We planted the US Flag on the moon,what are we gonna do when someone else wants to build a base there?
474370
Sure does.  Send in the marines...the space marines that is.
590630
How about a bowl of water beneath it? Is that within the rules? Alternatively one of the other posters is planning to drill a hole through the centre of the planet, you could always use their hole, it wouldn't break then!
324293
I wonder how many people out there are too lazy to do some real research and read the scientific facts proving that man has landed on and partially explored the Moon. Here's a good place to start: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html  On this website each and every "fact" claiming that the Moon landings were all faked are ripped to shreds.\n\nMy favorite "fact" is about the 'waving' flag on the airless Moon. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand how the flag can be made to appear to be waving. Duh!\n\nNobody from the Faked Moon Landing bunch has ever answered my question about several hundred pounds of rock and soil brought back that research groups AROUND THE WORLD unanimously agreed was non-terrestrial.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
762507
all questions about the six apollo lunar landings being fake are non-sense.  nasa got a huge amount of evidence to prove that twelve americans have stepped onto lunar soil, and there is no evidence at all that says they didn't.\n\nthere are six american flags on the moon.  each one has a sleeve across the top.  the flagpole is hinged, and the hinged  part goes thru the sleeve at the top of the flag.  the flags did not wave.  the flags sometimes swung from these rods when the astronauts put the flags on the moon because they moved them from side to side at times and the flags lagged behind some and had to catch up with the rods.\n\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5874HR.jpg\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5875HR.jpg\n\nhere is a photograph of the flag at the apollo 11 landing site.  you can clearly see the rod in the sleeve across the top of the flag.
826752
Let us give them a taste of American/British citizenship.  Let's invite them to join the army or marines and go to Iraq and fight for the country they wish to live in.  If they live, we'll give them citizenship.  If they die, then we will give them a hero's burial.
110203
I'm sure there is land that you can use. All you really need is a rock to start with.Claim the rock as your own country- INVADE- then declare war on america. They will come in, bomb your rock- you lose. But do you? after they bomb you, they pay to help you rebuild into something bigger and better, so that little rock you owned as your own country and declared war on america with is now re-built into an island large enought to acomidate a few hundren people and BINGO- you have the country and the land all to yourself to rule. hehe
25342
Think rally hard. The moon has gravity just like the earth. Have you ever seen a flag on earth stand that straight? They had a metal pole across the top and the grainy video make it look as if it is fluttering.
459814
Something has to be done....  Im sick of reading about them tearing down US Flags on US soil and ripping them up.  I say we should send them all back to where they came from.... or at least make them pay taxes.  If they want to break the law let them break it in their own country.
1002820
Because it was mostly for show. Remember, the Americans went to the moon in the times of the cold war. It was a show of power - getting there before the soviets. Once they did, it was decided after a few years that the money trown at each trip wasn't worth it. Congress doesn't exactly go giddy with the possibility of great scientific discovery and they're the ones who give out the money.\nNASA has plans of going back to the moon in about 10 years time, including possibly building a permanent station there in the (relatively) near future. But a long time has been lost. Also, given the world situation these days hte best to do this is with joint internation efforts. If everybody can just keep their own personal interest out of it, so it can remain purely scientific, everything will be just peachy.
840987
Your gonna need to get the force right.  You need to orbit the earth a few times, then use the gravity to get to the moon.  then, you need to orbit around the moon a few times, then earth, and come down.  Otherwise, you'll become a new addition to our solar systems family!
370625
China has Started a manned Space programme and has said it's aim is to land on the Moon.\n\nSo the Yanks will Try to get get there first.\n\nBut their Space programme is still not up and running properly since the Columbia disaster.
995235
just tell all your friends that twelve americans have stepped onto lunar soil.  almost everyone accepts it.  only about six percent do not accept it.
850141
Remember, we must Stay The Course on Mars, and not give into the rock's demands.  The rocks are only there to destroy freedom, while we are there for peace.\n\nThe dirt, once they see we are there to destroy the evil rocks, will flock to us, and support freedom free from rock-ism...\n\n...or so Bush will say.
773832
It is a sad commentary on how little the nation values that great accomplishment. It also gives you some hint as to why we did not continue sending missions to the Moon or resume them later. People just don't care! :-(
115997
A large part of the motive to put men on the Moon was political --- the space race with the former USSR.\n\nAs someone else pointed out in answering your question, mankind MUST develop the means to tap into the immense resources that exist on other bodies in our Solar System. If we don't our species is doomed---if we don't destroy ourselves first. Mankind can not stay locked on this planet forever and survive.\n\nThe lunar landings were our first baby steps away from home.
403331
No, that is not even possible. Even if an explosion big enough to do the job were set off on the Moon, if it were set off at the Moon's south pole it would push the Moon away from the Earth, not toward it. And nobody on Earth, not the US government, not anybody, has the ability to make an explosion that big anyway.
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It looks like China will be the next nation to land people on the moon.\n\nThe Russians landed a vehicle called a Lunokhod there once.\n\nIf you Google 'Lunokhod' you may find some details about it.\n\nIt took the USA only a few years to go from earth orbital flight to landing men on the moon.\n\nChina is already successful with people in orbit around the earth (recently).  So, if we suppose they take about the same time for working on their man-to-the-moon project, they should be there by 2016 or so.\n\nHowever, once one group has done something, it is usually easier for the next one.  So, the Chinese might be there by 2010.\n\nIf I had to take a guess, I would say 2012.\n\nI don't think they are rushing, they are very patient about things.  Rushing increase the dangers.\n\nThey may wish to do 'more' than just copying our previous visits.  In that case, 2012--2016 is still likely, but it will be later depending on what they are planning.\n\nThey may change their minds and send only remote-control devices.  But it is pretty sure they will do at least that.