Fifty years since the moon landings

[sycamore54321]

It will be 50 years ago later this month since the first moon landing. I wasn’t born. I’ve always imagined though, what it must feel like to look up at the moon and know that there were people there. Do any MNers recall it? Was it scary or awe-inspiring? What did it feel like?

It seems so odd to me that this huge milestone took place half a century ago, and then abruptly stopped almost as suddenly as it had begun a few years later. And since then, loads of other exciting space stuff but nobody else has ever stood on something that wasn’t of our planet.

paddy many scientists also don’t beleive they landed on the moon

They believe we took off, that we failed a few times (catastrophically as is documented) and then finally faked it.

Sorry my bullshit detector went beep beep.

What scientists, what evidence? Other than utter bollocks.

1969, we go to the moon, 2019 people deny it happened and believe the earth is flat, I love progress.

I was 6, I remember my grandad making us all sit round the tv he had bought home especially to watch the moon landings, frankly, I was bored I just didnt understand why it was all such a big deal, now of course, when i think of the year my grandad was born (1905) I can see that to him it must have been mind blowing, in his lifetime the Wright Brothers claimed the first flight, he had seen the small planes used in the first world war, the spitfires etc of the second, jet powered flight and then men walking on the moon! Incredible for the space of one lifetime.

Lots of sciency reasons too

Ooh, sciency reasons.

Come on, surely you can give us some links or c&p whatever 'research' you've done on the subject?

We’ve put robots on Mars - do the naysayers disbelieve that too?

Photographs of Pluto?

We’ve gone quite a bit further since the moon landings, there just haven’t been humans on board.

@bebeboeuf

Ooh. “Many” scientists.

How many. Roughly. Like a percentage of them? What percent? What are their specialties? Where did they publish this groundbreaking research?

@bebeboeuf

Heh. Sciency reasons. We’re dealing with an intellectual here.

Wonder what other conspiracy bollocks people fall for? No, actually, I don't wonder.

Here we go:

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html

Occam aside, the only rebuttal needed for hoaxologists, is the repeated insistence of the Russians - at the time and subsequently - in believing it did happen.

There's no real point in getting too stressed about hoaxologists. If you meet one, and they are spouting bollocks about the moon landing, then at least they aren't somewhere else spouting bollocks about something that has consequences. Vaccines, for example ...

I like to tell my colleague they were faked as he gets really wound up. Reading conspiracy theories is quite interesting, they actually to great pains to explain their logic. I particularly like the theory that the trainee don’t go to the moon now is that we got told to fuck off by some aliens. It was their moon and how dare we stick a flag in it! I need to find that theory as it’s awesome

I like rebutting 9/11 crap (jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams) by mentioning all the mind controlling chemicals on the plane for chemtrails. Who knows what that stuff does to steel beams?

I like the last-chance saloon some conspiracy theorists use.
"I'm not saying we didn't go to the moon.....but we didn't go in July 1969."

There is a much better conspiracy theory about Yuri Gagarin not being the first man in space but a well-connected Communist Party glamour boy called Vladimir Ilyushin, who crash-landed in China and died. Gagarin was either a hastily launched stand-in, or an imposter who never flew but substituted for the real dead cosmonaut.

The one version of a conspiracy theory I could give some possible credence to is that Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space - that the Russians may have launched one or more earlier manned flights but they resulted in the death of the cosmonaut so they kept it entirely secret. It’s plausible, in that I think the Gargarin launch wasn’t publicized until after he returned safely and the culture of cover-up of failures would be consistent with Soviet practice at the time. But I think it highly unlikely as nothing has since emerged.

But any of the “nope, never happened” theories just seem like willful ignorance to me.

it can only be a conspiracy if the subject is known to be true.
We don't know the moon landings are true, where's the actual evidence?

You can't conspire against something not known. If enough people doubt what they are told, surely they are realists rather than the blind followers.

Paddy, I think I love you!

My Dad worked in aerospace from the mid 50s and knows a lot of guys who went to work for NASA during the Apollo era (he did some pretty interesting stuff of his own in places that drive conspiracy theorists nuts too). It’s mind blowing to hear these old chaps sat around reminiscing about the programme now. The bit that blows my mind is that they weren’t sure that they’d be able to get the astronauts home. The astronauts knew and still went, in fact they fought to be the ones to go. The thing that always strikes me when I listen to the conversations is how willing they were to accept failure. Every failure was treated as a way to establish a parameter and informed the next stage of activity. It’s a totally different way of thinking.

Thousands of photos from the Apollo missions here:

www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

Ha. You believe in the moon?

at ‘sciency reasons’. You’ve got us there.

Also, you’re welcome.

The bit that blows my mind is that they weren’t sure that they’d be able to get the astronauts home. The astronauts knew and still went, in fact they fought to be the ones to go.

DW and I would happily go to Mars knowing we'd never come back and may not live long out there. Life on earth isn't all it's cracked up to be for some.

Thousands of photos from the Apollo missions here

Fair play to the US (unlike the niggardly UK) - they've made so much material from NASA available (since it's federally funded) using the logic that the public have already paid for it. It's one "Americanism" I could live with over chlorinated chicken.

Remember that, next time you buy an OS map ...

It’s a pernicious, toxic and absolutely moronic thing to believe.

We know, but unfortunately there are so many who do believe it, because they were told

Popped up on a Facebook group, just in case anyone's interested.
I think this leads you to the photos of the tracks etc on the moon that where mentioned in a recent documentary.

Well, I haven’t been to the moon. So how do I know that anyone else has?

@GoFiguire I’ve never been to Hull but I’m pretty sure other people have.