Archive for January, 2008
Steven Fishman and Scientology
Posted by: | CommentsFamous Steven Fishman deposition PART I
Complete Steven Fishman deposition on Google video
Brief Steven Fishman background
Steven Fishman is an ex-scientologist who was eventually arrested for by the F.B.I. for committing financial crimes on the order of the Church of Scientology. There’s a famous and completely awesome video at the start of this post with him and you can draw your own conclusions as to whether this guy is completely crazy or not. The whole controversy with Steven Fishman all began with the former scientologist’s interview with the Time Magazine about Scientology and to better explain it, here’s a quote from a press release Steven Fishman released in 1994:
The controversy began in November of 1991, when the Church of Scientology International sued Dr. Geertz and myself for defamation arising out of statement which the defendants made to TIME MAGAZINE reporter Richard Behar. The statements related to financial crimes which were committed by me, Steven Fishman, after I was trained to participate in a securities class action fraud scheme by Scientology staff members at the Church of Scientology Mimi Org and the Church of Scientology Mission of Fort Lauderdale. I spent the money obtained from the fraud on auditing, training, and for purchasing the third largest library of L. Ron Hubbard books, tapes, cassettes and E-Meters in the world. After my arrest by the FBI in July of 1988, Church officials, church officials ordered me to murder my psychologist, Dr. Geertz, because I had confided in my psychologist about the details of my crime. I was thrown into “Treason” a low ethics condition, and was told by my Ethics Officer Frank Thompson that I could work my way up from “Treason” by protecting the Church from the FBI investigation. I followed the orders of my Ethics Officer which resulted in my being charged with Obstruction of Justice. At the same time, Church attorney Timothy Bowles worked closely with the United States District Attorney in Los Angeles in order to secure my conviction and eliminate any exposure to the Church.
The guy looks to be a bit crazy/brain washed and you can easily confirm that in the interview. Steven Fishman said that he was the biological father of Jesus Christ and The Church of Scientology also said he was. His auditors, Nancy Witkowski, Catherine Fox, Leah Abady, Ann Glushakow, Margaret Supak, Richard Reese, John Eastment, Hans Stahli, and Ray Mithoff all checked Steven Fishman on the e-meter over a period of years and told him over and over again that he was the biological father of Jesus Christ. It was his responsibility to expose the lies and myth of Christianity. Ridiculous. No mater what your religious beliefs are, it’s plain ridiculous.
Anyway, the whole purpose of this post is for you to watch the interview with Steven Fisherman, it’s really great. This is just 30 minutes of the 3.5 hours interview. You can follow the link I’ve put to see the rest of the interview if you haven’t had enough!
Red Planet Land - Mars Real Estate scam
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First I’d like to thank Chris, a Daily Common Sense reader, who found the Red Planet Land website. It’s really awesome and hard to believe but it does exist. You can visit the website and have a look for yourself but it’s basically a Mars real estate website. That’s true, you can buy a 1 acre land on mars to secure your future. Ridiculous.
For about 35$, you get 1 acre of land on mars and the full package you see on the picture which is basically a certificate, facts sheet and a picture of mars. I would personally feel bad selling this to people. The real question is how could someone even think of buying this, thinking it’s true?
Why would anyone pay 35$ for a piece of paper that has absolutely no legal value and that you won’t be able to use? The NASA is trying to have a Man-made mission to Mars by 2037, which means it will take a really long time before regular people like you and me can make it to Mars! The owners of this company will be dead by the time we can go to Mars (If one day we can…) but until then they cash-in!
Another good scam I guess…
Why Google succeed where Microsoft fails
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Google
Google was recently named the best company to work for by Fortune magazine in 2008, has been showing an enormous growth for the past years and seems to do everything right without a single mistake. Of course they don’t, but what’s their secret to success?
What’s right with Google business model?
There’s a lot of hype around Google and when you hear people talking about this company, it’s usually good things. One critical thing Google understood is that if you want to be a a successful company, you have to get the most talented and creative engineers available. To hire young talented and creative engineers, you have to have a good reputation because working for an ethical company is usually something important. It’s a really hard thing to get the support of the geek community because you have to build quality stuff. For this geek community it’s usually all or nothing: Either your product is the best thing since sliced bread (Google) or it’s the worst crap ever (Microsoft). Google business model is based on that: They do great products and make them available to the public at no charges. It’s also extremely easy to develop for Google applications and Google provides a good SDK so that anyone can start building applications using Google’s framework. You’ve probably seen a lot of websites online using some Google Web services and that’s the beauty of it: It’s so easy to integrate with what you’re building as a developer.
Google also understood too well what the Web is all about and it was at the same time the first failure for Microsoft. The Internet is taking more place than ever and there’s more and more applications that are “web-based”. It’s particularly great because all tools/Web applications are platform independent, meaning they can run on any operating system as long as it’s running a decent browser. Google did put a huge bet on the Internet and it paid! They don’t have a lot of desktop tools (even if they’re increasing their desktop solutions) and most of what they offer is on the Web. Google brought Web 2.0 where it should be and continues to bring it even further. They’re having a lot of success with their web applications because it’s not everybody that wants to run Windows but you still want great applications available wherever you are, on whatever operating system.
Google is gaining a lot of respect from powers user also because they love open source. A company that support open source is usually well respected among the community because it’s free stuff and everyone can collaborate. That’s what the Internet is all about: Share and Collaborate. They also actively support alternative solutions like Firefox instead of going with the big Redmond giant. That decision pays a lot because people have the impression they are different from most people.
Also, what helps Google stay competitive and bring new creative ideas is their 20% free time policy. That’s one of Google’s core policy and it states that 20% of your job time can be used for “personal projects”. That’s how Google’s best ideas are created. You employ intelligent persons and give them 20% of their time to create out of the box creative ideas: It pays. Now, who wants to work for Google? Everyone in the computer industry because Google is setting the standards. Oh, there’s also place for your creativity!
What helps Google a lot is that they’re seen as a breath of fresh air in an industry that has been dominated for too long by a single company. They also focus on the end user instead of trying to conquer the big businesses. Their goal is to bring traffic so they can sell advertisements and who’s surfing the web? End users. They offer a rich end user experience with a really large offering of awesome online products.
Google is also getting a lot of respect by participating in events not necessarily organized by Google. One of the recent example is the Google Lunar X Prize.
Google Vs. Microsoft
We can’t do a complete Google Vs. Microsoft because they don’t always compete in the same industry. Microsoft is a big business solutions provider (VS Studio, Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, etc.) and Google isn’t in that industry. I’m mostly focusing on what Google and Microsoft are competing for: The Web industry.
In fact, the focus of Microsoft on the business industry and not the end user was a big mistake. There’s still money to do with the end user, but not by selling operating systems. Money is done by bringing traffic and Google proved it because they focus a lot on providing useful web services for end users.
Microsoft didn’t do anything wrong. They just followed their 1990’s business plan instead of believing in what the web could do for them. In the last 10 years, the computer industry has changed a lot and this is mainly due to the enormous growth of the Internet. That’s what Microsoft didn’t see coming and what Google saw. The Web was an awesome tool showing great potential but you had to have a vision to see it where it is today. Google did put all their efforts in building for the Web and it’s the core of their success right now. Microsoft is still catching up on Google’s internet services. The Internet is what made Google king and Microsoft a 2nd runner.
The other thing killing Microsoft is that they don’t support the open source community a lot. They are slowly changing this because it is killing them. They’re now offering limited versions of their softwares for free, so you can use them for personal projects.
Another thing hurting Microsoft is that they’re usually forcing their users to use Microsoft only technologies, limiting you if you’re not running 100% Microsoft stuff or if you’re running Linux/Mac OS X. Microsoft has to focus a lot more on the web and that’s what they’re doing just now. People are looking for more cross operating system solutions and the operating system will soon become a matter of preference; it won’t determine what you can run and not run.
Microsoft is having some problems getting new talents because these new talents tend to go for Google instead. That’s where the importance of having the support of the geek community helps. Microsoft has a really bad reputation: Even if they’re working in it, they’re seen as the big evil software company, while Google is seen as the cool, young and creative technology company. I personally don’t hate Microsoft but I do agree that Google seems to be doing everything better.
Conclusion
I personally don’t hate Microsoft. I think they’re a great company but they have to clean their reputation because it’s mostly what’s killing them. They also have to bring their Web 2.0 applications to the same level of Google’s applications.
Google is just a breath of fresh air right now. Let’s enjoy it until the administration board gets too greedy.
Planet X Explained - Why it doesn’t matter that much
Posted by: | CommentsAfter my popular article 2012 Explained - Why it shouldn’t be feared, I thought I would talk about a related issue. I also received a lot of requests by emails to talk about Planet X, so here it is: Planet X Explained - Why it doesn’t matter that much.
What is Planet X?
First of all, Planet X or Nibiru as some like to call it is a large hypothetical planet beyond Neptune. Why hypothetical? Because no one ever saw or proved the existence of Planet X. That’s also where the name X comes from; to represent the unknown. A lot of attempts were made to prove the existence of the planet, even by the NASA, but without success. Here’s the origin of the search for Planet X from Wikipedia:
At the beginning of the 20th century, many astronomers speculated about the existence of a planet beyond Neptune. The discovery of Neptune resulted from calculations of the mathematicians John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier to explain discrepancies between the calculated and observed orbits of Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
After the discovery of Neptune, however there still were some slight discrepancies in those orbits, and also in the orbit of Neptune itself. These were taken to indicate the existence of yet another planet orbiting beyond Neptune.
Since then, there’s been a lot of research done on the discrepancies in those orbits and many astronomers consider Lowell’s Planet X hypothesis to be over. This is mostly because there’s no discrepancies in the space probes (Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) trajectories that could be attributed to the gravitational pull of a large unknown object (Planet X). Which, in short, means there’s not much chance for a Planet X to exist.
Apparently, from popular beliefs, Planet X is on a 3,600 years orbit around the sun and is due for a passage really soon near Earth.
What about Planet X/Nibiru and the “end of the world” in 2012?
One more prophecy is adding up to the already overloaded stack of prophecies for 2012. It is going to be a really bad year if we believe in all that nonsense. It’s not really clear what role Planet X is going to play in 2012. Some say it’s due for a passage in 2012 and its passage would be devastating for earth because its magnetic force would stop the Earth rotating for several days. That would eventually cause earthquakes, volcanoes, Tsunamis and hurricanes. That would also cause the Earth’s magnetic poles to shift. You all understand that would eliminate almost every sort of life on this planet. Scary? Well not really because it’s not the first time Planet X is associated with some sort of prophecy. The last one was in 2003. Nibiru was supposed to pass near earth sometime in June 2003 causing the same catastrophes. As you all imagine it never happened because we’re still there and the north is still pointing north. The other reason why it’s not scary is because there’s no evidence for planet X to exist.
So you say it doesn’t exist right?
I hate saying yes or no. Here’s what I think about it:
Dr. John Murray of the UK’s Open University says he might have found what could be Planet X. The size of the planet would be between 1 and 10 times the size of Jupiter and it could possibly be a Brown Dwarf. This is also the conclusion of most of the Planet X theorists. The only problem is that Dr. John Murray give it an orbit of 6 million years. It’s quite far from the 3600 years Planet X theorists predict.There’s also something about the IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) that surveyed the sky in 1982. Gerry Neugebauer, chief IRAS scientist, said:
“A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope. All I can tell you is that we don’t know what it is”.
What to believe? NASA says they haven’t any proof of it, but says it’s possible. That let me believe that there’s a possibility for another planet in our solar system. I just don’t buy the end of the world prophecy related to Planet X. I’m going with that conclusion: Nibiru might exist but we don’t have much proof of it. I say we have to stay receptive to the signs of another planet in our solar system but there’s no way Planet X will change our world in 2012. Being on such a big orbit, if it’s due to pass near earth in 2012, I’m pretty sure we would be able to spot it because we’re only 4 years away. Also, it didn’t pass in 2003 as predicted.
I made this article kind of short even if there’s ton of information about Planet X because it all come to the same thing: NASA vs. Average Joe and it might exist but no one’s sure.
So don’t worry too much about Planet X: It might exist but it doesn’t matter that much for you and me.
Falling U.S. Spy satellite contains Hydrazine
Posted by: | CommentsIn my previous post I talked about the U.S. spy satellite that will soon enter our atmosphere because it is falling from orbit. I mentioned it contains hazardous materials. It is confirmed that the satellite contains Hydrazine. Hydrazine is a rocket fuel that was used during WWII for the Messerschmidt Me 163B and is now commonly used as a low-power mono propellant for the maneuvering thrusters of spacecraft. Hydrazine is a colorless liquid with an ammonia-like odor and can cause harm to anyone who contacts it.
Here’s the safety note about Hydrazine from Wikipedia:
Hydrazine is highly toxic and dangerously unstable, especially in the anhydrous form. Symptoms of acute exposure to high levels of hydrazine in humans may include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, coma, and it can also damage the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. The liquid is corrosive and may produce dermatitis from skin contact in humans and animals. Effects to the lungs, liver, spleen, and thyroid have been reported in animals chronically exposed to hydrazine via inhalation. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumors have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine.
There’s good chances the satellite won’t cause any harm and that it will be dealt with correctly, but still my reflexion from the previous post remains. Why aren’t there any mechanism built in the satellite to deal with this situation accordingly instead of taking unnecessary chances?
What would you like to see debunked?
Posted by: | CommentsThere’s a couple of great articles on this blog showing increasing popularity and I love it. People seems to love Daily Common Sense and I want to push it a little further and ask you, what would you like to see debunked? Is there anything in life that annoys you, anything you don’t understand or that you would like other people to know about? It’s an opportunity for you to say what you’d like to read on Daily Common Sense! Simply write a comment with your suggestions or drop me an email at dailycommonsense@gmail.com
I’m waiting your suggestions!
Man walking on mars is a rock
Posted by: | CommentsIf you don’t know about it, the Spirit rover sent on mars by the NASA has taken a picture that shows a ‘humanoid figure’ on it. There’s been a lot of comments on the subject going in different directions and NASA has provided the full image zoomed-in and we can clearly see that this is a rock. Here are the pictures:
Ok, so this is clearly a rock and not a man or statue. As the NASA said:
“It’s a two-inch piece of rock eroded by the wind” explained NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown.
At two inches, I don’t see it being anything else than a rock. When you look at the zoomed-in picture you might have doubts because it’s so close and the figure really look like someone. When looking at the whole picture, you realize the humanoid figure is too small to be anything else than a rock. On top of that, it took three days for the rover to take that complete panoramic image(the lens moving slowly across the scene). The figure doesn’t move during that name so it’s definitely not any kind of life. A statue? A two inches statue…maybe not.
Sorry but it’s not today we’ll prove there or there was life on mars!
Web Bot - What is it? Can it predict stuff?
Posted by: | CommentsThere’s been some sort of hype lately regarding the Web Bots and I’m really surprised there’s almost no information about it available. The Web Bot project was developed in the late 1990s mainly to predict the stock market ups and downs (Web bot and stock markets). How do they do it? It’s really simple in fact and it’s a very nice implementation of what search engines do. Web bots simply crawl the web the same way Google crawls it at regular intervals to catch new and existing web sites and detect relevant keywords. Web Bots do it just a little differently: While search engines are just “indexing” the Web and creating a Web directory, Web bots are looking for trends with the keyword relations they find. It search for keywords “standing out” in a web document but also take in consideration the content preceding and following the keyword. This data is then analyzed by a linguistic tool to determine the meaning if there’s any.
So does it work and are Web Bots reliable? well it’s kind of hit and miss. Sometimes you’ll see things predicted correctly and sometimes not. I think the project is a really good initiative and can lead to great things, but at the moment I’m more under the impression that they interpret the results in the same way we interpret Nostradamus Quatrains. What I mean is that what the Web Bots are getting out of the internet while crawling is not that clear and when an event happen a couple of days later, then we find a way to relate the data.
Being in the computer engineering domain, I think I can see where the Web Bots will succeed and where it will fail. There are fields I believe the Web Bots can predict stuff and there are field they can’t. What are these fields? Well, essentially, anything “man-made” could be predicted in some way and anything man has no control over can’t be predicted. This is for the plain and simple reason that the Web Bots crawl the Internet for data and the Internet is actually man-made. So, the only data that can be collected is data written by people/government/companies,etc. I don’t see how you can predict a natural disaster or anything like that by simply crawling the Web. The only thing you can get by crawling is facts or opinions, nothing else. The only way I can see predicting natural disasters or anything not man related is if the Web Bots actually crawls 3 000 blogs/websites written by specialists of a certain domain and that they are pointing towards a similar conclusion.
What about 2012 (Read my article on 2012) and the Web Bots? As I said, I’m not seeing how a computer can figure out what’s going to happen in 2012 simply by visiting websites published by real people. The more data Web Bots get pointing towards 2012 just means more and more people are publishing stuff about 2012 and the end of the world. Remember, the only thing they can crawl is the internet and what you find on the internet was created by real persons, not God. They will surely get a strong correlation between 2012 and the end of the world; there’s ton of websites talking about it.
So, can Web Bots predict stuff? Yes I believe it can and it’s a really nice piece of technology. I’m pretty sure preventing terrorists attacks can be done using Web Bots and also predicting anything involving human interaction. Remember, it crawls the web, written by humans so it can only predict what humans are able to predict: Just in a shorter time frame! I think it’s easy to fall into the “It can predict everything” stuff, so let’s say it’s a really nice technology which can help us predict things we wouldn’t normally see happening. There’s a lot of future in that field and it has to be pushed a lot more forward. A good project, with good potential, but be careful with what people say it predicted!
December 2012: end of the world? - 2012 Explained - Why it shouldn’t be feared
Posted by: | Comments2012 is a business
Before you read this article, here is a video I recently recorded about 2012 and how people build businesses around it to make money. While a lot of people say that you can’t trust NASA or the government because they would certainly hide this 2012 stuff from us, I say there are a lot of people who want to spread this because they make money out of it. So, in the end, who do we trust? Watch it, I think that explains it all, but still, read the article and all the comments for more information.
What is 2012 about?
The year 2012 is referring to the last year of the Long Count Maya calendar. The current Great Cycle, as the Mayas call it, is set to end on the winter solstice of 2012: December 21 2012 and many people believe that on that date, the world will change and never be the same. Some predict terrible events resulting in the destruction of our world and some predict that it won’t necessarily end, but that we will enter a new era and massive changes will occur.
This article will try to answer most questions you may have in a rational way. because there are way too many websites creating some sort of fear propaganda around 2012 and as you will see, you have nothing to be scared of.
There’s too much disinformation going on about this subject and there’s an article you can read that was published around 1990 that reminds me the current situation:
What will happen on December 21 2012?
Quick answer: Nobody knows, but probably not much.
There have been a lot going on regarding the 2012 prophecy recently, including the movie “I am legend”, but surprisingly, not much information about what is really supposed to happen on that date is available. This is Probably because nobody knows and also because probably not much will happen. Most information available about 2012 is making reference to mass destruction of the world as we know it, earth’s pole shift/magnetic field reversal, Nostradamus predictions, end of Mayas calendar, etc.
The base of all the predictions is the end of the Maya calendar in 2012, which is supposed to mean the end of the world or a period of radical changes. In fact, the end of the Maya calendar is known as the end of the Great Cycle. People find it easy to believe in that theory because Maya civilization is known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy. It can seem like they really know what they’re talking about, but the truth is that the end of the Great Cycle is not the end of the world, it’s in fact a great celebration for the Mayas:
For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle” says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is “a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.”
From USA Today
On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years(Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. The Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home galaxy of the planet Earth). This special alignment means that the usual energy that typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 2012 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time. Scientists are actually in great doubt about the fact that the Mayas even knew what they were talking about.
Astronomers generally agree that “it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that” says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What’s more, she says, “we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point.”
From USA Today
Putting apart scientific data, here are the commons beliefs of the December 21 2012:
- Galactic Alignment. This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 26,000, this is considered as the end-date in the Mayans Long Count calender. It is the alignment of the December solstice sun with the Galactic equator.
- A comet hitting Earth (Nostradamus)
- Read my article on Nostradamus to discover the real truth about Nostradamus: Nostradamus is not a valid argument!
- Earth’s Pole Shift/Magnetic field reversal
- Read my article on pole shift to discover the real truth about 2012 and pole shift: What is that pole shift thing and What is that pole shift thing part II
- Increase of calamities, natural disasters, mass destruction, etc.
I don’t want to repeat myself, but all of this is very vague as nobody really knows what will happen and the world is not at its first doomsday prophecy. There have been a lot of “Unfulfilled” prophecies in the past and you can have a look at this Wikipedia document for a list of unfulfilled religious prophecies.
What I find quite interesting about the 2012 theory is that there’s not much publications from well respected scientific organizations. NASA has published a couple of articles about the pole shift, but nothing else that could reveal a certain fear of the end of the world. Now you could argue that “big organizations” certainly wouldn’t reveal anything that has to do with the end of the world, but that’s another debate.
2012 conspiracy theory
I mentioned in the “What will happen” section that there’s a lack of scientific information coming from well respected sources like NASA. Some people claim there’s a conspiracy theory behind the prophecy to hide it from the public so it doesn’t create mass panic. Now, this does and doesn’t make sense. At first, it sounds like it could be true because I totally agree the government could restrain publications from the NASA as it’s a governmental agency, but I find it weird that this kind of information wouldn’t “leak”.
Do you really think something as big as the end of the world wouldn’t leak from any agency? Keep the NASA apart, do you really think the scientific community would miss something as big as that? When there’s no scientific data about a subject, you really have to doubt.
You’ve probably read a lot of information on websites from people claiming they know more than they should know and that the government is hiding all this information from you. Government is hiding a lot of things from you, more than you probably imagine and they would probably try to hide the end of the world if it was going to happen. But, let’s picture this: The Mayas were there 1000 years before Christ which makes it about 3000 years from now. Do you think someone could hide the end of the world for 3000 years if it was really going to happen and was really that possible and scientific?
I have my doubts.
Pole shift/reversal, the only 2012 end of the world possibility
The only rational “2012 End of world” possibility is actually pole shifting. A Pole shift is a rare phenomenon and is characterized by the north and the south poles swapping places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. I wrote an article on pole shift that explains the whole process, have a look: What is that pole shift thing?
Such event could really disrupt our planet that’s true. Imagine the North pole and South pole swapping places: Telecommunications, animals, humans, etc. would all be affected and it would be a really important change. There’s only one thing you need to consider… I’ve read in a lot of different places that a polar shift is going to happen on December 21 2012 and it is totally false:
Polar shift is a process that roughly takes 5,000 years to complete and doesn’t start on a specific date and time. The real truth is that nobody knows when the next one is due.
The process takes time and another myth wants the earth’s magnetic field strength to be near zero during that transition time. It would actually be as strong as it is now but simply a lot more complicated. Once again, it is explained in my What is that pole shift thing? article.
Will I die on December 21 2012?
I can’t tell, the Mayas can’t, Nostradamus can’t and the aliens can’t. On December 21 2012, a comet won’t hit the earth, a pole shift won’t happen instantly and a massive gravity burst won’t happen either. The only thing you can fear is a pole shift and it can take up to 5,000 years to complete…
What if you’re wrong?
In the case that I am wrong, that every scientist on this planet is wrong and that the NASA can’t figure out a simple galactic alignment that would put our world to an end then I guess we are all in the same situation. You, me and everyone will die. Scary isn’t it? Well, no one can tell what will happen tomorrow or in 2012.
Hope you enjoyed
I hope you enjoyed reading on the 2012 end of the world prophecy and that you are looking at it in a completely different way. Post your comments and come back to Daily Common Sense for more scam debunking.
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Did we walk on the moon?
Posted by: | CommentsI must admit that even if I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories, I’m still very open minded and the moon hoax looked really plausible to me. So, did we walk on the moon? Or was it filmed in some studios?
Anybody that actually read about the moon hoax know that it’s extremely confusing and really not easy to determine if it’s true or false; there’s just so much information going in random directions. But I found three websites that I think are really satisfying about proving the walking on the moon is probably real and not a hoax. As I’ve said a lot in my previous articles, it’s easy to determine if a story is plausible or not: If there’s enough scientific data backing it, it’s probably true (As long as it’s reliable sources). If it’s unknown people with arguments hardly backed with proofs then it’s mostly a hoax. I searched a lot on the moon hoax and didn’t find any satisfying answers about whether we really walked on the moon or not until I discovered three websites going point by point over what’s usually contested about the walking on the moon. Here are the three sites I’ve found that rely mostly on scientific data and are quite logical with their answers:
The Great moon hoax
Bad Astronomy
RedZero’s Moonhoax - How Apollo moon landings really happened
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