Re: OT: 'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is petrified wood

DGDevin wrote:

White Spirit wrote:

That's an entirely different situation from 'Buzz Aldrin had the
right idea when he was accosted by one of the whack-jobs who called
him a coward and a liar' etc. You were entirely misleading.

Nonsense, I merely provided additional details, the underlying
incident is the same.

In other words, you left out those details in the first place.

You cheerfully made up your mind without knowing the details, a foolish thing to have done. Now you're unhappy that you looked like a fool by leaping to conclusions; that's your problem and yours alone.

I used to think that you were a credible source of information. My mistake, but I don't believe that I'm the one who looks like a fool given that you are being inconsistent.

That you assign any credibility at all to this delusional fantasy is all we need to know. That some lunatics have a degree more credibility than others doesn't alter the fact that they are all lunatics.

The 'lunatics' I'm talking about are professional scientists.

He ambushed Aldrin, demanded he swear
on a Bible that he really went to the Moon and poked Aldrin with
that Bible while calling him a coward and a liar, at which point
Aldrin smacked the creep right in the face.

It was hardly an act of self defence...

What? Then why did the details I supposedly concealed matter? Can't you make up your mind as to which complaint you're going with?

Well, a poke with a bible - it's not as aggressive as you initially portrayed. But I take your point - I shall certainly take everything you said with a pinch of salt henceforth.

And guess what, Aldrin didn't even have to claim
he was acting under the influence of caffeine to beat the rap in
court.

Well, the establishment is obviously on his side.

Lovely, the standard excuse of the conspiracy wingnut, "the establishment" controls everything right down to every local police sgt., prosecutor and judge, everywhere--just as they control the space agencies of Russia and Japan so they pretend to have photographed the hardware left at the Moon landing sites. That's what I mean about the beauty of this sort of delusional fantasy, it's self-repairing, able to withstand any amount of evidence because there's always a fallback position no matter how tiny and absurd it might be.

A straw man argument, and a particularly grandiose one in this case. His social standing was what mattered in this case.
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