One thing I wonder about is why astronauts get angry when it is suggested the landings were faked rather than just laughing their faces. Aldrin even punched a guy. What's with that?
Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969
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You just registered an account to complain about a message of unequivocal world peace from the first human to set foot on an extraplanetary body.
No, I did not. And he did so with misogynist language. Which made me twinge. I don't complain, I state my feelings. It just shows in what a weird time this was happening.
The word "men" also means humanity you idiot.
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#53So what's the HN consensus - were there landings to begin with or was it all staged? :)
The Stanley Kubrick connection is a fascinating theory. He did seem to go pretty bonkers after the moon landings.
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#55One thing I wonder about is why astronauts get angry when it is suggested the landings were faked rather than just laughing their faces. Aldrin even punched a guy. What's with that?
Because they worked for a decade+ to fulfill their dreams, and achieved them. Then they get harassed by kooks for even longer.
The idiot who got punched deserved it, I would have punched him too. There's video online. Apparently the cops agreed and dropped the case.
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It'd be a Russian TV crew filming an empty spot that was supposed to be that of an Apollo landing :)
Why aren't there any pictures of the landing zones from orbit? Interesting.
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#57We need to be reminded that once we did great things. I worked at MIT Instrumentation Lab on a compiler for the guidance software for the moon missions. My contribution was insignificant, but I am still proud to have been part of it. My only regret was that I never made it to Florida to watch a Saturn V take off.
Russell as in Steve Russell? Because, if so, I think you've done things much more significant than land men on the moon.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You just registered an account to complain about a message of unequivocal world peace from the first human to set foot on an extraplanetary body.
No, I did not. And he did so with misogynist language. Which made me twinge. I don't complain, I state my feelings. It just shows in what a weird time this was happening.
Uggh, I'm tired of people using that word so casually and where it doesn't apply.
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No, I did not. And he did so with misogynist language. Which made me twinge. I don't complain, I state my feelings. It just shows in what a weird time this was happening.
The word "men" also means humanity you idiot.
Yes, that is exactly the problem. Is that really so hard to understand?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be a Russian TV crew filming an empty spot that was supposed to be that of an Apollo landing :)
Why aren't there any pictures of the landing zones from orbit? Interesting.
There are some, but they are from NASA. A more interesting question is what happened to India's promise to release all its Lunar low-orbit reconnaissance mission data to the public. Or why there is virtually no data coming from Japanese mission of the same nature. Both with hidef ultrazoom cameras mind you.