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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 13, 2013 at 5:06 am
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Oh there are so many similarities between conspiracy theorists and religionists. The tactics they use are very similar e.g. in creationists.
But this reminds me that we gave up a bit on the moon. It is our closest brother in the Universe, altough barren, it contains minerals very usefull to fusion reactors, our next step in energy gathering. Plus, I think a base there would give great research data, with the added benefit of acting as a staging area for future manned explorations of the solar system.
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 13, 2013 at 9:23 am
The only problem with a moon base is the total lack of atmosphere, strong solar radiation, and Newt Gingrich would be there.
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 13, 2013 at 10:43 am
Newt Gingrich is on the ISS?
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 13, 2013 at 10:58 am
We haven't given up on the Moon. Since Apollo XVII in 1972, there have been another eighteen missions by five separate national space agencies. None of them have been manned of course, but they have included orbiters, landers and sample-return missions. Probably the most notable of these is the latest LADEE launch, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (gotta love those tortured NASA acronyms!) - yes, there really is an atmosphere, it's just extremely rarified and properly called an exosphere. Not to mention another ten lunar missions under development and planned for between now and 2018, including one to plant two telescopes on the surface (one radio, one optical) and ultimately to mine the Moon for resources - plus eighteen more proposed missions, some by private companies, taking us into the 2020s. Even the Apollo programme is still going on; those lunar reflectors are monitored constantly.
Not quite as ignored as is popularly imagined, really.
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 13, 2013 at 12:09 pm
The back side of the moon would be a great place for a humongous radio telescope, shielded from the earth's radio noise, one sixth of the gravity so you could make it six times larger. Maybe satellites in lunar orbit to relay the data back to earth (using a high bandwidth laser system like the one now being tested on LADEE?)
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 14, 2013 at 7:42 am
Moon-based solar power FTW.
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RE: moon landing hoax?
September 14, 2013 at 11:25 pm
I had a girlfriend who was obsessed with the idea of 9/11 being done by the Jews, the moon landing was fake, fluoride was added to the water supply to make us all mindless sheep, and that aliens were watching us all.
Also that she could cast spells and that alternative medicines were superior to actual medicine.
In my defense she had immensely huge tits.
That relationship didn't last long.
