Apollo45

Glaucus · 20 Jul 2014 at 15:55

Can't belive there's no thread on this yet. 45 years ago, human kind achieved one of it's greatest achievements. Walking on another planet.

As I'm not elegant with language, list to Carl Sagan

Apollo 11 gallery
http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of First Moon Landing
Remembering that moment 45 years ago when Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/celebrating-45th-anniversary-moon-landing-24635502

Such a shame we stalled, with lack of imagination, only in the last few years are we finally imagining again and driving down the cost of access to space.

If you want to see more, just search #apollo45 and celebrate the thousands of people who dreamed and made it reality.

Sliver · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:02

Glaucus said:
Can't belive there's no thread on this yet. 45 years ago, human kind achieved one of it's greatest achievements. Walking on the moon.

Fixed that bit for you.

I agree, it's quite possibly humankinds greatest achievement, certainly up there as one of them anyway. I hope I live long enough to see a person walk on the surface of Mars.

SlyReaper · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:18

You're a day early. The lander module touched down on the 20th. Armstrong stepped out on the 21st.

arknor · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:19

Never happened

Xordium · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:20

arknor said:
Never happened

Well someone was going to my money was on Gillywibble.

Ayahuasca · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:20

arknor said:
Never happened

Cosimo · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:27

Glaucus said:
[Can't belive there's no thread on this yet. 45 years ago, human kind achieved one of it's greatest achievements. Walking on another planet.

Someone's not been looking and lots of videos are here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26616496#post26616496

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26617994#post26617994

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26624270#post26624270

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26633019#post26633019

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26634584#post26634584

"HOUSTON, TRANQUILITY BASE HERE.
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED."

Moredhel · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:28

So they spent the money, built the rockets, launched them, then... what? The astronauts stuck around in orbit then came back?

Then somehow the US government faked signals going out to the moon and back, and faked debris on a landing site on the surface, including mirrors that are still used today for laser rangefinding... All under the eyes of the USSR who would have used the tiniest excuse to cry fake. And got away with it for 45 years without any of the many thousands who would have to be involved in it ever speaking out?

Yeah, right, it didn't happen. Of course.

ikillbears · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:28

Xordium said:
Well someone was going to my money was on Gillywibble.

i was expecting groen ( or how ever you spell it ) to make an appearance. is he still knocking around ?

Spook187 · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:29

arknor said:
Never happened

How did you come to that conclusion.

Glaucus · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:30

Everyone's happy today aren't they. And some idiots already coming out the wood work.

Cosimo · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:30

Spook187 said:
How did you come to that conclusion.

He wasn't around to see it. There's always one....

SlyReaper · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:31

I much prefer the conspiracy theory that the Russians did go to the moon and didn't tell anyone.

Spook187 · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:32

Cosimo said:
He wasn't around to see it.

Xordium · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:32

SlyReaper said:
I much prefer the conspiracy theory that the Russians did go to the moon and didn't tell anyone.

They did they went to the spaceship on the other side to get the allspark or something like that. I saw it on the tele so it must be true.

arknor · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:34

Spook187 said:
How did you come to that conclusion.

Shadows are all wrong
We never got to the moon with the power of a 90s calculator
Radiation would kill them
Moon is clearly not on a tilt.
We never went back and every mission since is like we never went in the first place

Spook187 · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:38

arknor said:
Shadows are all wrong
We never got to the moon with the power of a 90s calculator
Radiation would kill them
Moon is clearly not on a tilt.
We never went back and every mission since is like we never went in the first place

How do you account for the Apollo missions bringing back moon rocks to study.

Sliver · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:39

arknor said:
Shadows are all wrong
We never got to the moon with the power of a 90s calculator
Radiation would kill them
Moon is clearly not on a tilt.
We never went back and every mission since is like we never went in the first place

It's so depressing that people hold these views in the light of the evidence we have to contrary. So depressing. Our species is doomed unless we cleanse these people from the gene pool.

arknor · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:42

Spook187 said:
How do you account for the Apollo missions bringing back moon rocks to study.

rocks that were ejected naturally from the lunar surface by cratering events and subsequently fell to Earth as lunar meteorites

SlyReaper · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:43

arknor said:
Shadows are all wrong
We never got to the moon with the power of a 90s calculator
Radiation would kill them
Moon is clearly not on a tilt.
We never went back and every mission since is like we never went in the first place

The shadows are fine. Turns out they look angled and crooked when they fall on a surface full of craters.

A 90s calculator is more than sufficient to calculate a trajectory to the moon. Orbital mechanics is simpler than you think.

Radiation would have been well within what a human can tolerate, because they would have spent only a very short amount of time in the van allen belts.

Not sure what you mean by the moon not being on a tilt?

Moonshots are expensive. The US funded it for the prestige of having done it. There hasn't been so much of a pressing need since then.