(Jack Linthicum) wrote in message . com...
John Penta wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:44:48 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Chomko) wrote:


Pardon me for jumping in...

My father was working at the Pentagon on the Moscow-Washington "Hotline".
And I saw with my own eyes from Russia ASCII art congradulating us for the
first moon landing.

So at least those technicians on duty at the Hotline in Moscow believed we
did it.

Boy I wish I was able to keep one of those hardcopy tranmissions, but it
all went back to the Pentagon the next day.

Eric

I wish they'd declassify and distribute that.:-/

I wonder how ASCII art looked off a teletype. I know you can do some
pretty...Impressive things with PC ASCII.

Spin Control: Pravda of Moscow, the Soviet Union, manages to keep the
moonwalk story at the bottom of the page while the top headline says,
"Collectivism is the Feature of the New World People," whatever that
means

did anyone save their copy of Pravda for July 20, 1969?

This is what you get by searching for "July 20, 1969" in Pravda's
files. Remember the Russian saying "There is no Truth (Pravda) in
Pravda and no News (Isvestia) in Izvestia.

http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=9994
America's Moon Expedition a Fake? - 05/15/2003 18:05

Even people ignorant of space technologies understand that then-level
of technological and electronic development wouldn't allow to perform
complicated space maneuvers

Forty years ago, American President John Kennedy urged the people to
get united about the Moon landing idea: the USA wanted to win the
space competition of the 1960s at any price to maintain the image of a
superpower. This was a dispute on superiority of two social systems:
the flourishing (as it seemed at that time) socialism and the
"decaying" capitalism.

The USSR experienced problems of its post-war
period, what is more, the Soviet country had to suffer great spending
in the arms race in order to be ready for a probable war against any
of the former allies from the anti-Hitler coalition.

Since the USSR *never had* a socialist system, that's obviously
the reason that we are world renown for not only telling
Stalin-Krushev fans, but also telling Jane Fonda and
Paul McCartney fans to not only to go to hell, but do it in China.




Nevertheless, the
USSR always managed to be ahead of rich America. It was the Soviet
Union that first sent an artificial Earth satellite which meant
undoubted advantage of the Soviet missile production. Already at that
time it was clear that level of missile technologies would become the
criterion of military superiority in the nearest future.

It does'nt matter that Ruskies sent a sattelite up first,
since the Americans sent GPS up first.
Sattelites are things moron At&T type people invented,
not people with computers and brains.