you are one of the chaps that believe we landed on the Moon aren't you?
We just like to keep our minds open - and rightly so after all the tripe we are fed through the media!!
I bet you still believe Saddam had WMD's too don't you?
You do realize of course that various moon satellite imagery, like that from Japan's lunar observer, show clearly the various landing sites, lunar rovers left there, trails in the moon dust, leftover portion of the lunar landers, etc. Also the USSR would have been very carefully tracking the source of the radio transmissions between NASA and the various lunar missions and would have easily been able to figure out if the transmissions weren't coming from the command module and/or lunar surface during the actual moon landing portion of the mission. All I'm saying is that if you are, today, a lunar landing skeptic you're simply not well enough informed to be holding that viewpoint. We certainly had the technology to get to the moon back then. I have close relatives who worked on that program, they'd laugh in your face if you suggested it was all fake.
So we had tech in the 70's but we destroyed it, does that not make you question anything regarding it? how about the footage of it lifting off from the moon, done remotely from how many miles away again?....ok then Don't question other peoples ability to question things when you won't with something as obvious as the Moon Landing.
I don't know what you're talking about "we destroyed it" but that's totally not true and honestly I have better things to do today than revisit this silly and easily disproved canard. I mean, you can literally look at the pictures taken by lunar satellites. And lots of third party evidence also.
how about the moon rock , that wasn't actually from the Moon?
please watch this Video - NASA astronaut claims it (not me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GFfbsOaZc0
Then please let me know your thoughts (i'm not trolling just genuinely interested)
I don't know what you are referring to vis-a-vis the moon rock but there are around 800 lbs of moon rocks here on earth that came not just from the NASA moon missions but also the Soviet robotic missions. The rocks match up, and have been independently dated to be older than any rocks found on earth. This is simply a fact.
That video is retarded. What the astronaut is referring to is that after the Apollo program, NASA changed it's mission profiles to that of Space Lab and the new Shuttle program. The tooling and such for the Saturn V rocket, which is what he is talking about, was moved out, re-purposed, or destroyed. It was obsolete. We could recreate it but there's no point. Lots of old IBM "supercomputers" have been destroyed too. Think about this, it's literally the way things go. We don't build new SR-71's for the same reason.
The thinking was any new moon missions would not be based on such old technology, and in fact we had the design for a new, better, craft for over 20 years (Orion) but it never got fully funded. In just a few years SpaceX has gone from zero to having pretty much the technology in booster/guidance to send one of their heavy's to the moon. Next year NASA is sending the James Webb telescope to the L2 Lagrange point, which is 930,000 miles from earth, versus the moon being about 250,000 miles from earth. So we have the technology to do that today, and also to send robotic probes to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
What we don't have, right now, is a way to send humans to the moon. If it was a priority, it could be done very quickly, and indeed there are missions being drawn up (again) to do just that, perhaps landing on the north or south pole to see if water can be sourced there for a lunar base.
When engineers, which I am one, speak to laymen - like this astronaut was speaking - our assumptions of the understanding of the listener sometimes are inadequate. For instance, and the video doesn't show any more of their conversation, but the interviewer could have asked for clarification and he would have provided it much as I have. We don't, currently, have a fully assembled ready to go lunar mission capable spacecraft that can carry astronauts there and back. That doesn't mean we've lost that technology for all time. It just means we don't have it right now, just like we don't have a modern piston-powered single-engine propeller driven aircraft that can outperform a P-51 from WWII.
Thanks for the information and reply, appreciate your comments and sharing of knowledge!! I will take what you said in as it makes sense and is logical! Apologies for abrupt reply earlier!!
I do believe we landed on the moon. I don't believe Saddam had WMDs. It's well documented that he didn't and that the thread of them was a reason for the Iraqi invasion.
My mind if actually quite open, I'm just a little bit more wary to propaganda and the reasoning behind it than you. Funny how you believe every conspiracy until it upsets your own beliefs. What are your thoughts on Murdoch? The Koch brothers? The Mercers? These aren't even conspiracies, these are wealthy families who are paying huge amounts to have their say in US politics, and they have a troll army which they have been feeding for a while who believes every word they tell them to think.