The 3rd Intl. Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering
The Conspiracy of Apollo 11
1. The Conspiracy of Apollo 11
Focusing on argumentative burdens, this is an argument in
which claims the first moon landing was a hoax.
This will be a forever-standing conspiracy and I used this
opportunity to briefly vignette on an example of a scholarly
debate initiated with a claim of fact.
2. Hey Pokey…..
I am bored. Lets have an old
fashioned conversation.
I was just watching a documentary
on Apollo 11 and I have come to
conclusion it was a hoax.
The Apollo 11 mission to
the moon did not occur
on July 20, 1969; hence
Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin did not walk on the
moon that day.
(Claim of Fact)
3. One of the heaviest contentions in which met my level of threshold is the issue of the Van
Allen Belt, which is a belt of radiation located 248 miles above the planet.
This is radiation belt was so intense that the Russians (whom we were in competition
with) discovered that humans would need to be covered in 4 feet of lead to avoid being
killed by the level of radiation within the four hours they were to travel through this area.
The United States claimed to use a small sheet of aluminum as protection.
(Burden of Proof)
4. This is intriguing to me because if you compare
levels of radiation; dentists and x-ray technicians
step out of the room when a simple x-ray or cat
scan is in production to avoid illness sourced from
even that level of radiation. Cancer patients
undergoing ‘radiation treatment’ become intensely
ill. Between 1969 and 1970 the radiation within
the Van Allen Belt was at its peak.
In 1962, The United States
Government authorized a
Megaton Nuclear Bomb with
intentions of fishing a human
made corridor through the
Van Allen Belt. Not only did
this not minimize the level of
radiation, but the nuclear
bomb intensified it.
(pro side)
(Burden of Proof…continued)
5. I don’t agree with that Gumby.
There are pictures and human advocates in which warrant the validity of
America beating Russia to the moon that day; contending Apollo 11 was
not a hoax and on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did walk
on the moon.
Whom are the human advocates?
Neil Armstrong passed away in 2012 and Buzz Aldrin was
initially paid $20,000 to take this mission (which equals
about $125,000 in today’s economy).
He also receives financial incentives to this day.
Is there any proof these are funds are not hush money?
(Burden of Presumption)
(Burden of rebuttal)
6. Don’t switch the burden of proof and don’t make a second claim
within one argument Gumby!!!
Your claim weighs high in logos and if you’re going to insist on
switching the burden of proof that contributes to the pathos of
your argument.
Contributing too much emotion or lacking proper argumentation
skills negates your credibility (ethos).
(Switching the burden of proof / Attempting to make a second claim.)
7. The individuals whom were operating the control
room’ were not physically there.
They were looking at machines and a screen just as
the remainder of the world.
Okay, you are right Pokey.
I digress…….
(Gumby rebutting Pokey’s prima facie case)
8. NASA claimed to implement ‘cross hairs’ into the actual
camera so each picture would be able to portray a
calculable distance.
Some of the pictures have the cross hairs and some
don’t. This is inconsistent.
Upon increasing the size of
the referenced picture, it was
discovered that there are two
letter ‘C’s engraved in one of
the rocks and on the ground
right next to where the rock
lays.
The letter ‘C’ is always
implemented at the center of
the stage on movie sets.
(Burden of rebuttal)
