Rene-NASA-Mooned-America

Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 41
but what could they do about solar flares during the rest of the trip to the Moon If we didn't
go to the Moon, why didn't the Soviets, our arch enemies, rat us out
Something rang a bell as I thought about this. About the time we were fighting communism
in Vietnam, and other countries in southeast Asia, we began selling wheat by the
megaton at an ultra-cheap price to the Soviet Union (later to be called the Evil Empire)
wheat by the megaton at an ultra-cheap price. On July 8, 1972 our government shocked the
entire world by announcing that we would sell about one quarter of our entire crop of wheat
to the Soviets at a fixed price of $ 1.63 per bushel. According to these sources we were about
to produce another bumper crop while their crop would be 10 to 20 percent less. The market
price at the time of the announcement was $ 1.50 but immediately soared to a new high of
$2.44 a bushel. 8
Guess who paid the 91 cents difference in price for the Soviets Our bread prices and
meat prices were immediately inflated, reflecting the suddenly diminished supply. It was the
beginning of the high inflation of the '70s. Now, how much did the Moon cost us Would
our government be a party to blackmail Nah!
However, if NASA knew that Kennedy's dream was impossible in the timeframe given,
they should have reported this to the President. We are "civilized" now and no longer cut off
the right arm of the messenger who brings bad news. Now we cut off budgets! That's safer
for the messenger but fatal to the bureaucracy in question.
NASA must have decided that if they couldn't make it they would fake it. Big bucks
were at stake here, to say nothing of American prestige. Those bucks, properly funneled,
would buy a lot of Southeast Asia, at least for awhile. And with proper prestidigitation, some
of same could wind up in numbered accounts handled either by the "gnomes of Zurich" or
offshore Caribbean banks.
NASA's Other Problem
NASA's second problem was magnified as a result of the first. If they were really going
to land on the Moon they would have to be able to take great quantities of real photos and
pick up genuine Moon rocks. Such pictures should include the Earth rising or setting against
a background of a bona fide starry sky.
However, if they weren't actually going to the Moon, the evidence would have to be
synthesized. Credible proof was vital to the continued high rate of funding and to NASA's
very survival. NASA's labs could create "Moon rocks" to the specifications of an educated,
or rather an expected, guess that would pass any inspection, because there wasn't anything
else to compare them to.
Or they could have used rock samples picked up in Antarctica during the intensive
exploration of that continent during the International Geophysical Year in 1957, when that
continent was extensively explored. Werner Von Braun had Antarctic rocks shipped to
NASA. Any strange rock would do if there were no fossils in it. These rocks could be slowly
doled out, but only to those geologists who could be counted on to agree with anything the
government said. Much of academia can be relied on to do just that!
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene