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[calger459]

Right, so...I go through periods where I get very interested in a subject and will read/watch/look up stuff about it ad nauseum until I drive other people crazy with it, though I of course enjoy every moment of it until the subject burns itself out in my brain and I move on to something else. At Thanksgiving I borrowed my dad's copy of Apollo 13,

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[calger459]

Yeah I've heard about those guys. Like...WHAT? And it's surprising, because it seems like nearly everyone knows a friend or a friend of a friend of a friend who was either in the city that day or was in some way directly affected by it. My brother lives in Manhattan and worked in a hotel near the trade center, he was just lucky he was out of town that day. The moon landings are a far more distant event, but the very idea that they were faked is absurd, especially when you look at their claims. Even having the most cursory understanding of space, vacuums and basic light reflectivity (hello basic art and photo classes!) busts any claims these guys try to make.

The Mythbusters ep is from season 6, I don't have cable so I couldn't watch it that way and you can't buy it on iTunes yet, so I had to download in a less...ah, legal manner. iTunes has the first 5 seasons right now and I'd like to get some eventually, it's a cool show :)