can you tell me why we have not returned and why technology was way better back then, than it is now, we seem to not be able to get back to the moon? why?
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dumbass, about 100 people after armstrong have been to the moon, fool
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Sadly, this e-mail is fake, and gives a bad name to christianity everywhere.\n\nFirstly, a computer program does not have access to history, only to the pre-programmed patterns which scientists feed it. If they were to measure BACKWARDS in time, there would be no way for a computer program to know that the sun stopped a day. \n\nSecondly, we would not need to know the future position of the sun, moon, or planets for satellites, because satellites orbit high in the Earths atmosphere and do not hurtle through deep space.\n\nThirdly, individual space crafts have their own paths researched and planned before launch, not based off a database compiled by other scientists. There is far too many variables in the universe to plan ahead more than a few months, much less over 100 years to 1000 years.\n\nFurthermore, there would be no reason to look at the positions in history, though I have already shown that a computer program could not reflect any unusual circumstances.\n\nFinally, the sun doesn't move. This program was supposedly tracking the position of the sun, but earth rotates the sun, not the other way around. Obviously the author was more concerned with making gullible people believe his version of religion than sticking to science.\n\nAlthough this is shameful to the religion, it neither proves nor disproves it.
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Of course they went. In 1969 it would have been harder to fake then actually have gone.\nI'm sick of that flag waving on the moon rubbish it did not and never waved in the wind there is no atmosphere on the moon so how can there be wind,numbnuts.\nGo back to your sheep taffy.
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Yes I did.\n We have built this multi billion dollar rocket so we can crash it into the moon.\n And,yes, they are looking for the presence of water or at least evidence that water was once present.\n A big idea now in the science world,by the belief that all life here started in the seas, that if there is water there might be life. Or if there WAS water there might have been life at one time.\n This is just another way for the government to waste tax dollars. Plus it gives these scientist a paycheck. They have run out of theories on how the dinosaurs may have looked. And who built Stonehinge. So this water/life study has opened up a whole new avenue for them to collect research grants.\n But between you and me...It really is to search for underground alian spaceports that may be on/in the moon.
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During the 60's, we spent a lot of money to get to the moon ahead of the Soviets. It was more political and less science.\n\nOnce we got there, we confirmed that it was just a giant hunk of rock.\n\nNow, it's more of a "been there, done that" attitude. It's expensive to get there, and there's no real reason to go back. It's like paying money to take a second vacation to the middle of a desert.
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Actually I believe they did... evidence exists and all the proof people give to say otherwise can easily be explained... space missions still go one today and people do still land on the moon. It's not impossible! We should be glad that people are making the effort to study the things around us - though perhaps my only qualm is that the money spent could be better used for something else... like helping the poor
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Well, you are right in one thing!\n\nWE didn´t land on the moon. \nNeil Armstrong did, and the other poor astronaut that for landing second on the moon got to never be remembered.\n\nWhat´s with the WE? \n\nBut getting serious with your question, there are some conspiracy theories about it.\nThey say that the USA knew of the Soviets plans to go the moon, and since we where in the middle of the Cold War, oppinion and image WAS EVERYTHING, so the USA mounted a Fake stage of the moon, launched a rocket and claim to be the first ones in the moon.\n\nThere has never been any evidence of the moon landing not ever taking place.
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neo_maxi_zoon_dweeby is ridiculously optimistic on the matter (although I give props to a well-taken name from John Bender's reference to Brian Johnson).  Remember where Back to the Future Part II thinks we're supposed to be in 2015?  Or where 2001 thought we'd be in 2001?  Goodness, people don't realize that technology will advance greatly, but never in the ways we dream.  Most of our technological advances since Back to the Future Part II was made in 1989 have been in the ability to download porn at high speed to a hand-held plasma screen.
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it think it is a hoax... "The astronauts have kept out of the public eye", something happend. they were on their way to the moon, but i don't believe they have been on it! if you look around, read about it, it will become more clear. the pictures they have made don't match the actual event... i think they have been made in a hollywood studio. there has been pictures with some major mistakes, like the shadowing, footprints etc. everybody got his own opinion, and this is mine: it's a hoax.
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No. There were "probes" some of which could be considered "robotic", sent to the moon, however none of them are functioning, and at least one robot, sent by USSR, crash landed. There are European probes, and Japanese probes, that are supposed to be sent, but don't believe it till you see it. Out of the things sent to the moon, one thing still functioning, is a mirror left behind, which is used to bounce a laser off of, and gives an exact measurement of the distance between the earth and the moon.
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Yes. Man landed on the moon. Man has flown in space ships and lived in habitats in space. There was also an effort to irradicate Jewish people, it was the Halocaust. This is all part of History. No pseudo-intellectuals can change that no matter how hard they try. People should put their efforts into making the present and future better instead of making up lies about the past.
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From the earth, the lunar lander subtends an arc of .005 arcseconds, which is about 10 times smaller than the best earth-based telescopes (including Hubble) can resolve. \n\nBut it is possible, using a large telescope, to detect the return of laser light from the corner-refector arrays left on the surface by Apollo 11, Apollo 14, and Apollo15.
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Going back to a capsule type system definately seems like a strange step.  \n\nBut as far as getting an effective system flying in a low budget enivronment, it is probably a good choice.\n\nI think seperating the cargo and crew flights is a good idea.\n\nI would like to see more alternative methods of getting man & material into space such as the high altitude drop then rocket burn of the Spaceship1, or the space elevator.
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Look at how many sattelites we put up... there is something wrong with your reasoning, you're ignoring a lot of the facts.  How is it more difficult now?  A civilian recently built and flew his own spacecraft into space 3 times successfully.  Hundreds of satellites are orbiting the earth as we speak.  How does it seem space travel is more difficult?  We have several astronauts in a spacestation right now... Civilians have purchased tickets into space, the people on the space station have been relieve, replaced, etc multiple times... As far as the moon goes, there really isn't/wasn't any reason to go back, not a whole lot there if ya know what I mean ;)  They're working on mars projects continuously... just because a few landers and orbiters crash doesn't mean things are more difficult.  If you do some research you will find literally hundreds of crashes, mislaunches, explosions, and other quality errors; the old times make the number and degree of current mistakes seem almost trivial.  Science and technology have proven themselves time and time again when it comes to space, and it keeps getting better.
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Mining? - It's not worth the effort to go just for that...\n\nAdvantages of a Moon base would be limited at best.  There are several manufacturing processes which would be simplified in a lower gravity enviroment.  \n\nA great number of crystal growth processes would become easier to synthisize...\n\nBut there's really nothing in today's technology that a moon base would benefit...  However...\n\nWhat tomarow's Technology may bring...  Mass Data storage Crystals...  Today we are storing a large amount of data as magnetic charges on magnetic media (Tapes, Flash Drives, Hard Drives, Etc.) or as micro etching read by lasers.\nThis data is stored in Digital (Binary 0/1).\nUnder a controlled condition, a crystal can be grown with implanted impurities.  If we could implant these impurities precisely in the growing Crystal, then we could use thier configuration as a Read-Only data Storage...  The Use of a variety of atomic crystal impurities would allow us to use a higher base of math for our storage language.\nIn addition, the use of metals as these crystal impurities would as a secondary data storage ability beyond the Read-Only buy giving us the ability to excite the electrons in the impurities and storage a writable data archieve on the very substance of the read-only archive...  The Data storage capacity of even a small crystal unit would be incredible, and make our current metheds sound like cave drawings...\nPart of trouble with creating this technology is the effect of gravity in this kind of precise manufacturing.  Less Gravity would be better...  None would be best...\n\nThe Moon would grant a source of natural resources is we were there for manufacturing these data crystals...  It would grant a friendlier gravity enviroment for thier manufacturing...  \n\nBut is it worth the cost today to invest in a tomarrow where all the knowledge, literature and history we have to date would fit in a gem stone we could wear as a ring?..  Will our great grand children think we lived in a dark age because we refused to seek advancement while we chose to war on our fellow man?
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Lemme see, the thousands of technicians, military personnel and site seers on top of casinoes in Vegas only witnessed cloud plumes blown by giant exhausts.\n\nAmerica did not land on the Moon. We payed billions of dollars for the 360 foot Saturn 5 rocket so we could look at it and say wow that is a big rocket. We kept approx. 400,000 technicians, scientists and construction contractors quiet, with zero leaks to the public. The rocks that we thought that came from moon and have proved to be from the moon are really from the Pacific Ocean. \n\nOther Conspiracies to think about: \n\n1. The Jews did not suffer in Germany because there was no Holocaust. Actually it was the Jews that was torturing the poor blond haired deprived Germans. Those tattoos on the Jews arms and hands that are still alive today (by the grace of God) are really there because they want to be hip. \n\n2. We knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor before they did. I mean come-on President Roosevelt liked the thought of our boys baking inside the Battle Ship Arizona before they died. The President was looking for a better way to get a good nights sleep. \n\n3. The Mafia whacked JFK, via the Russian connection, via the Cuban connection.  The man on the grassy knoll was a CIA agent acting on orders from Giancana from Chicago and Marcello from New Orleans, all with communications with Kruschev.\n\n4. Aliens landed in Roswell and we transported them to Area 51 to back engineer their technology, where do you think the stealth air craft came from? Again, we kept it secret by brain washing the thousands of workers who were in on the scam. \n\n5. The Moon we see every night is really not there along with the planets and stars as well the Planet Killing Asteroids. Those were put there by the evil United States to toy with our minds. \n\n6. Fossils of early homosapiens, homoerectus and earlier models were put their by evil paleontologists, athropoligists, and assorted rock hounds looking to enhance their careers, Creation is the real objective reality. \n\n7. America is a conspiracy and is a fake country and none of us Americans really live here. \n\n8. I was never born so this response to your question is a fake.
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I think, barring an "extinction level event" (i.e. large planet-killing meteorite, nuclear holocaust, etc.) human nature impels us to explore.  As our technology advances we will expand outwards, first to orbit and the moon and eventually out into the solar system.  Sooner or later, even the solar system will start to feel small, and people will begin to look toward nearby stars.  What obstacles we may encounter are left to the imagination, but, unless something stops us before we get established in space, it will be difficult (if not impossible) to keep us from expanding across the galaxy...there are no limits.