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Well, it will be 40 years ago tomorrow (July 20) that we landed on the moon, but lets just kick this thread off a little early.
Apollo 11 Overview at Wikipedia
Google Moon
NASA Apollo 11 - 40th Anniversary Site
Buzz Aldrin Responds to the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy
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Whenever I watch the Apollo 11 footage, I'm amazed how the crew could land on the moon in a flimsy air-tight can like that. Technically, the whole thing was a gamble from the beginning to the end.
I also love the looks and haircuts of the people at Houston ground control. :D
Wouldn't it be awful for the 50th anniversary they admit we never went to the moon?
Awesome thread 'Duf.
Was just thinking about this Friday. :)
The Buzz Aldrin vid is LOL.
I can't believe people still think it was a hoax.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
Trivial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80
:lolz:
So it would be awful, is what you're saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by DangerousK
I bet it was a hoax.
Politically and technically, the Apollo program more than did the trick, so even though I personally believe that man sat foot upon the moon, it doesn't really matter wether it actually happened or not. All that giant-leap-for-mankind banter was fine and dandy but not the main purpose of Apollo.
Still, the fact that we were able to send people into space on top of large rockets only 60 years after the Wright brothers' first flight with a controlled aircraft is really amazing.
Any hig res pics of the flag?
Awful would be someone thinking MvC2 is a great fighter...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
Oh wait...
:tickled:
never go to http://forums.shoryuken.com/index.php thenQuote:
Originally Posted by DangerousK
I don't know what to think, I just thought I'd stir up the shit.
But honestly, it would surprise me with all that old "technology" that we were able to go there, but can't now. Just doesn't sound right. Wish we would go again. Or, fuck that... Mars. Mars, bitches.
Yeah because the faggots on SRK are the final word when it comes to fighters. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
The moon landing was a lot of basic physics. Oh and yeah, they just managed to get the entire scientific community to go along with such an elaborate hoax. That's so simple to do.
Maybe if you can see Buzz you can tell him how it was a hoax.
Going to the moon and back is actually pretty simple... Even with that old technology.
It's pretty complicated shit for one layperson to understand (myself included)... But to physicists, it's elementary.
You can call him a cunt, you can say his mother's a bitch, but you better NOT tell DangerousK that the moon landing was a hoax. Never have I seen someone get so pissed off about something so easily. And to think, I didn't even come out and say it. The very thought of it got his underwear into a flaming knot.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u.../ffffuuuuu.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ez-NpFVwQw
Needed to be posted sooner or later.
Edit: Funny comment on that page "Buzz Aldrin: Dealing with the tinfoilers, one face at a time"
Wow, Aldrin just shot up in my list of American badasses. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hikaru Ichijyo
Um, that very video was posted in the first post of this thread! And it is awesome.
Theyre working on it with the LRO satellite.Quote:
Originally Posted by TonK
Heres some lower res shots of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 14 landing sites taken by the satellite this week.
http://www.scibuff.com/2009/07/17/lr...ng-to-be-real/
Honestly, what proof is this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesagwa
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...abeled_540.jpg
Hell, I can label stuff on the moon, too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...abeled_522.jpg
Yes, and atoms dont exist because we cant see them and science is a lie. We get it spike, shut the fuck up.
Why is everyone so uptight today? I'm just enjoying a good laugh. I don't fall on either camp. Maybe that's why it amuses me so much.
People who sit here yapping that it was a hoax, are among the stupidest fucks that grace this planet. Were natural selection to right the wrong of their existence, it would be a one giant step for the betterment of human civilization. I don't particularly find it amusing that people have such a severe intelligence deficiency that they choose to see things that aren't in the least bit truthful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
What if they don't believe in Natural Selection either?Quote:
Originally Posted by DangerousK
ki_atsushi?Quote:
Originally Posted by norton9478
The fact that you don't fall in either camp is ignorant. Humanity has reached the moon, there's ample proof. Like Nes said, just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's not real. And for as why we haven't gone back... That shit is fucking expensive, and there's no political will to return. Yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
Anyways, if you wanna stir up shit, that's one thing, but try not to look like a drooling retard in the process if you can help it. Just a tip.
just curious, but have we been back to the moon since "our first time"?
:rolleyes:
That's why I love the internet, you'd never speak to me like that in real life. It's just wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by HeartlessNinny
Now, I never doubted that we went to the moon. Ever. But one day, years back, a friend of mine actually laughed when he thought that I thought that we did. His opinion that we didn't' opened my mind to the possibilities that he could be right. Ever since then, I don't know what to think. I think both sides have over whelming points proving their side.
If I had to lean one way or the other, I'd say we landed, just out of all the people it would take to pull off such a lie... but that's about the only reason.
Oops! :emb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
I'll have some extra sauce on my failsteak. :loco:
I don't think being an agnostic towards whether the moon landing actually happened is something to be particularly proud of. Does that make it less of a tin foil hat and more of a tin foil sweat band?
people forget that the moon landing did not happened only once but six times in total.
they even dropped a vehicle on the moon, the moon rover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_YhYBxjpQU
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rarehero
Apollo 12
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Unfortunately we have not been back to the moon since 1972 with the Apollo 17 mission. They managed to do a lot of work on all those missions though, and managed to leave a lot of stuff behind on the moon.
The lunar rover is still up their. It's my understanding that if we landed on the moon again all the astronauts should theoretically have to do is put a new battery in to get it up and going again.
The Apollo 11 flag was knocked down when the Eagle took off. They placed it too close to the Eagle so when the they ignited the rockets the exhaust caused it to fall over.
I believe they have footage of this.
PS: Anyone have more sweet Apollo/Space related links?
Share the wealth.
If you guys don't have the latest version of Google Earth then you need to get it. It features Google MARS and Google Universe. It's really badass and quite an unbelievably extraordinary tool.
The Soviet Union has also been to the moon...sort of. They sent up some lunar rovers [robots] similar to our mars rovers, of course this was decades ago. But still pretty neat.
I think there was a huge upset with one of their rovers though as England was able to intercept the data [images IIRC] before the good old CCCP was, lulz!
You can read about it here:
Soviet Lunokhod Programme
More interesting space stuff:
teh moon buggy
Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment
And no discussion of space can be complete without this man:
Yuri Gagarin - an extraordinary man until the end, he was killed years later after his famous journey in to space on a routine flight. A shame the Soviet Union essentially banned him from re-entering space, especially given his accidental death anyway.
Check out that pic of him though and note all his super mega bling medals.
'duf and US-related history...
Man knows his stuff for sure.
Been meaning to read up on space exploration.
Personally find it more horrifying (the sheer vastness...) than interesting but when it comes to a subject such as the moon landing I certainly wouldn't mind learning more about it as I've kept my mouth shut on the validity of the landing due to a lack of information.
(This recent yearning for celestial information in no way coincides with my recent viewing of "Sunshine" which I adored.)
spike have you ever had to fuck a dude upQuote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
:spock:Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneSage
What?
is that what it says on your computer?
cool.
anyways going to the moon was dandy and everything but it's a colossal waste of money to do it now, there's no reason to, there's nothing on the moon. i'm more interested in the Voyager keep going into space outside our solar system.
it's frightening how many miles that baby's gone.
I'd have to completely disagree with you there.Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneSage
Exploration is worth it, no matter what. I'd like to see a return to the moon. How are we ever going to land on Mars if the last time we landed on the Moon was 37 years ago? Landing on the moon should partially serve as training for landing on Mars, even though the conditions on Mars (atmosphere, etc) are fairly different.
I'd also like to see some kind of space station or other installation set up on the Moon.
I think it's an exceptional use of the taxpayer's dollars.
But I'd also like to see great collaboration between the US and other countries that have space programs, so that we can actually get something working.
I'm just curious how many shuttles we launch per year.
That explosion a few years ago was beyond embarrassing!
Space exploration is cool and everything if we had star trek technology. As-is there's really not a lot to explore on the moon and Mars.
One thing I'd love to do, though, is climb Mons Olympus on Mars...that sounds way too fun.
boy i hope total recall was right and aliens created a machine that will oxidize mars's atmosphere
Heh, I don't doubt that most people won't say that kind of thing to peoples' faces... But I do. Believe it or not, I act the same was in real life as I do on forums (or rather here, I don't post anywhere else). And somehow, I've gained a reputation as something of an asshole. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel
Anyways. You sure sounded like a dumbass man, that's all I was saying. :emb:
Also, @'Stage: Olympus Mons is a lot higher than any mountain on Earth (three times the height of Everest, almost 17 miles high). I doubt you'd make it. :tickled:
exactly
If you cheated and used a Star Trek transporter, I wouldn't tell anyone though. ;)
That's the part that always gets me. That when humans landed on the Moon, there were people living who had been alive for the entire history of manned flight. With how quickly technology progressed from no flight at all to walking on the Moon, it's no wonder that people in the 1960s thought we'd have flying cars and whatnot by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takumaji
And I want Moon colonies.
It will be interesting to see what happens when China tries to complete their moon landing by 2012 or when we try to return by 2015 as NASA has recently suggested. If we're not able to land safely, then the real conversation will start.
That is if we're all still alive after December 2012.
Sincerely,
Mikhail
Depends. Sometimes they do two or three a year. Sometimes none. This year we only had 1 so far I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneSage
The shuttle missions are running out though, only a handful left before they scrap the program.
Lots left to do on Mars... Just too hard to get too...
Big place, different regions, Lots of places where we would love to drill out a core sample or two.
i stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf