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Amazon Boss 'Finds Moon Engines'

Posted March 29, 2012 8:10 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he has found the F-1 engines that carried Apollo 11 to the first Moon landing, and will try to raise them from the sea bed.

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03/29/2012 8:47 AM

NASA spent a ton of taxpayer money secretly putting those engines down there to fake the so-called moon landings! And now this bozo comes along and thinks he can just pull them up? I think he owes us a refund!

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03/29/2012 9:42 AM

"...to fake the so-called moon landings!"

Arrghhhh! NOT FAKE!

I saw the space shuttle on the moon, with my own eyes, with my binoculars!

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03/29/2012 12:53 PM

It wasn't the moon you saw in your binoculars, It was a 'Burger King' sign, and the space shuttle you said you saw, that was 'school bus'.

But you were right on one thing. You were using your own eyes.

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03/29/2012 1:48 PM

Whenever I meet one of these conspiracy guys I usually agree with them, for a little while anyway. If they don't feel threatened they will give you all sorts of stuff. The depth of ignorance among the general populace is staggering.

The most disturbing part is, these people get to vote.

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03/29/2012 1:55 PM

I mess up, I should have added that the those weren't binoculars in your hand, it was a martini (I hate martini's) but it was shakened, not stirred.

How do you get animated icons?

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03/29/2012 2:34 PM

"How do you get animated icons?"

I will lead you to the CR4 master of graphics, Sparkstation.

Here is a good thread about them. Sparky explains in much more detail and clarity than I could in a few posts. I just do what it says there.

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03/30/2012 1:58 AM

"The most disturbing part is, these people get to vote."

Nope. The most disturbing thing is they are the ones we are expected to vote for!

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03/30/2012 9:05 AM

Re: "The depth of ignorance among the general populace is staggering."

Amen.

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03/29/2012 10:49 PM

Apparently they're right next to the boxes the 911 explosives came in.

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03/30/2012 2:54 AM

I heard this is a test run for raising the Titanic...

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03/30/2012 9:36 AM

Might as well raise the Bismark as well!

Did someone make martinis in here? I can't stand them either! They taste like some bad medicine IMO. Yukkers.....

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03/30/2012 9:40 AM

he also is reported to have found Glen Millers plane too!

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03/30/2012 9:53 AM

yes, Doorman did, but the martini's are gone now. He's on Jack Danials now and working on cold fusion.

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03/30/2012 11:02 AM

Of course I'm older than dirt, but I remember watching the Tube right after the moonlanding with an old Uncle. He said, "jim, don't believe all you see there, I know where that rock is and I sit on that rock on a trip through the desert going to northern Calif.". I wrote him off as a crazy ole uncle. Now I wonder..And of course at a later time he told me that kerchief was probably glad when hammerjohn died..Just a crazy ole uncle..

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