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		<title>Phil Plait and The Amazing Randi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice little clip where Phil Plait (of BadAstronomy.com) interviews &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; James Randi on the final day of this year&#8217;s The Amaz!ng Meeting in Las Vegas. I didn&#8217;t meet either of them at TAM 5, but Phil&#8217;s presentation in which he debunked the feeble evidence from so-called &#8220;Moon Conspiracy Theorists&#8221; was priceless. He [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a nice little clip where Phil Plait (of <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com" target="_blank">BadAstronomy.com</a>) interviews &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; James Randi on the final day of this year&#8217;s The Amaz!ng Meeting in Las Vegas.</p>
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<p>I didn&#8217;t meet either of them at TAM 5, but Phil&#8217;s presentation in which he debunked the feeble evidence from so-called &#8220;Moon Conspiracy Theorists&#8221; was priceless.  He was able, in very short order, to lay waste to their best &#8220;evidence&#8221; that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.  Starless sky over the moon?  <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars" target="_blank">Nope, stars are faint, and the photos were taken using short exposures with fast film</a>.  Shadows not parallel?  <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#parallel" target="_blank">Nope, shadows converge to a vanishing point as they do on Earth</a>.  At every point, Phil was able to clearly and easily discredit the claims made by the conspiracy proponents, which left one inescapable conclusion: We really went to the moon.</p>
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