Exactlly. We say "Cite, please?’
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Lack of brains… must be a zombie.
My favorite is how the microchip was discovered in 1948. If my grandfather had just gone out in that field a day earlier, he might have discovered it!
So you have thoroughly researched this subject?
I would imagine that the intended use of cyanide pills would have been in case of capture by the Soviets.
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I love this image!
“Hah, bow before Zoid puny earthlings!”
punch, smash, wham
“Aggghhh, run away, run away!”
btw on a semi-related note I do recall a story about the Soviets testing a ground-based laser on the first US shuttle mission. Not powerful enough to cause any damage but definitely not a friendly gesture and a strange thing to do.
Just a reminder that this 6 year old thread was bumped today with some, well, interesting thoughts on the space program.
Since this thread was originally published, I’ve come across other examples of weapons being carried aboard pioneering spacecraft in science fiction. Most notably, it’s in Heinlein’s first juvenile, Rocket Ship Galileo. Of course, if they hadn’t had those rifles aboard the Galileo, the novel wouldn’t have worked, but you can see Heinlein straining to rationalize them, especially as weight was definitely a concern. his hero, Dr. Cargraves, rationalizes carrying a couple of Garand rifles with the justification that, like the Russian cosmonauts mentioned above i the thread, their ship might return to Earth in some wilderness area. It’s noteworthy that the film that was loosely based on the novel, Destination Moon, doesn’t feature guns on the ship at all.
There were plenty of other guns aboard spaceships, besides those in Galileo, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and It1 The Terror from Beyond Space. I’m surprised how common they were, especially considering how catastrophic an accidental discharge aboard a space ship would be. I suspect most writers and filmmakers didn’t care and/or saw the dramatic potential and/or liked drawing the analogy to the Western Frontier. Heck, it’s all just “Wagon Train to the Stars”, right?
i found a page describing the weapons used (no zombie weapons or phasers) click here
Proof positive that we are losing the fight.
Maybe they carried guns that fired bullets of pure stupid?
We certainly have plenty of that stockpiled here on Earth.
The whole thing may seem absurd, but remember that the astronauts were put in isolation after recovery in case they had picked up any moon germs. If they had carried any antibiotics on board, those could be considered weapons to be used against alien life forms. As for more conventional weapons like guns, I doubt it. It would have been obvious that moon men would have more highly developed technology than ours, and our puny human guns would have been useless against them. Unless they were really good shots. Then they could have shot the alien death beam devices out of the aliens hands. Actually, that might not be very hard. Aliens usually have very long fingers, and large hands.
Until the recent formation of a new political party, I don’t think we had the technology to purify stupidity, despite its abundance.
So we’ve learned from threads started or revived recently that we can’t shoot down an alien fleet that arrives on Earth and we can’t shoot aliens who we meet on the moon. Well, what’s the point of going into space at all if not to find aliens and kill them? We’ve got to start a new space race. We’ll start with the most important objective, destroying every alien civilization. We’ll have to invent weapons capable of shooting down and blowing up every sort of alien and alien ship we can think of. Then we’ll start a crash program for interstellar travel. We’ll travel to every other solar system we can reach, meet the aliens there, and kill them.
So if I understand you correctly, you’re saying they didn’t actually go to the moon, but when they did, they took a crossbow?
The camera that you’re referring to was mounted on the lunar module. It didn’t need to pan to see Armstrong’s first step, because they knew ahead of time where he’d be: at the base of the ladder. So the camera was attached pointing that way.
Time-travelling bullets, at that.
Does Alan Shepard’s 6 iron count?
IIRC they did carry a medical kit with 3 ‘injectable’ medications one a pain killer, I think another was some sort of adrenaline rush, which could be used to boost human strength - sort of a human weapon, and a 3rd that I’m not sure of anymore.
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