Moon 240,000 miles away. Come on man! | |
Weasel_Turbine User ID: 14143765 United States 11/19/2012 10:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | People who make these topics never understand the basic technology that tells us how the world works. It's easy to make huge wild statements when you don't know anything. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9266723 Basic technology. Ready. Me. Put gas in car. Makes car go. We put fuel in rocket ship enough for 10000 miles to go 440000 miles. And hope somehow to be hurled throw space at over 3000 miles and hour and slamm on the brakes and land on the moon. I have some and in alaska im selling Quoting: Trutbetold11 14786143 Perfect example of the OP proving AC 9266723's statement. If you have to insist that you've won an Internet argument, you've probably lost badly. - Danth's Law |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 610727 Australia 11/19/2012 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | any one good here with angles and mesurements that can do a rough guestimate Ah... yeah... about that: if it is only 30 miles away or even 50, then how is it that two people in different places on the Earth can measure its position and using basic geometry get a similar distance to the accepted value? Quoting: Weasel_Turbine Or, if that went over your simple head OP, if it is only 50 miles away, how is it you can go for a 100 mile drive and the moon still appears to be in the same position? If something is 50 miles away in one direction (let's call it north), and you drive 100 miles east, it should now look to be about 112 miles away. But it looks the same. Derp. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 14786143 United States 11/19/2012 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have never seen such great lengths to protect lies. Buzz aldrin at a dinner. Fact. Was ask what was it like to land on the moon. He had to be excused and was found crying uncontrollaby outside. Cant live with the lie. Not to mention him punching a man in the face for asking him. Google it. Buzz punches man in face |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States 11/19/2012 10:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well, if you consider the cost of actually going to the moon versus the cost of just pretending to go to the moon, especially when the overall point of it was to bankrupt Russia in a never-ending arms & space race of one-upmanship, option B begins the pull ahead as a favorite. You don't need to go there when you control the media and have enough armed forces personnel around willing to go that extra mile for their country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366 until you also consider the fact that Russia would have know if it was faked and all the money was spent paying contractors that built equipment capable of going to the Moon and back. Why not use it? You mean they couldn't have just blasted a rocket off into space, shown video feeds purportedly of that rocket's contents (live humans whom we know), then launched the rocket off into space away from our eyes while some ex-military tromped around a quarry after they got done filming a freefall inside a plane for the zero-G shots? |
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Weasel_Turbine User ID: 14143765 United States 11/19/2012 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well, if you consider the cost of actually going to the moon versus the cost of just pretending to go to the moon, especially when the overall point of it was to bankrupt Russia in a never-ending arms & space race of one-upmanship, option B begins the pull ahead as a favorite. You don't need to go there when you control the media and have enough armed forces personnel around willing to go that extra mile for their country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366 until you also consider the fact that Russia would have know if it was faked and all the money was spent paying contractors that built equipment capable of going to the Moon and back. Why not use it? You mean they couldn't have just blasted a rocket off into space, shown video feeds purportedly of that rocket's contents (live humans whom we know), then launched the rocket off into space away from our eyes while some ex-military tromped around a quarry after they got done filming a freefall inside a plane for the zero-G shots? When those vids show live interaction with mission control and reactions to current sports scores, no. The vids also show current weather on the Earth that could only have been obtained by a craft on the way to the moon. If you have to insist that you've won an Internet argument, you've probably lost badly. - Danth's Law |
Weasel_Turbine User ID: 14143765 United States 11/19/2012 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 'Cuz we all know Russia has and back then had such great ability to detect stuff going on outside near Earth orbit, right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366 they did send their own probes to the Moon. You don't think they could track their own stuff? If you have to insist that you've won an Internet argument, you've probably lost badly. - Danth's Law |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1211208 United States 11/19/2012 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Without reading a book or being told the great lie. You look outside and can see its only 30 miles above us. Noway we went there period. You want to solve the debt. Crisis? Everyone pay 50 bucks to look through the huble telescope at the stuff we supposed left on moon. Noway would they let us have that access. The gig is pretty big Quoting: Truthbetold11 14786143 The Hubble has looked at the Moon. Its max resolution at that distance (not the 30 mile nonsense you pulled out of your arse but the real distance) is at best a football field per pixel. You would need a telescope with a mirror a few hundred feet across to see what was left on the Moon. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States 11/19/2012 11:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 'Cuz we all know Russia has and back then had such great ability to detect stuff going on outside near Earth orbit, right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366 they did send their own probes to the Moon. You don't think they could track their own stuff? Right. 'Cuz we'd be so likely to call them out on that if that wasn't possible, right? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23883073 United States 11/19/2012 11:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | my moon pic taken today [link to oi49.tinypic.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27636366 United States 11/19/2012 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wasn't the real difficulty with going to the moon supposed to be calculating the right trajectory, not running out of fuel? Because of the vacuum of space and the lack of big things between us and the moon, after they escaped our atmosphere and further such that the Earth's pull was less on the vehicle they wouldn't need to burn fuel at all they could just coast? So the difficulty was in calculating the right trajectory to make up for whatever arcane drifts or wave effects they think need adjusting for? But then to park the think a quarter a million miles away perfectly such that it lands in stable orbit of the moon is just.... a bit much. And, if there's effectively no gravity acting on the craft after it gets away from the Earth a little ways such that it doesn't need to burn fuel most of the way, then what's that force that keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth, which the craft is traveling in the whole time and which is strong enough to hold the moon while the craft in comparison has negligible mass? |
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