[ContentiousObjector]

Science Bump

[Fiddlstix]

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[hove]

First of all, why is NASA so concerned with what people think??

Second, NASA deserves some of this crap. After all, 34 freakin years have passed and how many times have we been to the moon? We should have a damn city up there by now!

[rs79bm]

NASA Unsure of How to Counter the 'Moon Hoax'

Here's an idea. WHY DON'T WE send somebody back there to shut everybody up once and for all??? I have no doubts we went there in the first place, but why haven't we gone back? This is the question that NASA needs to answer. "Surely" there is some kind of scientific experiment we can do once we get there.

[A CA Guy]

Wasn't this whole story the straw that retired Art Bell's back?

[Cindy]

Oh for pete sakes. Tell the morons the truth and have them bone up on science. People who think our astronauts on the moon was a "hoax" need to crack open a science book (not a junk science book) and start reading.

[Doc Savage]

As I stated previously on similar threads in the past, the point that I find most interesting is the political aspect of the first lunar landing rather than the actual event.

I remember those times quite well. The challenge of beating the Russians to the moon. The optimism. The innovation and technology necessary to accomplish it.

What always seemed odd to me was that NASA and the government were "willing" to risk the possible deaths of two American "heroes" on a Lunar Lander that had never actually been "flown" except under controlled training conditions on earth.

This last statement always prompts multiple responses about how "advanced" the technology was (the onboard computers weren't powerfulful enough to toast bread in those days), and what excellent pilots they were etc,etc. All well and good, but still a highly dangerous assignment considering the "political" situation of the day.

Imagine the following. Through skill and luck, Armstrong manages to land safely on the moon (which he did.) But something then goes terribly wrong with one of the "return" systems. Aldrin and Armstrong are stuck on the lunar surface to await their eventual death with their last words reverberating around the world.

What would have been the fallout from such a mission? Probably it would have been said that NASA, in its zeal to beat the Russians, had placed these men in jeopardy by not taking enough time to insure their mission. Too hasty, insufficient research and technology development etc.

Now test pilots have always understood the risks of their jobs, but the average American, traumatized by the deaths, might have seriously begun to question the leadership of this country.

Imagine the political propaganda the Russians would have made of it. It would not have been a good time for the space program or its future development.

Now imagine that instead of landing safely, Armstrong (who was manually controlling it near the end and coming in pretty hot) had simply cratered it in. One squaak of static and it was suddenly all over. The recriminations would have begun immediately.

It was one thing to incinerate three astronauts here on earth during the days of earth orbits, but perhaps quite another thing to be reminded of Aldrin and Armstrong's graves everytime you looked up at the moon.

I must admit that had I been in on the planning of the lunar landing I would have felt very uncomfortable about these possible outcomes. Thank God it worked and they came home safely, but it was a very big political risk at the time.

[slimer]

i guess they faked the apollo 13 accident too. just to make it more real.

[jws3sticks]

One step for Man and one giant leap for Hillary, the Hag in the Moon. Let's give her a one-way bus ticket to the moon, and make her use it ASAP.

[Terriergal]

Isn't there a flag still up there from this landing? Wouldn't that be easily verifiable?

[Justa]

[The Sons of Liberty]

"We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity,"

I'm reminded of this everytime I see Pelosi, Kennedy, Hildebeast, Reid, Slick, sKerry,....

[Mamzelle]

Is this issue still alive?

[kalee]

ping

[Smokin' Joe]

LOL! GO with the flow and start selling licensed 'Moon Cheeze' and other products. They might raise enough money to build that golf course up there, and all the condos as well.

[Calpernia]

>>>NASA Unsure of How to Counter the 'Moon Hoax'

Because...a Hadith states, "Islam will end when man walks on the moon"