Celebrating Apollo 11, the landing on the moon

[WastelandTek]

I think part of the problem is that they did fake or alter some of the pictures.  They probably felt it was necessary at the time for cold war PR, but in retrospect was a huge mistake as it provides infinite grist for the denier mill.

[Electro Detective]

Oooh goodie    It's about time there was a good Fact Versus       debate here   

Or is it classed as -trolling- either way,

and the thread gets nuked when facts n fysics get in the lead position ?   

[A Hellene]

Very good points!

-George

[rdl]

Today 48 years ago Apollo 8 landed on the moon, the first manned landing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

Somebody please change 8 to 11 in the subject line.

[Prime]

I have mag tape recordings of the BBC broadcasts. When I've reached a point where Infeel like I'll be able to make decent copies without rewinding and rerecording (and stretching the tape), I'll make digital copies of them.   

[Alex Eisenhut]

I have a hard time believing a bunch of goat herders 3000 years ago where able to invent geometry and build the Acropolis.

All I see are rocks and some papyrus. All fake and easy to order on Taobao.

Also, WWII never happened, all I have are "pictures" in "books". I'm supposed to believe we invented cryptography, radar, voice encryption, jet engines and nuclear weapons when we were just a bunch of goat rapists the whole time before?

Someone tried to make me believe we had supersonic civilian passenger transport 15 years ago and tried to show me "pictures" of something that looks like an over-excited child drew it. He called it a "Concorde". Yeah right. The plane would have melted at that speed. Duh!

This planet came into existence 5 minutes ago complete with false memories and history.

It was aliens.

And the Russians must be in on it as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16

Oh, and at the speed of light, why would you expect 2.5 seconds?

Surely the signal has to travel to the Moon only when they're on the Moon... At which point, you have to wait for the reply when you stop transmitting, which would be only Moon to Earth, plus whatever time the person takes to formulate his answer.

Maybe you need some help solving puzzles....

[SeanB]

Careful Alex, my late mother and father would have strongly disagreed with you, as both were POW's in that war, and both had the scars to prove it.

[Alex Eisenhut]

Careful Alex, my late mother and father would have strongly disagreed with you, as both were POW's in that war, and both had the scars to prove it.

Guess I forgot the "sarcasm" quote. My sense of humor tends to be dry, obscure, and only funny to me. 

Sorry, no actual offense meant. Just offense to the Greek dude. If he can think Apollo was a hoax, I can believe all the ancient Greek "accomplishments" are just so much hot air too.

Why not?

[SeanB]

The Greeks gave us perspective, architecture ( the "modern" style), a lot of the common units and measures still used today in some form or the other, and a lot of the beginnings of mathematics, philosophy and the Scientific Method. the Romans did more, but were hampered by the one thing they did not have, a positional number system, which allowed for both positive and negative numbers and, more importantly, the notion that ZERO is a valid, usable and important number. that had to be imported from the Arabian peninsula, along with base 10 mathematics, along with base 12, base 16 and base 60 and 360 maths as well.

Remember the modern space age is determined, in one dimension, by the ass end of 2 Roman war horses together in a chariot.

[Brumby]

The Greeks gave us perspective, architecture ( the "modern" style), a lot of the common units and measures still used today in some form or the other, and a lot of the beginnings of mathematics, philosophy and the Scientific Method.

That was the ancient Greeks.

[Wytnucls]

The modern Greeks gave us Ouzo.

[StillTrying]

By the time you take into account electronic and human delays, when communicating with the someone on/at the Moon it should have a delay of about ~3 seconds. If you listen to the audio recordings of the on/at Moon conversations you can hear the 3 second delay  , - sometimes. 

[Beamin]

Have you seen the video of buzz aldren punching the guy in the face when he calls aldren a coward? Or aldrens face as trump is just talking nonsense about the moon landing? Classic. Can we post youtube videos here or is that too off topic?

[rstofer]

Have you seen the video of buzz aldren punching the guy in the face when he calls aldren a coward? Or aldrens face as trump is just talking nonsense about the moon landing? Classic. Can we post youtube videos here or is that too off topic?

Reply 13 has the Buzz Aldren video

[Kjelt]

The modern Greeks gave us Ouzo.

The modern greeks gave the € a drop in value.

[G0HZU]

Not sure you are being fair on Greece here... Most of the paranoid/conspiracy nutjobs I see on the web are from the good old USA. A fair few of them don't believe in the moon landings and quite a few think 911 was an inside job.
Despite their apparent confidence in their beliefs, most of these conspiracy nutjobs seem as clueless as George when it comes to basic physics/science/reasoning.

[Electro Detective]

"Information Soccer" match, yay 

Soloist Team George vs Team Hoax Denial   

I'm a sucker for the underdog, so  GO GREECE !!!   


and I thought it was going to be another quiet relaxed sunny Sunday   

[John_ITIC]

quite a few think 911 was an inside job.

[Alex Eisenhut]

There is no such thing as "Greece". It's a hoax. All I've ever seen are pictures. This is not a "fact".

[Electro Detective]

There is no such thing as "Greece". It's a hoax. All I've ever seen are pictures. This is not a "fact".

So then the other Grease isn't real either?

Is that why Mr. Travolta has to pilot to pay off the plane? 

[Electro Detective]

Thanks to OP for upgrading Apollo 8 title to Apollo 11     

FWIW, all this numbering business can be very confusing,
I'm still searching the internet for Windows 9   

[EEVblog]

11 landed.
8 made the first manned voyage to the moon and went into orbit. But, no landing.

IMO Apollo 8 was the greatest mission ever.

[HighVoltage]

My dad woke me up in the middle of the night and we watched the landing live on German TV.
It was probably one of the greatest things in my childhood life, just amazing!

[PA0PBZ]

My dad woke me up in the middle of the night and we watched the landing live on German TV.

Same for me, it was the first day of our holiday and we were staying the night in Germany

[grumpydoc]

My dad woke me up in the middle of the night and we watched the landing live on German TV.

Same for me, it was the first day of our holiday and we were staying the night in Germany

I remember watching it live (I was six) - I don't recall it being in the middle of the night though. Wikipedia gives the time as either 20:17:40 or 20:18:04 UTC on Sun 20 July 1969 so it would have been 21:18 in Germany (which observed CET/UTC +1 for all of 1969). It would have been the same wall clock time in the UK.

The whole Apollo programme was amazing and it is very sad that there isn't really anything comparable today - it was politically motivated, of course, otherwise it would never have been funded but it really shows what we as a species are capable of with the right impetus.