Relive the Apollo 11 Mission in Real Time!

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UPDATED: Thursday, July 23, 2009 19:50
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ODESSA762

Friday, July 17, 2009 5:39 AM

Hey PN ... is the Earth flat?

Buddy, you suck at life. Choke yourself and start over.

PHOENIXROSE

Friday, July 17, 2009 6:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
(Just kidding - trying to pre-empt PN's usual line of BS)

And oh, how we wish your plan had succeeded.

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PEULSAR5

Friday, July 17, 2009 7:31 AM

BBBBWWWWHHHAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAHHHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!

WHEW, I needed that!

THEREALME

Friday, July 17, 2009 9:06 AM

I was a boy when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I was sitting there watching the TV with my family when Armstrong took his famous step. It's something that I will never forget.

It is astounding to me that nearly 40 years have passed since that day.

And it is sad to me that younger people... even folks in their late 30s and early 40s... just can't know what that experience was like, when we watched humans walk on another world.

Worse, when it became a fad that America got tired of and shut down.

To me, it was like a magic time.

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, July 17, 2009 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
I was a boy when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I was sitting there watching the TV with my family when Armstrong took his famous step. It's something that I will never forget.

It is astounding to me that nearly 40 years have passed since that day.

And it is sad to me that younger people... even folks in their late 30s and early 40s... just can't know what that experience was like, when we watched humans walk on another world.

Worse, when it became a fad that America got tired of and shut down.

To me, it was like a magic time.

It was the same for me. 40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

HAKEN

Friday, July 17, 2009 7:00 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

CNN has an article on the subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.

KWICKO

Friday, July 17, 2009 8:23 PM

Hell, PN can't tell fiction from reality TODAY. No need to wait a few hundred years!

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, July 17, 2009 8:31 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

CNN has an article on the subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Sad, but interesting article Haken. I'd wager that these moon-landing non-believers would be the same ilk as those who believe that Bush blew up the World Trade Towers. As for your hope to have humanity around in a few hundred years, I think it un-likely.

PHOENIXROSE

Friday, July 17, 2009 8:31 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

No, it doesn't. Just because they might be able to do it now doesn't mean they could (or did) forty years ago.
It was a great accomplishment, one that hasn't been replicated because it was also a very expensive accomplishment. If people were willing to dump the same kind of money on space travel that gets dumped into wars, odds are a man would have walked on Mars by now. But, it seems, people just aren't that smart, and more people are interested in conflict than exploration, and that's a shame. But there was a moment when that exploration captured everyone's attention, imagination, and heart. That shouldn't be devalued.

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ZAPHODB

Friday, July 17, 2009 10:21 PM

Finally, some images of the Apollo landing sites - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites
.html

Industrial Looniee & Madness - http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch

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