A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the moon

[Grant B]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1645994816867782932&q=a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+moon

Worth a watch. Interesting stuff.

[Flash Gordon]

yeah....i love the use of the mis-guided, out-of-context scripture quotes!

Anyway...I was just think about the moon landing the other day and how people said it was faked. There are a lot of video "documentaries" on google that have no validity. It is not like writing a book for Harvard Press or something. Any fool can post a video on it. Anything you see or read on the net must be taken with a grain of salt.

With that said, it still can be "fiction" intertaining and profitable. Just look at "the Divinci code" :rolleyes:

[Grant B]

Gosh - How we live in denial.

I guess the head and the 3 astronauts just immediately quit because going to the moon was just too darn exciting for them? I suppose Neil wasn't able to do interviews cos - he hated being the 1st man on the moon and noone was important enough on the planet to educate anyway? I guess he wasn't sure about what he saw on the moon because again it was just so darn exciting that he forgot all about it by the time he got home? I suppose the other two guys weren't sure about their memories for the same reason?
I guess they never went back or explored and setup camp because they were all so excited from having been already - they didn't ever consider going back again. Or else they did but they all forgot to take cameras. Darn the Luck.

I wonder if this is going to be fiction:

http://www.freedomtofascism.com

Maybe the next 911 will happen before it's due to come out?

[newblack]

uhoh, this looks marginally political- man the hatches! the video (which is reasonably convincing) aside, there is nothing feasible about flying men to the moon and back in 1969. I don't care about doctored photographs or stoic heroes, it was technologically and physically unrealistic on all accounts. the very notion that america accepted this feat reveals a misappropriation in the media's potency and the general public's lack of scrutiny. NADER in '08!!!

[Flash Gordon]

atom bomb: 1940 blue print
phonograph: 1877
electromagnetism work begins: 1831
first plane: 1903
man on the moon: 1969

Doesn't sound so unreasonable considering what man has done in the past.

How we live in denial.Not denail there friend. I just don't live in fantasy.

[newblack]

the dynamics of launching, escaping the atmosphere travelling however far to the moon, LANDING on an object with a vastly different gravitational pull then earth, taking off and doing it all in reverse isn't quite on the same page as the concepting of a machine that can split an atom (however brilliant). statistically, the room for error and disaster is far too great to account for possibility, let alone plausibility- especially when the russians had only managed to crash an unmanned craft into the moon and had beaten the blood out of the US in every other respect. and in the political spectrum- if there's political gain to be made, billions to be earned and a public that's willing and wanting to accept it: ________________. That said, it's one of the most audacious and wildly brilliant political achievements in history- one that makes me proud to be an American.

[Flash Gordon]

So who shot JFK? Where is Waldo? Who built the pyramids? :D

I would think splitting an atom is a tad more difficult than fly a rounded plane somewhere. Where splitting an atom, there are still the effect of gravitiy and even more unknown. Scientist didn't know if dropping a bomb would cause a chain reaction and cause all atoms to split.

Doesn't really matter. In the end, people will say things to cause disbelief in anything they choose, no matter how idiotic. For instance, the rather big wave of people that deny the holocaust happened! People say the darnest things....

[newblack]

I would think splitting an atom is a tad more difficult than fly a rounded plane somewhere. Where splitting an atom, there are still the effect of gravitiy and even more unknown. Scientist didn't know if dropping a bomb would cause a chain reaction and cause all atoms to split.
I politely disagree.
Doesn't really matter. In the end, people will say things to cause disbelief in anything they choose, no matter how idiotic. For instance, the rather big wave of people that deny the holocaust happened! People say the darnest things....
Yes, people say a lot of idiotic shtuff. Skepticism in the face of teetering fascism is imperative, though. The motive for a governmental power to lie in the vain of financial betterment, public approval and authority, is far greater than the idiot's. I don't think that because someone's motives include a desire to create anarchy or instill disbelief, it discredits the assertion.

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

gotta wonder how Neil Armstrong felt after coming back, just think about it...

3 guys in a capsule go flying through the sky and nearly burn to a crisp, they land in the water, are dragged out and lifted up to a helicopter, taken to an aircraft carrier and eventually home. Upon arriving at home, theres some guy who is standing outside Armstrong's house and says (in a very Bill Lumberg sort of voice >> http://www.phydiux.com/bill_lumbergh_soundboard.cfm)...

"Yeah....how do we really know you didn't just film that in a studio??"...wake up people! :p

[newblack]

"Yeah....how do we really know you didn't just film that in a studio??"...wake up people! :p
give the american government the benefit of the doubt because one of its poster boys has the coolest surname in the history of the world? Never! either he walked on the bloody moon, or he jumped up and down on a film set- you can't do something sensational without doubt... it comes with the territory. i banged 2 chicks at the same time, and i don't mind a sweet summer's breeze when someone doesn't believe me. and for the record, it was a filmset- "didn't you get the memo?"

[Flash Gordon]

I politely disagree.Well....since you're not a rocket scientist and I'm not a nuclear physicist there really is no room for debate.

Perhaps we should debate the complexities of palestrina harmonic implications of two voice polyphony vs. smashing the stack on modern C applications....

:)

Cheers newBlack, Eric, and Grant B.

I'm out.

[Grant B]

I don't know what the heck you clever guys are talking about!

I do firmly believe the evidence suggests that the moon trip was faked - period.

I was pretty confident of this though even when i was a kid, simply considering the reason why we never went back and took tons of videos and photos and built something there.

Anyway - I'm sure many of you believe it's true and that was the whole goal.

I simply don't.

Of all the establishement in the world - Amercia would have milked the moon for all it was worth. Instead they realized it couldn't be milked - so they faked it once, made billions in contracts, pretended to feel above the Russians and then quit while they were financially ahead.

And the chief and the 3 guys involved, quit too.

2 cents.

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

lol...get a telescope...and the coordinates of each moon landing...judge for yourself... :D Half of each spacecraft is still there :p

for you nay-sayers on the possibility of landing on the moon...would I be correct in assuming that you saw "Capricorn 1"?

[Grant B]

Yeah I saw it.

This one isn't quite like they show it on TV either:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=jessie+macbeth