I have just one simple question - no need for people to throw supposed links for or against. If US astronauts landed on the moon all those years ago, why has no astronaut from any countrty, America included, ever been back? However there was such a big deal made about a little camera going to Mars a few years back? I understand, based upon a reply in another thread? that this topic has been discussed - but I don't have the time or desire to go hunting through past threads.
There isn't any use to go back, it would be a waste of time and money. Now, they are going on to bigger and better things. (ie mars)
We did go back numbnuts. We've landed six seperate missions on the moon. Apollo missions 11 through 17, with the exception of 13 which was supposed to land on the moon but missed and went around the moon instead. Here is a picture from the apollo 17 mission
Sending men to the moon is horribly expensive. After we beat the Russians and met Kennedy's deadline, Congress had a war in Vietnam and a War on Poverty to pay for. What money that remained was spent on the Shuttle. Another big ticket item. The benefits of space exploration can be divided into two classes, economic and scientific. People going to the moon would return less scientific benefit (for each dollar spent) than sending machines elsewhere. People going to the moon would return less economic benefit than people in the micro-gravity of orbit.
I don't think we should go back to the moon. I keep hearing all this shit about Lunar Colonies and it sends shivers down my spine. I keep flashing back to when I watched the Time Machine and the scientist goes into the future and all this panic is going on. He asks a cop what's going on and he tells him the moon is breaking up because of something we did to it. I'll never forget that image... The moon is slowly ulling away from us, and when we lose it (which, admittedly won't be for eons and eons, but still), we'll be dead. The Earth will go off its axis and the climate will change constantly, so rapidly that the planet will no longer be able to sustain life. We've already had "wobbles" due to the moon's drifting from Earth's gravitational pull and that's how we got the Sahara desert... at least I think it's the Sahara... maybe it's another one... but anyway, that used to be a lush grassland. Now it's a barren waste land. It's scary shit like that that makes me think we should leave the moon alone. Mars would make more sense, but I doubt we'll ever make it to Mars. Unless, they prove cosmic rays aren't harmful to the human body, and approve long-term space travel, I don't have much faith in it. That makes me sad to say, because I have seen the color photos that came back from Mars, and I think having a golden sky every day would be wonderful Though I would miss the blue from time to time
I guess there's a giant crater with rings around it from an impact that was so forceful that it rippled the surface for hundreds of miles. My Earth Science teacher in 10th grade told me it looks like a big eye. Imagine the kinds of folklore we would have if that happened to be the side we see instead of the one we have now with "the man in the moon" on it.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different one... the Mohave? Death Valley? I dunno, maybe the article I was reading was full of shyte, but it's made me paranoid about losing the moon or doing anything to it.
One day we'll know when 'Open U.S. Government' finally admits it was a 'cold war' deception.By that time we'll be too worried about the effects of 'global warming' to care anyhow.
I was a cold war thing yes, but did go. Whether or not we would have even tried without there being a cold war is debateable. But claiming that it was fake based on the fact that their is no reason to believe that it was fake is stupid. It's like saying "I believe that Elvis is alive because there is no evidence to suggest that he is alive. Which means that the government has destroyed all that evidence and there is therefore a cover-up going on." See, dumb. The far side of the moon does not look like a giant eye. Somebody had a less than adequate science teacher apparently.
Hi Prof.How u doing?. We couldn't agree on a 'Moon Landing Hoax' thread previously & I surmise we've entrenched ourselves ,obstinately, in our standpoints even more since then!. I could accept the fidelity of any U.S. President not to have fixed any cold-war advantage through a massive deception bar one: & that one was President elect:........... Richard Milhous Nixon.
Oh I see, you're one of those naive sheeple that go hey look at the pictures. Or, even worse, but my government said we did. Wake up and learn to think for yourself. That sort of illogical reasoning just makes me laugh. Am I to assume if I tell you that we have animals with three heads, and send you a picture of one, along with a little story about how we transported ourselves to where they live would you beleive that too lol
