Moon Landings

[WTFH]

Stanley Kubrick was hired to fake the moon landing, but his perfectionism made them film it on location...



...On the moon.

[Uncle Albert]

Who cares about the moon? We're all going to die on the 23rd September, NASA have confirmed it (according to some bloke on YouTube)

[zeitghost]

Real.

Strongest factor: I'm not a feckin' moron

Supplementary factor: we didn't have the technology to fake it at the time. It was actually easier to go there:

Posted that on Monday Links in January 2013. Do keep up

Who is this "we", puny earthling?

It's a shame we've not been back, but I suppose it was very important to spend all the money onbombing the tulipe out of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Eyerack, Libya, and anywhere else

FTFY

[gables]

ok I am skeptical

my reason is, if we could land on the moon in the 60's then why haven't we been back since ?

Milan.

Money and politics in that order.

Cost loads of money to go into space. There was a recession in the 70s.

If the US isn't doing stuff then the Russians didn't need to compete.

I thought it was because there is feck all there, not even gravity.

[tomtomagain]

ok I am skeptical

my reason is, if we could land on the moon in the 60's then why haven't we been back since ?

Milan.

Because it cost 5% of the USA's GDP and there was massive political will to do it which is lacking today.

Hammer and Feather

[northernladyuk]

Because it cost 5% of the USA's GDP and there was massive political will to do it which is lacking today.

Hammer and Feather

Something cost 5% of the USA's GDP.

[tomtomagain]

One factor which I can recall at the time were the radio signals from the Moon. You cannot fake that as any ham radio enthusiast will know.

They also left some reflectors on the moon, which are used in an experiment to measure the Earth-Moon distance ... and are still being used today.

[northernladyuk]

They also left some reflectors on the moon, which are used in an experiment to measure the Earth-Moon distance ... and are still being used today.

How does the presence of Relflectors prove that humans have been to the moon?

[Paddy]

They also left some reflectors on the moon, which are used in an experiment to measure the Earth-Moon distance ... and are still being used today.

Yes, I know that one however, the bounce back light is reduced to a count of a "few" photons. I think it is proven (without looking it up) by matching the wavelength of the transmitting laser. We are down to partial physics to prove that one, which is a bit complicated for the thickos.

[tomtomagain]

Something cost 5% of the USA's GDP.

Yeah. That something was building a fleet of Apollo spaceships, training a cadre of elite astronauts and employing 400,000 people.

Anyway ... more to the point.

How do you know the Americans ever left the moon? Maybe they have kept a permanent base there.

NAVY Space Command Uncovered

The US Navy has a bigger space budget than NASA and in 2012 it donated two unused Space Telescopes to NASA that were identical to Hubble ... but had never been launched because they were now obsolete ( in the US Navy's eyes .... obviously got something far better ).

And of course, they've been flying their secret shuttle for the last decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-space-shuttle

Space is of primary importance to the US Military. They have a strategy of "owning the skies" so to assume that they wouldn't also have one to "own space" is naive.