'Moon Rock' In Dutch Museum Is Fake
"AMSTERDAM (Aug. 27) - It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.
The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.
Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.
"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."
The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on Oct. 9, 1969, from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf during a visit by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, part of their "Giant Leap" goodwill tour after the first moon landing.
Middendorf, who lives in Rhode Island, told Dutch broadcaster NOS news that he had gotten it from the U.S. State Department, but couldn't recall the exact details."
posted by nolocontendere at 9:20 PM
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So that means they didn't go to the moon, they went back in time?
Nolocontendre...what have I been saying all along...the entire moon series of NASA space endeavours was an elaborate (and expensive!) hoax to distract Americans from the Vietnam debacle, the Kennedy assassinations and the giving of nuclear capability of the shitty little "country" Israel so it could terrorize its neighbours.
When are we going to get some truth here on earth?
greencrow
Haha, don't think so anon. I worked in xmas tree fields fo the better part of 30 years in the NW. To grow acres and acres of trees you had to apply herbicides to keep the extraneous growth inhibited meaning you had a lot of bare soil. Because of that thousands of years of stuff was exposed. I picked up all kinds of petrified wood and indian artifacts.
You're probably right gc. Since we'll never fully know the real truths of the space program I can't definitively say one way or the other about the Apollo program. Up to now I thought they probably went to the moon but absolutely couldn't divulge what they found so they faked most everything they presented to us. But time hasn't been kind to their story, to say the least. What I'm most certain of is the real space program is far different and advanced than what we think we know.
I'd like to see them try to explain how a high level official hands out phony moon rocks.
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