Soviet Moon Rovers An Obvious Hoax...

[Dickenmeyer]

...by HBer logic. I was skimming through the new issue of Air & Space this evening after I got home from work and while looking over the article on the Soviet Lunokhod rovers of the early 70s I noticed that there were NO STARS visible in the panorama shots of the lunar horizon. Could it be that the Kremlin, fearing a Lunar Hoax Gap, faked the whole lunar rover program? Perhaps they had double agents working in the Arizona desert who funneled their ill-gotten NASA hoax experience back to the Motherland. I decided a little research was in order, and if you go here and here you can clearly see, or rather not see, what I'm talking about. It all looks suspiciously like the desert of western Kazakhstan to me. Ha! No fake Russki R/C car is going to fool me, no sir!

[themusk]

...by HBer logic. I was skimming through the new issue of Air & Space this evening after I got home from work and while looking over the article on the Soviet Lunokhod rovers of the early 70s I noticed that there were NO STARS visible in the panorama shots of the lunar horizon.

But the conspiracy is even deeper! Take a look at the double-lobed object in this photograph from the Russki "expedition":



And look at this image of a double-lobed object in a photograph from Opportunity pointed out by another poster on this site:



When one considers the effect of weathering, and factors in NASA's false-color imaging, it becomes clear that THESE ARE IMAGES OFTHE SAME OBJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How could this be??!? There is but one conclusion possible-- the so-called Soviet lunar rover expedition was in fact FAKED by THE ADVANCED CIVILIZATION ON MARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

But wait!! There's more! If you call this number now we'll send you two -- oops, wrong script-- Who, REALLY, are the Russians? We've been told by CIA disinformation agents that the Russians were "Red" for only about 70 years of their history, and that for the bulk of their history have been "White" Russians. But an inside informant, a former agent of a Soviet government agency involved in security matters, Intourist, revealed to me that the name of the well-known "Red Square" had been "Red Square" prior to 1917. In fact, thin informant revealed, the contemporary Russian word for red is also the archaic Russian word for "beautiful". Are the Russians in fact the builders of the Martian pyramids and carvers of the face? You'd be a useless lackey of the global government conspiracy if you didn't think so, but, LOOK AT THE FACTS AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF!!!!

(Edited to add that maybe if I wrote a book on this I could pay off my credit cards and have enough money left over to spend the rest of this winter in the Bahamas )

[Starbuck]

Of course it was faked, haven't you ever heard of the KGB dwarf?

[Dickenmeyer]

A midget KGB cosmonaut? I like that very much.