RobsyUK

iTrader: (2)

Well I've just watched apollo 18 and although it was pretty boring it got me wondering..

At the end it shows you people that have died and never found. Was this true or is it all fictional but done in a way to make you ask questions?

And why haven't they gone back to the moon?

stilover

Because a paper suit and 1mm thick Aluminium, won't protect you from all the radiation in space. Let alone protecting you through the Van Allen Belt.

TelBoy

If Geezer's radar hasn't gone into meltdown with that post, stilover, then i'm a snowman

what would scooby do

.. because it is even crapper than Croydon and you can get to Croydon on a bus for less than £2

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

It was just too expensive to send people to the moon, was all the moon landing stuff real? of course it was, have you not seen the latest pictures on where the landings took place, photographed by a passing probe?
People think it was all bs and set up, they say because you could not see the stars it wasnt real and the shadows were wrong, biggest fact is, is that some big ball of fire became the brightest object out there so its like light polution, if they were on the dark side then you would see stars.

Tony

Leslie

I was just idly wondering if the pavement outside McDonalds is covered with chewing gum like the one in Torquay!

Les

stef_2010

iTrader: (3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIW2cLOgMl8

RobsyUK

iTrader: (2)

If someone could answer this it would be fab... At the end of the film it says 4 people died and their bodues were never recovered. Is this just part of the film or was it a real statement?

Carlh

lol, the passing probe happened to be owned by NASA...

DCI Gene Hunt

No Apollo astronauts were killed enroute to space...

coupe_20vt

iTrader: (2)

On the pad, Apollo 1

DCI Gene Hunt

Aye, on the ground

tony de wonderful

:\

tony de wonderful

They died during a test, not a mission per se.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Do you really not believe we landed men on the moon? If so you are clearly insane...

TelBoy

LOL, why is he? Were you there, yourself, taking the official photographs?



No, thought not

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Oh please

TelBoy

No, oh please right back at you. Soooo many reasons why the Americans would have wanted to be the first on the moon in the height of the Cold War. Cold War? Do you even remember the politics of the late 60s? Unlikely - yes. Insane? Definitely not.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Not really no I'm not an old fart.

Yes I agree to a certain extent that the first landing may of been a ruse, due to the coldwar and intense competition between the two nations to be first to do it during the spacewar, although I still believe they made it. But what about the other multiple landings? You aren't seriously suggesting they were all faked to are you?

TelBoy

Why would i bother to continue this conversation having been called an old fart?

I can take a joke, but why say that?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Did I say you were an old fart? no I agree though I can't be arsed with the whole conspiracy theory, it's been done to death already.

TelBoy

Ok

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

Indeed, why would you bother going to the trouble of faking something like that seven times. That really would be insane.

TelBoy

Or something you've got away with once, so every time thereafter is a little bit easier...

Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Six times

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

OK then, so was it just the moon landings that were faked, or also things like the Voyager probes, Cassini, the various Mars missions, or a very careful selection of the above?

TelBoy

Just the Moon landings. Like i said - unlikely, but not 100% proved either.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Telboy come on you're just being daft now, or on the windup.

The cost of staging it would of cost just as much if not more as the real deal to, why bother??

TelBoy

Because, according to old farts alive at the time, the first man on the Moon was THE statement of superiority between America and Russia. You're looking at it from a totally different perspective today. It's like explaining why the Beatles were relevant. You wouldn't get it.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Oh dear oh dear it was indeed meant as a joke ok, why so sensitive?

As far as not getting it, that's gibberish. The whole thing is common sense imo.

TelBoy

I'm not being bloody sensitive

I just don't completely trust America or its intentions from the late 60s. 99% yes. 1% no.