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There are many more websites of this nature. Anyone have a reference for the teatray version of the poem? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- FWIW here, but I think these things are likely to be covered by various conspiracy theory articles. Scream!! (talk) 15:52, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- I was wandering round the Moon landing hoax and came across the Mars and Voyager hoaxes and thought an all encompassing/signpost article might be useful. The Omar Khayyam quatrain 'And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,...' might also be appropriate (and a reference to Earth-sized tinfoil hats 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:32, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hmm... pilots of aircraft in the terrestrial atmosphere sometimes frame their visual field as two bowls, divided by the horizon. Can't remember where I saw that, possibly in Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- The article can be extended to taste - covering any and all of the 'anything beyond the horizon is an illusion' school of non-thought.
- Hmm... pilots of aircraft in the terrestrial atmosphere sometimes frame their visual field as two bowls, divided by the horizon. Can't remember where I saw that, possibly in Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- I was wandering round the Moon landing hoax and came across the Mars and Voyager hoaxes and thought an all encompassing/signpost article might be useful. The Omar Khayyam quatrain 'And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,...' might also be appropriate (and a reference to Earth-sized tinfoil hats 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:32, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Is there likely to be any overlap between believers in this group of concepts and the UFO-ists/ancient aliens? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:04, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The case against the hoax[edit]
Given the number of people involved there would be too many opportunities for 'willful or accidental leakage of information' ('whatever happens Muggins Here will keep enough records not to be the one carrying the can'/Railway Lost Property Office official opening of briefcase to find who it belongs to), infighting and similar - and space travel has been around for almost 60 years.
Backtracking to make the accidental-but-positive result 'what was actually being aimed for' is more likely. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:36, 29 September 2015 (UTC)