Moon Landing

[Targetblue]

There is absolutely nothing that was not great about the Americans landing on the moon.

That to me (apart from the advancement of medical science) is our greatest achievement as a human race. The pity is that we didn't follow it up.

The fact is that they went there in a tin can on the back of the Saturn 5 rocket and came back.

That was in 1969. Far too long before some of you youngsters decided to comment on the lunar landing.

Tears, fears and pure wonderment were seen at every TV shop on the high street as at the time a lot of folk could not afford a telly.

Anybody of my age will agree that the moon landing and subsequent missions were not only an achievement but a life defining moment.

Anyone who thinks we didn't land on the moon can fuck off and eat shit.

 

[Challenger1978]

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[Skashion]

Going to the Moon sounds enticing this evening.

 

[DelToro]

Going to the Moon sounds enticing this evening.

The Blue Moon?

 

[SWP's back]

Wow just wow Irwell if I gave you 10 billion quid and 4 lifetimes I don't think you could achieve what NASA did back then with a piece of equipment that my phone is more powerful than now. The calculator I had at school had more computing power than Apollo 11. That kind of engineering would seem ridiculous to people given the amount of knowledge we have now

I've heard the calculator fact many times that's why I don't believe the moon landings.

I tend to think anyone that doesn't believe them in the face of the insurmountable evidence to be a moron.

 

[allan harper]

Mythbusters are gonna find out if the moon landings were a hoax over on quest channel, we'll know for certain in the next hour.

 

[LittleStan]

Given your sweeping statement, I can only assume you were not even born when the Nasa space programme had a moon landing as it's primary objective.

Throughout the 60's, every launch was a step into the unknown. Each and every mission, be they Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo, pushed the known limits of space travel to the edge of what was possible, and some of them suffered problems, especially the practice docking between the two Gemini capsules.

I suggest you at least read something of the trials and tribulations of Nasa's efforts in those days.

To blithely state there was nothing impressive about the moon landings is ignorance of the highest order.

I lived through those days, and I am full of admiration for all those astronauts that put their lives on the line so man could walk on the moon.

It was an incredible achievement, and I'm pleased I watched it happen.

Obviously a number of people on here, yourself included, don't have the mental aptitude to comprehend the difference between 'sending my gran to the moon', 'sending my gran to the moon with no assistance' and 'sending my gran to the moon at the first attempt with no assistance'. Of course I would fail the first few times but the physics behind it is fairly simple, it is just the technology that was lacking. A few attempts, given their budget, and I would be at the point of risking my gran.

It wasn't a case of man overcoming nature against the odds, it was simply a case of applying the resources necessary to get the job done before the Russians. No major skill was involved at all and, had the Americans been unsuccessful, the Russians would just as easily have managed it. Lives lost? Of course there were, but those lives were considered expendable.

As I said previously, it was brute force rather than skill. Keep throwing peanuts at a concrete wall and you'll break through eventually.

The number of times you are risking your gran can only mean one thing.

WE HAVE OUTED MR IRELAND.!

 

[mcmanus]

Wow just wow Irwell if I gave you 10 billion quid and 4 lifetimes I don't think you could achieve what NASA did back then with a piece of equipment that my phone is more powerful than now. The calculator I had at school had more computing power than Apollo 11. That kind of engineering would seem ridiculous to people given the amount of knowledge we have now

I've heard the calculator fact many times that's why I don't believe the moon landings.

I tend to think anyone that doesn't believe them in the face of the insurmountable evidence to be a moron.

I've just never trusted Buzz Aldrin. Worse liar than Oscar pissthingy.

 

[LittleStan]

Mythbusters are gonna find out if the moon landings were a hoax over on quest channel, we'll know for certain in the next hour.

I have seen that episode, really great and explains all the hoax theories. Frankly some of them can be disproved by an idiot.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Given an equivalent budget I could land my Gran on the moon. There is absolutely nothing impressive about the moon landings as money was no object. Brute force isn't impressive, it's impressive if you achieve it with constraints in place.

Totally agree. Wallace and Gromit did it on a shoestring budget. They shit all over NASA.