{"id":32480,"date":"2013-02-09T00:57:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/occams-razor-and-the-moon-landing.html"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:57:25","slug":"occams-razor-and-the-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/occams-razor-and-the-moon-landing.html","title":{"rendered":"Occam's Razor and the Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because getting to the Moon was possible. Faking the Moon landing footage was — as the linked video demonstrates … not. (h\/t +<\/span>George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

An outstanding video, and one that cuts to the center of the rationality vs. faith argument.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy the moon landings could not have been faked<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecause the technology to get to the moon existed in 1969, but the technology to fake a moon landing in a studio did not.
\nThe takeaway –<\/p>\n

Why does any of this matter? Well my concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference between what you can know and what you wish for\u2026The urge to believe drives people to trade in part of their soul in exchange for the comfort of being a rebel.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because getting to the Moon was possible. Faking the Moon landing footage was — as the linked video demonstrates … not. (h\/t +George Wiman) Reshared post from +George Wiman An outstanding video, and one that cuts to the center of the rationality vs. faith argument.\u00a0 Embedded Link Why the moon landings could not have been … Continue reading “Occam's Razor and the Moon Landing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12134,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/some_corner_of_another_wo.html","url_meta":{"origin":32480,"position":0},"title":"“Some corner of another world that is forever mankind”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-07 8:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There is something inutterably eerie reading this draft speech (by William Safire), designed to be given by Richard Nixon in case the Apollo 11 moon landing turned into a disaster....","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128354,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/we-should-have-had-a-historian-says-nasa.html","url_meta":{"origin":32480,"position":1},"title":""We should have had a historian," says NASA","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 8:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes. 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