Two Hours And Thirty Minutes To Go
on 07/20/2009 at 12:40 PM
I am utterly disgusted at the number of nay-sayers who simply refuse to believe this happened.
I found a nice re-cap video at YouTube, put up a whole week ago. It had 5600 comments, most saying that the entire Apollo program was faked.
To make matters worse, some dunderhead at NASA erased the original videotape too. “Um, duh, it was just a data tape; we always re-use those.” MORON!!!
But hey, NASA sent a recon satellite to take pictures of the landing sites, all of which show a tiny shadow 1/64” tall that they say is the LEM base. Hey genius, how about just pointing the damn Hubble in the right direction? Illuminate the zones with IR lasers or something to get some good bright pics. Not that this will convince the denyers. You could send them there and they’d still say it was fake.
One for Frank J: now NASA actually wants to NUKE THE MOON!
You could send them there and they’d still say it was fake.
So, send them without suits.
Anyway. I remember the moon landing. Gathered around a (still) black & white TV in the summer of my 16th year, overwhelmed with emotion at what we were able to finally acheive.
As a lifetime Science-fiction fan, I think I was as excited as anyone on the lunar surface.
But now? I am saddened at our withdrawal from our near neighborhood.
It’s the cosmic equivalent of living in one room, and feeling that you’ve accomplished something because once, four decades ago you actually stood up, walked across the room and opened the door, then closed it and sat back down.
My main reason for never doubting was that no one could fool the whole nation, recently I have found myself proved incorrect, stil the russiand would not have been taken in, nor would the british Post Office telecoms who built the earth station in Cornwall to keep in contact with the mission (and I think in Australia)
Also with the onset of the global warming virus the conspiracy treory nutters have been too busy with the latest fad to shout too much about this. Maybe we should be careful about letting simpletons watch cetain films, or their grandparents listen to Mr Wells radio shows.Posted by Chris Edwards
07/20/2009 at 05:15 PM
I think we’d have bases on both the Moon and Mars, as well as fledgling L5 colonies, if the damn Demo☭rats hadn’t cut the budget after Apollo!
I watched the landing with my dad and my grand dad. Gramps could remember the Wright brothers and Kitty hawk. It was really something and the video looked just as shitty live as it does now. But what a moment...damn.
It was one of my earliest TV memories.. I was 3 years old, and my dad, who was in the Air Force at the time, made sure the whole family watched it. It’s one of those things that don’t escape your mind. We were there for all the other landings as well. I also got the thrill, when I was 6 or 7 of sitting in one of the command modules at Eglin Air Force Base. My dad called in a few favors, and we got to take turns in it. (this was the Apollo 17 module.) All I remember about it was that it was cramped as hell, and had an awesome amount of buttons and switches. One of those events I will never forget..
Bill
