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5AMfrenchtoast
07/05/09

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He also don't take no shit off of no one. ESPECIALLY those moon hoax conspiracy idiots.

(That clip = awesome)
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Roklimber
07/05/09

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I am sooooo tired of all the crackpot theories about the moon landing being a hoax. The real truth is that there is no moon, because there is no spoon.
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TomSkylark
07/05/09

@Roklimber: In other words, "The moon is a lie?"
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Roklimber
07/05/09

@TomSkylark:

"In other words, "The moon is a lie?""

Of course it's a lie.

Do you have any concrete evidence that the moon is actually there? For all I know, it's just something painted on the sky, just like the stars. I can't believe how naive people are.

Oh, and before you ask, yes, I believe the earth is flat like a good old pancake.
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Grey_Area
07/05/09

@Roklimber: Bah, there are no such thing as "pancakes". It's all a lie cooked up by the WTO and the Gnomes of Ottawa to drive up the price of their foul "Maple Syrup" product, which is actually baby Harp Seal squeezings.

Don't buy into the lies, Sheeple! Do some research and decide for yourself!!

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!!!!
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Roklimber
07/05/09

@Grey_Area:

Hey, Grey, I don't know about where you live, but here in my house I've got some pretty concrete pancakes, so I dispute your theory that they don't exist.

As for teaching the controversy, I've been trying to have the "intelligent moon-painting" theory taught in schools, but without much success so far. Danes seem to be a very naive people, believing in all that "moon as a natural satellite" theory bs.
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Grey_Area
07/05/09

@Roklimber: Concrete pancakes? That sounds tough on the teeth.
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ZanipoloLebron
07/05/09

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So who was on the camera on the surface filming him come down the ladder?
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Purple Dave
07/05/09

@ZanipoloLebron:
When Armstrong came down the ladder, there was an external camera that they almost forgot to deploy. When Aldrin came down, they either used the same camera, or Armstrong was using a handheld.

@Dr Emilio Lizardo:
Yes, they do. Which is why the sewed a tube into the top edge of the flag and packed a flexible metal rod that they could pull through it after planting the flag. That was the easy part. The hard part was apparently getting the flagpole to stick in the regolith. It was expected that they'd be able to just jam it in there, but the surface is so dense and rocky with just a fine dusting of loose powder on top that they were only able to get it about 6" deep, and just kind of piled up a bunch of the loose dust around the base to help stabilize it.
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Plague
07/05/09

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He's a hero. Plain and simple.
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TomSkylark
07/05/09

@Plague: I don't entirely disagree, but would you care to elaborate on how? It sounds to me like he just thought of himself as a guy doing his job. And, while this sort of humility is especially hero-worthy, it also seems that his "heroism" was a bit random. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the moon landing wasn't a particularly great scientific achievement, at the end of the day, so much as it was a kind of "Wouldn't that be nifty for our species?" achievement--one pretty fraught with Cold War anxieties, to boot.

Sure, it took a lot of human ingenuity points to even accomplish the landing, but the bulk of that was done by NASA people, most of whom I'm guessing have never left the atmosphere. So, while Aldrin is an iconic figure in the history of science, and the idea itself is fairly romantic, I'm wondering if his qualification as a "hero" is really that clear cut. Were the people on the ground who put Aldrin up there heroes as well?
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Evdor
07/05/09

@TomSkylark: He was willing to step in a rickety little capsule with the computing power of a modern day speak and spell, be fired from the Earth with the metaphorical equivalent of a box of dynamite launching a walnut, hurdle through the upper atmosphere to land on the moon, where any number of hundreds of things go wrong.

Or, if that's not enough for you, consider this. If those 'NASA' guys, who did the majority of the work got it wrong: Say, the engineers didn't shield the craft enough, or if the calculations were off and they missed, they feel bad, they scrap it, they try it again later.

...The people in the capsule, meanwhile, hurdle into the void/become incinerated/suffocate/die from space radiation/anything else.

For my evidence heroics see: Astronauts who died due to NASA technical snafus.
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Plague
07/05/09

@Evdor: @roninpenguin:

thanks guys- exactly.

And if putting someone on the moon isn't a great scientific achievement, then what is?
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