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John Wiese, Fractional Widths Greater The Maximum Allowed

S. GLASS: Are you familiar with moonlanding conspiracies?

JOHN WIESE: I'm pretty into it. I've collected rare books and documentaries on moonlanding conspiracies over the last seven years or so. I'd heard about NASA Mooned America by R. Rene and finally got his phone number through a friend of a friend. His phone was tapped.

How do you know?

It was really strange, like there was an amplifier on it. When I was waiting for him to answer, the ringing was so loud I had to hold the phone away from my head. I asked him if anything was wrong with his phone. He said, "Yeah, it's probably tapped." After I got off the phone, I wondered how responsible it was to give my name and address to someone who, for whatever reason, was being observed.

There could be ramifications.

If there was nothing to his book, there'd be no reason to tap his phone. I was slightly apprehensive, but it's not like I was doing anything wrong by calling him and asking for his book. It arrived with a preprinted postcard to send back saying that you received it safely. Apparently a lot of the copies he sends out never make it. It was a strange interaction.

It's not a conspiracy-nerd read, is it?

It's more professional than We Never Went to the Moon, by Bill Kaysing, and has color photos showing detail and lighting anomalies - things that you might get in a studio set-up, like backdrop lines, reflections, focusing inconsistencies, and things that make no sense. And these are all famous photos, more or less. The catalog numbers are given so you can order them from NASA.

What are the most compelling arguments?

To me, it seems like a result of the competition and rivalry between the United States and Russia at the time. Russia was making claims, and it was a race to get to the moon, so of course the Americans had to try to beat them to it. There were dozens of crashes prior to the safe and successful voyage. It seems unlikely. Or even the whole thing as a tax scam. It wouldn't be too hard to create a fake moonlanding with thirty-three billion in taxes.

Even if American astronauts have walked on the moon, I wouldn't put it past NASA to re-create certain scenes in order to get higher quality posters.

In the Vedas, there's a completely separate idea about astronomy and the positioning of planets. According to those, the moon is much further away than modern science claims, impossible to get to.

Nothing about what you're saying seems implausible, but at the same time, a lot of it seems circumstantial or unprovable.

There are a lot of angles on it. Bill Kaysing's main argument is that there are no stars in any of the lunar photos and to him, that's enough. Without the atmosphere, the lunar sky should be full of stars, with amazing clarity, yet not one NASA photo includes a single star. If it were faked, star buffs would recognize it immediately. NASA consistently refuses to comment on why there are no stars in the photos.

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