That is correct Rapscallion, unfortunately. Couldn't we benefit from returning to the moon? take for example, building bases where instead of using the space station building bases on the moon for longer durations (the main reason for short durations on the space station) is the lack of gravity and the effects of bone tissue loosing mass. On the moon, more gravity to conduct scientific experiments and medical experiements that can only be performed in lower gravity.

I'm an advocate in returning to the moon as a first step to a larger picture and eventually colonies being built there. It's our future, because hell, the earth won't sustain this standard of living for much longer with the lack of resources being mined which the earth cannot replenish nor sustain.

People that cannot see the benefits of returning are purely narrow minded at best. enough when the earth can't sustain the current growth what do we turn to. Religion? the root of all evil as dawkins perfectly put.

Thanks, Shelley.

I wasn't going to seriously comment any further on this subject, but all of this rationality has brought it out of me:

"Why didn't we go back?"

Well, we did. 5 times. WTF. Seriously: 5 times.

Sometimes I wish I had invested in aluminum.

I'm sure we could benefit hugely. However, we've got to stay alive to make sure we do benefit from it :p That technology still has a fair way to go, I suspect.

Rapscallion

Yes we went to the moon.

Even left several retroreflectors to bounce lasers off of for a variety of experiments.

No, we actually didn't go to the moon. The lasers are bouncing off the shiny heads of Martians.

"Martians?", you ask? Yes, Martians.

They have an outpost there to acclimatize themselves before the invasion.

Y'know. I'm just sayin'.

I have to go now, someone is at the door. I wonder who that coul----

I said that earlier in the thread. The reflectors where put there to calculate the distance from the earth to the moon and how much a year it was moving away which is about 2 inches a year.

Quite exciting what they'll do this time around the Aries rockets have a payload of a 100 tons so they could ship larger modules to the moon and have scientists conduct experiments and the possibility of living modules for them to stay for long periods.

Technology is there, nasa just need to create more interest from the public.

hm i read lots of theories about landing on the moon being faked . Those pics were taken in building of NASA. Whats your opinion ?
If we consider that landing of the moon happened. Whats the story about Luis Armstrong and the quote about his neighbor ? Have you heard about that ? Is it just a joke ?

Not sure what Louis Armstrong got to do with this topic. He was a Jazz musician.

I think it's safe to say everyone knew what he mean't and that he was referring to neil.

Not necessarily. Believers of a moon-landing conspiracy are generally factually-challenged to begin with, so he may well have thought Louis Armstrong played a hand in the faking. Maybe that other Armstrong contributed to the soundtrack.

Yeah, that's it. We cannot deny such opportunity. :rolleyes:

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original glitter graphics collector

It's TRUE!!!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/08/92.jpg

Ha ha

And the song he sang?? this has got to be the one song that young and old will remember Louis Armstrong for, especially those who remember the fact Louis sang it around the time of the Vietnamese war.

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

Classic :D

Actually, no.

It was "Moon River". ;)

lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm4xcOyiCo

Two things:

1. The poster who mentioned Louis Armstrong really meant Nat King Cole, whose wife gave a color TV to a stranger who fixed her flat on the way home from the funeral. This story is as true as the story that the moon landing was faked.

2. For the REAL truth about the Berlin Tower launch, see here: http://www.vimeo.com/5856277

:)