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Listed below are comments made by altinet between Thursday, 9th July 2009 and Friday, 17th July 2009.

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The One Show Web Show 9: Bold bloggers and baby animals 9:51pm on 17 Jul 2009 With reference to the moon landing conspiracy theory, besides watching the event on tv at the time, I have read several books and have watched tv shows giving both sides of the discussion. From all this I conclude that those who still cling to the conspiracy theory are just too stubborn to accept the evidence. There are scientific answers to every one of the questions raised by the conspiracy theorists, such as light direction and similarity of the terrain. The fact that a fake mission was portrayed in the film Capricorn One (a good film by the way) has nothing whatever to do with whether or not it was necessary to fake a moon landing. The hardest part was to escape from Earth's gravity. After that it was just a case of navigational calculations and reliability of the components. Apollo 10 did everything except land, and showed that, although certainly difficult, the Apollo 11 mission was not so scary that NASA would have felt any need to fake it. To cling to the unscientific opinions about light sources and similar trivia is rather like saying that the moon cannot really go round the earth because that would require a piece of string to keep it in orbit.
Can we do without men? 7:19pm on 09 Jul 2009 I don't know about women needing men but I do know that the world needs more women like Twiggy. I have two of her albums and have been madly in love with her for over 30 years. I stayed single but could stand being nagged by Twiggy!!
Green shoots in the garden ... or just weeds? 02:50am on 09 Jul 2009 I am an ex civil servant, registered disabled. To cut a long story short I retired on the grounds of ill health and declared bankruptcy due to having more credit card debts than I could pay. It was a tough six months and I still can't get credit, but I actually like that. It forces me to economise and to stash some money away so that I can spend it when the need arises, or just use it for expensive pleasures. I have £100 per month pension that I don't withdraw if I can avoid it, and from my fortnightly state benefits I drop £10 per week into a jar. That way I still have money if the banks do not recover. Then I count what's left and decide how to spend it.
When I get enough in the jar I plan to buy some shares, looking for ones that are cheap now but might go up in a couple of years. I also buy cheap collectibles from charity shops and sell them on eBay. I read that Howard Hughes (or someone like him) got started in the depression by selling cardboard boxes that someone else had paid him to take away, and I am planning to follow his example.
The best thing about our system is that a depression is always to somebody's advantage, and their response restores the balance. The bad thing is that the system is so easily upset by people being greedy.

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