Tuesday, September 10, 2002

And back to the Moon. Apparently this morning former astronaut Buzz Aldrin socked a lunar conspiracy theorist in California, who had demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he actually landed on the moon in 1969. Now I'm all in favor of not trusting our government, but when the Fox Broadcasting Network (who aired a one-hour fake moon landing theory documentary earlier this year) is leading the quest for truth, I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with the conspirators on this one. For an excellent point-for-point debunking of the conspiracy theory, I suggest that you try Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy, a site that is just chock full of astronomical beefs with the media, be it television, the movies, or popular misconceptions that just won't die.