Russian Soccer Fans Are Mad So They Blame NASA
Russian Official Proposes International Investigation Into U.S. Moon Landings, Moscow Times
“Venting his frustration with what he viewed as “U.S. prosecutors having declared themselves the supreme arbiters of international football affairs,” [Russia’s Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir] Markin proposed that international investigators could likewise examine some of the murkier elements of America’s past. An international investigation could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969, or explain where the nearly 400 kilograms of lunar rock reportedly obtained during several such missions between 1969 and 1972 have been spirited away to, Markin suggested.”
Russian official wants to investigate whether U.S. moon landings actually happened, Washington post
“The op-ed is unlikely to raise worries among NASA officials. In 2009, NASA itself admitted that it had erased the original video recordings of the first moon landing among 200,000 other tapes in order to save money, according to Reuters.”
This explains the american moon landing deniers, they work for that Kremlin troll factory :):)
If only
Steven
If NASA really landed on the moon 45 years ago, they wouldn’t be hitching rides to the ISS with the Russians.
Common Sense
Everyone is a Gooner! #AFC
This is so funny and thank you for the “Soccer” tie in. Great stuff. What will those Ruskies think of next? The cold war is done. That model – us vs them – doesn’t work or apply anymore.
We are all on the same earth and the deniers, moon landing deniers, are just like the flat earthers. But hey, if Russia wants to blow rubles on this have at it. The only place on earth more corrupt than Moscow is Chicago.
I mean for the love of humanity just go take some pictures of the moon and validate it… wait… we already did. This just further proves why we need to privatize, as quickly as humanly possible, human settlement of space. Governments screw it all up, slow it down, and are inefficient. We should, of course, still have government programs but those governments shouldn’t retard the exploration, settlement, and further understanding of the universe.
Oh for the love of ALL that’s Holy!! I really wish this ‘Moon Hoax’ excrement would go away once and for all… :'(
He might just get a punch in the nose from Buzz Aldrin…
This is delightfully funny. You see, everything is for sale in Russia – morality included. Putin and his hangers on are so accustomed to buying their way to anything they want that the prospect of losing the World Cup that they bribed for fair and square really ticks them off.
So, functionaries like Markin make their blustery ill-informed threats, just to show the higher ups that they are on board, part of the team, doing their part. The last thing he or any of the rest of them want is for corruption to be undermined. It’s how they all got their positions!
Удачи Вам! You’re going to need it. 😉
Good lord, it’s like they don’t know how to do a Google search (or whatever the Russians use for Google) and on second thought, maybe the Russian “Google” filters out factual search results))
There’s a wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Pictures of the facility here:
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov…
Anyone (who meets certain scholarly qualifications) can ask for an Apollo sample:
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov…
Hey, I can fully understand our Roosin partners’ skeptism on this!!!
After all, who would know more about the Moon..,
… than a bunch of stark raving Lunatics?
(IIRC, they also once claimed Mars as their own… ‘ cause it was Red!)
This is very strange but I guess as time goes on it becomes harder for people to believe we actually sent people to the Moon and back. If Russian media were to publish such a story 10 or 20 years ago, they would have identified themselves to the world as a bunch of lunatics. Give it a few more years when Chinese do extensive roving on the Moon and return pictures of Apollo landing sites.
The most ironic thing about this is, no one knows like the Russians that we really did it.
On the list of things this fellow wants to investigate, can we include the officiating in the gold-medal basketball game in the ’72 Olympics?
Almost as much fund as reauthoring history with scissors and glue in the old Soviet Encyclopedia days. Only instead of librarians, it’s the “Internet Research Agency:” http://www.nytimes.com/2015… .
Oh my, even here?!!!
That was A JOKE! It was a long humoristic rambling on the style “reductio ad absurdum” where he uses the case of Apollo’s landings as a final point of the total idioticy of certain criminal investigations being done today. Besides he mentions not the landings by itself but the fact that the tapes have gone missing, and he makes it quite clear!
The whole point of what Vladimir Markin wrote was the “new American fashion” of opening “big” criminal cases and making a fuss all over the world about them (sometimes with the risk of seeing the spell turning against the sorcerer). Besides it amazed him the lack of a true international component on the investigations. It is a whole text written in a very cynic mode with semi-serious statements about events surrounding World Championships, FIFA, Ukraine and terrorists. In the whole it is a sharp-in-the-tongue shoot at American authorities for the “effective” way they lead such “big” investigations. In the end, Markin suggests that a “international investigation” may shed some light on how Apollo’s tapes and 400 kilos of Moon rocks disappeared. In any case, these things are “a common loss” and “an investigation will surely show where they ended”.
The original of the article is here:
http://izvestia.ru/news/587…
Moon landing denier, and Russian government official, well…. it must be true then.