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Quote: SPECTRUM

Yes have watched Mythbusters but its the cosmic radiation that's the big problem as there are plenty of scientists who say it would kill you if you are not protected by the Van Allen Radiation Belt. As for those that try to say there are no stars because it was so bright you should know then that the sky would definitely not be black.

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Without an atmosphere, the sky on the moon is not black like earth's night, but pitch black, even when the sun is in the sky. Stars are not little, fuzzy, twinkling things, but tiny pinpoints of light. Again due to lack of air, visual contrast and brightness on the luner surface is acute. The cameras they were using were not using settings for filming the stars, and they weren't exactly using Hollywood cameras and film, let alone star telescopes. Have you ever tried to take a picture of the moon? You really have to zoom, or it's just a little white dot, and stars barely even show up.

I can't get into the radiation thing now because I'm off to work again. Back in a few hours.

Can somebody else field this one?

Q: Did Man Land on the Moon Yes 60% No 30% Don't Know 10% There have been 10 responses to this poll

The waving flag theory is easily explained. NASA said at the time that they fixed wires into it to give the illusion of waving.

Iain B was spot on.

They landed on the moon.

Get over it.

Regards

Skoob.

The moon landings were real, I was there, I did all the camera work and pulled the little wires to make the flag flutter.
Just before we all got out we had a session of rock, paper scissors to decide who would officially be the first man on the moon and Nelly beat me with a rock over scissors.

It is still one of my favourite memories, after the filming and the sattelite link was terminated we took off all the clumpy space suit stuff and had a barbie and a few beers.

Great evening, we watched a hurricane develop off the coast of Florida and played hide and seek. We had to pack up when Buzz got pissed and started throwing rocks at Russia.


Happy days.

What you need speccie is to cover your head with tinfoil that'll stop the voices

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Quote: SPECTRUM

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Quote: Cal Jennings

I started in the SETI program almost as soon as they made it available for IBM PC. My wife worked at MITRE and my assistant Sysop was the head of the computer department at NASA. I can tell you one thing. They invested a lot of money in graphics programs. That's all I have to going to say about that.

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Only Superman could survive in Space, on planet earth we have thousands of cosmic rays going through our body every second.
If it was not for the Van Allen Radiation Belt we would all be dead.

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5 star post

I'll put some on your snippets!

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

The moon landings were real, I was there, I did all the camera work and pulled the little wires to make the flag flutter.

Just before we all got out we had a session of rock, paper scissors to decide who would officially be the first man on the moon and Nelly beat me with a rock over scissors.

It is still one of my favourite memories, after the filming and the sattelite link was terminated we took off all the clumpy space suit stuff and had a barbie and a few beers.

Great evening, we watched a hurricane develop off the coast of Florida and played hide and seek. We had to pack up when Buzz got pissed and started throwing rocks at Russia.

Happy days.

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Oops! I almost forgot - but I could only give you 15 points anyway, Mr. Lazy.

I am going to put my two cents worth in here for what it matters,but it doesn't.
Of course man landed on the moon, and the technology benifited mankind incredibily!
Although I still have my doubts, like everybody else it seems.
Why they went there in the first place is completely beyond me!
Now going to mars is a different proposition altogether, but there is always going to be some idiot!

Oh! And by the way I remeber the disaster of that Apollo 13
mission, but thank goodness they got home.
It is strange how you are scarred by memories when you are young!
It is stange when you are scarred when you are middle aged as well!Ha!

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Quote: SPECTRUM

... Did we Land on the Moon

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Absolutely, "we" took off from Earth then came back again to land on the Moon's moon (Earth).

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Quote: Tcoah

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Quote: SPECTRUM

... Did we Land on the Moon

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Absolutely, "we" took off from Earth then came back again to land on the Moon's moon (Earth).

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Ha!, Ha!, I liked that!

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Quote: Incredulous

and the technology benifited mankind incredibily!

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A fan of the non-stick frying pan!

I swear by the Van Allen Radiation Belt.

It cured my ague and sciatica.

The Val Doonican Radiation Jersey was a washout though.

Radiation might do my legs some good which are killing me, around the throat.
But then again I might turn green, that would not be very nice, then again it all depends on what tone of green!
Why the hell am I doing this! Oh! Well it is a laugh, I think!

Man on the Moon? notice the flag blowing merrily, on a windless environment A GIANT STEP for Who. The USA.

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Quote: stantheman

A GIANT STEP for Who. The USA.

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Moon Landing

W. H. Auden

It's natural the Boys should whoop it up for
so huge a phallic triumph, an adventure
it would not have occurred to women
to think worth while, made possible only

because we like huddling in gangs and knowing
the exact time: yes, our sex may in fairness
hurrah the deed, although the motives
that primed it were somewhat less than menschlich.

A grand gesture. But what does it period?
What does it osse? We were always adroiter
with objects than lives, and more facile
at courage than kindness: from the moment

the first flint was flaked this landing was merely
a matter of time. But our selves, like Adam's,
still don't fit us exactly, modern
only in this---our lack of decorum.

Homer's heroes were certainly no braver
than our Trio, but more fortunate: Hector
was excused the insult of having
his valor covered by television.

Worth going to see? I can well believe it.
Worth seeing? Mneh! I once rode through a desert
and was not charmed: give me a watered
lively garden, remote from blatherers

about the New, the von Brauns and their ilk, where
on August mornings I can count the morning
glories where to die has a meaning,
and no engine can shift my perspective.

Unsmudged, thank God, my Moon still queens the Heavens
as She ebbs and fulls, a Presence to glop at,
Her Old Man, made of grit not protein,
still visits my Austrian several

with His old detachment, and the old warnings
still have power to scare me: Hybris comes to
an ugly finish, Irreverence
is a greater oaf than Superstition.

Our apparatniks will continue making
the usual squalid mess called History:
all we can pray for is that artists,
chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.

Thanks for that The San Francisco Onion.
Nice but I hardly understood a word of it! Ha!
This is not so much about the moon, but I always wonder what they are doing on that giant space station.
They are up to something, probably no good!
Oh! Paranoia pervades my life.

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Quote: The San Francisco Onion

5 star post

I'll put some on your snippets!

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

The moon landings were real, I was there, I did all the camera work and pulled the little wires to make the flag flutter.

Just before we all got out we had a session of rock, paper scissors to decide who would officially be the first man on the moon and Nelly beat me with a rock over scissors.

It is still one of my favourite memories, after the filming and the sattelite link was terminated we took off all the clumpy space suit stuff and had a barbie and a few beers.

Great evening, we watched a hurricane develop off the coast of Florida and played hide and seek. We had to pack up when Buzz got pissed and started throwing rocks at Russia.

Happy days.

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Oops! I almost forgot - but I could only give you 15 points anyway, Mr. Lazy.

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Thanks SFO,

I'd also like to thank the one person who alway's gives me 5 stars on the rare ocassion I do publish, I think it's Morse but it could be Skoob, it might not be, it could be Bargis.... What a nice thought, anyway.... Thanks.

(Leave room for moment.)


When I'm moved in to my new house, wife's happy, kids are happy, plenty of money coming in, new van and a 5 year work contract I'll do a lot more writing. It'll still be a load of crap but I'll do lots more of it.

I estimate sometime around June 2025.

Fergie! Good news for you...pleased at the news over here...now that you're over the hump, I may have to stop your points allowance...charity begins at home, or so they say!

Here's a few on account ******************

Look forward to your take on life.

Morse