper research and study is completed in the area of interest. Thinking otherwise is an insult to human intelligence. As to the argument, all you have done is restate what you said the first time. I attempted to refute those claims and now you are attempting to refute those claims over again. You, and I quote, "I'll skip to your more well-thought-out points and leave the crosshairs and different shadow angles arguments for you to look up on Plait's website. All the information is there, all you have to do is look." Interesting way to debate new issues. I, on the other hand, will not refute my refutes :/ I would like to touch on a few items of interest from your post and then leave you with a few more points. ***FIRST, The missing tapes issue is a little more important than misplacing your favorite Disney movie. It is estimated that about 13,000 original magnetic tapes are missing.[6] They might be at Goddard Space Flight Center or another location within the NASA archiving system. On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search. "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center … or at another location within the NASA archiving system", "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today."[7] The news that the tapes were missing broke publicly on August 5, 2006 when the printed and online versions of The Sydney Morning Herald published the story with the title One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures Now, to me, this is not a "little" issue. Especially, as you state yourself, we are planning to go back to the moon. Those videos may be somewhat important to that mission. Just a guess :( ***SECOND, If I was an Apollo astronaut, I think I might remember something like seeing stars on the moon. Especially with nothing but the light of the sun. Ever stand out in a field in the middle of nowhere? Thousands of stars. No artificial light. Imagine the moon. That is a horrible stance on this position. Now, more points: Claims that versions of the Encyclopï¿½dia Britannica from the 1960s (pre-Apollo missions) have the neutral point between the Earth and the Moon 20,520 miles from the Moon. "In theory," the site claims, "a Moon with 1/6 Earth's gravity should have a Neutral Point between 22,078 and 25,193 miles from the Moon's surface. Yet after the Apollo missions, Time magazine July 25, 1969 said 'At a point of 43,495 miles from the Moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the Earth, then some 200,000 miles distant.'" The site claims that the 1973 Encyclopï¿½dia Britannica gave a new neutral point distance of 39,000 miles. Major Hoax proponents of value: ~Bill Kaysing (1922-2005) an employee of Rocketdyne, (the company which built the F-1 engines used on the Saturn V rocket. ~David Percy, TV producer and expert in audiovisual technologies and member of the Royal Photographic Society ~Jack White - American photo historian known for his attempt to prove forgery in photos related to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. ~ President Clinton - President Clinton in his 2004 autobiography, My Life, states (on page 156): "Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the Moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the Moon before the decade was out. The old carpenter asked me if I really believed it happened. I said sure, I saw it on television. He disagreed; he said that he didn't believe it for a minute, that 'them television fellers' could make things look real that weren't. Back then, I thought he was a crank. During my eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if he wasn't ahead of his time." The only way to find out if this is actually a hoax, is if we send a man to the moon to retreive the items left behind by the Apollo missions. And let me say now, that will not happen.