
("Moon Rock" given to Dutch in 1969)
AMSTERDAM (AP) - Dutch museum officials are caught between a rock and a hard place -- over a moon rock.
The bit of stone was supposedly returned to Earth by Apollo astronauts.
But museum officials now say their moon rock is a phony.
An investigation by the national museum has revealed the prized possession is just piece of petrified wood. But the museum isn't getting rid of its now debunked moon rock.
It's being kept as a curiosity.
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(NASA on way to Moon!)
Mind you I actually believe we went to the moon. Still I'm not surprised that we handed out snake oil, slight of hand bate'n switch three eyed monkey's to the rubes.
Oldest trick in the book.
P.T. Barnum is smiling in Paradise to see that his legacy is being upheld. No surprise that them phony moon "rocks" was handed out during the Nixon administration.
Actually I kind'a smelled a rat when I was a kid. They was hand'n these fakes to every tropical cutthroat president for life Nixon was butt buddies with.
They seemed to give out more rocks than they officially brought back from the moon!
In fact they even gave one to my radio station wbai.org. I always thought there was something 'odd' about that "rock",...see below.
...thing is it still works. Even after 40 years.
It may not be from the moon, but it ain't from here.