Humans set foot on the moon?
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Consider this peculiar fact: in order to reach the surface of the Moon from the surface of the Earth, the Apollo astronauts would have had to travel a minimum of 234,000 miles*. Since the last Apollo flight allegedly returned from the Moon in 1972, the furthest that any astronaut from any country has traveled from the surface of the Earth is about 400 miles. And very few have even gone that far. The primary components of the current U.S. space program ? the space shuttles, the space station, and the Hubble Telescope ? operate at an orbiting altitude of about 200 miles.
(*NASA gives the distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon as 239,000 miles. Since the Earth has a radius of about 4,000 miles and the Moon?s radius is roughly 1,000 miles, that leaves a surface-to-surface distance of 234,000 miles. The total distance traveled during the alleged missions, including Earth and Moon orbits, ranged from 622,268 miles for Apollo 13 to 1,484,934 miles for Apollo 17. All on a single tank of gas.)
To briefly recap then, in the twenty-first century, utilizing the most cutting-edge modern technology, the best manned spaceship the U.S. can build will only reach an altitude of 200 miles. But in the 1960s, we built a half-dozen of them that flew almost 1,200 times further into space. And then flew back. And they were able to do that despite the fact that the Saturn V rockets that powered the Apollo flights weighed in at a paltry 3,000 tons, about .004% of the size that the principal designer of those very same Saturn rockets said would be required to actually get to the Moon and back (primarily due to the unfathomably large load of fuel that would be required).
To put that into more Earthly terms, U.S. astronauts today travel no further into space than the distance between the San Fernando Valley and Fresno. The Apollo astronauts, on the other hand, traveled a distance equivalent to circumnavigating the planet around the equator ? nine-and-a-half times! And they did it with roughly the same amount of fuel that it now takes to make that 200 mile journey, which is why I want NASA to build my next car for me. I figure I?ll only have to fill up the tank once and it should last me for the rest of my life.
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(*NASA gives the distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon as 239,000 miles. Since the Earth has a radius of about 4,000 miles and the Moon?s radius is roughly 1,000 miles, that leaves a surface-to-surface distance of 234,000 miles. The total distance traveled during the alleged missions, including Earth and Moon orbits, ranged from 622,268 miles for Apollo 13 to 1,484,934 miles for Apollo 17. All on a single tank of gas.)
To briefly recap then, in the twenty-first century, utilizing the most cutting-edge modern technology, the best manned spaceship the U.S. can build will only reach an altitude of 200 miles. But in the 1960s, we built a half-dozen of them that flew almost 1,200 times further into space. And then flew back. And they were able to do that despite the fact that the Saturn V rockets that powered the Apollo flights weighed in at a paltry 3,000 tons, about .004% of the size that the principal designer of those very same Saturn rockets said would be required to actually get to the Moon and back (primarily due to the unfathomably large load of fuel that would be required).
To put that into more Earthly terms, U.S. astronauts today travel no further into space than the distance between the San Fernando Valley and Fresno. The Apollo astronauts, on the other hand, traveled a distance equivalent to circumnavigating the planet around the equator ? nine-and-a-half times! And they did it with roughly the same amount of fuel that it now takes to make that 200 mile journey, which is why I want NASA to build my next car for me. I figure I?ll only have to fill up the tank once and it should last me for the rest of my life.
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That's weird, Agent posted earlier that Buzz didn't land on the moon so that would mean................................ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Nevermind.
This type of evidence and facts really swayed my former opinion and with a quick Google search these "facts" seem right, however I still recall a kid getting jail time for stealing and trying to sell moon rocks he took from NASA, after he slept with his girlfriend on them, I think the guy who wrote Bringing Down the House and The Social Network book wrote it, now I'm back to landing on the moon, cause why would have this not been brought up as a defense. I
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But if we didn't land on the moon, then doesn't that mean that I Dream Of Jeannie is a lie?
Fuck you guys, it's real to me!
Fuck you guys, it's real to me!
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I guess whichever fool wrote this was unfamiliar with Newton's first law of motion: The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force. For the love of buttered biscuits! Take a high school physics course before you spout off a bunch of buffalo bagels about the space program.
Come on, seriously?
Come on, seriously?
Read this...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23feb_2/
Of course, there's this quote in there:
"All the buzz about the Moon began on February 15th when Fox television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"
Come on, seriously?
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Read this...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23feb_2/
Of course, there's this quote in there:
"All the buzz about the Moon began on February 15th when Fox television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"
Physics and math.. NONSENSE! Burn those books baby! Burn them I say! Do not use logic and math! ever!
PS. The rover never really landed on Mars either. That's like, a jillion miles farther than the moon.
