Hi Tom 
Yeah, I'd followed the link Xenopope listed above to Lyra's post, and it's extremely fascinating stuff. I used to think it was all just a bunch of bunk... too Star Wars "death star" kind of conspiracy theory, but then a few years back, I'd read Jim Marrs' book, Alien Agenda, and one of the chapters talks about the seismic experiments the astronauts conducted on the moon, leading to the "hollow moon theory". Had me scratching my head because I'd been seeing/reading things on the internet years ago about how people thought the tapes of the first landings had been faked. So, the only conclusion that makes sense to me is that they're both correct. Most of the disinfo that our gov't puts out, it seems, centers around only giving the public half truths and faking the rest with very boring, unimaginitive filler fluff. The real truth is often times stranger than fiction.
Another quirk about our moon is the "coincidence" that we only ever see one side of it... It rotates at a rate that keeps only one side of it visible..... but that side is strewn with craters from impacts... never made sense to me, and when I'd asked my Astronomy professor about it, he'd told me that I was only the second person ever to pose that question to him and informed me that at some point in the past that the moon did have a faster rotation speed, but that now it's slowed down to a point that just so happens to be perfectly in line with our ability to only see one side. Yeah, sure, I thought. I think Pink Floyd had it right: "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
~Pinky 
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain