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Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the "lunar rock", valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood.
Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation, said the museum would continue to keep the stone as a curiosity.
"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."
The rock was given to Willem Drees, a former Dutch leader, during a global tour by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin following their moon mission 50 years ago.
'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake - Telegraph
Seeded on Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:14 AM EST
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would appreciate readers' feedback on this. Any truth to the rumors of staged moon landing?
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#1 - Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:35 AM ESTttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4iPOEDSI_i4
I have never believed in the moon landing.
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#3 - Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:41 AM ESTDark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. It features some surprising guest appearances, most notably by Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick.
The tone of the "documentary" begins with low key revelations of NASA working closely with Hollywood at the time of the Moon landings. Over the course of the tale, Karel postulates that not only did Kubrick help the USA fake the moon landings but that he was eventually killed by the CIA to cover up the truth. First hand testimony backing these claims come from Rumsfeld and Dr. Kissinger seems to lend credence to the story.
It is finally revealed that this is a mockumentary as the end credits roll over a montage of blooper reels, with the main participants laughing over the absurdity of their lines or questioning if particular ones would give the joke away too soon. Besides being a comedic documentary, it is also an exercise in Jean Baudrillard's theories of hyperreality. In a 2004 interview, the director was asked why he would elect to make a film "closer to a comedy than a serious film"; Karel replied that in the wake of having made serious documentaries, the objective was "de faire un film drôle" (to make a funny film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWYWw3RLxho&feature=related
what about this? Now I am getting confused.
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#4 - Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:34 AM ESTJay, I think this mockumentary as they call it, is a good example of admitting the truth as a "joke". It makes the truth look fictitious. Compare that film to this
Dark Mission 1 - NASA Moon Hoax - Analysis of the Lunar Photography
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Guess when you cannot hide the truth, it is best to muddle it. Yes the surprise appearance of Kissinger and Rumsfeld says it all.
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I wonder if the rock was switched by someone at some point over the years?
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#5 - Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:20 PM ESTPossibly. But like the fake videos on 911 and BP's Macondo operations, look at the details contained within, to see the discrepancies. The "moon rock" is only a symbolic representative of the whole "Human Moon Landing Missions".
You should watch the 3 hours documentary of Dark Mission (1,2 & 3). The analyses presented are superb and the evidence (arguments) are compelling the Human Moon Landing missions were all just studio productions. The best I have seen so far.
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