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- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+221) Build another Earthly satellite
2) Fill said satellite with popcorn kernels
3) Point radiotelescope at satellite
4)??????
5) Profit! - JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It was a joke, you know.
But if miami is bad, you could consider moving. - JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20We'll all be dead by 2018.
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8all im saying is i want to see some aliens!
- Zique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That light rack video originated in 2002 from (now defunct) moontruth.com. After spreading the video for a couple of months they revealed it was a joke to show how conspiracy nuts fall for practically anything.
And indeed they do. - jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"down here in miami there is like NO WORK. the same 4 or 5 jobs recruiters keep calling over for about a month or two now."
Try getting a degree in engineering, the job growth is explosive right now. If you don't have a degree, you aren't making yourself more valuable than the cheap chinese labor so you are putting yourself at risk. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@jacnet, dgh1973
Wrong, we'll be dead by 2012 - that's the actual year the Mayan calendar ends with. - mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Why are conspiracy theorists so quick to question the authenticity of footage when it is produced by the government but never the authenticity of any other footage? There is no way that the video with the light rack falling is fake right? Not like the angle of the shot is different, the build of the astronaut, the way he moves, or even the quality (actual moonlanding footage is much worse).
But we can throw away all "evidence" either for or against the moonlandings and come to one definitive answer using logic alone:
If the sole purpose of landing on the moon was to "trick" the world into thinking we had done it before the Russians and to brainwash the masses of American civilians into having faith in their government, we only needed to do it once; no reason to go back. Yet back we went... a number of times to do alleged "experiments" on the moon. - itisme, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Not relevant but I just watched the diggnation annual type thing.
it begins with Kevin doing an advert for zune, I'm leaving now and I might not come back! - warriorscot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The van allen radiation belt isnt really a big factor most shuttle crews experience it and the path of the apollo missions only skirted it, Mr. Van Allen HIMSELF said the apollo missions exposure was to brief to cause much harm, in current space travel plans the van allen belt is only causing problems with the space elevator project not a moon mission.
Maybe its possible that first footage of the man landing could have been redone for alot of reasons, but youre saying ALL 6 times men landed on the moon were fake youre dumber than you sound(and not to forget the just as many times we orbited the moon as well), yeah we brought back all this random stuff that doesnt exist on earth from the Nevada desert. Also funny that you never see the astronauts face either maybe if you did it would look slightly less fake when the light rack falls.
The van allen belt also doesnt surround the whole planet only the equator and has alot of huge gaps in it we can also shift it up and down artificially if we really want too, its not and never has been an unsurmountable problem to space travel. - rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Here is the light rack falling video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfwkWlWiIM
That was great! - knupso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
- suntereo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BTW, you have to wonder why they didn't take a telescope to the moon during any of the Apollo missions (at least none that I'm aware of). You'd think somebody would of thought of that back then. One good reason might be because they never went! And it would be tough to produce some good fake photos or higher quality astrological images. Just food for thought.
- piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is awesome! It's by taking steps like this that we will gain the experience to eventually reach greater goals, like a manned mission to Mars.
- suntereo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to think that the moon conspiracy theorists were nuts. I spent quite a bit of time about a month ago looking into all of this. What sparked it all off for me was a series of photos I came across of all of the pictures taken on Apollo 15. As I looked at the photos I noticed that the background was the same in many of the photos. I then began to put the pictures together into panoramas. I then put all the panoramas in the order that they were taken.
I put these panoramas up on a website I wasn't really using:
www.ignited.tv
What I find really interesting:
- The mountains never change
- The position of the LM appears to change
- The shadows on the mountains are always the same regardless of the mission time
- The position of the sun is always the same regardless of mission time
- The pictures account for most of the photos yet Apollo 15 was the first mission with the lunar rover.
I haven't shown this website to more than a handful of people. What do you think about them? Do they raise any red flags? Or does everything look normal to you? - JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ 1021
But that is the year of the english olympics! As an english person, i atleast want to live to see that!
Edit: Wikipedia proves you wrong! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#2012 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why on the moon? isn't it safer to be somewhere in space?
ah, unless they do it for the experience of building something there. - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ jsdratm
yes because a degree is so quick to acquire!
why didnt *I* think of that?
if i can make money miraculously appear out of thin air to pay for the schooling then maybe i can afford a degree in an entirely new profession by next month!
and who knows
even if i got that damn degree you dont know if tomorrow theyll be issuing hordes of visas to import immigrant labor for whatever youre studying
i wouldnt want to be a student of CS entering the workforce now with wages equalling almost nothing. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks, rocket86...excellent.
Now if only I knew how to use that Firefox extension that is supposed to be able to download it... - flash200, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"A radiotelescope on the Moon would offer astronomers and physicists an unrivalled opportunity to see farther into the apartment windows of single women than ever before and in more detail."
(the real factor driving advancements in telescope technology ;) - HairyFotr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Was the "Jesus Christ" part answering your own question?
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Not with a radiotelescope you won't...
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yeah, back in with mom and dad.
OK yeah, low blow...
According to the Mayan's though, JacNet may be right. - Pericle, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1^^ OMFG rocke86
ROFL, who said we went to the moon? We never did!
That video puts an end to all my questions! We are all feed lies and we live in a world made of lies. If they faked the moon landing why not fake 9/11. Why not lie about everything!
Jesus Christ, how many other things in which we believe are fake? At least J.F.K speech was nice and real!
Stupid World! And they want to go to the moon "again"?! Who are they lying too? - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2I'm not sure about dead but we'll be in an economic depression sometime next year so chances are bleak for anything space related. its a nice idea for hope but at this point its pretty ridiculous. im considering moving back in with my parents which really really sucks when youre 28. down here in miami there is like NO WORK. the same 4 or 5 jobs recruiters keep calling over for about a month or two now. it also doesnt help people are coming down from the midwest taking the jobs trying to escape that economic hellhole in the wake of the auto layoffs.
- BattleBaconXXL, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0nice attempt at a south park reference chicken101. but the underpants gnomes grand plan is as follows:
1)collect underpants
2)???????????????
3)Profits! - scooterfinazzio, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1here, let me send you a picture of your mother
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1Maybe by the year 2018, they will work out the problem of getting humans safely through the radiation of the Van Allen Belt without frying them., so that they will ACTUALLY be able to send men to the moon. Or perhaps they will just keep improving their ability to fake such things for the media and the civilian public.
Anyhow, it will surely be illegal to question the authenticity of whatever they tell us.
There's a decent documentary on the subject, called 'A Funny thing happened on the way to the moon.'
I have another film that includes a brief video clip of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder onto what is supposed to be the 'moon'.
A large studio light-rack falls and nearly hits him. he begins to re-ascend the ladder, and comments about how they will have to do that shot again.
I think that clip appears in either "911The Greatest lie ever sold", or "Orwell rolls in his grave", both excellent movies - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0i farted
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