Here's a funny story. Margaret Atwood, famous Canadian woman of letters (writer, novelist, "The Handmaid's Tale", "Oryx & Crake", etc.) was heard in an interview on a high-school radio program to be questioning the Apollo moon landings. It's not quite clear whether she believes it was a hoax, whether she was hoaxing the hoax, just encouraging kids to question things, or later backpedalled to avoid embarrassment. One version: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/09/23/margaret-atwoods-just- wondering-about-that-silly-moon-landing-hoax/ What makes this topical to the list though, is one of reasons she gave to question the landings: The question about the moon landing is why haven?t we been back. And it was done in an age where computers were as big as a couple of rooms. If you even look at the Space Odyssey 2001 HAL the computer, and I think that movie came out in the late 60s, HAL the computer is huge. We didn?t yet have microchips. So I just wonder, how did they do that? Why they haven?t done it again if it was so easy? Later, after backpedalling a bit, she still says: But the questions about the computer technology needed to do something this complex remain with us? what were they using, in those days before microchips? How heavy was it? Apparently it only takes 40 years, not 2000 (Antikythera), to start questioning whether our 'forebears' were able to do things without the tools we have today. And she was publishing in the 60s, it's not like it was all before her time.