Author Topic: The Truth About the Moon Landing? (Read 4259 times)

ofreen · « **Reply #25 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:44:27 AM »

Quote from: HavocTurbo on April 22, 2010, 11:10:45 AM

I for one want to know why in 40 years we haven't been able to go back...

Same reason I don't have an RC51. We've spent the money on other stuff.

Ecosse · « **Reply #26 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:46:11 AM »

Quote from: HavocTurbo on April 22, 2010, 11:10:45 AM

I for one want to know why in 40 years we haven't been able to go back...

it's not that we can't. it was truly part of the cold war.

we won.

Inigo Montoya · « **Reply #27 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:55:39 AM »

Good thought ecosse. Why go back when you already beat everyone? Course when the chinese start trying, we will too.

Gordon · « **Reply #28 on:** April 22, 2010, 12:15:31 PM »

Quote from: HavocTurbo on April 22, 2010, 11:10:45 AM

I for one want to know why in 40 years we haven't been able to go back...

Because there isn't a good reason to.

I think we need to get #$%* sorted out here on Earth before we start setting up shop on other worlds and screwing things up there, too.

The only reason we'd go back to the moon now would be to mine it.

HavocTurbo · « **Reply #29 on:** April 22, 2010, 01:07:19 PM »

And while I agree with you Gordon....

We have spent (as a country) the last 40 years trying to be the global nanny. And really nothing much else.

Vietnam.... Iran/Contra.... Drug War.... Gulf War.... Iraqi Freedom....

Not to mention all of the shows of military force for other "developing" nations. And the billions spent on aid for other countries when we deny aid to even our domestic organizations for children.

Our focus on being the biggest and best and the baddest country out there has showed just how inflated we areally are. We fall.... everyone else falls with us.

Gordon · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2010, 01:20:40 PM »

Quote from: HavocTurbo on April 22, 2010, 01:07:19 PM

Our focus on being the biggest and best and the baddest country out there has showed just how inflated we areally are. We fall.... everyone else falls with us.

Yep. Too big to fail.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2010, 01:40:28 PM »

But... military contractors and subcontractors are making a killing!

Markcb750 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2010, 02:36:14 PM »

The problem with the moon is it has no viable economic contribution to make. it cannot provide additional living space, and there does not apear to be gold lying around for us to bring back.

Until energy becomes cheap enough to allow/support the technology it would take to keep humans alive there, it will remain just a curiosity.

Maybe some of that cold fusion...

Ecosse · « **Reply #33 on:** April 22, 2010, 03:00:15 PM »

Quote from: Markcb750 on April 22, 2010, 02:36:14 PM

The problem with the moon is it has no viable economic contribution to make. it cannot provide additional living space, and there does not apear to be gold lying around for us to bring back.

Until energy becomes cheap enough to allow/support the technology it would take to keep humans alive there, it will remain just a curiosity.

Maybe some of that cold fusion...

i'm still waiting for the 100 mpg carburetor plans to show up in the mail.

Freaky1 · « **Reply #34 on:** April 22, 2010, 04:08:14 PM »

There is water on the moon, there is ice on mars, hold your horses, we'll be back. We may have beat the Russians to the moon but as for sustained presents (sp?) in space they have us beat by a mile. The American people lost interest in going to the moon, seemed routine. Much like every disaster in the history of the space program, we start getting all high and mighty and then screw something up and a few people get killed, refocus and gain attention. We will not have a firm commitment to space in this country until someone, i.e. private sector, can make a buck on it.

BobbyR · « **Reply #35 on:** April 22, 2010, 05:33:19 PM »

I think you are right, the Moon flights were more about politics than about science. It is almost universally agreed that the moon was not a captured satellite, it was a pice of the Earth that was torn away from the Earth by an impact. So any minerals there would be available here.

During the Cold War the Soviets feared that space could be weaponized and the Moon would make a perfect platform, it rotated around the globe and need no help staying in a stable and predictable orbit. You would not need a large rocket engine for a large payload since gravity would do most of the work.

Humans love to reach out and explore. We have explored Earth in ships, when we wanted to take to the skies, we did and all you can do is go faster and higher, the X-15 was technically in Space.

Sometimes I think at the root of our space exploration is to find out if we are really alone in this infinite space. Is there a new World out there where our forms of life can be sustained? Could we seed it? Colonize it as we did other parts of this World. Lot's of question and no real answers.

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #36 on:** April 22, 2010, 06:01:41 PM »

If you were around at that time it was amazing how quickly the public lost interest after Apollo 11. Of course Apollo 13 had the gripping drama and the first moon rover drew some interest but soon the public let out a big collective yawn. Also the fact that the supply of Saturn 5 boosters was used up with the last being used to launch Skylab I believe. After that all the money went to the shuttle which does not have the lift capability to reach escape velocity to break orbit. So the answer is we couldn't go back because we did not have the tools for the job.

Gordon · « **Reply #37 on:** April 22, 2010, 06:06:30 PM »

And we didn't have the tools for the job because we didn't want or need them anymore. If a continued moon presence had been the goal, I'm sure the tools needed to make it happen could have been provided.

754 · « **Reply #38 on:** April 22, 2010, 10:06:16 PM »

I yam a PAYmason...

All your bikes are belong to me..

PAY up phuckers..............................................

...Liviinnngggggg on the baaad side of the mOOn........

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #39 on:** April 22, 2010, 10:43:47 PM »

I know for most if not all of you guys this is all tongue in cheek but is there anyone here who really thinks it was a hoax? They faked it 6 times? The launches were real, hard to fake that. Did they just hang about in orbit for the duration? What about the Russians? They had satellites and radar and could have tracked them in orbit and exposed the whole thing. At the height of the Cold War the Russians were in on it too?

seaweb11 · « **Reply #40 on:** April 22, 2010, 10:54:15 PM »

"Did they just hang about in orbit for the duration? "

Where they ever in the rocket?

ofreen · « **Reply #41 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:54:31 PM »

Quote from: srust58 on April 22, 2010, 10:43:47 PM

I know for most if not all of you guys this is all tongue in cheek but is there anyone here who really thinks it was a hoax?

Sure. Plenty of things have been covered up successfully. How about this alien landing in the Washington D.C. in the early '50s? Hardly anyone is willing to talk about it.

Markcb750 · « **Reply #42 on:** April 23, 2010, 02:02:43 AM »

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

Frankenkit · « **Reply #43 on:** April 23, 2010, 02:08:38 AM »

Oh noez! Not Klaatu!

...for those of us who have yet to learn Klingon... and/or who realize that more people speak Klingon now than Navajo.

Markcb750 · « **Reply #44 on:** April 23, 2010, 03:32:09 AM »

No one speaks Middle English anymore either.

BobbyR · « **Reply #45 on:** April 23, 2010, 06:11:08 AM »

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #46 on:** April 23, 2010, 07:21:04 AM »

Quote from: srust58 on April 22, 2010, 10:43:47 PM

I know for most if not all of you guys this is all tongue in cheek but is there anyone here who really thinks it was a hoax? They faked it 6 times? The launches were real, hard to fake that. Did they just hang about in orbit for the duration? What about the Russians? They had satellites and radar and could have tracked them in orbit and exposed the whole thing. At the height of the Cold War the Russians were in on it too?

The cover-up is what was found when they got there.

754 · « **Reply #47 on:** April 23, 2010, 08:23:50 AM »

Heyyy.. Where are my bikes...

MAYBE I WAS NOT LOUD ENUF..??

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #48 on:** April 23, 2010, 08:30:10 AM »

I stored them for you at the secret lunar base, remember?

strynboen · « **Reply #49 on:** April 23, 2010, 08:40:39 AM »

hvat nov ,,vhen the shuttels are taken aut,,are they take the old saturns back,,or are the russins the only to lift heavy loads
in space

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