Further to BGB's question below
who belives that NASA didn't get to the moon? or at least, didn't get there when they claimed to at the time.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:02, 19 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

I believe they went
I also believe 9/11 was a terrorist attack and not an in house job and I also believe Aliens probably didn't land at Roswell because they would have to have been really fucking stupid aliens if the American government were able to outsmart them and cover everything up.

I think Aliens would probably land in Jamaica and just chill out for a bit
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:05, Reply)

glad to hear it
you're not as daft as I thought ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:06, Reply)

We've been to the moon
Imagine the number of people who'd have had to have kept their mouths shut for the last 40 years, if they'd faked it. And imagine the effort involved in faking it in the first place. Remember there was no CGI in 1969.

And 9/11 was caused by terrorists.

Bloody conspiracy theorists.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:07, Reply)

Agree
If Clinton couldn't keep quiet the number of interns, secretaries, etc he was "did not have sex with", then a false moon shot would have been made public befire it was supposed to have happened.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 14:23, Reply)

idiots and retards

(PsychoChomp, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:09, Reply)

I've been to the moon.
It was in the basement of a Holywood film studio.
The actual "Sky Moon" is just a star that's closer.
( Cawl, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:10, Reply)

Aliens
I've said this before, but what I don't get about aliens is that if they're smart enough to travel over the 'timeless worlds of space' with 'minds immeasurably superior to ours', how come they need landing lights on their flying saucers?

You'd think they'd be able to land somewhere unobserved if they really wanted to.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:12, Reply)

If you think about the technology that was available around that time then it is quite strange to think we went to the moon.
I mean, my God, we didn't even have hair straighteners then.
( girlinthehole, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:14, Reply)

Probably because the ceramics used in hair straighteners were developed for the space program.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:16, Reply)

Like velcro
and teflon, and pens that can write upside down.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Technically
such things were invented as a result of research carried out for the space program. They weren't invented for it.

Except for the pens. But an ordinary ballpoint would have worked fine. It's only when you have a gravitational field that you have a problem with pens not working 'upside down'.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:35, Reply)

I know
I was being facetious
.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:38, Reply)

Sometimes
unless a post has the Facetious tag on it, that sort of thing goes right over my head. Especially on a Monday, and when I'm nipping in and out of the lab and trying to do sciency work type stuff too!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:41, Reply)

I was actually being a bit silly.
I know for a fact that all the astronauts had the benefit of poker straight hair for their flight pictures.
( girlinthehole, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:19, Reply)

I know it happened but....
THE FUCKING MOON. A BUNCH OF GUYS POINTED AT THE FUCKING MOON, WENT THERE AND RETURNED. FUCKING HELL.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

I know
It's not rocket science!

Oh, wait...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:33, Reply)

Hur hur hur hur
Hur... Hur...
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 11:37, Reply)

100,000 engineers, designers, technicians and staff...
...were employed on the Apollo project.

The third stages of several Saturn V rockets can be seen on the moon.

A 330 foot tall rocket was seen lifting off from Cape Kennedy and disappearing into the sky.

I think that covers it for me.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 20 Jul 2009, 12:14, Reply)

I thought it was about 40,000
but tbh, 100,000 people involved in the project wouldn't surprise me. That's like half the population of Portsmouth. That's a lot of people to keep quiet.

It's very difficult to get the moon, but on the whole, calculating the telemetry is only A-level maths. NASA will have recruited some of the cleverest people in America, not to mention the zeal to get to the moon before the Soviets first. It probably wouldn't happen nowadays, it seems there is none of that bravado anymore that they had back then. Bush's "Let's go back to the moon" speech was largely forgotten within a week. Kennedy's speech in 1961 is still awe inspiring nearly 50 years on.

I used to collect the magazine "Fortean Times" back in the late 90s and there was a feature on the moon landing hoax. I read that article the other day and it was ridiculous. The reasons and evidence behind the claims were laughable.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:23, Reply)