The Moon poll - did we do it?

[Tone2TheBone]

Question of the day for my friends. Did "we" land on the moon? For real? Was/is it possible? Really? Tell me what you think.....

[Robert****]

Well, Wallace and Gromit went there, so we might have done it too. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104361/)

[Tone2TheBone]

Well, Wallace and Gromit went there, so we might have done it too. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104361/)

LMAO! First time I heard of Wallace and Gromit was at a Burger King in Colorado when my 14 year old was only 11. *sighs*

[ted s]

If we did, why only once ?

[Tone2TheBone]

If we did, why only once ?

Because it's too expensive to fake more than once?

[t_ross33]

If we did, why only once ?

Apollo 11 Landing - Mare Tranquillitatis (0°41'15"N, 23°26'E) July 20, 1969
Apollo 12 Landing - Oceanus Procellarum (3°11'51"S, 23°23'8"W) Nov. 19, 1969
Apollo 13 Mission - You saw the movie I'm sure
Apollo 14 Landing - Fra Mauro (3°40'24"S, 17°27'55"W) Feb. 5, 1971
Apollo 15 Landing - Hadley-Apennines (26°6'3"N, 03°39'10"E) July 30, 1971
Apollo 16 Landing - Descartes (8°59'29"S, 15°30'52"E) April 21, 1972
Apollo 17 Landing - Taurus-Littrow (20°9'55"N, 30°45'57"E) Dec. 11, 1972

After that NASA dumped big bucks into a craft that could be used more than once (i.e. the Shuttle). Never got it to the moon and back though, and I've heard that they may be reviving a rocket program in prep for a Mars mission.

But who can believe anything the government says

[Mark]

Yes I believe we did, for one I know some of the people involved in the Apollo program and have no doubt. Second the main proponent (not sure if he started it all but he was trod out as an "authority" on one documentary) of this nonsense that we didnt do it, was some toothless whack job in a trailer somewhere. . Plus thinking about it logically a hoax of this magnitude would be impossible to cover up for all these years. Just my nickles worth. Oh yea I heard Paul is dead, after all he is barefoot crossing Abbey road...........LOL

EDIT to remove political stuff, sorry Robert sometimes the fingers get ahead of the gray matter.

[Robert****]

Just remember guys, no politics.

[ted s]

Apollo 11 Landing - Mare Tranquillitatis (0°41'15"N, 23°26'E) July 20, 1969
Apollo 12 Landing - Oceanus Procellarum (3°11'51"S, 23°23'8"W) Nov. 19, 1969
Apollo 13 Mission - You saw the movie I'm sure
Apollo 14 Landing - Fra Mauro (3°40'24"S, 17°27'55"W) Feb. 5, 1971
Apollo 15 Landing - Hadley-Apennines (26°6'3"N, 03°39'10"E) July 30, 1971
Apollo 16 Landing - Descartes (8°59'29"S, 15°30'52"E) April 21, 1972
Apollo 17 Landing - Taurus-Littrow (20°9'55"N, 30°45'57"E) Dec. 11, 1972

oops, I hate it when I'm a knob.

[marnold***]

There are talks of returning to the Moon now to use it to test equipment for a trip to Mars. It sounds like they are thinking of using a vehicle not that dissimilar to the old Apollo spacecraft.

[Spudman***]

You know...I'm there often and I never see anyone else.

[Mark]

You know...I'm there often and I never see anyone else.

Yep just waitin for the Grand Opening of the new Moonbase Guitar Center. Just think how light a full stack of marshalls would be up there.

[SuperSwede]

You know...I'm there often and I never see anyone else.

Erhmmm.. your supposed to be on the light side of the moon, not the dark side spuds.

[Tone2TheBone]

There are talks of returning to the Moon now to use it to test equipment for a trip to Mars. It sounds like they are thinking of using a vehicle not that dissimilar to the old Apollo spacecraft.

I have a hard time believing that we traveled from here to the moon using 1960s technology and material and design...flying through freezing space in thin walled ships....landing correctly and safely and then launching off the surface, docking and then returning home.

Ok I got a question maybe someone can answer it for me. Who was manning the camera that filmed the Lunar Module taking off from the moon back up to dock with the Command Module? The film shows the LM taking off from the surface of the moon rather quickly and the camera pans up to follow it's accent. Who was filming it? Someone? No because they left to go back to the CM. A computer? If a computer...how was that film returned back to us when we had already left? This is the least important argument I know but I've always wondered about this. LOL

And why is the moon so grey? Why isn't it different colors of grey or tan or green or yellow? Because the moon material is composed of the same thing everywhere?

I would love to see us try and go back thats for dang sure. I'm gonna watch it again and pay closer attention.

[jpfeifer]

I'm sure that we did.

I used to work for a company that made sattelites. There was so much thought that went into the design of these for almost every aspect, from how to keep the temperature evenly distibuted when subjected to the extremes of space environment, to shielding it from space-borne particles that could disrupt the circuitry. There is a ton of technology that goes into making something that can operate in space reliably. A lot these things were learned over the years of the space program.

If this whole mission to the moon was some conspiracy to fool the public then there wouldn't be any technology to show for all the effort that went into the development of the various equipment used to make these missions.

-- Jim

[tiefnig]

I don't think we did, once I stand up there I will believe it
The only real mystery I can think of is the toast thing.

[Katastrophe]

If the moonshot was fake, then 'rasslin's real.

I dunno, I'm just sayin' is all.

[Tone2TheBone]

If the moonshot was fake, then 'rasslin's real.

I dunno, I'm just sayin' is all.

I heard that somewhere Kat! heh

[Iago]

I do believe in the Sasquatch though..