Did the Americans walk on the Moon?

[Squircifer]

mooniemericas

Interestingly enough, I am an american and I think the US Gov Sucks. Plain and simple. Before anyone *****es about that, it is my opinion.. whether it offends you or not... for the record, I am a decorated Gulf War vet.. fought for the country, freedom all the advertisement stuff the army and all have on thier nifty little billboards.. and I still think that the gov is ass. Their treatment of gulf war vets is shabby and I could go on, but since it is my opinion I need not. I am thankful I am still alive, that I am able to do things most people could only dream about and to have people who love me dearly... all of these things were made possible by me and my actions. A freak accident of birth had something to do with it as well.

Now, on to the poll thingy... of course they walked on the moon.. the government says they did, and gosh durn it, since it is the bestes nation in the universe it is true. And to show my abilities I ahve included a pic of me with the tinfoil crown and evil creation of the moon folks... thank goodness an american did not create this wonderful toy!!

http://www.squirrelsisland.com/hat.jpg

And yes that is me.

 

[brunson]

DAE_JA_VOO and Kubismo, could you post pictures of yourselves wearing your foil hats? It'd be cool. Really.

Stop being such a chop. My opinion is mine. No need to be nasty about it. I can't remember ever treating YOU in a similar fashion.

I was just poking a little fun, it wasn't meant to be a real insult. If you felt it was, then I apologize.

 

[Dene]

But I can imagine many cases were violence is acceptable, like self-defense or reaction to an enemy that isn't interested in talking/listening

Really? I'd rather take the beating than fight back, personally (of course, my first option would be to run, and I'm surprisingly fast for my size, so that works in my favour). Of course i'm an "extreme" kind of pacifist, so that's just me. I still think that violence can never be accounted for.

 

[tim]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort.

No one says that you claimed that.

so what was the point of your first post?

That's what he said: "I thank God I'm able to live here". No claim about better countries or stuff like that. But the statement itself is ********. Even if you believe in an almighty god.

 

[qqwref]

I'm extremely surprised that there are actually people here who seriously think that we have not walked on the moon at all. The fact that an idea is a conspiracy theory should already be enough to take it with a pile of salt.

Mythbusters did a recent segment where they debunked several claims of how the moon landing could have been faked or how the photos or video couldn't have been taken on the moon. For those who didn't see it, at the end they mentioned that on one trip some of the astronauts left a retroreflector on the moon, which is a man-made device that reflects incident light exactly back in the direction it came. At an observatory, they shone a laser at that spot and received photons of light of the same frequency with a time delay appropriate to light that bounced off the moon. They also indicated that this same experiment has been replicated many times by other people. The moon's surface scatters light so the chance of a photon randomly coming back in exactly the same direction is extremely small, which means there must be a man-made (and relatively delicate!) object on the moon and that therefore people put it there themselves.

 

[Lofty]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort.

No one says that you claimed that.

so what was the point of your first post?

That's what he said: "I thank God I'm able to live here". No claim about better countries or stuff like that. But the statement itself is ********. Even if you believe in an almighty god.

Care to explain why it is bull?

 

[Pedro]

I did not claim that God ordained any nation as the greatest or anything of the sort.

No one says that you claimed that.

so what was the point of your first post?

That's what he said: "I thank God I'm able to live here". No claim about better countries or stuff like that. But the statement itself is ********. Even if you believe in an almighty god.

Care to explain why it is bull?

QIA

 

[Guoguodi]

Conspiracy theories are retarded. So is this thread.

 

[gogozerg]

DAE_JA_VOO and Kubismo, could you post pictures of yourselves wearing your foil hats? It'd be cool. Really.

Sure thing. Myself:

Ernö Rubik?!?

 

[shadowpartner]

i believe,through observation of the laws of light and physics,they were never on the moon.

 

[toast]

I believe they were, but I don't see how this really makes an affect on our lives, they may not or may have walked on the moon. It's not like if they confessed it was fake that it was the only lie the US government has spoken.

 

[CAT13]

I think that NASA needs to stop wasting their dang money and DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!!!!!
There is no point in researching space and everything out in space. If there is any other life supporting planet, we already know that it is NOT in our solar system. It will take us years after years to get there. Centuries and centuries there is no freaken point. "Oh lets go jump on the moon and see if there are any rocks up their. Maybe there used to be life there..." WHO CARES!?!? Focus on your own planet

 

[Dene]

There is good reason to research outer space! Imagine the plethora of knowledge to be gained. Also, I don't agree with your "centuries" proposal, artificial intelligence should be able to get use there in the next few decades.

 

[JBCM627]

Conspiracy theories? who are you all kidding. Of course the moon landing was a hoax. So were spirit and opportunity actually; those were just really nice photoshopped pictures from Alaska. Same with Cassini. And 9/11. And the JFK assasination. Actually, you are a hoax too.

 

[toast]

I think that NASA needs to stop wasting their dang money and DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!!!!!
There is no point in researching space and everything out in space. If there is any other life supporting planet, we already know that it is NOT in our solar system. It will take us years after years to get there. Centuries and centuries there is no freaken point. "Oh lets go jump on the moon and see if there are any rocks up their. Maybe there used to be life there..." WHO CARES!?!? Focus on your own planet

Soon, our planet may be too polluted to live on. Where shall humankind thrive?

 

[JBCM627]

I think that NASA needs to stop wasting their dang money and DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!!!!!
There is no point in researching space and everything out in space. If there is any other life supporting planet, we already know that it is NOT in our solar system. It will take us years after years to get there. Centuries and centuries there is no freaken point. "Oh lets go jump on the moon and see if there are any rocks up their. Maybe there used to be life there..." WHO CARES!?!? Focus on your own planet

Soon, our planet may be too polluted to live on. Where shall humankind thrive?

Actually, believe it or not, they are. Some of their underlying motives include the long term survival of the human race as a whole. My brother in law to be just started working as an engineer at mission control in Houston, so I can speak from hearing about his new job... there were apparently quite a few orientation presentations that talked about how all of what they were doing is for the good of humanity. And actually considering what they are doing, their budget isn't very big at all...

 

[Dene]

Yes well, you see, the US are too busy spending their money on bombs

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mythbusters...

You mean the guys who showed us how to solve cubes BLD and with feet?

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=zePA3uIbB5I

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

I voted for "yes, i think so" because I think so, haha.

and i think your hoax material is the dumbest thing i've ever wasted my time watching

 

[Bounb]

I think that NASA needs to stop wasting their dang money and DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!!!!!
There is no point in researching space and everything out in space. If there is any other life supporting planet, we already know that it is NOT in our solar system. It will take us years after years to get there. Centuries and centuries there is no freaken point. "Oh lets go jump on the moon and see if there are any rocks up their. Maybe there used to be life there..." WHO CARES!?!? Focus on your own planet

What an utterly RIDICULOUS thing to say.
Do you know what the acronym NASA stands for?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Space is their domain. I don't know what you think about missions to the Moon or Mars or whatever but the idea is most certainly not to just "go jump on the moon and see if there are any rocks up their [sic]".

Important fundamental experiments are carried out on these missions which will greatly further our understanding of space. You must be extremely selfish and naive to criticise these projects in this way.