Isn't it amazing that a human has walked on the moon?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was outside tonight around 2 am and I was staring at the moon and it dawned on me. It is still amzing that human beings were able to make it to the moon, get out, kick some dirt around, and make it back to earth. It seems that people have forgotten all about that amazing accomplishment.

It gets swept behind the gamecubes, fancy new movie graphics, and cool cell phones. Its just not as impressive to the youth today as their X-Box’s or Jackass TV shows on MTv.

Sometime go outside and just look at the moon and imagine yourself standing on it looking back at earth. How many times have humans walked on the moon? Why don’t we ever go back?

How awsome is that though?

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it wasn’t made of cheese
:frowning:

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Going to the mon is climbing Everest. Sure, it’s tempting because it’s there, but that doesn’t mean people are going to be building condos anytime soon.

I’m hoping they put that space station to good use and rig it as a refueling station for lunar trips (with an eye on permanent installations) instead of spending a few billion a year studying the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws. A radiotelescope array build on the far side of the moon would be mega-awesome.

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It was faked.

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shhh…

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:rolleyes:

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Not that I have anything against white American men, but isn’t it about time a woman walked on the moon? I’d be willing to volunteer, just to help even things out.

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Dude, have you ever been stoned? Have you Ever been stoned and outdoors?

Its all you can do NOT to stand staring at the moon for hours…

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I still remember wathing the landing on TV and running outside to look up as if I’d see anything. I’ve never lost that sense of awe.

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Its more amaizing when you put it in context…

Man has walked on the moon.

Yet the morons on earth still can’t read “Danger, low water do not cross while flooding”

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Check this link out. You can actually see the pixel generated by the lunar module left on the moon’s surface, as well as it’s shadow. Somebody provided this in another thread a day or two back. Don’t know who it was but thanks to them nevertheless.

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html

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To explain: Click on Apollo 17 and keep tunnelling down.

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I think The Onion put it best with their headline: Holy Fucking Shit: Man Walks on Fucking Moon.

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Or how about a non-Anglo, for all us “minorities” out here? I’ll vounteer. :slight_smile:

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It sure is amazing, but… what was really acheived by it? (besides beating back Russa in the ‘space race’)

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Eh. :o[sup]zzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/sup]

:d&r:

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I think the most amazing thing is that man made it to the moon a mere 66 years after the invention of a self-propelled flying machine. Isn’t humanity great?

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NASA will have my deepest awe when we have a personed mission to Mars. Could you imagine that? Could one even begin to imagine the incredible splendour if, for the first time in history, a human being actually stepped foot on another planet?

Another planet! My God!

Seriously, I could go on for hours, because just the thought of that fills me with an indescribable sense of awe.

P.S. If someone claims the moon-landing was fake, counter them with evidence. We’re here to eliminate ignorance, not mock the ignorant.

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Ooh! Let’s start with this:

Non-faked Moon Landing

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I was just wondering when they’re planning to cure the common cold!