Did we really go to the moon?

[DNK]

I thought they used one of these on the moon

 

[swift6]

Project took forever because I had too much fun looking at all the photgraphs.

I would have had the same problem. Don't think it would have been a bad thing either. :wink:

 

[swift6]

Does this mean that the world's not round,either?

- Doug

I thought it was explained in Bloom County during my younger years that it was shaped more like a burrito. :wink:

 

[DNK]

Now there was a comic strip

Come to think of it, opus kind of reminds me of Doc

 

[DNK]

This?

 

[bgbassplyr]

The Russians recently announced that while Yuri Gargarin did in fact go into space, the famous film of him in his capsule was reshot on earth. I recall that either the film quality wasn't very good or perhaps they forgot to put the camera in the capsule, but in any event they figured they'd just crank out a "dramatization" and put it forward as the real thing.

Or, perhaps he never left the ground. You decide.

I have a friend who was a linguist with the Army, and who, during the time of the early space shots, was attached to a listening post in Bulgaria and was privy to one of the Russian Astronauts saying goodbye to his wife and family. There was a problem with his capsule and they couldn't bring him back, so, when his air ran out.........

 

[DrEntropy]

Now there was a comic strip

Come to think of it, opus kind of reminds me of Doc

Well, I did wear a tie yesterday. But I'm likely more Bill than Opus.

 

[DNK]

Naw, your humor, more opus like

 

[Gliderman8]

My brother-in-law was a high-tech welder on the original lunar module. He is a <span style="color: #FF0000">crackpot</span>. Hence, my skepticism.

A psychoceramic?

 

[anthony7777]

keoke, i mentioned this before my former wife's cousin (not vinny) worked at mission control and that guy never told a lie in his life and would'nt do so for love or money, besides you yourself could'nt keep a secret if your life depended on it.

 

[JPSmit]

yes we did - but now we know why

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[vagt6]

When the first moon mission with Apollo 11 occurred back in 1969, my great-grand mother watched it on TV with some of our family. It was a big deal to my Dad, who was awed by the whole space thing.

My great-grandma was born in 1880, her father was a Civil War veteran. She had seen a lot in her day, but simply could not believe that anyone could walk on the moon. She absolutely refused to accept it and insisted to her dying day (1971) that it never occurred. She was educated (retired school teacher), so it wasn't like she was totally ignorant of science, etc.

Some folks just can't grasp it . . .

 

[angelfj1]

When the first moon mission with Apollo 11 occurred back in 1969, my great-grand mother watched it on TV with some of our family. It was a big deal to my Dad, who was awed by the whole space thing.

My great-grandma was born in 1880, her father was a Civil War veteran. She had seen a lot in her day, but simply could not believe that anyone could walk on the moon. She absolutely refused to accept it and insisted to her dying day (1971) that it never occurred. She was educated (retired school teacher), so it wasn't like she was totally ignorant of science, etc.

Some folks just can't grasp it . . .

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">There may be nothing to grasp!</span></span> :smirk:

 

[racingenglishcars]

In Danish we call it the "Jente Lov", That ability for people to put other people down and the philosophy that Nobody is special in any way. This is even paraphrased in a Sebastian song "Hvis du tror du er noget, er der noget du har misforstaaet" (If you think you are something, there is something you have misunderstood)

This philosophy called the Jente Lov is prominent among the farmers, ghetto dwellers and uneducated.

It takes a more open minded person to accept that other people can actually do something interesting or beyond the abilities of oneself.

Fact is that everyone can do something special. Unfortunately a lot of people also want to deny that other people can do something special.

 

[TR6BILL]

Woof. That is a zinger. I just remember in 1969, working as a bartender at La Boucherie in New Orleans, I watched the "moon landing." I remember computers that required <span style="font-style: italic">punch cards</span> in those days. I remember when computers were as big as houses. We have move power on our Iphones than they had then. I don't argue that they could have made it there. It is just getting back that I find unbelievable. Literally. I just know how the US Government works.

 

[DrEntropy]

NASA was less a part of your familiarity of the Gummint back then, Bill.

Now we're dependent on th' Russians to "carry the torch."

I for one am not very optimistic.

 

[bgbassplyr]

My wife's brother, my b-i-l, is/was a ROCKET SCIENTIST, worked at the Cape from the very early days, and he said that we really did go.....and came back.

He wouldn't lie to me, would he?

 

[DrEntropy]

NOPE!

 

[aerog]

I remember computers that required <span style="font-style: italic">punch cards</span> in those days. I remember when computers were as big as houses. We have move power on our Iphones than they had then.

I somehow doubt you're capable of grasping it, but this book goes into intricate detail about how the Apollo Guidance Computer was designed and how it worked - and how the "we have more power..." statements are pretty much useless.

In 1969 we went to the moon. Get over it.

 

[DrEntropy]

Particularly ironic here is that we have the option of downloading/reading that book on a Kindle.

I think that's funny.