where is the flag on the moon?

bonkey · 11-12-2008 9:58pm

redout wrote: »

There is a great documentary called "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon" which is well worth a look. Raises some interesting questions especially the earth through the window.

What sort of interesting questions?

I ask because wvery "interesting" question I've seen on the topic generally relies on misinformation or flawed reasoning. I'd be really interested in actually finding a real interesting question.

BravoSierra · 01-01-2009 12:46am

espinolman wrote: »

The U.S. did go to the moon, in an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Que?

monkeytronics · 08-01-2009 1:10pm

I don't know much about the moon landing or the conspiracy theories surrounding same. But having read this thread I get the impression that the armstrong et al landing of the 60s has been the onlt time humans have visited the surface of the moon.

If that is the case, why so? It seems odd that they could pull off this great achievement some 40 years ago but no one has bothered to go back and explore further, particularly with advances in technology, knowledge etc... in the years since.

Although, if the landing was a hoax, then wouldn't someone like Russia or China not come publically state that its impossible to land on the moon for whatever reason...

ScumLord · 08-01-2009 1:28pm

Septic Leper wrote: »

their talking about going back in 2017 i think.They will defenitly be able to fake it properly this time;)

RTE had a good documentary on why everyones so desperate to get back to the moon but they showed some good footage of the astronauts just messing about on the moon, falling over and saying stupid stuff. I'd never seen any of that before.

King Mob wrote: »

Do you not get perspective or something?
Galaxy = very big approx. 100000 lightyears
Moon lander = very small approx. 5 metres

This should help clear things up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxI05inn_yU

ironclaw · 08-01-2009 7:36pm

Tony Broke wrote: »

I know that, my question is how do we have images like above and we cant see objects on the moon.

It doesnt make sense to me.

Focal lenght of the Hubble Telescope. It probably is designed to take a photo of something X thousand kilometres away. Would be a reasonable explanation IMO.

Or as stated before, Large and far away, Small and close..

They landed there, theres no hard evidence to the contary.

K-9 · 08-01-2009 8:48pm

ScumLord wrote: »

RTE had a good documentary on why everyones so desperate to get back to the moon but they showed some good footage of the astronauts just messing about on the moon, falling over and saying stupid stuff. I'd never seen any of that before.

This should help clear things up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxI05inn_yU

Damn, I was hoping from page 2 nobody beat me to it!

Biro · 13-01-2009 2:05am

monkeytronics wrote: »

I don't know much about the moon landing or the conspiracy theories surrounding same. But having read this thread I get the impression that the armstrong et al landing of the 60s has been the onlt time humans have visited the surface of the moon.

If that is the case, why so? It seems odd that they could pull off this great achievement some 40 years ago but no one has bothered to go back and explore further, particularly with advances in technology, knowledge etc... in the years since.

Although, if the landing was a hoax, then wouldn't someone like Russia or China not come publically state that its impossible to land on the moon for whatever reason...

There were a few missions to the moon. Apollo 11 and 12 made it, 13 was the one that went wrong, and one or two more landed there. They then canned the Apollo missions cause of cost and not gaining much else from the venture at that time. Concentrated on the reusable shuttle then I suppose.
They're planning on going back in 2020 according to a guy I spoke to in Nasa, but todays economic climate would want to have changed by then!!

If they didn't make it to the Moon, Russia would have been the first to shout about it. After all, the skeptics know that the reason they apparently "faked it" was to beat the Russians to the moon. Russia would have known if they faked it.
Also on the Hubble thing - why spend so much on a telescope to find the farthest reaches of space and then point it at the moon to see what they already know is there? In any case the skeptics wouldn't be convinced as the pics they might take would be "fakes" too!

King Mob · 13-01-2009 2:08am

Biro wrote: »

They're planning on going back in 2020 according to a guy I spoke to in Nasa, but todays economic climate would want to have changed by then!!

Hopefully if the Chinese make it, it'll pump some more of that cold war spirit into NASA and finally get them off their collective ass.