[acousticrock87]

I met Buzz Aldrin. He says, they did.

[Daycare Nation]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

I met Buzz Aldrin. He says, they did.

You wouldn't expect him to admit that he was paid a lot of money to be an actor in an elaborate joke on humanity, now would you?

[HaydenAsche]

Originally Posted by Daycare Nation

You wouldn't expect him to admit that he was paid a lot of money to be an actor in an elaborate joke on humanity, now would you?

You are a conspiracy theory hack.

[terminal pharmacy]

yes

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

the reason why space exploration is on hiatus is it's too damn expensive & the trade -off benefits aren't considered viable (you know with all these defense budgets to keep up so that crooks can steal from them)

space exploration is the future, but there are too many problems here on terra firma...

on a related note, (not space travel though)
concorde sst almost bankrupted england & france

what caused punk more than perhaps anything else?

the fucking concorde, man...the depressed economic conditions that were a direct causal result

concorde still rules though ...technology way before its time & the closest we'll ever get to a time machine, by the way

only one crash (in '98 methinks)

it was due to a small, stray piece of metal on the runway that sheared a wheel causing a spark to ignite a fuel tank...they corrected the problem..."they" being the world's foremost engineers---bar fucking none. concorde finally flew again on none other than the fateful day of september eleventh two thousand and one. the us was always jealous of the technology. then, the sst was grounded in '03 due to budget problems finally reaching a fatal breaking point. only like eleven of them were ever made. it's sad that the most sophisticated technology on the planet (which was invented in the late sixties/early seventies by the way --- we've been super-slack since then as a species) is now no longer in use!

Come back atari,everything is forgiven.I second that like i would only second a King that was about to behead me.Space travel is the future?The way things are going i'd be surprised if anyone is gonna have one............. and i'm an optimistic by nature!

[atari 2600]

All the unfounded accusations concerning fake moon landings are easily explainable.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/

[atari 2600]

 

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

My math teacher showed us a leaf chart with all the temperature that shuttles had flew at. The big one that crashed(I forget the name) took off at like 30 degrees farenheit while the others all did in the range of 60-80.

That makes sense. The low take-off temperature stressed the tiles too much when burning through the atmosphere.

[Tokolosh]

Question: Can I see the flag on the moon with a telescope?

Answer: No. Not even with a 300" telescope. Sorry.

Ps: Doesn't mean it isn't there.

[Disgruntled Youth]

It looks like a back drop plus, where are all the stars?

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Disgruntled Youth

It looks like a back drop plus, where are all the stars?

OK. I have explained this before, and it is a good question. My physics professor at Univ of Houston explained this to me. The cameras being used on the moon landings were television cameras, to beam the images back to the Earth in as close to "real time" as possible.

The cameras had to be designed to capture images of the astronauts, the moon surface, etc., while being in full daylight, which, since the moon has NO ATMOSPHERE is blindingly bright, hence the quadruple layers of visors that the astronaut helmets have.

 

star light, by comparison, is exceedingly DIM, and, for the same reason you cannot see the stars during the day on earth, there are no stars visible during the day on the moon. EVEN MORE SO due to the harsher sunlight.

the moonis locked in synchronous rotation so the same side faces the earth all the time.

 

SCIENCE RULES!

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Disgruntled Youth

It looks like a back drop plus, where are all the stars?

Ugh, click the links.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/

Thanks, Rob.


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Argh, one more 'no' vote on the poll. On the bright side, there's been three more yesses.

[HECKLER SPRAY]

 

[pbradley]

The moon landing conspiracy is one of the most laughably stupid conspiracies I've ever heard. At least tie in the illuminati if you need some motive.

[SynthethicalY]

I think the illuminati is the funniest conspircy theory I have heard.

[pbradley]

At least that is entertaining in its own right. The moon conspiracy is funny because of how many people take it seriously.

[SynthethicalY]

I like the conspiracy of where the illuminati and skulls and bones are intertwined most of the time.

[king_buzzo]

no, NEVER!