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Re: Men (or Women) on Mars
It seems that us 'doubters' have some eminent company
From - My Life by Bill Clinton published in 2004
(he was describing a conversation he had with a carpenter aged 77 in Hot Springs)
page 186-
"Just a month before, Apollo II astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon before the decade was out. The old carpenter asked me if I really believed it had happened. I said sure. I saw it on television. He disagreed, he said that he didn't believe it for a minute, that "them television fellars"could make things look real that weren't. Back then, I thought he was a crank. During my eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if he wasn't ahead of his time" (my emphasis)
...was that a hint of his doubts, or wasn't it?
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