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I don't believe we've been to the moon and SpaceXs failure further convinces me.

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MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:30

I know I've posted this before and the majority of you think I'm batty, but I don't think we've landed on the moon.

3 billion USD, a giant leap in technological advances and yet it can't even launch.

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GreyTS · 20/04/2023 19:24

Viburnam · 20/04/2023 17:55

I’ve felt precisely the same, particularly after todays failure. The thing that got me really thinking about the conspiracy was that the then Duke of Edinburgh was fascinated by the space mission and the moon landings and hosted a reception for the astronauts but was hugely disappointed by them and their apparent lack of knowledge.

Jesus, Mary and holy St Joseph, where would you even start with this, I could laugh and cry! Actually you're stupidity would be hilarious if you weren't a fully functioning adult allowed to vote etc, it's idiots like you whose opinions are now 'equal' to the educated and experts that's the reason everything is so incredibly dumb now

LucifersLight · 20/04/2023 19:24

I’d love to see any government try to get to the moon using 1969 techonology to prove it could be done…

notimagain · 20/04/2023 19:27

We haven't tried since Apollo13, neither has anyone else.

Not quite, the Apollo landings ran through to Apollo 17 in Dec 72 though Nixon was all for cancelling after 13 because he didn't want a spaceflight disaster on his watch.

The money for the programme was reduced rapidly post 11.

GreyTS · 20/04/2023 19:27

LucifersLight · 20/04/2023 19:24

I’d love to see any government try to get to the moon using 1969 techonology to prove it could be done…

As for you, your stupidity and trolling follows you from thread to thread so v easy to disregard your likely affected ignorance

EmmaEmerald · 20/04/2023 19:29

Viburnam · 20/04/2023 17:55

I’ve felt precisely the same, particularly after todays failure. The thing that got me really thinking about the conspiracy was that the then Duke of Edinburgh was fascinated by the space mission and the moon landings and hosted a reception for the astronauts but was hugely disappointed by them and their apparent lack of knowledge.

I can never tell who is joking or a bot

but this story was made up for the Crown TV show wasn't it?

and that's not even an accurate description of what the character found disappointing. Great television though.

viques · 20/04/2023 19:30

Viburnam · 20/04/2023 17:55

I’ve felt precisely the same, particularly after todays failure. The thing that got me really thinking about the conspiracy was that the then Duke of Edinburgh was fascinated by the space mission and the moon landings and hosted a reception for the astronauts but was hugely disappointed by them and their apparent lack of knowledge.

Well, if you will get your information from episodes of the Crown ………….

Mortimercat · 20/04/2023 19:30

MuffinToSeeHere · 20/04/2023 17:39

I believe in the ISS, I mean I'm not a crackpot, but no, I don't believe the images.

So you believe people board man made rockets and travel to a man made structure built in space where they can live and work for months on end but you don't believe we've been to the moon... Surely you either believe both of neither.

Why do you have to believe in both or neither of those things? Confused. The space station is 250 miles from Earth, the moon is about 240,000 miles away. One is surely harder to get to than the other.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I believe in both, I just don’t follow your logic that you can only believe in both or neither).

ShirleyPhallus · 20/04/2023 19:30

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:40

I mean this is MN, the bar for discussion isn't very high, if you'd rather discuss not using people's washing line/the attractiveness of obsese women 🙄or weird made up family dynamics you are, in fairness, spoilt for choice.

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Lolled at this. Good point OP 🤣

notimagain · 20/04/2023 19:30

LucifersLight · 20/04/2023 19:24

I’d love to see any government try to get to the moon using 1969 techonology to prove it could be done…

Nice idea but there's no way a modern politician shoulder the risks involved using 60s technology.

ThisIsNotAmerican · 20/04/2023 19:31

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:30

I know I've posted this before and the majority of you think I'm batty, but I don't think we've landed on the moon.

3 billion USD, a giant leap in technological advances and yet it can't even launch.

Stupid logic.

I went to Sainsbury's last week. This week my car broke down. So I never went to Sainsbury's last week after all.

Going to the Moon in 1969 was a national effort. Like fighting a war. It had to be done. That's all. It really is just a massive rock with no water or air. What is the point in going back when there are so many more competing needs for science, innovation, humankind. We don't need to go to a big rock in the middle of nowhere twice.

Apologies to those who regularly holiday in Malta.

ChateauxNeufDePoop · 20/04/2023 19:32

As many have stated, it would have cost much more to fake it and been virtually impossible to keep a secret for a week never mind 50+ years.

Galatine · 20/04/2023 19:33

OP suggests that although we can create the smartphone we have not the ability to go to the moon. Not true! We could easily plan and carry out a moon landing, the problem is that unlike the phone no one wants to pay for it.

SicParvisMagna · 20/04/2023 19:34

😉

I don't believe we've been to the moon and SpaceXs failure further convinces me.
Theimpossiblegirl · 20/04/2023 19:35

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:37

I believe in the ISS, I mean I'm not a crackpot, but no, I don't believe the images.

I'm only enough to remember watching it on a friends grainy TV, the idea of a smartphone was beyond comprehension and yet here I am typing on one and yet we still can't get to the moon.

I'm not a troll or a bot and I've not a new poster

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I'm completely with you. I don't think they had the technology and I think the US wanted to win so much they lied.

Daftasabroom · 20/04/2023 19:35

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:30

I know I've posted this before and the majority of you think I'm batty, but I don't think we've landed on the moon.

3 billion USD, a giant leap in technological advances and yet it can't even launch.

You know it was expected to fail, and was never intended to reach the moon this time round. The next one is expected to fail as well. It's called a test program. Allmost all test programs involve destructive testing of one form or another. They will have learned a huge amount from this.

The Apollo program saw many failures, sadly so too the Challenger.

Luckily for you beliefs don't require any factual evidence, although how you can ignore factual evidence I know.

Daftasabroom · 20/04/2023 19:37

AliceMay55 · 20/04/2023 17:34

I too think the conspiracy theory could be true, it was in the fcuking 1969 !! Why the f can’t we do it in 2023?
India’s Chandrayaan -2 failed too - didn’t it!

Who has tried to get to the moon in 2023, not SpaceX

RoseslnTheHospital · 20/04/2023 19:38

@Theimpossiblegirl what technology do you imagine they needed, particularly? Computing power? Something else? It was not something that needed lots of processing power to be successful.

Saschka · 20/04/2023 19:40

I mean, Elon Musk’s projects are not unmitigated successes are they, despite all the money he throws at them.

The fact the MuskRocket blew up is in perfect keeping with him smashing the unbreakable Tesla windscreen at the press launch, the Tesla autopilot not being able to “see” black people, him fucking up Twitter, and all the rest of it. I would have been shocked if it had worked, honestly.

viques · 20/04/2023 19:41

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:37

I believe in the ISS, I mean I'm not a crackpot, but no, I don't believe the images.

I'm only enough to remember watching it on a friends grainy TV, the idea of a smartphone was beyond comprehension and yet here I am typing on one and yet we still can't get to the moon.

I'm not a troll or a bot and I've not a new poster

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The thing is there isn’t much point in sending more human beings to the moon, we’ve done that and got the t shirt, it’s only idiots like Musk and their vanity projects that seem to think it is worth doing that sort of exploration. Far more interesting , scientific exploration comes From sending probes to places we know humans will never get to but which explain more about our solar system, and possibly how life evolved on our own planet , or sending instruments like the Hubble telescope far beyond our solar system to show us things that no human has ever dreamt of seeing before.

Saschka · 20/04/2023 19:42

ThisIsNotAmerican · 20/04/2023 19:31

Stupid logic.

I went to Sainsbury's last week. This week my car broke down. So I never went to Sainsbury's last week after all.

Going to the Moon in 1969 was a national effort. Like fighting a war. It had to be done. That's all. It really is just a massive rock with no water or air. What is the point in going back when there are so many more competing needs for science, innovation, humankind. We don't need to go to a big rock in the middle of nowhere twice.

Apologies to those who regularly holiday in Malta.

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You are thinking of Gibraltar. Malta has many wonderful tourist attractions. Gibraltar is a big rock with aggro monkeys. Easy mistake to make. Often mixed up with Yalta as well.

Vegetus · 20/04/2023 19:43

MumUndone · 20/04/2023 19:02

I think it's weird everyone believes it happened, sort of like a reverse conspiracy theory. We simply didn't have the technology then, we just didn't.

Chemical rocketry hasn't changed since it's invention. The technology hasn't changed or become more advanced. If anything it's worse now due to safety concerns that didn't exist during the cold war period. Obviously computing power is much greater now but that wasn't and hasn't ever been a limiting factor in space flight. But if you're so sure please tell us the technology that didn't exist!

SoupDragon · 20/04/2023 19:44

TerfIngOnTheBeach · 20/04/2023 18:33

I don’t think we have either. The “computers” at work when I started in 1985 were metal and dummy terminals. How on earth did we land on the Moon sixteen years before and have never since.

The pictures are as believable as the Clangers living on the moon. Which incidentally started being broadcast in 1969.

The pictures are as believable as the Clangers living on the moon

and what is your issue with that exactly?

Vegetus · 20/04/2023 19:46

viques · 20/04/2023 19:41

The thing is there isn’t much point in sending more human beings to the moon, we’ve done that and got the t shirt, it’s only idiots like Musk and their vanity projects that seem to think it is worth doing that sort of exploration. Far more interesting , scientific exploration comes From sending probes to places we know humans will never get to but which explain more about our solar system, and possibly how life evolved on our own planet , or sending instruments like the Hubble telescope far beyond our solar system to show us things that no human has ever dreamt of seeing before.

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This is just wrong. A human can achieve more in one day than a rover can accomplish in a month. The moon is now interesting again because we think it's possible to use it as a launch pad for deeper exploration into our solar system.

Frabbits · 20/04/2023 19:46

There really isn't a polite way to say it.

If you believe the moonlandings were faked, you are a moron.

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