Did man really land on the Moon ?

[Galactic]

I agree that the Zebulonians shouldn't be messed with. But as everyone knows, its those little bastards from Farhacs 3 that are into the whole anal probe thing. Oh yeah, they promised to call. Still waiting. I know I shouldn't, but it was such a special moment.

We did land on the moon. And while there, we met the Moon-shins. Nice bunch of beings. So while this debate goes on and on, don't forget to attend the Flat Earth Meeting on June 16th.

The Moon-shins are nice. They have been kind enough to lend me this space on the Rupes-Altai, where I silently keep vigil for the do-gooders of the universe to make their appearances, though as of late, there have been few and far between.......

The Flat Earth meeting has been canceled in lieu of a new meeting, the changing of the name of Earth to Water.....it seems the Galactic Council doesn't understand why we continue to call it as such.......not to mention, beings are laughing at the thought that there are those amongst the Earthlings that discount the monumental feat of landing on the moon.

It happened people. I'm seriously sitting up here right now, drinking punch and eating pie the Moon-shins were kind enough to drop by with.......

 

[ThatRedWing]

The Moon-shins are nice. They have been kind enough to lend me this space on the Rupes-Altai, where I silently keep vigil for the do-gooders of the universe to make their appearances, though as of late, there have been few and far between.......

The Flat Earth meeting has been canceled in lieu of a new meeting, the changing of the name of Earth to Water.....it seems the Galactic Council doesn't understand why we continue to call it as such.......not to mention, beings are laughing at the thought that there are those amongst the Earthlings that discount the monumental feat of landing on the moon.

It happened people. I'm seriously sitting up here right now, drinking punch and eating pie the Moon-shins were kind enough to drop by with.......

I guess that would be Moon-Pies. :wave2:

 

[Stacey]

It happened people. I'm seriously sitting up here right now, drinking punch and eating pie the Moon-shins were kind enough to drop by with.......

If they try and give you the green wine, be careful. It'll give you gas. And gas on the moon can be bad (the whole gravity thing)

(thats right, I was making a space fart joke)

 

[Galactic]

If they try and give you the green wine, be careful. It'll give you gas. And gas on the moon can be bad (the whole gravity thing)

(thats right, I was making a space fart joke)

I drank the green wine once.

Once.

Now, before I relate what happened, let me first state that I am no stranger to, shall we say, the fun substances that give you enlightenment. But they stopped by one night as my eye lids were drooping, as I am the only guardian on Luna that is left.....there were many, but they have all left, one by one.....

So, as I sat there, trying in vain to keep my lids peeled in case of an attack by many of the space races that continually bombard our home (but you don't know it happens, because of me), when they stopped by with a shimmering green bottle, and proceeded to entice me with the cosmic liquor therein......

It's a blur after that, friends and neighbors, an absolute blur. I do know that Zeus and Neptune exist, and are engaged in a perpetual arm wrestling match that neither wins, but both wanted me to be the judge, and declare the other a winner, so magnanimous were they both.........Alpha Centauri is actually quite cool to the touch......and there is a planet on the far side that I found myself in that consists of nothing but trees and tigers....a horrifying experience that I am to this day not quite sure how I escaped from.

The gas was easy to accept because I was still alive.

 

[calpoon]

What he meant to say is that Earth is not a perfect sphere, but rather an ellipsoid, since it's wider on the equator and narrower on the poles.

And you should be more specific when you say "it has a 360 degree radius", what do you mean by that? Going around all the sides of a triangle you also do 360 degrees, but you could hardly call a triangle round.

You really made me think on this one. The problem is that "round" is not a scientific classification, although it is an accurate description of the Earth's shape. I guess you could say that it has a 360 degree radious inside of it's circumference... I don't know how to describe what defines a round object without defining a circle, which the Earth isn't exactly. It's been a very long time since I've taken geometry so I couldn't really tell you about ellipses and spheriods.

Where did you ever see a "picture" of a large planet in a solar system light years away? Short answer, you didn't but why do you think you have?

BTW when a planet is detected in a solar system that is light years away it is only indirectly observed. Usually a "wobble" in the stars orbit is detected.

You got me there. I never really thought about how lame our telescopes are. I feel kind of let down.

 

[vaasta1987]

90% of conspiracies are complete bull

And if we didn't land on the moon back then, we sure as hell can nowadays

 

[boobfan]

You really made me think on this one. The problem is that "round" is not a scientific classification, although it is an accurate description of the Earth's shape. I guess you could say that it has a 360 degree radious inside of it's circumference... I don't know how to describe what defines a round object without defining a circle, which the Earth isn't exactly. It's been a very long time since I've taken geometry so I couldn't really tell you about ellipses and spheriods.

LOL!
ok here is a simpler way of thinking about a circle its a 360 sided object. Don't get too comfortable with that way of thinking about it though or you might end up trying to square a circle like those fools who are seeking to cut PI.

I truly pitty those who waste time, energy, and raw computing power trying to square a circle.

 

[calpoon]

90% of conspiracies are complete bull

Which means that 10% of them are only partially Bull. Something to think about.

From a real simple premise, this thread has turned up a lot of really cool and interesting posts.

 

[robbied196]

If you want to rely on a 1969 Gimbal to get you to the moon, and more importantly, back again:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/gimbal-1-2.jpg
Assuming you can handle the varying temperature:
The mesosphere extends from about 50 km (31 mi; 160,000 ft) to the range of 80 85 km (50 53 mi; 260,000 280,000 ft). Temperature decreases with height, reaching "100 -C ("148.0 -F; 173.1 K) in the upper mesosphere. This is also where most meteors burn up when entering the atmosphere.
oh, and the pressure:
99.99997% of the atmosphere by mass is below 100 km (62 mi; 330,000 ft), although in the rarefied region above this there are auroras and other atmospheric effects. The highest X-15 plane flight in 1963 reached an altitude of 354,300 ft (108.0 km).
and, IF you re-enter the earth’s atmosphere, where the meteors burn up, you'll be in this:
A command module's inner structure was an aluminum "sandwich" consisting of a welded aluminum inner skin, a thermally bonded honeycomb core, and a thin aluminum "face sheet". The central heat shield consisted of 40 individual panels interspersed with several holes and openings for the reaction control engines and after-compartment equipment access.
I can smell burning!
I guess, until someone gets back up there and finds what the apollo missions left behind we'll never really know!
Oddly though, they left one of these:
A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector) is a device or surface that reflects light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Unfortunately, its never been visable from any earth based telescope, or by the hubble space telescope bit of a bummer that one, it would have been a case clinching bit of evidence!

 

[calpoon]

A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector) is a device or surface that reflects light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Unfortunately, its never been visable from any earth based telescope, or by the hubble space telescope bit of a bummer that one, it would have been a case clinching bit of evidence!

I think that they talked about that on the mythbusters episode. There is a laser that is able to shine on it and then be reflected back confirming that it is there on the moon- if you can believe them, that is.

 

[capricorn]

Oddly though, they left one of these:
A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector) is a device or surface that reflects light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Unfortunately, its never been visable from any earth based telescope, or by the hubble space telescope bit of a bummer that one, it would have been a case clinching bit of evidence!

No wonder you can't see it with a telescope, since it is very small! However the retroreflector was not brought to the moon without a purpose - it serves in an experiment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment

Btw, all the facts you mentioned in your post are applicable to any travel to space, not just to the Moon! So if your evidence is right, absolutely all missions to space are faked!

 

[anomaly]

The problem with that though is - 159,900 of them actually believed they were going to the moon... Sure, the missions definitely happened, so 150,000+ people were still involved, but what if instead of heading to the moon, once the craft was out of visual range NASA (or the hoaxers) used false data to trick those 150,000+ people into actually thinking they SAW the moon landings happen?

Get Real!:yinyang:

 

[Boobinator]

No! And dinosaurs have never existed either, and the Holocaust never happened.
In fact, there is no moon at all! It's a big hoax! The government has built this big dome to make us believe that it exists. Even the stars and astronomy as a science is a lie! The g-men are obviously playing us!


Come on... you know it's all true, after all it makes perfect sense doesn't it :thefinger

 

[mrtrebus]

No wonder you can't see it with a telescope, since it is very small! However the retroreflector was not brought to the moon without a purpose - it serves in an experiment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment

Btw, all the facts you mentioned in your post are applicable to any travel to space, not just to the Moon! So if your evidence is right, absolutely all missions to space are faked!

Now we are getting somewhere! There is NO space, that's the conspiracy! Its all a lie!! Created by the reptilian Illuminati that rule the so-called 'world'!
WAKE UP!!

 

[boobfan]

A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector) is a device or surface that reflects light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Unfortunately, its never been visable from any earth based telescope, or by the hubble space telescope bit of a bummer that one, it would have been a case clinching bit of evidence!

That is not correct.
There are 3 retroreflectors and if you had read the previous posts I had made you would have even noticed that they are indeed visable from cheap earthbound telescopes.
Then there is the whole matter of what happens when you hit them with a laser but it's not really important as the last one that was left behind is pretty damn visible.
The lunar rover is also another clearly visable object along with the lander modules.

 

[MattOnes]

Yes we landed on the moon, but all the footage we have seen is not of the real moon landing because what we really found up their had to be hushed up! Yep we found an evil Nazi Moon Base!! & these astro-nazi's murdered our poor astronauts & we have been fighting a space war with the Lunar Reich, led by the brain of hitler in a robot body, ever since!! :eek:

i foaught that is wat happened

 

[slither]

What's the logic to this question that the whole world should know? If you are a wealthy decent person, you can buy a piece of land in the moon.

 

[skechers]

What's the logic to this question that the whole world should know? If you are a wealthy decent person, you can buy a piece of land in the moon.

We think Jesus is up there, with his telescope, and his clipboard, and his god-walkie-talkie. Probably doing inventory for the earths 4,010th birthday. So we want to ask him about the authenticity of carbon dating, and what it was like to ride a brachiosaurus. Ooh, and then we'll ask him if he knows the wherabouts of Osama Bin Laden.

And if we won't talk, we're gonna waterboard the crap outa him.

 

[FatalFantasy206]

I believe so, but it surprises me we haven't been back since.

 

[Boobinator]

I believe so, but it surprises me we haven't been back since.

There have been around 5 successful moon landings as far as I know. But none recently, most likely because there is no more information worth the resources to travel back, and our eyes have turned to Mars instead.