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- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -5/+53The greatest achievement of mankind.
- str3ama, on 07/21/2008, -5/+33yes it was. Sure beats spending a couple billion dollars in a war, or hundreds of millions of dollars on corporate handouts and tax exemptions.
- hypnotoad32, on 07/21/2008, -3/+31http://members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html
At 4:17 p.m. EST yesterday, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. touched down on the Sea of Tranquility in the lunar module Eagle and radioed back to Earth the historic report: "Jesus ***** Christ, Houston. We're on the ***** moon." - ansecos, on 07/21/2008, -9/+34In before the Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy theorists. /sigh
- DelayedEraser, on 07/20/2008, -1/+26I don't think we need to worry too much about leaving a little bit of junk on the moon. I'm more worried about all the junk we leave orbiting our planet.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -3/+2340 years ago when Presidents thought about technological advancements...
- Shadic, on 07/21/2008, -3/+20And to all of the nay-sayers about the Moon-Landing, Buzz disagrees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU - danharlow, on 07/21/2008, -1/+18It boggles my mind that one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of human civilization is met with such cynicism and sarcasm today.
- DreadPirate, on 07/21/2008, -1/+15[Citation needed]
- nonks, on 07/21/2008, -9/+23In Soviet Russia moon lands on you!!
- domains, on 07/21/2008, -2/+15It's also the night when actress Marilu Henner lost her virginity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu_Henner - hollywoodphony, on 07/21/2008, -12/+25That was yesterday. Quit living in the past.
- felman87, on 07/21/2008, -2/+14cheeseburger in a can?
- simplenation, on 07/21/2008, -1/+11i'm surprised there is no custom Google logo for this event
- str3ama, on 07/21/2008, -3/+12sliced bread?
- SquigglyP, on 07/21/2008, -4/+13no, he's completely right. It was an utter waste of money. Who needs all of this modern technology and all of this convenience. I say we should go back to the 60's, when things were huge and bulky, overheated and weighed a ton. And to hell with computers and *****. Who needs them?
- bdbr, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8I was 10 when it happened. Everyone in the country (and probably much of the developed world) was huddled around their TVs, watching that momentous landing and first step. Man had only breached the atmosphere a couple dozen times, and here was one walking on the moon. It was a shining moment in an otherwise turbulent time.
- MacParrot, on 07/21/2008, -1/+8Yes you can, but think about this: Why do most medical and technological advances occur during war times? Because during a war, the military is a deep dark hole you can throw piles of money at. Many of the advances in science, communications, medicine, and technology in general are the result of unintended or unseen applications in govt funded military projects.
- JoaoPe, on 07/21/2008, -1/+7Yes it id!
- SquigglyP, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Technology is driven through goals, and always has been. You don't invent something just for the hell of inventing it, you innovate and invent to fill a specific need. The goal was "get to the moon" and without that goal technology would not have improved nearly as much in the same time span. And it's not just NASA-related stuff that gets a boost, here... there were a variety of companies doing R&D, manufacturing, testing, etc. The economy got a nice boost from all of the new business, more jobs became available, more money started flowing. A project like this generally does a lot more than just get some people to the moon, get a telescope into space, get a probe to Saturn, etc. There's a ton of positive effects.
- Hakib0, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6Please, I would LOVE to see this camera crew you are talking about.
Buzz Aldrin holding the camera != camera crew.
You moon-hoax advocates are worse than the 9/11 conspiracy theorists... bravely ignoring 90% of the evidence to believe in the 10% of doubts that existed before the actual moon landing, then pretending that you actually know anything about photography and/or the moon, and then expecting us to think that NASA scientists weren't smarter than you.
FAIL. - erad222, on 07/21/2008, -2/+8LOL no.
- erad222, on 07/21/2008, -3/+8QFT.
- DelayedEraser, on 07/20/2008, -8/+13Nothing up there but dry rocks and those revolting onion men!
- Kajico, on 07/21/2008, -1/+6but there ain't no whales
- zadadka, on 07/21/2008, -3/+8"Why some say the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
And they may well ask......
...we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
-JFK - MacParrot, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5Why haven't we gone back? No real point in it would be my guess. The moon is just a small airless ball with little to offer beyond a low gravity launch point for possible future missions beyond it. To support a permanent settlement (which I suppose will be a future mission) would take resources beyond what has already been spent and then some. We will get there again.
The original post was about the first moon landing. We went back 5 times afterwords. If you had meant since the Apollo program, you should have said so. - hmunkey, on 07/21/2008, -2/+7Yellowcakewalk, do you place that low a value on the advancement of humanity as a whole?
We have had many ages of history (bronze, iron, etc), and the newest historical ages are becoming technology centered.
The Space Age is coming. - DreadPirate, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5SquigglyP - All of which Yellowcakewalk and his ilk are entirely too blind to see.
- MacParrot, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4It makes me proud to know I'm the first to digg you down for being a truther for this post.
- MacParrot, on 07/21/2008, -2/+6Yep never went back...
Well, except for Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17
That counts as never gone back right? - vault, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Is there anything you don't complain about, urinalcake? If you're so pissed at everything this country does, why don't you just leave and move to ***** Sweden? Enough already.
- AmusedToDeath, on 07/21/2008, -1/+5All science aside - what you're suggesting would involve a conspiracy of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. Don't you think just ONE of those people would have recanted on a death bed or something by now if was all just a hoax?
There are plenty of perfectly logical reasons for not going back, not the least of which are that it's incredibly expensive and dangerous to go with no real benefit. Once you been and can say that you did it, what's the reason for going back? - hmunkey, on 07/21/2008, -1/+5To land on the moon we needed everything you mentioned, and more. Landing on the moon was essentially a compilation of everything we had learned, working together.
- kingygk, on 07/21/2008, -1/+6Thanks to the Apollo program we have a pc that we can afford and fit on our desks!
- analogkid01, on 07/21/2008, -1/+4@Tanktunker - I think *you* need to watch 2001 again. Kubrick was saying that mankind uses tools, and that the use of tools has pros and cons (survival and death). Kubrick was saying that landing on the moon is really no different than using a femur bone to aid in hunting. It's all about survival, in the end.
- strictnein, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3He said "one of". What is the huge list of achievements that occured outside of "West civilization" that would push this off the list of "greatest accomplishments"?
- strictnein, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3Fake!
- seraph582, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3I'm so glad you elected to display your view of this situation with broken grammar and no demonstration of working knowledge of the concepts of capitalization, punctuation, or subject-verb-agreement. I think it accurately portrays you and your ilk - those who believe the moon landing was a hoax.
Keep up the good work, sir! - MacParrot, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3Most research is via govt. contracted corporations. True research is not cheap and very few corporations have the money to throw at a project with sometimes no hope for return
- farfromsubtl, on 07/21/2008, -2/+4Uhm... what is Mars? Chopped liver?
- fakekevinrose, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3When you feel like you're surrounded by stupid people, then it's always good to reflect on human achievements.
- Frost9999, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3All the scientific answers exist if you just google for them.
- hmunkey, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2It would be a terrible thing to have littered the moon, if it wasn't just a rock. There is no life on the moon. There is no atmosphere. Nothing to lose sleep over.
Meanwhile we litter our planet like crazy. - SquigglyP, on 07/21/2008, -3/+5"dragging their heals"
heh. - Virgule, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3what happened to Apollo 13?
(im kidding.. don't hurt me too much) - inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3Oh Spousal Abuse.
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