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Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time. Once where only three men made the trip, now millions can. Live event begins 9:32 AM EDT July 16, 2009. Exactly 40 years after Apollo 11 lifted off.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
But wait - doesn't the "fact" that you can do it here without leaving Earth "prove" that men never landed on the Moon?

(Just kidding - trying to pre-empt PN's usual line of BS)

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Sadly, there's quite a bit of lag between the two audio streams.


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"Spry for a dead fella!"

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
(Just kidding - trying to pre-empt PN's usual line of BS)

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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
I was a boy when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I was sitting there watching the TV with my family when Armstrong took his famous step. It's something that I will never forget.

It is astounding to me that nearly 40 years have passed since that day.

And it is sad to me that younger people... even folks in their late 30s and early 40s... just can't know what that experience was like, when we watched humans walk on another world.

Worse, when it became a fad that America got tired of and shut down.

To me, it was like a magic time.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

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But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

CNN has an article on the subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Originally posted by Haken:
But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

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Originally posted by ZaphodB:
Finally, some images of the Apollo landing sites - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites
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Industrial Looniee & Madness - http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch

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Originally posted by Odessa762:
OUTSTANDING!

Take THAT, PR!!

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Originally posted by ZaphodB:
Finally, some images of the Apollo landing sites - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites
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Originally posted by ZaphodB:
Finally, some images of the Apollo landing sites - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites
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Industrial Looniee & Madness - http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch

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"Not one dime of income taxes goes to support any federal program."
-President Ronald Reagan, right before George Bushes' CIA cousin John Hinkley Jr shot him (now released from loonybin by George W Bush)

"So I can hear what you're saying: 'But you guys replicated the moon shot on a set, and you're special effects artists. You're exactly the kind of guys that NASA would've hired to do this kind of thing in the first place!'"
-Adam Savage, Youtube 3:35. No rocket flame on LEM "blastoff" at 0:01. HA! Mythbusters BUSTED

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Originally posted by piratenews:
The ONLY thing I hear on this "real time" Apollo 11 tape website is STATIC.

Several Lunar orbiter flights failed to photo any evidence of Apollo, even with sufficient resolution. Photochop dont count:


Apollo 11 MIA
www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/ls_11h.html

Suddenly TODAY, NASA claims FOR THE FIRST TIME to have photos of Apollo LEMs at Apollo landing sites on LOWERCASE "moon"...

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Originally posted by Peulsar5:

The astronauts would be asleep at this hour.

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Originally posted by piratenews:



Apollo 11 astronots refuse to swear on a Bible they walked on the Moon, even when you pay them:
www.moonmovie.com







And we have to pay them to see the evidence. Don't you love this country?

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Originally posted by piratenews:
twaddle

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Apollo 11 astronots refuse to swear on a Bible they walked on the Moon, even when you pay them:
www.moonmovie.com

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And we have to pay them to see the evidence. Don't you love this country?

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40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

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But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

CNN has an article on the subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

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But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.

CNN has an article on the subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Kubrick's 2001 shows Moon rockets with no interior sound and no rocket exhaust, just like Apollo. Some say he directed the Apollo programming.

CNN still can't bring itself to admit the "Federal" Reserve Bank Corporation is a private bank that's never been audited since its illegal creation in 1917, that counterfeits all "US dollars" and exports all IRS income taxes to foreign bankers.

But CNN has hot disinfobabes. Who needs a brain when you have plastic boobies?






"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. We're too many people; that's why we have global warming. Everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or two children. Communist China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States, and Russia wants to be our friends, too. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid. A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
-Ted Turner, owner of CNN News, who paid himself a $3-billion paycheck in one day and flies a private jet from his 25,000 acre cattle ranch

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They would talk their frakkin ears off bragging about all the boring details of their flight. I've interviewed World War 2 combat vets shot down over Nazi Germany.

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40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.

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I've been glued to NASA-TV every minute that a Space Shuttle mission is in progress, especially during ISS construction!

People complain about "all that money we waste" on the Space Program, and I just have to ask "All what money? NASA gets $17 billion versus the Military's $500 billion!"
I think spaceflight is somewhat more constructive than war.
Actually, it's the coolest thing humans do!

I don't understand why only going to the Moon or Mars counts as a "real" space program.
Anywhere humans can't go outside without their blood boiling is Real Space, as far as I'm concerned.
And I'd rather visit LEO than the Moon, anyway!
On the ISS, you can hold a 600-pound piece of equipment effortlessly with your fingertips...

On the Moon, that'll still weigh 100 pounds! I've got a bad back, so I have trouble lifting even 50 pounds.
When you go EVA on the ISS, you stay nice & shiny clean — on the Moon, not so much...

NASA's Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924191552.htm

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Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Do you know of a website where you can listen to old mission audio from Apollo, Mercury or Gemini? I'm noe talking about snippets; I mean from the beginning of the mission to the end.

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Stoll said he and other NASA employees in Houston, Texas, are in the process of digitizing NASA’s entire audio collection, most of which is on old-fashioned tape. The older tapes, like the ones from Apollo missons, are in great conditon and are kept under strict environmental controls, he said. But newer tapes, like those from the 1980s, tend to gum up reel players. He has to heat those tapes to 130 degrees with a small oven before he can play them.

All of that work will soon culminate in a public Web site where people can listen to NASA audio from many other U.S. space missions.

That site should go up in two months or so, he said.

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Do you know of a website where you can listen to old mission audio from Apollo, Mercury or Gemini? I'm noe talking about snippets; I mean from the beginning of the mission to the end.

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Stoll said he and other NASA employees in Houston, Texas, are in the process of digitizing NASA’s entire audio collection, most of which is on old-fashioned tape. The older tapes, like the ones from Apollo missons, are in great conditon and are kept under strict environmental controls, he said. But newer tapes, like those from the 1980s, tend to gum up reel players. He has to heat those tapes to 130 degrees with a small oven before he can play them.

All of that work will soon culminate in a public Web site where people can listen to NASA audio from many other U.S. space missions.

That site should go up in two months or so, he said.

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Meanwhile, as we'll soon be progressing toward man's first step on the lunar surface, we have an interesting phenomena here in the mission control center, Houston. Something we've never seen before. Our visual of the lunar module, our visual display now standing still. Our velocity digitals for Tranquility Base now reading zero. Reverting, if we could, to the terminology of an earlier form of transportion, the railroad: What we're witnessing now, is man's very first trip into space with a station stop along the route.

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No, it doesn't. Just because they might be able to do it now doesn't mean they could (or did) forty years ago.
It was a great accomplishment, one that hasn't been replicated because it was also a very expensive accomplishment. If people were willing to dump the same kind of money on space travel that gets dumped into wars, odds are a man would have walked on Mars by now. But, it seems, people just aren't that smart, and more people are interested in conflict than exploration, and that's a shame. But there was a moment when that exploration captured everyone's attention, imagination, and heart. That shouldn't be devalued.

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