Posted on 07/20/2009 11:35:03 AM PDT by ianschwartz
Whoopi Goldberg questioned the original moon landing on today's edition of "The View." Goldberg, a co-host, wondered who shot the footage and why the flag was "rippling" if there was no wind.
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We are committing suicide by stupidity and ignorance.
I can’t believe anyone would listen to the MOON BAT! She is 100% wacko......I was upset at the disrespectful way she treated John McCain last year...Of course he should have known better than to go on “The View”.
I’m just dazzled by Whoopi’s brilliance.
I wish Jamie and Adam would prove that Whoopi is a myth.
“The first time EVER that fire has melted steel”-> Rosie O’Donnel
Yes, The View has a large pool of intellect to pick from.
The Clueless leading the clueless. The math does not compute, but perhaps, for Whoopi, among others, it most certainly does.
She is a shining lighthouse on the bay of stupidity.
“Whoopi,” who received her nickname because her flatulence is remarkable,ranks as one of the largest pinheads in the nation.
Although, it is surprising how many people around the world believe in this nonsense.
There is simply no way such a conspiracy could have been kept so quiet, for so many years.
a friend of mine I known a while that always been a little off is turning into a truther and I can not seem to get through to him either.
A little information twisted in different ways with omission of major facts seems to be all it takes.
I don't get it.
MythBusters spent a whole show debunking fake-moon-landing myths. They set up a flag in a vacuum chamber, and tested 4-5 others. All busted.
University of Maryland physics professor Carroll Alley was the project's principal investigator during the Apollo years, and he follows its progress today. "Using these mirrors," explains Alley, "we can 'ping' the moon with laser pulses and measure the Earth-moon distance very precisely. This is a wonderful way to learn about the moon's orbit and to test theories of gravity.What Neil & Buzz Left on the Moon
She is the prime example of $hit-for -brains.
took me all of 10 seconds to find this from here http://abcnews.go.com/technology/story?id=97589&page=2:
In Edgar M. Cortwright’s book, Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalled what happened when he and Neil Armstrong tried to set the flag up.
“It took both of us to set it up and it was nearly a public relations disaster,” he wrote, “a small telescoping arm was attached to the flagpole to keep the flag extended and perpendicular. As hard as we tried, the telescope wouldn’t fully extend. Thus the flag which should have been flat had its own permanent wave.”
The wrong coating had been applied to the telescoping rod, so it wouldn’t fully extend, which is why the flag looks like it is waving in the wind. Ironically, that famous picture of Buzz Aldrin posing next to the flag is often cited as evidence by conspiracy theorists as proof the mission to the moon was a hoax.
Hey Whoopie, ya stupid moonbat, the flag waves for the same reason there is no wind: There is no air. See, it’s air resistance that quickly stops things such as the flag they used (metal poll with metal crosspiece to hold flag out) from oscillating here on Earth.
Take a first grade science class, Whoopie, ya gasbag, to find out what those words “air resistance” and “oscillating” mean...
I sit agape at Whoopi’s brilliance. Hundreds of thousands of people were involved in Apollo. A large portion of these people would have to be involved in this conspiracy, and it would be a miracle that no one talked about how they pulled off this hoax. Also, how many people saw at least one of the ELEVEN (Apollo 7 through 17) Saturn V rockets lift off? How many people independently could estimate the amount of rocket fuel it would take to get to the moon, and could verify that the design of the rockets (and the rest of the vehicle) was sufficient for the job?
Yeah, but not as cute.
She must have watched Geraldo last night at 9 Central with his full blown [blowhard] investigation in the presumed hoax. Dumbing down of America.
They are showing that episode again tonight.
Discovery channel is replaying the moon landing myths episode tonight.
Goldberg, a co-host, wondered who shot the footage and why the flag was “rippling” if there was no wind.....
.....Much like the “no wind” condition of the Woopsters state of mind.....
Whoopi is living proof of three things:
1. Homo Sapiens is not the only life form that can walk erect and make word sounds.
2. Ted Danson is certifiably insane.
3. If you are a negro you don’t have to be funny to be considered a successful comedienne.
I anxiously await Jesse Ventura’s expert opinion.
When insanity and stupidity get together, the result is always criminally ugly. And Whoopi has ‘em both. ....in spades.
This, from the brain trust, that said Californina should succeed from the US.
Cool! It’s a good episode. I loved when they built a model replica of the landing site complete with albedo-accurate moondust to recreate the ambient lighting behind the LEM. Those guys are nuts for detail.
Whoopi needs to get up to date. NASA has released pictures of several lunar landers taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Check them out here:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/51023977.html
Michael Collins, the third astronaut on the mission remained in lunar orbit and didn't film the other two planting the flag. I guess they never heard of tripods.
Then somebody had to inform her through her headphone that there were other missions to the moon besides the first one.
What a dumb dumb show for dumb dumb housefraus.
Knowing that Whoopi is supposed to be a comic (feh!), is there anything in her statement to make you think that perhaps she was trying to insert humor into the otherwise dull, drab, fog-enshrouded program?
You guys should hear Joe Rogan (of Fear Factor fame) rant about how the moon landings were fake. He is actually fairly articulate, but completely delusional, in his insistence that the moon landings never happened.
There are some debates with him on Youtube, if you care to completely waste your time.
Whoopi needs to catch the “Moon Conspiracy Myth” episode of Mythbusters. It is the final nail.
SnakeDoc
Subsequent moon landings planted the flag further away from the landing zone to avoid repeats.
Ironically, that’s what happens to me if jiggygirl is flipping channels and stops on “The View” for a few seconds.
Stupid is as stupid does.
You’ve got to be a complete moron to not understand that a camera can be operated automatically from a fixed mount. Hasn’t she ever been to a 7-eleven?
She’s so dumb she gives morons a bad name.
Oh yeah, she’s a big time Obama fan. Big time.
D’oh (slaps forehead)
Moan = Moon
We landed on MARS, just ask the wise rocket scientist, Sheila Jackson Lee, (D) rep from Texas.
He's a world class moron
Agreed. The only people dumber than Whoopi and Babwa Wawa are the 300 pound couch potatoes that tune in day after day. We live in an idiocracy now.
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