Happy Friday, let's argue part 2
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I saw it happen on TV.
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We put 'flectors on the moon!!!
Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector
And, even China confirmed it:
China just bounced a laser off reflectors on the Moon placed by NASA's Apollo 15 mission
Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector
And, even China confirmed it:
China just bounced a laser off reflectors on the Moon placed by NASA's Apollo 15 mission
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You are correct. There was at least the bottom boot of a spacesuit, plus a slip-on tread pad, between the astronauts' tootsies and the lunar surface.
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Now this is a topic worth kicking around. So .....
Why have we not gone back in decades?
Oh wait a renewed interest I hear ..... let's send a yapper chick in the next few short years!
Why have we not gone back in decades?
Oh wait a renewed interest I hear ..... let's send a yapper chick in the next few short years!
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Aliens using the Moon as a base of operations made it clear that we were not to return.
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Fify.
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Well, yes, Francis Ford Coppola produced and directed the hoax footage.
But he was such a stickler for details and authenticity, he had it filmed on the moon.
Glock v. 1911.
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Both.
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Easy one Harley. If you like cruisers. If you want to run high RPMs and go a little fast rice works. Vrod gave them a run for the money and two new ones coming will get a lot of heads turning.
Yes we landed on the moon. They walked on it. We have not gone back because doing it opened up other more rewarding ways to study Space.
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I am going to be on the side of I don't think we did it. My reason is as mentioned before, why have we never gone back to develop it? And the government would have definitely gone back. I lived in Montana at the time (Summer of 69), and we used to sneak over to the "Badlands" quite often. But several months before the alleged moon landing the area we used to go to was closed off by the government for unspecified reasons. And then reopened up in October. The films I have seen really resemble some of that area.
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The premise of using a 60's-era LM/Apollo CSM to land on Mars is ludicrous.
1. The LM had just enough consumables to land and take-off from the moon. No more. Given Mars is 8.7x the mass of the moon, a standard-issue LM could simply not carry enough fuel to land, let alone have enough left over to take off.
2. The legs of the LM would fold like paper under the increased weight of the craft itself.
3. The launch vehicle (Saturn V) just ain't got the horsepower needed to launch a third stage/LM/CSM to Mars. At least within one human lifetime.
4. The CSM was designed for, at best, a 14 day lifespan. Send one to Mars, and in three weeks your crew is dead. Not from starvation or dehydration, but lack of fuel. Fuel cells providing power run out of fuel. No heat, no lights,..... no oxygen. They slowly die from asphyxia.
I think you'd have a better chance of driving a 20d spike into an oak plank with a paper match.
Hell, even the Soviets would have figured THIS out.
And if we truly DIDN'T go to the moon, they sure as hell would have said something. As well as the Chinese. And the North Koreans. And East Germans.
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Would “I watched Apollo 11 lift off in person” count?
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No, because all your testimony can be is that a rocket was launched. You can't confirm it's destination. To confirm that, had to have watched it on the TV. CBS, as a matter of fact. Uncle Walter would've never lied to us.
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