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Despite the many conspiracy theories swirling around the internet, the Apollo mission to the moon in 1969 was real, although some of the moon rocks have turned out to be fake. The proof comes from NASA satellite images.

In 2002, scientist and astronaut Buzz Aldrin even decked a documentary maker who claimed the moon missions were faked. New images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) provide proof that the Apollos 11 landing was real. They show images of the TV camera, which is still sitting there, and even show Neil Armstrong’s footprints. You can also see the Ranging Retro Reflector, which is still in operation today.
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Not blind enough? – First we extradite Roman Polanski from Switzerland in order to put him on trial in Los Angeles, now Gary McKinnon (who hacked into NASA computers looking for UFO information) has been refused permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against his extradition to the US. Both of them could end up spending the rest of their lives in American prisons.
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And who invented the slash? – Tired of having to always type in “forward slash, forward slash” when you visit a website? Well, the scientist who created those slashes as part of web addresses now regrets that he did it that way. And to protect yourself from computer viruses, you may soon have ants in your computer.

BBC News reports that Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web 30 years ago, admits that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary” and he could easily have designed URLs without them, but “it seemed like a good idea at the time.” BBC quotes him as saying that he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause “so much hassle.”
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One of the world’s leading members of the scientific community tells of his close encounters and the involvement of the visitors in his work. Due to the profound confusion that exists in the culture of science about the close encounter phenomenon, he must speak anonymously. He is an American, but works in Europe. PLUS, Linda Howe is back with a report on a NEW flu virus just now appearing.
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