On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:42 AM, John Sundman <j...@wetmachine.com> wrote: > When I was living in a small village in Senegal, 1976, my friends there > explained to me patiently how the US could never have landed on the moon, > since the moon was in the 7th heaven, which meant that any space ship would > have had to find six nearly impossible-to-tind doors on the way up and the > way down, a feat so unlikely that it was incredible, that is, impossible (for > them) to believe. > > As to why the American astronauts & scientists thought that they had actually > landed on the moon, "Allah just put a big rock up there to fool them and mock > their hubris." > > Some lines of reasoning you just cannot argue with. I didn't say anything. > > jrs >
Well...lets not mix up landing on the moon and landing in somalia. Your example above is anyway about ideology and not the news. News coming out of somalia you always have to examine skeptically, since its not exactly a suburb of Washington DC where there are dozens of reporters able to independently confirm a news story. If you choose to be naive...go ahead !
