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Please can someone go back to the Moon?

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  • G Gary R Wheeler

    Going back to the moon wouldn't convince them. Taking them there wouldn't convince them. Shoving them naked out the airlock onto the lunar surface wouldn't convince them, but would provide a certain amusement.

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    I say steady on old chap! No-one should get thrown out of the airlock, however silly they are. I agree it wouldn't convince the hard-core swivel-eyed sceptics, but there are a lot of people who's basic argument is "If the Americans went in 1969 why haven't they gone back"? A repeat trip might convince them.

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    • L Lost User

      i went to a party on the Moon last evening. It was crap... .. there just wasn't any atmosphere. I'll get my spacesuit

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      I know - no atmosphere!

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      • K Keith Barrett

        I say steady on old chap! No-one should get thrown out of the airlock, however silly they are. I agree it wouldn't convince the hard-core swivel-eyed sceptics, but there are a lot of people who's basic argument is "If the Americans went in 1969 why haven't they gone back"? A repeat trip might convince them.

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        Gary R Wheeler
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        Keith Barrett wrote:

        No-one should get thrown out of the airlock, however silly they are

        Well, that's probably true. It represents a waste a perfectly useful bio-mass in your lunar ecology. In that case, recycle them into fertilizer.

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        • G Gary R Wheeler

          Bastards like William Proxmire cut off our nation's balls. We ought to resurrect that fucker just so we can execute him for treason, not just to his country, but to the entire human race.

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          Mike Hankey
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          I think selling your country out is becoming fashionable, it's happening everywhere.

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          • K Keith Barrett

            Yesterday on the radio I heard Phil Collins arguing with Prof Brian Cox about whether the moon landings were faked. I get the same thing all the time from my own relatives. Isn't it about time someone went back to the Moon and so shut these idiots up? Anyone - the Chinese, the Indians, Elon Musk, whatever. Just a repeat of the Apollo 8 mission (without actually landing) ought to be cheap, and would at least prove that you don't get fried if you pass through the Van Allen belts. It's nearly the 50th anniversary after all.

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            Actually this is pretty much what I had in mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSE-Alpha[^]

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              Keith Barrett wrote:

              Yesterday on the radio I heard Phil Collins arguing with Prof Brian Cox

              That's an easy argument to judge. Just completely disregard anything said by the idiot pop singer, and give some credence to the man who knows what he's talking about.

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              Mark_Wallace wrote:

              Just completely disregard anything said by the idiot pop singer,

              Which one? :rolleyes:

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              ... had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream.


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                Mark_Wallace wrote:

                Just completely disregard anything said by the idiot pop singer,

                Which one? :rolleyes:

                Brian Cox[^]

                ... had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream.


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                So it's down to a choice between keyboard or drums?

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                • D Dave Kreskowiak

                  All of the conspiracy theorists are idiots. Not one of them knows anything about radiation, shielding, photography, rocket engine blast in a vacuum, the capabilities of video capture back in the 60's/70's, or anything else! It pretty easy to tell that, YES!, we were on the moon. Look at all the video of the lunar rover. Have you ever noticed that there is absolutely no dust hanging in the "air" behind it as they drive around? It all falls directly back to the surface of the moon because there's no air to offer resistance to it as gravity pulls it back down. There isn't a single vacuum chamber on this planet that can hold a stage big enough to drive through like you see in the video!

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                  It's amazing how many facts people will ignore when it contradicts their world view and how much they hang-on to garbage when it agrees with it. When I was a teenager there was a whole "death of Paul McCartney" conspiracy theory. The small observations, over-simplifications and exaggerations that went in to this were a lot of fun. I'm still not certain that John Lennon wasn't indulging in a bit of mischief in feeding this. The first person to post "you mean it wasn't real" will get a virtual smack on the back of the head!

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                  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                    You're probably right all they know of the space program is the ISS. What a shame it was a wonderful time, full of hope and ambition...what happened to us? :(

                    New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!

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                    It's called age Mike (at least that's the excuse for a few of us!) :)

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                    • K Keith Barrett

                      So it's down to a choice between keyboard or drums?

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                      What do you call a madman that hangs around with musicians ... a drummer! :P

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                      • G Gary R Wheeler

                        Going back to the moon wouldn't convince them. Taking them there wouldn't convince them. Shoving them naked out the airlock onto the lunar surface wouldn't convince them, but would provide a certain amusement.

                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                        It would also end a certain drummer releasing any more awful singles.

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                        • P PhilLenoir

                          It's called age Mike (at least that's the excuse for a few of us!) :)

                          Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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                          PhilLenoir wrote:

                          It's called age Mike (at least that's the excuse for a few of us!)

                          Yes it is for me also, I was on my second tour in Viet Name when the man landed on the moon.

                          New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours! Not my circus not my monkey's!

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                          • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                            PhilLenoir wrote:

                            It's called age Mike (at least that's the excuse for a few of us!)

                            Yes it is for me also, I was on my second tour in Viet Name when the man landed on the moon.

                            New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours! Not my circus not my monkey's!

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                            Of course, I was including you in the "us", and you and I are clearly not the only old farts on here!

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                            • P PhilLenoir

                              Of course, I was including you in the "us", and you and I are clearly not the only old farts on here!

                              Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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                              Yep there's a few for sure!

                              New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours! Not my circus not my monkey's!

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