so now Kamal is a "conspiracy freak" ....Re: doomed



On Thu, 14 Jun 2006, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:


BMJ wrote:
Kamal R. Prasad wrote:

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his personal secy had other ideas about Kennedy -saying the latter made
him feel like a pimp.Take it from me -the trip to the moon never
happened, and will not be happening anytime soon barring some
technological breakthroughs. They wouldn't have lost so many mars
rovers if only they could send a man to another planet and get him back
alive. Just to let you know, mars has a gravity not much diff from
earth, and may someday support life due to the presence of oxygen and
some ice.

There you have it, folks. He's finally flipped his wig.


Sigh -you will never stop stereotyping.

Huh?

what are the chances you would have reacted the same way if I was white
(and american or canadian or european) and not India?

Have a look at this website
-maintained by americans. They mention the unanswered questions about
all claims made by the US govt.

http://www.conspiracydigest.com/

There are people in the worlk, like you, who will go to great lengths to discredit and downplay anything and everything connected with someone else. You vs. the USA. Back in the cold war, we were told only bad things about the Soviet Union, and vice versa. I talked with Russians who did not believe their own government when _their_ own government said the USA had all this unemployment over here. Back in the middle ages, the Church told people things that were untrue. And, wars were often based on faulty reason, logic, and fact.

I have heard all of the crazyest conspiracy theories I care to hear about.
They can be fun to BS about, and be entertaining. Don't go jumping to some conspiracy theory just because it fits in with your prejudices.

Oh, yes, there are people today who still think the world is flat. What do you tell them? Or do you think the world is flat?

I don't see how this is related to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin being
the first men to walk on the moon.

There is an article I read in there -but cannot locate it, which says
they faked it.

We had a science fiction movie about faking the moon shot. But, I'd like to see any real serious claim that the project was faked.

Here's what happened to someone who challenged Aldrin on the matter:

http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/


This is typical of the macho (not passive-aggressive) mentality you
have.

And, all the pro-India propaganda posters on these newsgroups are not macho, themselves?

And, you with just anti-American attitudes, along with Americans are lazy, stupid, too high standard of living?

Just think, the cold war was about raising stakes like in a
gambling den. Everytime one player achieved something in the scientific
field, it had the potential to result in military superiority and so
the other had to achieve the same by hook or by crook.

And, you have zero idea about all the other powers on earth, going back thousands of years. Did you ever hear about "the copper age"? The "bronze age"? The Iron age? Gunpowder in China (way before the USA existed?).

After americans
claimed to have landed on the moon, the russians didn't do anything of
that sort. 40 years after man supposedly landed on the moon, not a
single landing has taken place anywhere.

The interest shifted to shuttle flights. Less money per shot. Lots more diversity in possible outcomes. More projects.

The scientific problem is that on the Earth we have an atmosphere to
cushion the re-entry which does create problems for some astronauts.
The satellite that lands has to be able to withstand something like 300
deg celcius. If you take out the atmosphere as in moon, mars etc.. the
speed with which the satellite will come into the planet is going to be
huge with no cushion whatsoever. That means a lot more discomfort to
the astronaut in a v short interval of time. And we are talking of a
landing 40 yrs back -when space flight was v new and unproven.

And, this is your rationalization on which you base the claim that we (the US) faked the man on the moon project? Do you know what you have written above?


I personnally don't have a problem if the landing did take place.

Here's a good place to start:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html

If you think everything the US govt says to be true, then you must be
clinically insane.

Do you think everything the Indian government says is true?

I read one economist refer to the BLS as the
ministry of truth.

Are you talking about "alexy" on acc? Or, is your sentence meant to be a joke?

They wrote fantastic statistics about job growth
when the workforce was in dire straits.

There are lots of people, including me, who question our govt statistics, and there have been a lot of posts by me (and a few others) questioning govt statistics. Here is one:
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from the article entitled "Why Inflation Seems
To Have Sharper Teeth Than the CPI Suggests"
by David Wessel, WSJ March 16, 2006, p. A2.

quote:

"Write about inflation, and readers are quick
to complain that the U.S. government's consumer-
price index fails to capture the reality of rising
prices."

"'If you did your own personal study of inflation
in your neighborhood...where you shop, you would be appalled at how much prices go up without being
reported as inflation,' Reggie Marselus emailed
from Lenexa, Kan. 'Government inflation figures
are the most bogus numbers reported in the entire
economic world.'"

"The [BLS] releases the latest CPI this morning. Forecasters say a drop in gasoline prices in February will keep the monthly increase in the
CPI to a comfortable 0.1%, though that still is a sharp 3.7% above a year ago. Wall Street traders,
private forecasters and the Federal Reserve officials
will scrutinize the details to divine if energy-
price increases are spilling over into other
items, pushing up inflation."

"Americans coping with rising health-insurance
premiums, or paying college or private-school
tuition bills, or trying to buy a house, look
at those numbers and scoff. The cost of living,
they often say, seems to climb a lot faster.
Some economists don't much like the most commonly
used version of the CPI, either. They say it overstates inflation, but that is another story."

(snip waffling by an interviewed BLS person)

"U.S. government inflation figures also recognize
that a $1,500 personal computer available today
is more powerful than a $1,500 PC purchased three
years ago. If it is twice as powerful but carries
the same price tag, then the BLS counts that as a price _cut_, a decline that offsets price increases
in other things." [did everyone catch that fudge?].

"And, then there is housing. To the consternation
of some economists, the CPI doesn't track the rising
price of houses directly, but instead relies on
rents, which have been rising more slowly than house prices. The rationale: The CPI tracks the cost of living in a house, not its investment value
[or, should it be looked at in terms of its _total
cost_?]. 'Homeowners are assumed to rent to themselves at the market rent,'[huh?] the BLS explains. Japan does the same. Europe, in contrast, currently excludes owner-occupied houses from its pan-European price
index."


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I would just like to ask you if you think all the other governments, other than the USA, tell the truth about everything?

regards
-kamal


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