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Regarding aliens. Yep. I reckon there is life elsewhere but we are extremely unlikely to bump into it, or it bump into us. Not only do we have to be in the same place, and others have already mentioned the probability of that, we have to be at the same time. Consider a 13.5 billion year old universe, or even a 4.5 billion year old planet. There have only been hominids for several million years, homo sapiens for perhaps 100,000 years, the technology to look into space for 500 years, radio astronomy for ca. 70 years and space flight for 50 years. That is a vanishingly small window of opportunity.
Regarding the moon landing. Suggesting that was faked is to suggest a cover up that would make the supposed alien cover ups look trivial. Apart from all the obvious stuff like the rocket launches, pictures etc let's look at the material returned from the moon. That has been the subject of 1000s of papers by 10,000s of scientists and the analyses show that the materials is different to terrestrial material. I produce scientific data for a living and I know many other instrument technicians. One common trait is that we pride ourselves on producing correct numbers. I really bridle at the suggestion that there is a large number of scientists out there who would be willing to fudge results as part of a scam. In fact there are cases in the medical field where unscrupulous scientists were dobbed in by their own technicians.
And if that isn't enough, how did the corner reflectors that the laser range finders regularly hit get there?
David
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