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**Bryan Olson**

wrote:
The astronauts were in low-earth orbit. That accounts for that signal.
In fact there was a massive blunder in one of the shoots where a fake
far-away earth could be seen in one window then the real close-earth
was briefly seen on another.

Bart Sibrel found that one. Google it and you'll probably find it.

Bart Sibrel found some blurry video of astronauts rehearsing for
a telecast, then made up a story about what it showed.

Sibrel is the guy that kept pestering astronauts. He'd ask them
to swear on the bible, saying they could end the controversy by
doing so. Some wanted nothing to do with him. Others clearly
stated that they walked on the Moon, but declined to participate
in his Bible-swearing stunt.

Eugene Cernan and Alan Bean did swear on the Bible. If you were
expecting Sibrel to be good to his word that doing so would end
his "controversy", you don't know Bart Sibrel.

Particularly funny is watching what a worm Sibrel is when Alan
Bean insists on telling the truth. Bean agrees that the tape of
him swearing on the bible could be used as a video deposition,
and will swear "under penalty of perjury". Then Sibrel adds
"treason" and Bean objects: "treason has nothing to do with it".
Bean is right: "under penalty of treason" would be false. He's
entirely willing to swear in various ways Sibrel suggest, but
only to the truth. Sibrel keeps demanding Bean swear "under
penalty of treason" even though Bean makes clear he believes it
would be false.

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--Bryan