Originally posted by gingerjedi
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IIRC Eugene Cernan scraped his ?daughters name? in the surface, but not in big letters.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.
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That's less stupid than believing in ghosts or worshipping fictional supernatural entities, IMO.Comment
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It’s impossible to fake a radio signal from the moon. Inverse square law will produce a fairly even week signal spread out across the earth. If the signal was faked and came from earth or a satellite the signal would be strong near the source and weaken significantly on the outer parts of the earth. The thousands of amateur radio enthusiasts would soon shout foul.
The flag waving argument is the most laughable as the flag was spring loaded so it opened up in one go and a spring suspended the flag."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Oddly enough during a discussion on this topic - and I had no doubt that the Appolo missions were genunie - nevertheless I was left wondering why NASA didnt release pictures of the Appolo spacecraft on the surface- and hey presto - http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/
Thanks NASA !
As for the1 in 4 not believeing it ...didnt 7 out of 10 Americans believe that there the 9-11 Hijackers were mostly Iraqis?
Silly Human Race.Comment
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Nice Photoshop job...Originally posted by threaded View Post
Actually most pictures from Hubble are "photoshop'ed" to jigsaw bits together, colour correction, etc. In particular, the Deep Field picture was pieced together from about 160 different exposures.
I think the reason why people are sceptical of the moon landings is that people look at the technology now and wonder how on earth (no pun intended) it was possible back in the 60s, when so many technology projects fail now.
It's because the yanks took incredible risks and it was amazing luck that most of the astronauts were not killed (although 3 did die in Apollo 1 on the ground).Comment
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Originally posted by centurian View Post
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The risks taken by NASA at the time cannot and should not be underestimated.
It was a massive, massive achievement and - frankly - a two in seventeen failure rate (Apollo 1, launch pad fire, killed three and Apollo 13) is still astonshing.Comment
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That would've been ace for pure comedy value!Originally posted by moorfield View Post... or drawing out a great big nob
Sounds almost like the pitch for a new Simon Pegg film, "Chavs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace".
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I know he left a family photo on the surface. Didnt know about the grafiti on the surface!Originally posted by threaded View Post
Apparently, the 11 crew gave themselves a less than 50 - 50 chance of landing successfully and returning to Earth.
What was even more incredible was that they could not test fire the descent or ascent engine before the actual landing and take off because the fuel was so corrosive! Once fired, the engine had to be totally rebuilt to the extent it was a brand new engine.
Even then, Aldrin found the ascent engine switch broken off on the floor of the ascent stage floor. That must have been some moment when he found that and realised what it was!
The Apollo8 crew gave themselves only a 1 in 3 chance of circuling the moon and landing back on Earth as well.I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!Comment
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostThat would've been ace for pure comedy value!
Sounds almost like the pitch for a new Simon Pegg film, "Chavs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace".
Man has drawn out great big nobs on hillsides since ancient times, putting one on the Moon would have seemed quite logical.Comment
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