A scientist, admittedly a bit eccentric, puts a good case! And don't gloat at "eccentric" .. Most of the GOOD discoverers of science were considered eccentric by their rather mediocre peers. Phil. October 27, 2008 posting ... ever notice that there is no science news in the regular news media that amounts to a hill of beans ... certainly not from the USA anyway ... last week india planned to join efforts to orbit the moon with a photo mission ... already china and europe and japan are there photographing the moon in high resolution ... since there is no atmosphere it should be pretty basic and the results with the cameras they are using will allow resolution down to a few inches ... notice that one of the major announcements you would expect from these efforts would be a photo of at least one of the alleged Apollo landing sites ... pretty quiet on those fronts ... to date about 70% of the american public are convinced that NASA never went to the moon ... hardly fits into the "conspiracy theory" category of a few lunatic nut cases that some try to portray ... what is my personal feeling ??? well it is simple and as i have stated publicly many times ... NASA has made a scientific claim ... a pretty big scientific claim ... that they sent and landed men on the moon and retrieved them successfully ... everyone was impressed and there was lots of press and even new york ticker tape parades ... but any scientific claim has a simple requirement ... that it be verified by at least ONE INDEPENDENT UNBIASED OBSERVER (which then leads to more independent observations) ... to date this has never been done ... NASA depends on hoping you will listen to a bunch of NASA paid yea yea cheerleaders ... most of whom were not even born or at best were filling their diapers daily when the first Apollo landing allegedly took place (not exactly a place i would look for reliable information !!!) ... so back to the multitude of high resolution cameras taking pictures of the lunar surface ... the alleged landing sites would be easy to spot especially the long shadows of the landers AND especially the alleged tracks of the lunar rover ... so where are the pics that would provide the required third party verification ??? as i said ... it's pretty quiet on that front ... true science is not a matter of he said she said they said ... real scientific proof is simple and logical AND VERIFIABLE ... and with NASA now pulling $3 billion a year alleging they are going to try this again ... one might expect that they should at the very minimum ... prove that they actually went there the first time ... and by the way ... be sure to join me on my weekly radio show this week for some real commentary on real science as i continue to describe the physics of a hypothetical large passing comet by a planet (based on my theoretical and observed nature of comets) and relate it to what the ancients described ... jim mccanney