chrisobee Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 And maybe I dreamt we won the FA Cup in 1976, it does seem implausible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 (edited) So, we could send a man to walk on the moon 30 odd years ago, but these days we can't manager to get a probe to take a camera up there and get some decent pictures! Perhaps that's the price you pay for technological advancement :smt102 'Can't manage?!' Of course they can manage. NASA has been sending landing probes to Mars - a tiny bit more challenging than the Moon - since the mid 70s. If NASA decided to invest precious resources in trying to quieten the few paranoid noodleheads who believe the Moon landings were faked, they'd find themselves in a vicious circle. New evidence would in turn be dismissed as fake. The problem is that the 'moon truthers' are, by any other name, just another internet-wired cult. No amount of evidence would ever satisfy them. It would be like trying to prove or disprove the existence of God. Edited 10 October, 2009 by Verbal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 It is a bit weird how they are just starting to look for water on the moon by shooting probes into it, you would have thought they would have looked 30 years ago when you had men up there driving buggies around and sticking flags in stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 It is a bit weird how they are just starting to look for water on the moon by shooting probes into it, you would have thought they would have looked 30 years ago when you had men up there driving buggies around and sticking flags in stuff. Advances in technology perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 Advances in technology perhaps? They didn't have spades in the 1970's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 It is a bit weird how they are just starting to look for water on the moon by shooting probes into it, you would have thought they would have looked 30 years ago when you had men up there driving buggies around and sticking flags in stuff. The water - or ice - is at the poles. The moon landings were close to the 'equator'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 Advances in technology perhaps? What, the same advances that should make repeating what was done 30 years ago easy and way more affordable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 The water - or ice - is at the poles. The moon landings were close to the 'equator'. So there is still plenty scientists do not know about the moon then - I thought the reason no one has been back for 3 decades is because they know everything there is to know about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 So there is still plenty scientists do not know about the moon then - I thought the reason no one has been back for 3 decades is because they know everything there is to know about it? I don't think the scientists had any real say in it - and have never heard any scientist making such a claim. On the other hand, plenty of scientists will say that manned missions are an expensive distraction from doing real science. I remember when Apollo 13 took off, public apathy was such that virtually no one was watching. And that was less than a year after the Apollo 11 landing. Without public support, and in the midst of the Vietnam war, the massive cost of the Apollo programme could never be sustained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint George Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 What, the same advances that should make repeating what was done 30 years ago easy and way more affordable? So do you want to pay for it?.... American tax payers funded the Apollo missions and will no doubt be happy to consider funding any other project that could be seen to be worthwhile.....Repeating a 30 year old Moon mission just for the sake of it, or to prove the sceptics wrong, does not fall into that bracket. Of course, there's nothing stopping any other Nation from setting up a Moon landing program...there ya go, you should start lobbying Gordie to put a Brit on the Moon.....Let him know you and the rest of the British Tax payers will be willing to pay, after all its so easy and affordable these days. Cya on the moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 It is a bit weird how they are just starting to look for water on the moon by shooting probes into it, you would have thought they would have looked 30 years ago when you had men up there driving buggies around and sticking flags in stuff. When those astronauts brought back samples of moon rock,they actually did find evidence of water in the rocks,but stupidly dismissed the findings because they assumed the samples had been contaminated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 10 October, 2009 Share Posted 10 October, 2009 So do you want to pay for it?.... American tax payers funded the Apollo missions and will no doubt be happy to consider funding any other project that could be seen to be worthwhile.....Repeating a 30 year old Moon mission just for the sake of it, or to prove the sceptics wrong, does not fall into that bracket. Of course, there's nothing stopping any other Nation from setting up a Moon landing program...there ya go, you should start lobbying Gordie to put a Brit on the Moon.....Let him know you and the rest of the British Tax payers will be willing to pay, after all its so easy and affordable these days. Cya on the moon Naa, only the Yanks are dumb enough to spend billions visiting a useless lump of rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nineteen Canteen Posted 12 October, 2009 Share Posted 12 October, 2009 Interesting stuff. FWIW I thought it was just another casualty of the Beecham Report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trader Posted 17 October, 2009 Share Posted 17 October, 2009 The only reason the Americans went there in the first place was to show the world how clever they were, how much more advanced they were, and to show off to the rest of the world. They're still doing it but in other ways. The reason nobody's been back is that everyone knows its just a big lump of rock and there's no reason to. It might have been 40 years ago but we are really not that more advanced in relevant technologies than we were then. So we go to the moon again, where to after that? Mars? - maybe but a 2-year round trip to find another slightly more interesting lump of rock. After that? - nowhere. There is nowhere else to go that is remotely within the range of current technologies - or I suspect EVER within the range of any technology, and everyone knows it. So the era of manned space flight is probably over - this ain't Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 17 October, 2009 Share Posted 17 October, 2009 Maybe it's the right time for us (as in 'all of us') to realise that what we are actaually all about is fairly simple. Just treat people right, be nice to each other and accept that we are all heading to the same place. Once people realise this and start making everyone else's live's a bit nicer whilst we travel part each other I am sure that we'll all be a damn sight happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 19 October, 2009 Share Posted 19 October, 2009 Maybe it's the right time for us (as in 'all of us') to realise that what we are actaually all about is fairly simple. Just treat people right, be nice to each other and accept that we are all heading to the same place. Once people realise this and start making everyone else's live's a bit nicer whilst we travel part each other I am sure that we'll all be a damn sight happier. Nice sentiment, but I refer the gentleman to his tackle on me in the first 18 seconds of our St Mary's Stadium debut... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 25 October, 2009 Share Posted 25 October, 2009 Virgin 1 right now ~ proof that they never went to the moooooooooooooooon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 25 October, 2009 Share Posted 25 October, 2009 Virgin 1 right now ~ proof that they never went to the moooooooooooooooon Oh! we didn't? All those lies that have been peddled over the years and, more stupidly, how the vast majority of us (who have learned of the moon landings) have actually believed them! Still, glad that the earth is flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 25 October, 2009 Share Posted 25 October, 2009 Virgin 1 right now ~ proof that they never went to the moooooooooooooooon Oh well that's it then isn't it..? One of the most respected channels on digital TV has brought out evidence that man hasn't been to the moon. OK, guys, call it all off. Virgin1 says we haven't been to the moon, so it must have been a hoax after all. :smt046 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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