Do You Believe They Put A Man On The Moon?

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Hola Muchachos

Happy July 20th, day of either one of the greatest achievements or greatest hoaxes in history. Give me your brain farts, or your thoughts, same thing. :P

[Tovan 0]

you bet they faked it! They're coming for us ... invasion!!!!!!

 

:P

[Atragon9 0]

Naaah, if it was faked, they would have done a better job and gotten better actors. Now Skylab - THAT was all done in a Burbank, CA warehouse, yupyup.

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

The moon landings weren't faked, IMHO. My uncle worked for NASA from the time of it's beginnning in the 50's and had a major part in programs from Mercury to the Mars missions, including Apollo. I remember the first moon landing, my mother plopping me down in front of the tv at 4 almost 5 years old and saying "watch this, it's history darnit." I talked with my uncle about it when I was old enough to understand the whole "they faked it" cry's. He assured me it was all real. To this day, he swears it wasn't faked. I believe him. Now, why we stopped going to the moon was another story. ::Look's around for the men in black:: Can't talk now, THEY'RE watching. ::Run's off laughing maniacally:: :P

 

Zaphod,

"Purr, I think that's self explanitory."

[Seiben 0]

Nahh, I'm pretty sure the moon landings were ligit. I have seen many a documentary trying to prove the Moon landings were fake, but.. when the NASA astronauts and officials said it was real. I believed them. :P

[BOB 0]

What a foolish question. I hate seeing people write stuff like this. The writer must have been too young to have sat and watched the events unfold on television. Let alone know they didn't have the technology then, that we have today to have faked it. Ask the astronauts from Apollo 1 if the program were fake. Oh wait, you can't, because they died for this cause. I'm sure that they didn't feel the fire was fake.

 

Bob

[Tovan 0]

Nahh, I'm pretty sure the moon landings were ligit. I have seen many a documentary trying to prove the Moon landings were fake, but.. when the NASA astronauts and officials said it was real. I believed them. :)

:P

 

 

::writes note not to trust Hans anymore regarding landing and moons::

[Seiben 0]

:P

 

 

::writes note not to trust Hans anymore regarding landing and moons::

Eh, what can I say.. I like to believe in the positive. Although, we shall see , if anyone ever lands on the moon again - even though some people might be more leary of when that happens. :)

[NDak 0]

Well, I, like Hans, have seen these 'documentaries' proving we never landed on the moon :P

 

Personally, I am with A-9 on this one.

[Dumbass 0]

You know how you can tell the moon landing wasn't faked? Armstrong messed up his line. "One small step for man" should have been "One small step for *A* man." If it was faked you know Armstrong would have rehersed and rehersed and rehersed some more to make sure everything was just right.

[Images 0]

well at least we can be glad he didn't mess it up more

 

"I'm a small man with a large- DAMNIT!"

 

Bah, i think they were faked...oh and REM are cool

[Tachyon 0]

You know how you can tell the moon landing wasn't faked?  Armstrong messed up his line.  "One small step for man" should have been "One small step for *A* man."  If it was faked you know Armstrong would have rehersed and rehersed and rehersed some more to make sure everything was just right.

Yeah, there's something about being on the moon that can make you forget your lines.

 

I'm not old enough to remember the moon landing, and although I believe in some conspiracies and unsolved mysteries, I think that the whole thing was real. Why else would the U.S. government funnel all that money into a space program?

 

Okay, so maybe it paid for a black ops department. But I don't think so. Look at it this way: we have successfully landed a bunch of rovers on Mars. Assuming that those landings weren't faked, then somewhere down the line in our distant past, back before dinosaurs were extinct--well, maybe not that far back--we needed some practice. The Moon Landing was the one of the intermediate steps.

 

That's all assuming the Mars landings were faked. We certainly have the technology to control the media today. So I think the better question is: Were the Mars landings faked? I answer no to that also, because it makes more sense to go to Mars than stay on Earth. Earth is running out of resources, and Mars is closer than Earth to that mineral-rich asteroid belt. So it's the first step out to establishing mines on the larger asteroids.

 

There's gold in them there ast'roids!

 

As for Skylab--well, let's put it this way. Mir fell out of the sky (yeah, it was old, but it should have been built to last, we're talking about the same people that have reusable spacecraft). And the International Space Station is bloated and already out of date. So it seems reasonable to believe that we aren't having much success because there never was a Skylab.

Edited July 20, 2004 by Tachyon

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

We landed...and we did it several times over. For those who say "But I saw on TV where they show how they didn't do it!," I'll remind you of something. Last time the FOX Television Network showed something along those lines, an article came out about this very topic. The producer of the show himself said something to the effect of "I know it really happened, they just wanted me to produce something that would get ratings."

 

I personally must say I think it's sad some people believe we didn't land on the moon. However, to each his own I suppose. I still listen to people who say that JFK was a space alien and the shuttle Challenger was actually beamed to Venus, so to each his own. :P

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If they landed, whats with all the discrepencies, like the flag waving in a vacuum or the shadows being off, or the lack of anyone jumping really high in the low gravity or how we haven't gone back in decades and so on and soforth.

 

Oh and JFK wasn't a martian, he was just killed by the cia :P

 

It isn't paranoia if its real.

[Cptn Moose 0]

Just when I think I've heard it all ...

 

The moon landing was one of the most incredible feats ever engineered by man. We've done some pretty amazing things since we've developed opposible thumbs, but this one tops them all.

 

I remember exactly where I was when the landing took place. I know if you weren't alive then that it seems pretty impossible. But you kids need to accept the fact that old people did something neat that you may never see again in your lifetime. Conspiracy theories on this topic are just sour grapes.

 

The moon landing happened. Go focus on finding Elvis' secret retirement condo.

[Tachyon 0]

If they landed, whats with all the discrepencies, like the flag waving in a vacuum or the shadows being off, or the lack of anyone jumping really high in the low gravity or how we haven't gone back in decades and so on and soforth.

 

Oh and JFK wasn't a martian, he was just killed by the cia :P

 

It isn't paranoia if its real.

The flag waved because somebody jiggled it.

 

The shadows were off because the moon is considerably different from the Earth. I am not an scientist, but I can sound like one when I need to be, and remember that the Earth's mass bends light from the sun around it. Of course, that's all still theoretical until Gravity Probe B begins its tests.

 

Furthermore, there was light from the lunar lander of course. And the fact that the moon doesn't rotate as quickly as the Earth.

 

These are all just guesses, mostly because I don't really know in what way the shadows were off.

 

The Americans haven't gone back because they purportedly don't have enough money until now. We Canadians just built and arm and left it at that. We even scrapped the Arrow.

 

You don't jump that high in the Moon's gravity. Compared to other natural satellites, the Moon generates a good amount of gravitation, the same gravitation that is responsible for the tides. The Moon itself is larger than Pluto.

[Atragon9 0]

If they landed, whats with all the discrepencies, like the flag waving in a vacuum or the shadows being off, or the lack of anyone jumping really high in the low gravity or how we haven't gone back in decades and so on and soforth.

 

Oh and JFK wasn't a martian, he was just killed by the cia :P

 

It isn't paranoia if its real.

Okay, you're kidding, right???

 

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Flag had a stiff, curvy wire around it to "look like" it was waving.

 

There was light from both the sun and tripod lights they brought.

 

They did hop up and down, on occasion, but were trainined not to make sudden leaps (they were afraid that the astronauts might actually have trouble coming back down from big leaps).

 

We haven't gone back because of how (sorry about this word) astronomical the cost was to go in the first place, with all the disposable hardware. Not enough bang for the buck. That's why they decided to shift to space stations for a more permanent space presence and as a jumping off point for Mars missions, etc. Besides, they need the zero gravity (well, micro gravity) of orbit for some of their ongoing experiments and not the heavier gravity found on the surface of the Moon.

[Tachyon 0]

The moon landing happened. Go focus on finding Elvis' secret retirement condo.

I prefer Douglas Adams' view that Elvis bought a spaceship. Then Ford Prefect eventually bought that ship and Elvis sang one last time for Ford and Arthur. But then again, that's me.

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Just when I think I've heard it all ...

 

The moon landing was one of the most incredible feats ever engineered by man. We've done some pretty amazing things since we've developed opposible thumbs, but this one tops them all.

 

I remember exactly where I was when the landing took place. I know if you weren't alive then that it seems pretty impossible. But you kids need to accept the fact that old people did something neat that you may never see again in your lifetime. Conspiracy theories on this topic are just sour grapes.

 

The moon landing happened. Go focus on finding Elvis' secret retirement condo.

I'll second that Moose. For the technology of the time it was incredible feat!

 

As Bob stated, there were many that sacrificed their lives to ensure that the program worked, and it's a sin that people have forgotten this fact. Below is a list of those men that gave their lives so that we could get to the moon. We should not forget their bravery. And if you were one of those lucky enough to have witnessed the launch of any of the Saturn 5 rockets, you will have had no doubt, that it got to where it was going. Anything that huge, had it not went to where it was said it would have, would have had the Russians and Chinese of the time, clamoring to disprove what happened. It's sad, that if people disbelieve this, will they in 30 years, try to also prove that the Challenger and Columbia accidents did not happen as well?

 

Name Program & Flight DOD Cause of Death

 

Theodore Freeman Gemini program (no flights) 10/31/1964 training mission plane crash

 

Charles Bassett Gemini program (no flights) 02/28/1966 training mission plane crash

 

Elliot See Gemini program (no flights) 02/28/1966 training mission plane crash

 

Roger Chaffee Apollo 1 01/27/1967 Apollo 1 fire

 

Virgil "Gus" Grissom Mercury 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1 01/27/1967 Apollo 1 fire

 

Edward White Gemini 4, Apollo 1 01/27/1967 Apollo 1 fire

 

Clifton Williams Gemini program (no flights) 10/05/1967 training mission plane crash

 

Blu

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I'll admit that people died to achieve the goal. Frankly it makes me more annoyed if they bravely died and it was faked. They died for nothing. I mean look at today's spacecraft, those shuttles are hardly safe, well think 1960's...not good.

 

It was faked. Thats my belief. They were waaaaaaaaaay behind the russians. They already had men and women in space whilst the americans were back with the monkeys. Kinda strange that the program could have got up to speed so fast. It was a publicity stunt.

 

Another thing is that i don't see why there had to be a space race at all? Why couldn't Russia just be allowed to get the first man up there? They had worked just as hard, if not harder. Just playing the old devil's advocate :P

Edited July 21, 2004 by Images

[Travis Kroells 0]

...Since my last post was too..."Offensive" I'll bring up something else...

 

Why hasn't any one said anything about the "Cat" from the Mars Rover?

[Travis Kroells 0]

And with what Images said, I agree, to a degree...agree...degree...lol

 

 

I think the first ones were faked. We were to far behind technologically. But I think the later ones in the 70's we're real.

 

I personally think apollo 13 was faked. Nasa and the goverments way of giving space flight drama.

[Tachyon 0]

I've slept on it, and now I'm a lot more rational--irrational--rational--one of those two. Anyway, last night I was watching the news and actually saw some of the footage. The footage is grainy and we didn't really have the technology back then to make it any more clear. So anything that may be a shadow may not be a shadow.

 

Furthermore, if it was faked, they would do a better job of covering it up than they have. If it was faked, we shouldn't even know about it, it should be seamless. They wouldn't mess up this bad, with a cast of thousands, because anything could go wrong.

[Vex Xiang 0]

Another thing is that i don't see why there had to be a space race at all? Why couldn't Russia just be allowed to get the first man up there? They had worked just as hard, if not harder

 

Because Russia = Communism. The only thing the US wanted Russia doing first, or at all, was burning to the ground and putting up US flags.

[Dumbass 0]

I personally think apollo 13 was faked. Nasa and the goverments way of giving space flight drama.

Of course Apollo 13 was faked. I mean they had Forrest Gump in charge of the mission! :P