Of COURSE we didn’y go to the Moon! That’s absurd! Do you have any idea what the technical problems to be overcome in going to the Moon are?
We went to Mercury. With all the craters and low gravity it look JUST LIKE the Moon.
Sir Rhosis, it wasn’t you.
I guess maybe the whole Bugs Bunny / Pong / Julius Fern thing wasn’t that far-fetched after all, given todays TV reporting standards. I know it’s not nice to troll, but darnit, I just can’t help myself when these massive conspiracy theories pop up.
Isosleepy, thank god you’re kidding. I love to push the “pong” theory on all moon hoax proponents. I troll their boards and supply them with silly arguements such as, “Are you going to tell me we went to the moon years before Pong was invented? We couldn’t land on the moon with programs less advanced than Pong!”
I’ve waited patiently for some hoaxer proponent to lay the Pong argument out.
One of my all time fave hoaxer arguments I’ve seen while surfing their boards was, “Why does the flag need a wire? Everyone knows that in space you don’t need to hold something up, it just stays up.”
When someone explained the fact that the moons has about 1/6th the gravity of Earth, but that it DOES have gravity, they accused him of being a trouble maker and asked him to leave the boards.
OK, Isosleepy, you got me. Did you make up that name, or is there really some con-man out there with a book written under that name? Oh, and sorry for misspelling your name before, by the way. I was wondering what “LSO” stood for…
By the way, Philster,
[Moderator watch ON]Just a reminder: We do not advocate trolling of any message board, no matter how ludicrous it may be. If you want to go to such boards and (attempt to) debate with the regulars there, so be it, but please don’t actively troll. We wouldn’t like it if they came over and trolled us, so we don’t go troll them.
What, you mean the flying bedstead was refurbished? Cool. The HBO series did an excellent job with spacecraft and simulator interiors in this series. I just saw the Apollo 11 show this morning, they did a good job on the training crash. Mixed footage of “Armstrong” in the cockpit, footage of the real accident, and what looked like a 50% scale model blowing up in a fireball of gasoline. Ah, those special effects guys love nothing more than blowing up a couple hundred gallons of gasoline. But the original NASA film is the coolest.
Chronos,
Sorry, no such book. I was having some fun with Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon”.
Would be fun to write that book, though, if only to see how many people would quote a book with absolutely no verifyable references.
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I troll their boards and supply them with silly arguements such as, “Are you going to tell me we went to the moon years before Pong was invented? We couldn’t land on the moon with programs less advanced than Pong!”
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Not to nitpick too much, Philster (but if I don’t, someone else surely would), but I’ve seen in several sources how Pong was invented in the late 1950s. I believe one place was in the American Heritage Magazine of Science and Invention. Someone at one of the high-tech companies (GE?) built a set-up that let two people plat ping-pong with “light paddles” and a glowing dot on an oscilloscope tube. They had a demonstration version set up for visitors to play. It sure as heck looks like the version of “Pong” that I first saw circa 1977 – but it was there about twenty years earlier, and a full decade before Apollo 11. There HAS to be a website mentioning this somewhere.