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Topic: Russian official suggests Apollo artifacts inquiry
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SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-18-2015 12:29 PM
   
In an op-ed published by Russian newspaper Izvestia, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the government's official Investigative Committee, argued that an investigation could reveal new insights into the American moon landings. According to a translation by the Moscow Times, Markin would support an inquiry into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar rock, which was brought back to Earth during several missions."We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened," Markin wrote, according to the Moscow Times translation. ...so, why is Investigative Committee member Markin speculating about conspiracy theories surrounding U.S. moon landings that happened decades ago? In his op-ed, the Russian official also emphasized that "U.S. authorities had crossed a line by launching a large-scale corruption probe targeting nine FIFA officials," according to the Moscow Times. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-18-2015 12:32 PM
Quoting the Moscow Times' own reporting, Markin's suggested investigations are already solved... U.S. space agency NASA admitted in 2009 that the original recordings of the first moon landing had been erased, but said they had managed to remaster the original television broadcast of the landing, Reuters reported at the time.Of the approximately 380 kilograms of moon rock said to have been obtained during manned U.S. moon landings, the bulk is stored in the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Texas, though samples can be seen on display in various museums around the world. ...which is why I suspect (hope) Markin's comments are sarcasm lost in translation. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 06-18-2015 01:23 PM
More typical Russian circumlocution - or just being sore losers over the failure of Luna 15 to return the first lunar samples. |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 867
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 06-18-2015 08:11 PM
Given his statements about FIFA, it's easy to believe that it's a tit for tat scenario... the Russians are pissed about the corruption probe into FIFA. It doesn't take much of a genius to guess that the Russians, coming from one of the most corrupt societies in the world, probably used bribery as part of their lobbying effort to get the 2018 World Cup games. Along those lines, given how long some investigations and trials take, I would not be at all surprised if the US investigation was on the slow track, and the trials and verdicts will come sometime reasonably close to the 2018 World Cup games, to make it more unpalatable for the major advertisers (Coca-Cola etc.) to advertise. The advertisers would pay less to the TV broadcasters, and the TV broadcasters would pay less to the Russian entity (in essence the Government) that is hosting the World Cup. Aside from the loss of revenue for broadcasting rights, the revelations about corruption would also embarrass the Russian Government. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-19-2015 09:48 AM
Pure diplomatic games. I'm not sure why we got involved with the FIFA mess in the first place but it sure got the Russians mad! |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-20-2015 08:22 AM
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Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
Pure diplomatic games. I'm not sure why we got involved with the FIFA mess in the first place but it sure got the Russians mad!
Thank God the FBI did. No-one in Europe could set aside their self-interest to investigate the rampant corruption. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-20-2015 04:28 PM
Corruption in the "beautiful game"? Surely not, Paul! |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-22-2015 08:16 AM
The investigation still seems like a waste of our tax dollars. It's like Scotland Yard investigating baseball for the steroid scandals. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-22-2015 08:22 AM
Not that this has anything to do with spaceflight, but as I understand it, the case involves the U.S. because the fraud was conducted in the U.S., using U.S. banks and was targeted at the U.S. market. The alleged bribery also extended to "a major U.S. sportswear company" (suggested by third parties to be Nike). |
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