Footage NASA never wanted you to see (video link)

moontruth.com ^ | July 20, 1969 | Moontruth

[TalBlack]

A pretty good friend of mine whose brother worked at NASA was one of the staunchest AMERICAN disbelievers, in fact...

Oh, GOSH REALLY!? A friend of an uncle related to a sister who lived next door? That sort of thing?

I well remember the day in 69 and I can tell you that the only disbelievers that day were outside America-excluding people who, perhaps, substitute shocking statements for their absent personality.

Get real, genius, IT HAPPENED! And if you had to bet your life on it you'd damn well bet that it happened.

[rs79bm]

It appears AI has something against space exploration in general. NASA's budget is small, comparitively, to that of other Gov't organizations, as I posted earlier. There are far more agencies and programs that waste money, but NASA isn't one of them.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

NASA's budget's bigger than all the rest of the world's civilian space agencies COMBINED:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Chinese-space-program .

Check out how much more cheaply other nations are doing Mars:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Mars-underachievement

Europe's headed for the Moon comparatively affordably, too.

If NASA was robbing $1.5 million as opposed to $15 billion, I'd still be angry. Thus, comparing NASA's budget to the overall federal one doesn't alleviate my ire much. When's the last time you parted with $1.5 million without feeling irritated?

[U S Army EOD]

Are you really for real or just the plant for entertainment tonight?????

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

>>>There are far more agencies and programs that waste money, but NASA isn't one of them.<<<

PLEASE. I guess you're not aware of:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/x33

or

http://www.spaceprojects.com/iss

for starters...

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Right.

[U S Army EOD]

Like I said, start your own company, come back when you have saved us all.

[U S Army EOD]

And then there is the old saying, "You can cure ignorance but you can't cure stupidity".

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

And heaven forbid that you should actually read the facts that are presented to you in the form of external links. Then you'd not get to have as much fun insulting me. Meanwhile, we all remain land-locked.

"If we can go to the Moon, how come we can't go to the Moon?"

Some of us actually care.

[U S Army EOD]

Depends on which ones you WANT to believe, bubba.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Here's what I believe more than either of the two abovementioned assertions:

"We could probably repay our record high $6.9 trillion dollar national debt with the benefits resulting from less inefficient colonization efforts on the Moon and Mars. Such breakthroughs would pertain to energy production, the biotech sector, robotics, mining, chemistry, and telemedicine, etcetera. One also cannot overlook exploration´s exciting ability to potentially inspire students to eagerly embrace math & science like they did during the Apollo Era when folks like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos initially fell in love with such subjects. We could even learn to increasingly view others as fellow Earthlings, not enemies, while we struggle together against the shared
hardships of the unknown."


On a different note, Http://www.Alexa.com's critiques say that high-browed conversations are far less frequent here at Free Republic because of the rampant banning of certain independently thinking participants. I'm still forming an opinion regarding that assessment.

[U S Army EOD]

Well just jump right in there and start that company and write me from Mars. There is an old Marine Corp recruiting poster that shows this Marine looking at this guy reading a newspaper. He says to the civilian, "We don't read about history, we make it".

So now is your big chance.

(PS: The reason the Marine doesn't like to read about history is probably because most Jarheads can't read).

[jettester]

FYI, one of the other methods to come close to zero-g is for it to happen like they did for filming Apollo 13 - by using a modified jet. I think the manuever is called a hyperbolic dive but zero-g's are achieved for short periods of time.

[simarilian]

Actually I've always considered the Laser reflector deployed by the Astronauts the hardest item to fake. Anyone with the right tools can point a powerful Lazer at the landing site and get a return. It's used to measure exact distance from Earth. It could be done today with a robot, but probably not in 65.

[U S Army EOD]

But remember, we are faking all the data.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Are you irritated with me because I referred to an external site that also quotes a farewell address from a morally-driven Republican president who had considerable military experience?

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Eisenhower

Doesn't Ike's analysis hit uncomfortably close to home regarding our space program?

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

It's called the "Vomit comet" and I believe it generates microgravity for mere 30-45 second spurts at a time. KC-135 is what I think the model number was, and tourist flights on it sell for under $10,000.

[U S Army EOD]

A KC 135 is the tanker version of the C 135. After Boeing developed the C 135 and the KC 135 with tax dollars, they put seats in it and called it a Boeing 707 which upset McDonald Douglas a little bit since they were trying to develop the DC 8 without tax dollars.

The ride you are talking about is offered by the Russians along with other neat stuff you can do like ride in their fighter planes.

By the way, the Russian and Chinese space programs are not private enterprises.

[U S Army EOD]

So tell me what Ike understood about the space program. When he was in office, I don't think NASA even existed. There was some other forerunner of it that was making an attempt to play catch up with the Russians. All of our stuff just kept blowing up on the launch pad.

By the way, Ike did announce we had launched some metal speres out of the pull of gravity toward the sun in 1956. He lied. We did no such thing back then.

[dcwusmc]

How about you reading THIS Marine's comment>>> Who can't read? Bite me. (Said in jest.) My brother joined the Army out of H.S. (1965) Poor guy couldn't spell "cat" so the army, in its wisdom, made him a clerk-typist. Then he REALLY had a brain fart and decided that eating snakes and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and wearing a Girl-Sprout beanie was more his thing. Go figure.