Apollo 12 was alleged to have been hit by lightning 11/14/1969, just a bit over half a minute into its flight. Then it got hit again just a little
under a minute into flight. So the bogus tale goes.
The national weather service claimed that there was no lightning in the area whatsoever 6 hours before or after the launch. Thousands and thousands
of eyewitnesses were there including scores of photojournalists. All of the major networks covered the event. No one saw lightning, well almost no
one anyway. Among the the only photos taken of the lightning were those taken by NASA's automatic cameras.
No photos by photojournalists right there at the launch scene, no photos/video by NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, French news people on sight, German Newspeople
on sight and so forth. How fake can anything be ? Well pretty dang fake if one reads about this Apollo 12 jive.
The first person to suggest the phony bird was hit by phony lightning was booger gonads Pete Conrad himself. Why did Conrad and NASA Apollo
Spacecraft Manager and former fraudulent Apollo astronaut and D grade thespian James McDivitt see lightning and essentially no one else(few exceptions
and we'll get to those)?
Maybe the lightning hit dim witted Pete in the mouth and gave him that dumb gap toothed grin ?
Anyhoo, this thing is fake fake fake beyond the stars.
Many here know that the LM was powered off of course at launch and so when the thing supposedly got in orbit they could check everything out but
that. The LM itself could not be checked in earth orbit. And rather unbelievably, they DECIDED TO GO TO THE MOON WITH A LM CARRIED ABOARD A SHIP HIT
BY LIGHTNING, THE LM NOT EVALUABLE FOR ELECTRONIC EVALUATION UNTIL WELL AFTER APOLLO 12 WAS GIVEN CLEARANCE TO LEAVE EARTH ORBIT AND HAD DONE SO,
ACTUALLY HAD LEFT EARTH ORBIT.
Interestingly, and in contradiction to NASA's own telling of the tale, Andrew Chaikin wrote in the relevant section of A MAN ON THE MOON that they did
check out the LM in earth orbit. This is an interesting subplot of this particular aspect of the Apollo 12 fraud and well underscores how pop culture
journalists were manipulated in this context to help create little tales or "patches" as I sometimes call them. In this way, little problems are
papered over. That is, you sort of have to have it both ways. Logistically, a real LM could not be checked out in earth orbit under the
circumstances, and so NASA must write that in its official records. On the other hand, it is more than a little implausible, sending a lander on its
way to the moon, a lander carried in a ship hit by lightning twice, a lander with aluminum foil walls, a lander the electronics of which could not be
assessed until it was ordered out of earth orbit. So dim witted Andrew Chaikin dutifully writes this down and it found its way into his dumb book.
Some authors like David Harland are probably perpetrators, fraud insiders themselves. Indeed, they are major players. They are WRITING THE PHONY
STORY. That is obvious. On the other hand, guys like Chaikin are naive and very very very very very very dumb, wasting their dim witted lives in the
role of sycophantic chroniclers of the lives and activities of great days gone by cowards, writing about the likes of Aldrin, Collins and Armstrong,
men whose testicles required the use of an electron microscope in their location at the time of their respective astronaut induction physical exams.
But I digress.
Would anyone in their right mind go to the moon in this Apollo 12 thing ? Of course not.
How fake ?
One of NASA's more robust tales of unmitigated jive is this Apollo 12 booger gonad piloted yarn.
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