hacktorp, on 19 December 2012 - 06:22 PM, said:
Imaginative theory...if perhaps a bit too contrived. One wonders if you're trying so hard to offer some semblance of logic but instead come off sounding loony.
Kinda hard to portray McKinnon as a confabulator of elaborate fantasy when he's also described by NASA as the most dangerous hacker of all time, don't you think?
Let's check up on what we can check up on. Is Hare's story as preposterous as I suggest?
It's a testible hypothesis, that she contrived the story, since if the story is true, there should be thousands of NASA-released Earth surface photographs all over books and magazines of the 1970s, where you can see trees and their shadows.
I challenge you to find ONE.
I suggest that the inability of anyone -- and dozens of initially true believers have tried in the past ten years or more, and all failed -- to find such a photo is strong evidence that they never existed, and thus that the fundamental basis of Hare's story is fictional. And that has a relentlessly cascading effect on the credibility of McKinnon's story.
Do some real investigation, or concede the point.