Topic: The Apollo moon landings thread

[Alphaville]

Most definitely... To know that you're looking at something photographed by humans a quarter of a million miles from home... to look up at that amazing object hanging in the sky and realise men actually went there... you'd have to be made of stone not to be touched by the immensity of it.

Double geek.

I've always been much more impressed by looking inwards rather than outwards.  Space travel always leaves me a little bit cold, I'm more of a molecular kind of man. Biochemistry over physics.  It might be in part a generational thing: I didn't live through the moon landings and I was too young to understand the Cold War when I was growing up.

[SP]

I've held a piece of moon rock.

Space was my first science obsession.

[MichaelA]

I've held a piece of moon rock.

Space was my first science obsession.

Pics or it didn't happen.

What's your latest?

[Party Phil]

Pics or it didn't happen.

What's your latest?

ladyboys

[SP]

Pics or it didn't happen.

What's your latest?

It was a school trip - minibus outing to the arse end of East London with an obese and rather pungent Physics teacher. It was a Nasa sponsored educational exhibition about the geology of the moon, including slides of cross sections of moon rock brought back by one of the Apollo missions - so you could do the geological microscope thing with polaroid filters. So I held a slide containing a sliver of moon rock. It was not quite a photo op, so there is not photographic evidence - but the tale is mundane enough to be credible.

Latest is speech recognition. I am playing with CMU Sphinx. 

[kesey]

Most definitely... To know that you're looking at something photographed by humans a quarter of a million miles from home... to look up at that amazing object hanging in the sky and realise men actually went there... you'd have to be made of stone not to be touched by the immensity of it.

Just kidding.

But if I had the power to doctor your custom title oh what fun I'd have.

[finchie]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-apollo-hoax-theories-1730408.html
This was in today's Independent.

[SP]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-apollo-hoax-theories-1730408.html
This was in today's Independent.

Nice rebuttal of the fanaticists' claims.

[finchie]

I would like to hope you don't buy into that stuff, but your signature suggests otherwise

For the Moon landings the science adds up and makes sense.

[PROPER crazyemlyn72]

i met al worden from apollo 15 last april. he was a really nice guy and signed his mission patch for me. to be honest, its a bit
humbling to have met an astronaut who went to the moon.

although he didnt walk on the moon, his mission was regarded as the most successful, in as much as data gathered.

[finchie]

That's impressive. Just read up on him. He was in the Guinness Book of Records as the most isolated person ever-2,235 miles from anyone other human!

[PROPER crazyemlyn72]

That's impressive. Just read up on him. He was in the Guinness Book of Records as the most isolated person ever-2,235 miles from anyone other human!

yea and another thing, i count 21 people that went to the moon, maybe 24, i'm forgetting about

the the 1st flight around the moon. only 24 people and some of them are now deceased. in a few

years they will all be gone and we may never go to the moon again. think about it.

it beggars belief.

[Art Vandelay]

New photos released....

[Rusty Oysterburger]

This thread has reminded me there was a book a couple of years ago that interviewed all the men who have been to the moon, it's supposed to be fantastic. Racking my brain trying to remember what it was called.

Anyone?

[Gobias Industries]

This thread has reminded me there was a book a couple of years ago that interviewed all the men who have been to the moon, it's supposed to be fantastic. Racking my brain trying to remember what it was called.

Anyone?

I dunno about the book, but there's a documentary called In The Shadow of The Moon on topdocumentaryfilms that's about the same thing.

[Art Vandelay]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Moon-Voyages-Astronauts-Collection/dp/0141041838/ref=pd_sim_d_h__6

This one?

[Rusty Oysterburger]

I dunno about the book, but there's a documentary called In The Shadow of The Moon on topdocumentaryfilms that's about the same thing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Moon-Voyages-Astronauts-Collection/dp/0141041838/ref=pd_sim_d_h__6

This one?

Cheers, but I've just been doing a bit of searching and this is the one I meant...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moondust-Search-Men-Fell-Earth/dp/product-description/0747563683/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books

I've been meaning to read it for ages

[Daniel Cabbaggio]

gonna Email this latest stuff to a mate of mine who is a beliver in shite theories i wont bore you all with, intelligent guy as well. sigh.

Gotta see a moon rock and read that book before i die heard of it before, or maybe another one quite like it around the 40th anniversery.

Its just a shame anniverseries and new photos like this are the only reason its talked about, its like Bill Hicks said when do you ever hear about a good news story? One of the greatest acheivements by mankind to date and on top of that cool as fuck and strangley we haven't built on it really if we're honest

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

gonna Email this latest stuff to a mate of mine who is a beliver in shite theories i wont bore you all with, intelligent guy as well. sigh.

Gotta see a moon rock and read that book before i die heard of it before, or maybe another one quite like it around the 40th anniversery.

Its just a shame anniverseries and new photos like this are the only reason its talked about, its like Bill Hicks said when do you ever hear about a good news story? One of the greatest acheivements by mankind to date and on top of that cool as fuck and strangley we haven't built on it really if we're honest

You may want to send him this PDF as well mate.
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/32452/1/94-0193.pdf

[Mashy-rawr!nooo]

Awesome stuff. Apollo 18 film looks pretty good.

As for the conspiracy people, let them believe what they want to believe. No need to call them shite,c*nts,morons etc. Sure,they maybe somewhat delluded but its there opinion after all. I'm not a believer in fake moon landings but if someone wants to believe they are faked then fine.


Hope we can explore space more.

[Alan_X]

Awesome stuff. Apollo 18 film looks pretty good.

As for the conspiracy people, let them believe what they want to believe. No need to call them shite,c*nts,morons etc. Sure,they maybe somewhat delluded but its there opinion after all. I'm not a believer in fake moon landings but if someone wants to believe they are faked then fine.

That kind of stupidity is infectious. People gullible enough to believe it tend to believe in garbage like homeopathy and anti-vaccination. And that shit kills people.

[Mashy-rawr!nooo]

That kind of stupidity is infectious. People gullible enough to believe it tend to believe in garbage like homeopathy and anti-vaccination. And that shit kills people.

Yes,and its disrespectful to people who are affected in disasters that they use for conspiracies. But just ignore them Alan. Who cares? No need to get worked up.

[Bangin Them In]

I loved the moon landings as it gave us all an opportunity to say we never went and lambast those that say we did

Fantastic

[Bangin Them In]

I dunno about the book, but there's a documentary called In The Shadow of The Moon on topdocumentaryfilms that's about the same thing.

Agree with this, simply a stunning doc this.

[PhilV]

I love everything about space and travelling there, I do hope we sort out our home planet before we go venturing out, a united world reaching for the stars would be a much better prospect instead of a single nation going at it.

Having said that, Apollo landing on the moon is something that has always amazed me, like the first page posters pointed out, going to the moon with the computing power nowadays equivelent to an iPhone or such, the technology feats of the landers and the rockets that put them out there... simply amazing that some eggheads came up with all this, such ingenuity.

These kinds of things are what make me proud, even though I am in no way connected to any of it, but just proud that there are members of humanity with such dreams and ambitions and whatnot instead of the Chelsea I see on the Jeremy Kyle show, NASA and it's equivelents are AWESOME.

[Corkboy]

In Ireland, when you're twelve, you have to do a Confirmation, a Catholic rite sort of thing. Back in the day, you actually got a whack across the face off the Bishop (quiet at the back) but by the time I got there, it was just a bit of a pray and money from aunts. Anyway, you had to choose a third name for yourself, your Confirmation name and I wanted Yuri, after my hero Gagarin. But they told me there was no Saint Yuri and it had to be the name of a saint. Fuckers.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

In Ireland, when you're twelve, you have to do a Confirmation, a Catholic rite sort of thing. Back in the day, you actually got a whack across the face off the Bishop (quiet at the back) but by the time I got there, it was just a bit of a pray and money from aunts. Anyway, you had to choose a third name for yourself, your Confirmation name and I wanted Yuri, after my hero Gagarin. But they told me there was no Saint Yuri and it had to be the name of a saint. Fuckers.

They were talking shit.  Yuri is a Russian form of George.  St George's Day is Yuri's Day in Russia. 

[Corkboy]

They were talking shit.  Yuri is a Russian form of George.  St George's Day is Yuri's Day in Russia. 

I know, I just went off and looked it up when I remembered it. Wrong church.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Schism schmism

[Corkboy]

Schism schmism

If they'd just gone along with my choice, maybe.....nah!

[Matt8Pie]

Everything we do on Earth has pretty much been done before. If we go travelling for new ventures or to experience something new, if it goes balls up, someone has been there before in a similar experience to advise you, and if you mess something new up, someone is always there to help you.

Imagine being on the moon, the first people ever, and it's new to everyone. What kind of pressure is that? And I don't mean atmospheric for all you comedians. There were no guidelines to follow, no tried and tested method if they needed help or support, and they're quarter of a million miles away from a helping hand.

I'd love to go to space.

[El Rey, por favor]

Everything we do on Earth has pretty much been done before.

Sorry but that is bullshit.

[Matt8Pie]

Sorry but that is bullshit.

The average human doesn't really do much in terms of new ventures that have never been discovered before and certainly aren't the first at doing something the majority of the time. If you wanna go travelling, someone's been there before, if you wanna do something risky like sky dive or bungee jump, someone has done it before. There are a special few who will break boundaries but barring that, most of what the average person does is the tried and tested. Maybe I worded it wrong, but that's what I was getting at.

[PhilV]

Everything we do on Earth has pretty much been done before.

Disagree.

Isn't there some fact about the % of the Earth that humanity has actually explored, due to technology constraints (or more likely, funding restraints and lack of interest from governments and corporations) we have explored all of the world oceans and things like that, there is still a lot to learn about the planet and ourselves.

I just find all this kind of stuff amazing really, you know like how we said above, we sent a man to the moon with the computer power of an iPhone at Mission Control, in 40 years they may say the same, how they can't believe we built a space station with the computing power or the technology that they will then have on their phones.

Things will keep changing and we will keep learning more and more, things we know now about space and what things are made out of will completely change one day when some genius somewhere will come up with a new way of looking at things, or I dunno, maybe that Higgins-Boson particle they are talking about it will change things.

As you can tell I am not a very academic person but science and the way we change how we look at things through learning always amazes me

[Beav]

I dunno about the book, but there's a documentary called In The Shadow of The Moon on topdocumentaryfilms that's about the same thing.

Saw that a while back, fascinating hearing them all talk about their experiences.

Still amazes me every night that you can look into the sky and see this big white object, that must have mystified people thousands of years ago, and there have been people, no different from myself, that have stood there, looking back at the Earth. Just makes me proud, proud of the people who dedicated their whole lives to making that possible, proud of the guys that had the stones to sit in a tin can on top of a few million gallons of highly explosive fuel and be shot towards it, proud of their instinctive curiosity to go out there and discover it. I would give up everything i owned, everything i will ever own to have that experience.

[Finn Solomon]

In Ireland, when you're twelve, you have to do a Confirmation, a Catholic rite sort of thing. Back in the day, you actually got a whack across the face off the Bishop (quiet at the back) but by the time I got there, it was just a bit of a pray and money from aunts. Anyway, you had to choose a third name for yourself, your Confirmation name and I wanted Yuri, after my hero Gagarin. But they told me there was no Saint Yuri and it had to be the name of a saint. Fuckers.

Who did you eventually pick?

[Corkboy]

Who did you eventually pick?

My dad's name. Have never, ever used it. Nothing personal, he's a top dad and all but it just never came up. Who the fuck needs three first names anyway?

[lurganboy]

BBC has stuff on the moon landings this week. Neil Armstrong documentary starting at 9pm.

[Stevie-A]

Thanks for the heads up about the doc, looks good. Another shout out for the book Moondust. A simply awesome piece of writing.

[Twelfth Man]

BBC has stuff on the moon landings this week. Neil Armstrong documentary starting at 9pm.

Just watched it on iPlayer, brilliant, can never get enough of this. Was nice to see Neil's early career in the Navy and then later as a test pilot.