Philip M Hey! You're trying to swamp me (and pretty much succeeding). I have to start getting to bed before you wake up so just a few comments. Big and Bold to make it easy for you. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo The truth about your skepticism is simply this -- you don't believe because you don't want to believe. Put in the positive -- you want to not believe. Why this is so almost defies belief but confronted by the reality of it I must believe. Paul D I want to believe Paul.. but this does not make me shrink from skepticism when I see funny business.. or even a good valid political imperative to fake a head start. In fact when I was at woomera, there was open discussion about how second rate to russia we were, and a faked mission would not have surprised anyone. Are you aware of the recent stir on this very subject from China. China has announced an intent to launch a photo mapping survey of the moon, both sides. China maintains there are differences between Russian and US stories.. They also added in, almost as if the were inferring a hoax, that the quality of the pics will be able to confirm the appollo site relics in high definition.. No enthusiasm from NASA over this announcement.. I look forward to that! Of course not from me either, as I do not doubt that China is just as much under the "zionist" jackboot as we are, and when push comes to shove they will back down, like Russia does, and will when we bushwhack Iran. Mind you as the US crumbles, ( by design) the hoax truth if it is true, will become an open joke, and it won't matter to Zion any more for the truth to out.. China seems to be set to becoming the new empire.. Phil. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Paul said, Well as I've remarked before, I don't care to ride in an aeroplane whose design process included random properties, supernatural or otherwise. Very weak paul. We are discussing theoretical physics not applied engineering. The motors and the toasters worked long before nuclear physics influenced electrical theory. Just as many machines worked wonderfully before Newton. and I laughed at this.... I'm sorry Philip but I dissagree with you here at a fundamental level. Every time you pass through a busy intersection with the green light, you are trusting those at right angles to not run a red light. We all trust others every day. If you don't, you would be afraid to step outside. On the other hand, to stay inside is to trust the builder of your house. And if you don't trust, you will eventually give offense. Just spare a thought for how many times you are not hurt, dissappointed etc before remembering how many times you are. I guess I meant trust at the fundamental "In god we trust" level of its meaning not the practical application. I prefer to use the word "gamble" as regards an intersection, or a zebra crossing. I look apprehensively, even when I got a green light.. And if I get rammed, I can still say, God's will be done. In that I can trust.." I always smell the food or utensils provided by my wife before I put same in my mouth. If that causes her offense, thats her fault and her problem. I insist on me being my own driver. And with todays level of "care" I would never fly.. Never. Philip. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Hey Paul... Note the date..2002.. Plenty of time to update and FIX all the anomalies raised by the hoax people.. I expected a smilie here ... Just shows how unreliable evidence can be today for either side. But why would anybody SET OUT to prove a hoax, unless something really showed up as incongruous.? Prove the claims have substance or prove that they do not? My personal reason differs from those of the others here.. And I say, they still will not, and can not send any man to the moon, not unless they get some of that new free energy technology that can lift off several tons of lead shielding .. You may not be convinced but I'm pretty sure there is some explanation at clavius.org on this. Sounded reasonable to me. Radiation. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Why look for complication, [ My point exactly! ] where the simple answer well tried is already available.. And I might ask, more " appropriate" for whom and for what? Do we then only take on research that is appropriate? Philip please try to be a bit more generous in your judgement about which word I use. Surely by now you understand that I don't use trickey word choices to try to sink you? Your point is not well made then. How can simply accepting the aether be more complicated than the science of Einstein, and all of his modified complexity to balance equations, to justify all the anomalies that ocurred in the developement of special relativity? Which by the way I challenge many in the PhD class to understand even today. I don't speak Einstein and there is no definitive demonstrated model of aether so I don't know. I simply can't abide the cavalier dismissal of a model which works, is accurate, has a strong theoretical (Newtonian) foundation and which has had no fatal flaw demonstrated on not much more than a whim. That the aether might EXPLAIN gravity, inertia, and mass, and even turn it all upside down according to presently accepted science, causes no complication, because, (a.) these things are not currently explained at all, [ matter attracts matter is no explanation of gravity. ]and (b.) such change in the philosophy of science would not change a single application of science to engineering practise as is currently employed. The ripple would have as much effect as did the electron theory to the convention of signs +ve and -ve in applied electricity. It did however open up a whole new era of progress. If it can explain these phenomena I'll vote for it. But again, the Newtonian model does not depend for its utility upon this understanding -- only upon its predictability. No! I did not assume your tricky words were used to sink anyone. Except perhaps unknowingly yourself. In todays world a modern definition of antisemitic is one who believes anything which a Jew does not accept to be true or agree with. You might say this is inappropriate. I say it is the practical truth . And the attitude is well spread. This is why I can safely say, an anti-Catholic is one who believes anything which a Catholic does not accept to be true or agree with. Phil. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo of course I forgot.. It is not "appropriate" for modern science to allow random supernatural properties into the equation because random is not quantifiable. .. That does not make them untrue though does it. Well as I've remarked before, I don't care to ride in an aeroplane whose design process included random properties, supernatural or otherwise.PD But would you buy a ticket for a particular flight if a friend who was known for some accurate predictions, told you of a forboding about that particular flight? How do you explain the enormous number of people who went absent from work on that day of 9 11? Reported as unprecedented.. There have been many studies which show that there is no such thing as 'accurate predictions'. I'd like to think I'd just get on the plane and go without a qualm but I might have to suppress some unease. I don't know why but we are a nervous species. We probably inherited it from our ancient ancestors -- just look at how chimps, baboons etc -- among others -- behave at a water hole -- especially if there are crocks in it! Now the rationalists said it was proof of a conspiracy.. The New agers will say its proof of the supernatural... Now I dispense with both alone.. So many could not be part of a conspiracy. But many camp followers may have followed discernment based on rumours. But some were based on pure forboding of a bad feeling of impending danger. Unexplained. Two I think reported direct communication from God.. Then there is always the hysteria of after the event. But like I said... Absentees were phenomenal, particularly among the Israelis working there... I checked this but got no credible responses. I especially expected to find something on Snopes -- but no! Puzzling. hmmm check it out.. You will not get the truth on local TV.. You should get your priorities in order, cancel TV and sell it and get Utube video before it gets banned... which they are rushing to do.. Yes its 90% rubbish and 10 % truth.. But its that 10 which never gets to national TV.. banned already. Philip ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Paul D ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html