we landed on the moon 40 years ago

anyone still believe this shit? just after america says they will do something it happened. what about more realistic human goals then? nope the americans would actually put a human on the moon before the 60s ended. what an utter bunch of manipulative bullshit. we were the best country in the world then because of this edited event.

if people still believe this even 40 years later the western world is fucked more than i can try to fix. some people really should just be allowed to sleep.

(21-07-2009 03:00 )firekind Wrote:  anyone still believe this shit? just after america says they will do something it happened. what about more realistic human goals then? nope the americans would actually put a human on the moon before the 60s ended. what an utter bunch of manipulative bullshit. we were the best country in the world then because of this edited event.

if people still believe this even 40 years later the western world is fucked more than i can try to fix. some people really should just be allowed to sleep.

how is it i knew that before even coming into this thread that you'd be bitching about americans? lol. so you're one of the conspiracy nuts? ok. (stepping away carefully.........).

these people that should be allowed to sleep, by chance are you one of the sleep deprived people?

I remember watching the moon landings very well. It's so clear in my memory it could almost have been yesterday.

Of course it couldn't have been faked, as the Soviet Union were inevitably watching every move and would have known if the radio transmissions were not truly coming from the moon. They would hardly have kept quiet if they knew the US was perpetrating a hoax. What a propaganda coup that would have been in those grim days of the cold war!

NASA were also very generous with the considerable quantity of moon rock that was brought back from the moon, rock that is very different geologically to any rock found on Earth and also 600 million years older than any rock found on Earth. Almost every country in the world was given some moon rock and even the Soviet Union agreed that the rocks came from the moon (later confirmed when the Soviet Union collected their own rock samples from the moon).

A piece of equipment known as a laser reflector was left on the moon and has been used by many people around the world since then to verify that the moon landings took place. If you know the exact position of the laser refector and fire a laser beam at it, the beam is reflected back to you a few seconds later. This has also proven that the moon is moving away from us, something that was not previously realised, as the laser reflection over the years has gradually taken longer. The moon is moving away from us about an inch every year.

Remember also that many people around the world tracked the movements of the Apollo spacecraft, such as laboratories in Australia, Spain and Japan, not to mention the Soviet Union of course. It was easy to for anyone with radar or with the most powerful telescopes. NASA helpfully provided the Apollo space positions every day, so that people knew exactly where to look. Even amateur astronomers took pictures of Apollo 8 when it was close to the moon.

With telescopes getting ever more powerful, it will not be long before images can be obtained from Earth of the actual landing sites anyway. There is already a telescope in Europe that might be able to do it. This would show things like the lunar modules but not extreme detail such as footprints. Images of footprints on the moon do exist though and were taken a few months ago by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"(later confirmed when the Soviet Union collected their own rock samples from the moon)."

How did Russia do this?, the only country to have been to the moon is America, Russia has never landed on the moon.

(21-07-2009 13:56 )brazenhead Wrote:  the only country to have been to the moon is America, Russia has never landed on the moon.

I'm afraid you're incorrect. The Soviet Union visited the moon a number of times and actually landed there as long as 10 years before the USA's famous landing, as the robotic spacecraft Luna 2 reached the moon in 1959.

As for the rock samples, there were 3 Soviet robotic spacecraft which successfully brought rock samples back to Earth, and these were Luna 16 in 1970, Luna 20 in 1972, and Luna 24 in 1976.

All this nostalgia got me thinking! I can remember the first time i landed on my ex. Looking back on it that was a complete waste of money too!!!!!

When will people realise that conspiracy theorists are scam artists making millions selling books,videos,etc to people gullible enough to believe their cleverly contrived bullshit.

You can make a conspiracy out of anything, the moon landlings was a remarkable achievement.

(21-07-2009 17:56 )Colbert Rules Wrote:  You can make a conspiracy out of anything, the moon landlings was a remarkable achievement.

indeed, i heard that colbert is just a conspiracy himself, he's really just Chipster.....

This advert was shown on ITV 1 several times yesterday:



It says that the Omega Speedmaster was "Worn on the Moon".

Firekind: Since you state that Man has never set foot on the moon, then why don't you complain to the ASA for false advertising? Let us know how you get on.