We (not me) landed on the moon

[kalowski]

Apologies if there is a thread on this, I couldn't see it.

It is still incredible to me that humans have been to, and stepped on, the moon. The fucking incredible power of science and math(s). They got in a little capsule on top of a massive bomb that blew them into space, and they landed on the moon. I don't care what Prince says, this is the most amazing thing that humans have ever done.

50 years ago this Saturday!

[chveik]

did we now

your not fooling anyone pal

[BlodwynPig]

You can do anything with science and maths

[sponk]

Yeah I have nothing important to say but it is completely mind-blowing, especially considering that flight had only been achieved a few decades earlier and NASA was only founded nine years earlier. Bananas.

[Captain Z]

They say there was a thread about this in Picture Box, but personally I don't believe there is enough evidence that it was ever posted.

[kalowski]

Yeah I have nothing important to say but it is completely mind-blowing, especially considering that flight had only been achieved a few decades earlier and NASA was only founded nine years earlier. Bananas.

It is bananas. I love watching the faces of the people in mission control as they realise it's happened.

That has it's dark side, of course, as BBC4 showed the doc this week where Challenger exploded, and you see it through the faces of the guys in the tower. Harrowing.

[kittens]

if human beings landed on the moon where all the moon men. i mean realistically you would expect to be walking down the street and seeing moon men. not saying it didn't happen just pointing out it's funny that there isn't ANY Mon men anywhere.

[alan nagsworth]

if human beings landed on the moon where all the moon men. i mean realistically you would expect to be walking down the street and seeing moon men. not saying it didn't happen just pointing out it's funny that there isn't ANY Mon men anywhere.

you've just ripped off my theory about aliens. from your own fucking aliens thread of all places. i mean granted i ripped it off from stephen "the hawk" hawking but is he going to call me out for it? is he fuck mate. cunt's dead. just like you will be when i get hold of you

[Cloud]

But we're so shit at everything now, there's a disturbing number of people who simply can't imagine that it was ever true

[Captain Z]

Incredible to think that the entire rocket and landing module could only be controlled by a single Casio calculator.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

As much computing power in the whole Saturn V rocket as there is in half a Tamagotchi.

[bgmnts]

Did they fuck land on the moon.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

FDR's 2nd New Deal
I Have A Dream
Bobby Kennedy's presidential run
'We do this and other things not because they are easy but because they are hard'
One giant leap
Star Trek - 'no one may kill a man - not for any reason - it cannot be condoned'
Tear down this wall
Arafat + Rabin shake hands
Yes We Can

All lost.

The US, an utter toilet. Momentary glimpses of another better life utterly eradicated by the braindead toilet populace and its doomed every man for himself frontier mentality its ghoulish corporate oligarchy and army of media servants.

[Ambient Sheep]

A lot of truth said, there.

[sponk]

Man may not have landed on the moon, but a right cross definitely landed on his face.

[mothman]

A lot of truth said, there.

Sadly, yes.

[hummingofevil]

As someone with a degree in Physics who is not arrogant enought to think I can debunk all the it-never-happened arguments (but had plenty of lecturers and peers who could) I still believe that the strongest argument for why the American's definitely did it is a political one; the Russians agree with them.

This is from RT and is in Russian and Spanish.

https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1150808492715806720

The Russians had exactly the same radar and tracking capability as the Yanks and if the Russians had any evidence that it was faked then it would have been the biggest cold war propaganda win ever. If the Russians said it happened it happened.

No back answers.

[sponk]

Maybe the cold war never happened

[imitationleather]

The Russians and USA actually got on well in private. The Cold War was created to distract the public because Twitter hadn't been invented yet.

[shiftwork2]

On the one hand, physics, mathematics and aeronautics came together for an achievement that even now seems utterly impossible and outlandish.  On the other hand, humanity began to believe its own hype that it was summat.

On balance - quits.

[kittens]

you've just ripped off my theory about aliens. from your own fucking aliens thread of all places. i mean granted i ripped it off from stephen "the hawk" hawking but is he going to call me out for it? is he fuck mate. cunt's dead. just like you will be when i get hold of you

come at me bitch i realised aliens ain't exist on my own with my EYES. maybe should take an eyes test for once and see aliens ain't real bitch for once in your life with your eyes.

EDIT: aliens ain't exist bitch look at it with your eyes bitch for once in your life.

EDIT TO ADD: why not try looking at it for once with your eyes bitch and see aliens ain't even real.

[Psmith]

It only took outstanding skill and courage though.

[JesusAndYourBush]

FDR's 2nd New Deal
I Have A Dream
Bobby Kennedy's presidential run
'We do this and other things not because they are easy but because they are hard'
One giant leap
Star Trek - 'no one may kill a man - not for any reason - it cannot be condoned'
Tear down this wall
Arafat + Rabin shake hands
Yes We Can

We didn't start the fire...

[Icehaven]

The Moon can go fuck itself today as it took me 3/4 of an hour to set my telescope up to watch the eclipse last night and I'd just lost all enthusiasm for it by the time it finally worked. Would have been better off with a pair of Fisher-Price binoculars ffs.

[Norton Canes]

Star Trek - 'no one may kill a man - not for any reason - it cannot be condoned'

Wasn't that The Tomorrow People?

[Bazooka]

I don't believe for a second buzz light year and his cronies landed on  the moon. They were just pissing about in a spaceship having a laugh, and the moon crashed underneath them. The moon landed under man.

[a duncandisorderly]

leaving the magnetosphere's the dangerous bit. one decent-sized solar flare & you're fucked.

buzby will be along in a minute to elaborate, but in the meantime, there was a lot of good fortune involved besides the math(s) & science & gasoline.

[Alberon]

Vice President Pence is quite keen on manned space travel and he's behind the push to get men and women back on the moon by 2024, which, absolutely coincidentally, is the end of Trump's second term.

I'm dubious about NASA being able to do it as so much of its budget is bled off into pork barrel projects that it's hard to see it achieving that goal. But if NASA can't the likes of SpaceX can and the slow march of China into space will spur the Americans on because they won't want to lose the prime lunar locations in the next land grab.

[Small Man Big Horse]

One of my adult French students claimed that the moon landings were fake, and I lost all of the respect / erection that I had for her instantly. And I've not had a respect / erection since.

[Replies From View]

If I landed on the moon I reckon I'd sprain my ankle really badly.

Ergo nobody has ever landed on the moon.