If we landed on  the moon with very litttle technology,why have'nt we gone back now that we're smarter?
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Well... Let's see...\n\nWe know nothing is there, and we brought back 842 pounds of Moon rocks. Ain't that enough?\n\nBesides, why should we do it, if no other country is doing it?
126942
Not anytime soon, no. First, we have to send people back to the moon and then do manned missions to Mars before we can go that far into the solar system!
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It's really too bad, but we probably passed up the chance.  Werner Von Braun had an idea that called for the third stage of the Saturn V rocket to be lowered to the surface of the Moon and buried under the regolith.  The first astronauts to land on the Moon would spend about six months there setting up house.  Then the next set of Apollo astronauts would come with another section and the first set of astronauts would go home.  From that point forward, we would always have a manned presence on the Moon.\n\nThe problem was that we weren't ready in 1969.  The Apollo 12 mission in December of '69 was supposed to be the first to land on the Moon, but NASA thought we were ready early and moved the landing up to Apollo 11.  The Moon Lab project wouldn't be ready until 1972.  And Kennedy had said we would go to the Moon "before this decade was out."  If he had been alive, he probably could have given us permission to do the Moon landing right, but he was dead, and we couldn't walk away from what he wanted for us.\n\nAnyway, I highly recommend Ben Bova's wonderful book Welcome to Moonbase as a source for what living on the Moon would be like.  Heinlein's The Menace from Earth and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are also excellent.
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YES they did land on the moon, There are tons of soil samples that they brought back, as well as mirrors they left up there on the moon that they use to measure the distance to the moon with lasers. There is also a lot of junk they left on the moon, parts of the lunar modules, even a moon car!\nThe reason no one has been back is the price. It cost half a billion dollars 40 years ago, today the price would be many billions of dollars. And since we already have tons of lunar samples we don't really have a good reason to go back yet. There is talk about going back to create a base, but it is many years off yet. We still need a cheaper way to send people into space. Perhaps after the next generation of space shuttles is ready they will go to the moon.\n\nthose that think it is fake are much like the flat earth people of the last few centuries. It is interesting that the same people who think the moon landing is fake are the ones that are most adamant about there being aliens!\n\nand for those that think the fox TV show that said the moon landing was fake, well check out this site for the real science http://www.badastronomy.com/ that show had soooo much bad science it made me sick.
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I admit I have been wondering the same thing myself--espicially after seeing a documentary posing doubts we landed on the moon.  The photographic evidence posed on the show did give me some thought, being I do have experience in professional photography.\n\nThe LEM photos: That thing purportedly landed on the moon, firing retro rockets with enough blast power to burn the moon surface under it to shiny black glass.....yet the area looks undistrubed!  All that violent firepower had to have raised moon dust all over the place.....yet look how shiny and dirt free the LEM landing pads looked.  Espically take note of NO moon dust collected inside the landing foot pods themselves.\n\nThe Apollo mission cameras were state of the art of their time, with perfectly etched "crosses" on the lenses to assist with picture composition.  I still see the astronaut photo where one of those crosses IS BLOCKED OUT by the guy's shoulder--where it should've been OVERLAPPED to appear onto his arm/shoulder!!\n\nThe sun light / angle theory gets complicated.....but it clearly made sense to me....and gave rise to suspicions.  \n\nThe video of a golf ball getting shot out into space was good PR, but take note how the fine moon dust stirred up by the lunar rover merely falls back to the surface....when it should fly off into the air.\n\nThen there's the Van Allen belt explanation: stuff we learned back in fifth grade: a deadly belt of radiation, stretching hundreds of miles between us and the Moon.  You'd have to travel in a ship with walls of at least five feet thick of lead to safely shoot through it....the Apollo space vehicle walls were....what....maybe two inches (if that) thick???  And our guys never cooked like chicken in a microwave???? The Van Allen belt emits enough deadly radiation to singe fry the Apollo capsule electronics in about 2 minutes and cook the astronauts in about another minute past that.  So how did our guys do it?\n\nThe Space Shuttle: purportedly capable of travel to the Moon and back....yet it's NEVER been done.  Why? The thing can carry enough fuel, food / supplies and other life support for such safe travel.  In fact, it was one of the Shuttle program objectives...that got put on the back burner....and not likely due to "budget" or "safety" concerns.\n\nHowever, all this "evidence" is of conjecture; you have to be your own judge on if we faked the Moon landings, until we get a deathbed confession by one of the surviving astronauts to confirm we DID fake the landings.  Until then, it makes for great coffee-cafe debate amongst good friends.
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I see 2 possibilities each mutually exclusive to the other.  In one, we find a way to overcome our dependence on oil energies and as a result our earth improves it's environment.  As for other problems we either find a way like we usually do, just look at the inventions and resources that are at the disposal of man. At least 40,000 commercially available products have come from the exploration of the moon.  Where ever there has been a challenge human ingenuity has followed.\n\nNow the other end of the spectrum is, what ever doesn't kill us makes us stronger so if we don't find ways around these horrible problems we will perish.  But I remain optimistic from the sheer tenacity and ingenuity people have.
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First, everything we knew about the Moon's surface came from looking at it with the naked eye.\n\nNext, we looked at the Moon with telescopes.\n\nThen we sent unmanned landers to the Moon to better study its surface\n\nFinally, men went to the Moon.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
1050217
You could join NASA, but I don't think they'll let you in until you at least learn to spell. Anyway, they might send you to the moon, but you would just have to come back again eventually.
870254
we already have...\n\nits called nanotechnology...they ahvei nfused carbon nanotubes onto silicon substrates and used DNA and its complex functionality to solve problems..this has been done to a limited scope...but it is very well established that larger scale systems will be availabe in 20 years...to the functionality you describe...the first intelligent machine is expected to appear around 2025-2030.\n\nThis will take time and engineering...(these are projections based on current average rate of economic growth and research)...research is based on curretn glboal computing power, research education and lab power...which is at its most powerful form ever---but that is ONLY---if the economy doesn't, colapse for example...\n\nhowever, another alternative, taht is faster--there is a faster way to do it than yours...\n\nwe an simply get rat brain cells...and organize them on substrates so that they resemble the human brain...we make a brain out of rat cells and then we just teach it like a new born..this can be done...\n\nor we could get brains of people and just turn them into subconcious zombies and take them out of the bodie...by which we then plug them into an itnerface and we can make them do computations...\n\nhowever, that would be amoral...so we cannot do this...you will ahve to wait 25 years from now for nanotechnology and computer chips to be integrated with carbon nanotubes/DNA to see that type of functionality.\n\nI beleive at such times...we would have perfected the machine-human interfaces and will become "part" of these intelligent machines..through neural implants--.... we will be the same identity...say your computer jsut becoems you but with greater intelligence and functionality--\n\nwe can also develope identities that are INDEPENDENT of humans that can think for themselves...but for them to have a "termintator" mentality they would have to differentiate between "human" and machine...and since intelligence is just intelligence...I don't think there will be such mentality...\n\nits as if you one day woke up one day and learned your a robot...you would not want to nuke the entire human race right?\nin fact, you would identify with humans...you wouldn't care if you were a robot...just don't tell anybody.\n\nbut even if you did want to nuke all humans, that would imply you had more resources than humans, able to get their civilization from undertheir feet right?\n\nbutas I said, insuch a society, humans would plug into "machines" which were their slave.s..and gave them mroe intelligence...but the machines themselves were not "concious" themselves...\n\nso the humans...knowing how to be "cyberntically" avid...just as regular concious machines...\n\nthe machines would "loose" their edge..\nin other words...the intelligent machines would not be "smarter" than the 2025 human because that human would have also become smarter with machiens that are tied to their brain...and whih they controla nd know how to operate just as well as an intellgienct computer...\n\nthus, placing computer intelligence and human intelligence on the same level...and thus making US similar...making it less likely for any "confrontation'...\nbesdies...if ar obot was "jealous" of the extra senses of thehuman body....after acheiving such tehcnology...we could easily develope synthetic bodies made of biological /nanotech grown tissue...and thatwould make them more equal...and thus---not view us, nor we them as "different"\n\nto a point...that a "synthetic human" and a "machine enhanced human" would be almost viewed the same...\n\nthe synthetic human...just has a robotic mind....whith a human like body....the enhacned humans (probably most humans by 2045) are just human brain...with enhanced features that make it the same as a robotic mind...\n\nso in essence, they are same...\n\nyou see? its only our primit
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Most communication is pointless chatter so in some ways you might as well ask how we made do w/out noise.  When you think of the amount of money and time and effort currently being wasted on computers and mobile phones a better question might be how on earth do we manage to get anything done now and could we get to the moon again by just yakking and emailing?
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FACT FACT FACT.\n\nMy physics professor gave the unbeatable argument on this one.  If the USA had lied, the USSR WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING.  The USSR was very technologically advanced, and it would have taken very little effort on their part to look up and see if there really was a metal box hurling toward the moon sending high-amplitude radio transmissions back to Houston.  If this hadn't been the case, the USSR would have called our bluff, I guarantee you.\n\nIf they didn't doubt the moon landing, why the hell should we?  Defrauding the American people might have been a comparably easy task, but there's no way they could have fooled the USSR.  The USSR did, after all, have the technology to beat us in the first two stages of the space race (the first satelite and the first human in space).
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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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Because the US has landed people on the moon........ in the 60s I believe........ do your research.
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With the current advances in transportation technology, it will be possible it is just a matter of time.  The main problem that space exploration has to deal with is radiation surges caused by solar flares.  They have to develop a proper shielding and detection system that is light enough to launch into outer space.  That is one of the reasons why it is debated whether or not man has even walked on the moon because of the immense amount of radiation that the ship would have been forced to endure would it have traveled that distance.  There are a number of other proofs provided for both sides taht I will not get into.  I think that it is possible and that man will accomplish it if the Lord tarries his coming.
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it was really only recently that we started exploring the galaxies, when u think about it.  we only went to the moon in 1969, and now we have made some significant changes, but i think that it will take some momentum for us to get further and further into space exploration and than we will have space exploration higher and higher until either a disaster happens or there are no humans.  i think that we r already making some significant progress, but i believe that the space programs will be making more significant progresses once we make cars that can use renewable energies.  than i think that ppl will start to look more and more towards the space and galaxy exploration.
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we never went there in the first place it was a hoax to show the world that the USA was Superior to the USSR . they cant do a hoax  now because the technology the public have is to good . if we did go and it was possible to resist the radiation on the moon we would have company's sending people there all the time look at all the money they would make . where there is money there is a will . but if it is not possible then no one will try.
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We landed on the moon, for sure!