Neapolitan

I was listening to the radio today, I heard something that totally threw me, I couldn't believe. I think they called it the "Moon Landing"??? it's supposed to be like the 40th Anniversery of it. I just can't believe it. People landed on the moon? A person actually walked on the moon? I thought I heard of everything on the History Channel like the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, The Chupracobra, Underwater Spaceship out of the Bermuda Triangle, but I never heard of the moon landing

So just like any one else whenever something piques my curiosity and I want to learn about something I don't already know, I google it. I thought I would find something to read to find out more about it, but then I saw "Apollo Moon Landing hoax" so I was utterly confused.

So did we land on the moon?

Scarlett O'Hara

How would anyone really know? Other than Neil Armstrong. I don't really care whether American's did or not. It's not like much else can be achieved with the moon anyway. Mars however...

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Arya Stark

My mother was just talking about this.

I don't know how it's possible for people to land on the moon whatever amount of years ago and for them to be unable to achieve the same goal now.

It doesn't make sense to me.

AND they've lost the video? o.O

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Neapolitan

I think it happened something like 40 years ago, or so I read in the news paper.

I think it is because there are so many satellites orbiting the Earth if they try to lunch a rocket to the moon, maybe it would knock down one of them - then there goes your GPS system or maybe Sirius Sadellite Radio.

Freebase Dali

LMAO...
You're can't be serious.


You think we just have un-tracked, random satellites flying around and our space shuttles are in finger-cross missions in the hopes that millions of tax payer dollars aren't completely wasted by a kamikaze rogue satellite collision while attempting to enter Earth orbit?

Satellites aren't the problem. We know where they are and we're smart enough to plan around them.

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Neapolitan

oh yeah I heard something about that, my cousin used to work for NASA and he said that they track all the nuts and bolts and other bits and peice flying around the Earth in the outer atmoshpere. He said like if a astronaut drops a screw driver they have to track it. I don't what agency and all that does that, maybe its NASA or maybe the NSA, something like that. He said that the space shuttle constantly comes back home to Earth with dings and scratched from these flying thingamajiggers (space derbis?) in the upper atmosphere.

sweet_nothing

Well it is pretty strange that we landed on the moon 40 years ago when we can barley do it today. And modern tech today is so advanced in comparison to that time I mean look a the iphone, and in the 60's they barley had computers. But it doesn't really matter as long as we get the credit and beat those commies, we're still #1 baby.

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I love me some barley

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One of the conspiracie theories is that it was all performed on a sound stage, and you can see the letter 'C' (common on Hollywood props in the '60's.)on the ground and in a crater, but............

if you've ever seen the video, it shows them get out of the spacecraft, and then shows them playfully frollicking around for a few minutes, in a notable absence of Earth's gravity. Hollywood can't replicate anti-gravity or one/seventh Earth's gravity.

I mean, the only thing on Earth that can come close to anti-gravity are those cool carnival rides like Gravitron or whatever..........but then the center of gravity is shifted outwards centrifugally, and no longer vertical(clearly not what you see in the vid).........so in other words, the plainfully obvious anti-gravity in that vid is virtually impossible to replicate.......especially in 1969.

This conspiracy theory is too far out there for me.......and that's saying something......
also I have a hard time believing the o.p. hadn't heard of this, or were you taking the piss?

I think I overestimate how important America and its 'achievements' are to other countries

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Sodacake

It's not that you "can barely do it today", it's that NASA has collected enough samples on the moon to study and it started costing too much sending astronauts to the moon every few years.