I’m prretty sure the Flat Earth Society is completely tongue-in-cheek by now.
I’m a founder member of a new organisation, BTW: the Flatten The Earth Society. We accept that the Earth is round, but think it would be better* if it were flat - and are therefore dedicated to the exploration of methods to flatten it.
*(Consider the advantages for map projection, for example)
I see what you did there. Very clever.
Er, what was that? His field of study was rendezvous in orbit, a necessity for the Apollo program.
I forgot that’s what he studied at MIT. When I read Thalion’s post, I thought maybe it was making reference to Ralph Kramden’s constant threat of punching Alice: “Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!”
Ah, that would be Trans Lunar Injection. 
There was a fair amount of faking going on Alexi Leonov’s firts “space walk” was true-but the film clip that the Russians released looks phoney.
More recently, the Chinese “Shenzen” spacewalk film looks like it was shot in a water tank.
New rule:
Anytime someone moons you, you must shout, “That’s no moon–it’s a space station!” And then attempt to dock with it. If you know what I mean.
Not unless they have a tractor beam. I’d have to shut down.
Kilmore said:
I dispute that. I acknowledge that the Russians are accomplished in space and have viable tech, but I dispute the characterization of “better”. I dispute that they were actually better than the US even during Sputnik or the beginning of the Cold War.
scamartistry said:
Ironcross was not offering touching the moon rock as any sort of proof, merely a point of interest of his own history. Get over yourself.
carnivorousplant said:
The point of separation was very early in both objects’ history, so there have been a lot of rock formation processes at work since then. The chemistry of the rocks from the moon show formation without the presence of water, which rocks form Earth all uniformly show. The moon rocks show micrometeroid impacts, which Earth rocks don’t have. But as Shot From Guns mentions, just because they are actual Moon rocks doesn’t mean we had to of gotten them by hand.
“I know we went to the moon. I have touched a moon rock at both the Cape and the Air and Space museum.”
So you see no reason to think that Sentence #2 is related to Sentence #1? You think he just decided to share some random fact in case anyone was curious? It could have just as easily been “I once attended a taping of The Tonight Show”?
I parse that sentence as
“I know we went to the moon. I have even touched a moon rock.”
Not
“I know we went to the moon because I have touched a moon rock.”
Obviously we’re both guessing at what Ironcross meant. I will stick with mine unless he says otherwise.
I know we went to the moon. Sometimes I fart.
Just because everyone else calls it an “unearthly stench” doesn’t mean it came from the moon.
For the last time, stop gossiping with my boyfriend about me.
I never said or implied it was a complete non-sequitur. Just that it wasn’t being offered as proof we’ve been to the moon, rather as a related comment.
I know we went to the moon. I’m going to skip breakfast this morning, so I’m planning to take an earlier lunch than normal.
Someone’s boots left tracks that have been imaged from low orbit.
[But it must be somewhat satisfying for the astronauts to hear that what they did was impossible].
Anyone planning to reply please note that this thread is a bit over 2 years old.
(And welcome to the Dope, bethpage89)
I wonder if anyone suggested to the hoaxers that they should collect enough money for a moon mission to check. They can control the instrumentation that they want, to make sure no one is fooling them. They could leave enough space for some real science too.