Bartcop,
I’ve given you several donations, one of
$50, but I guarantee I’ll send my next spare cash
to a progressive with a modicum of intellectual
integrity. You lose all credibility when you
posts crackpot sh*t like this (by Der Voron
3/17/03).
Moon landings must be hoaxes, because "at
longer distances, the gravitation decreases,
the time flows much more slowly, and life
processes, correspondingly, slow down."
I happen to be a physicist, but you don't
have to know anything more than that the
theory Der Voron is mangling is called
"relativity" to realize that this fragment is idiotic.
Really, is this a joke?
I am more and more embarrassed to have
mentioned your site to progressive colleagues.
Please, take a look at Carl Sagan’s suggestions
for detecting baloney;
you need some help. http://www.geocities.com/kenthovind/baloney.html
-S. Hansen
S, do you maybe have a beer that you could work on while I explain?
Have you have your blood pressure checked lately?
I am convinced we went to the moon. When Der sent me that,
I wrote back and told him
I found flaws in his theory. That stuff about moisture and footprint
HAS to be wrong.
He explained to me that even on a dry beach there is moisture
in the air, but there is no
moisture on the moon so footprints aren't possible there.
I'll tell you what's impossible - having sand or dust, then putting
a distinctive bootprint on it and
expecting the sand/dust to not be pushed to the side when you
lift the boot. Science says a plow
moving thru the soil is going to disturb it, and that's just
what the groves on a boot do.
They move sand and soil and dust left and right when the grooves
push it like a plow.
But nevermind all that - let's get to the bigger point.
Why would you assume I stand behind every idea by every writer
whose work is printed here?
We used to print astrological predictions from that nice lady
Geneva in California.
Do you think I'm guided by the stars? Don't you know
me any better than that?
At least two people have written about the CIA mind-control experiments,
and using psychics
to find Osama and Saddam - do you think I stand behind that?
If psychics are real, why don't
they live in Las Vegas? Hell, I've printed letters from
religious people - does that make me one?
If someone writes something you think is goofy, you're supposed to write to them, not me.
Der is a science fiction writer with, let's say, alternative views
on some things. He suggested aliens could've
been involved in the shuttle breakup. I don't believe that
either, but seriously, I'll believe in aliens before I
believe in some invisible cloud being that's worth dying for
in places like Israel and Northern Ireland.
Now, if someone says Reagan was a smart man, or that B.F.E.E.
crimes are good for America,
I'll write a rebuttal that'll peel paint, but the science fiction,
X-Files and spy stuff that people send
gets printed because I think it's interesting reading.
There's no reason to have a cow, and I learned years ago that
if I write, "It was a good weekend,"
I'll get mail saying, "You asshole, my
mother died Sunday - how can you say it was a good weekend?"
Last thing - try to remember we're primarily an entertainment
page.
We ended up fighting the B.F.E.E. because nobody but a
few web sites even cares.
...and please have your blood pressure checked.