Forty years ago today, man first walked upon the moon—or did he??
What is your take on the 40-years-ago-today moon walk?
Photo courtesy of NASA, or so they claim.
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This is one “conspiracy theory” that needs to be put to bed.
“One small step for [sic] man, one giant step [sic] for mankind.”
pathetic.
@2, what do you expect from a fly jockey? Depth of thought?
What’s the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and Michael Jackson…
Fucked little boys!
Also, can’t we give the Michael Jackson crap a rest at this point? Why does his sad, disgusting circus of a “life” have to contaminate the remembrance of our one significant achievement as a species?
Conspiracy debunked:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxap…
@ 3, I think 2 is criticizing Schmader’s misquote. But I might be wrong.
Isn’t it possible to see the landers and shit on the moon using a powerful enough telescope?
Wouldn’t that be enough to silence the doubting thomases?
We have been bouncing lasers off of an instrument they left on the moon for decades
The landing site has been photographed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31966131/ns/…
Enough already.
Recent photos taken by the NASA lunar orbiter show some landing sites.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast…
I can’t find the “not enough anal” option. This isn’t a real Slog poll, is it?
More recent analysis shows that Armstrong, as he himself says he intended, actually spoke the words “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/arc…
Seriously, these guys make the 9/11 Truthers look respectable by comparison.
@8. No. The lander is only like 30 feet across. You would need a telescope with mirror of like a few hundred feet to resolve that at the distance of the moon. Even Hubble can only see things like 150ish feet on the moon.
However we did just spot them with the lunar reconnaissance orbiter
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31966131/ns/…
Speaking of conspiracies, how many Light Rail users were there today?
(a) 50,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 5000
(d) 10
Hint. (d) is not a misprint.
Are you trying to make a funny, Yu Skoot, about how nobody’s ever going to ride the light rail for real? Because if you are, you forgot to put in the funny.
The Myth Busters have done a special to take on the conspiracy theory crowd. I am not sure if it has aired yet.
#8, #14 there is also a reflector that can bounce back a laser, I think MythBusters did it.
I said that in 9, wonkman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser…
Shit I feel old. I remember watching this when it actually happened, on an old B&W TV when I was a kid. They had it set up in the classroom in elementary school. All us little kids were glued to it like you wouldn’t believe. At the time it was the coolest thing imaginable. I remember it vividly.
Why does the American flag blow in the wind there on the moon’s surface which has no winds?
@21: Because it has a pole stuck up its ass. Like you do.
I heard that Buzz Aldrin (or was it Armstrong?) once punched a guy in the face for calling him a liar. Not sure if it’s true, but one can always hope…
@21 – If you’re seriously curious, you can find the answer online pretty easily. Short answer – it didn’t “blow in the wind”. Please don’t turn out to be a conspiracy nut and reply to this.
@23 – It was Buzz, and it’s on Youtube. The punchee was the nutjob filmmaker that’s been humping this conspiracy theory the better part of 20 years.
@23: Gee, really? Gosh, you’d think if that were true, somebody would’ve posted a link to it on Slog by now. (Like maybe on Friday.y
OK, I give up.
How about “I can’t believe we’re not on Mars yet”?
@26 asshole. Just give @23 the link. Think everyone has time to read every goddamn comment on slog every day? Asshole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8…
@21:
I don’t know if your serious or not, but like others said, there is a horizontal rod extending out from the flagpole.
Go rent For All Mankind. You can see the total lack of wind as the astronauts actually pull on the edge of the flag to stretch it out along the rod so it looks nice.
I’m sorry, I must have the wrong poll.
Where’s the option for “A great chance for Vonda Rhimes to make a sexy TV show about gtg astronauts doing it in space.”?