poor doesn't ever come close
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Wow, where to start? This book is mightily confused trying at once to justify the apparent impossibility of man having ventured to the moon while also getting deep into conspiracies regarding apparent artificial structures on mars.
Two books in one we are told, well I'm sure it would have been better all round if it had remained as 2 books. The end result is some interesting detail on apparent inconsistencies in Apollo photography mixed with conspiracy and poorly researched conjecture. One great example is their opinion that the Saturn V can't have been as good as NASA claimed, otherwise they would have used it to launch the Space Shuttle! Fairly basic lack of understanding about the whole space program there, but hey, this is only one of a thousand comical opinions put forward.
I guess the inherent strength of conspiracies is that they can never truly be disproven, as any evidence offered up for this purpose can be seen as further evidence of a cover-up. Well the authors here have managed the amazing achievement of undermining their conspiracy theories simply by trying to explain them. Guess it saves the rest of us a job
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Sadly it is funny!
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Dark Moon:Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers sets it's self out to be a serious book that says the Apollo Lunar Modules did not land on the moon. However, this book is full of so many mistakes, down right wrong it is not hard to find this book funny.
If you know anything about Apollo and want a good comic book then this is for you!
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Dark Moon is a wild fantasy
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Dark Moon does not reflect reality. Many of the pictures I recognise from NASA archives have been cropped to eliminate 'problems' for the author. No real experts have been used for it. It jumps from Apollo to Egyptian Pyramids to Crop Circles to Hitler without effort. I was surprised not to find a conspiricy in there about Elvis still living somewhere next door to Hitler on an uncharted island called Atlantis so that in turn will prove that the Flat Earth Society was right after all. I only wanted to purchase this to give me amunition to show school children how Not To Do Science! You will only end up embarrassing yourself as this author has done.
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An absurd work of pure fantasy
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If Amazon had a 'no star' rating Dark Moon would get it. This book is an absurd work of fantasy. The 'science' is laughable - so laughable and just plain wrong that it makes the book highly entertaining. Conspiracy theorists, X-files addicts and numerologists will love it. Read it, have a good laugh, and forget it.
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Absolute Garbage!
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I received a copy of "Dark Moon" directly from the authors as I gave David Percy and his assistant a tour of the Goldstone tracking facility and was interviewed on camera by David in December of 1997. I worked at the Goldstone Manned Space Flight Network station during all Apollo missions and was an eyewitness to those events. However this book is filled with half-truths and total fabrications about the Apollo program. It will only be of interest to people who like things about "Area 51," "Crop Circles," Roswell "UFO's" and other weird "happenings." Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of photography and physics can see through the so-called "facts" presented in this fabrication. It should be considered a work of fiction instead of an independent view of a historic event. Bill Wood, Retired Tracking Systems Engineer, Barstow, CA
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