Good books about the moon landings hoax?

[Zakalwe]

Would you buy a used car from this guy?
http://www.ukuva.co.uk/author.htm

I don't know about buying a used car, but I would be deeply suspicious of hiring him in a professional capacity. I'm not sure that I'd be terribly comfortable with a Chartered Accountant who appears to quite happily wibble on about chatting with ghosts.

[JayUtah]

His book contains a fair amount of wibbling on about accountancy, which doesn't bode well either.

[bknight]

His book contains a fair amount of wibbling on about accountancy, which doesn't bode well either.

I'm not up on web speak, I guess.  What are you indicating?

[JayUtah]

I'm indicating that Burns in his book rambles on about his accountancy career without suggesting how it applies in any way to the claims he makes.

[bknight]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  Would any accounting question concerning the Apollo program make any sense? Other than the amount that was spent versus how the money could have been used for more socially acceptable programs?

[Zakalwe]

His book contains a fair amount of wibbling on about accountancy, which doesn't bode well either.

I'm not up on web speak, I guess.  What are you indicating?

You're clearly not a Blackadder fan...

[bknight]

Clearly NOT.

[JayUtah]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  Would any accounting question concerning the Apollo program make any sense? Other than the amount that was spent versus how the money could have been used for more socially acceptable programs?

Some have claimed that the vast sum spent on Apollo was simply pocketed by the contractors without having delivered anything substantial.  So I suppose forensic accounting would be relevant to that claim.  There were certainly claims that the money could have been better spent, but that's the case with any public funding question.  Neil Burns doesn't touch any of that.  When I say he talks about accounting, I mean he talks at length about his career as an accountant and brags about his skill at programming early personal computers to perform accounting tasks.  Understand that perhaps only 7 pages of his book actually talks about Apollo.  The rest is shameless ego-stroking for unrelated reasons.

[bknight]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  Would any accounting question concerning the Apollo program make any sense? Other than the amount that was spent versus how the money could have been used for more socially acceptable programs?

Some have claimed that the vast sum spent on Apollo was simply pocketed by the contractors without having delivered anything substantial.  So I suppose forensic accounting would be relevant to that claim.  There were certainly claims that the money could have been better spent, but that's the case with any public funding question.  Neil Burns doesn't touch any of that.  When I say he talks about accounting, I mean he talks at length about his career as an accountant and brags about his skill at programming early personal computers to perform accounting tasks.  Understand that perhaps only 7 pages of his book actually talks about Apollo.  The rest is shameless ego-stroking for unrelated reasons.

Forensic accounting of the private companies, But hardly NASA, no smoking gun there.  Anyway I understand your evaluation of the booklet.

[ineluki]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I can't resist thinking, that this would be Buzz's look reading Neil's nonsense.

Buzz Aldrin's face when Donald Trump Jr. talks about space:

[jfb]

Sorry, did not realize this was a necro'd thread.  Deleted.