Moon Landing...40 Years Later

[egami]

Maybe the video is a hoax?

That'd be irony!

It's flipped for whatever reason...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU&NR=1]YouTube - Buzz Aldrin punch[/ame]

[richey24]

I thought maybe he just went southpaw on him to catch him off guard.

[CycoCyclone]

You do know the moon missions were proof to Russia and the rest of the world that we could put a missle anywhere we wanted, right? Aside from scientific values.

[bos]

You do know the moon missions were proof to Russia and the rest of the world that we could put a missle anywhere we wanted, right? Aside from scientific values.

I was under the impression that we didnt have any left after superman threw them into the sun?

[Ms3r4ISU]

Couple of random things:
2. It took many hours later until they actually exited the capsule and took a walk. Probably to catch the prime time crowd. But I remember it as getting past my bed time - like around 9:30 pm.

I was freaking 10 years old.

I was 10, also. Our parents got us out of bed to watch. I tried to look out the window at the moon, but trees in our neighborhood that summer were in the way. Plus, I thought I might miss something on TV. Nobody knew how long it would be on.

[Ms3r4ISU]

I was freaking 10 years old, at a wedding in Irwin Iowa, clear skys, drove home 14 miles watching the moon because it was visible that night, got home, and watched the rest on tv. Freaking awesome.

Not fair, you could drive at night at age 10.

[BigBake]

To disprove the hoax couldn't they just point the Hubble telescope at the landing location and see if the car, flag and remaining base module is still there?
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[isucyfan]

To disprove the hoax couldn't they just point the Hubble telescope at the landing location and see if the car, flag and remaining base module is still there?
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Not sure that the Hubble can be used in that way, but astronomers use the laser reflectors astronauts placed on the moon all the time these days. That's pretty good proof, IMO.

[jbhtexas]

Amazing what you can do when you don't have to piddle around with an OS.

Or an interrupt-driven I/O system. Many of the small programmable logic controllers I work with still use processors roughly equivalent to 80286/80386 processor (some even use lesser processors). It's amazing what computing and control power these processors have when they aren't saddled by excessive overhead.

[d4nim4l]

To disprove the hoax couldn't they just point the Hubble telescope at the landing location and see if the car, flag and remaining base module is still there?
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Hubble is not designed to photograph objects that close to it and cannot render the resolution necessary to display the artifacts left behind on the Moon.

A few years ago Hubble was positioned to take photographs of the Moon to scout for future landing sites and one of the first things mentioned was how it could not get finer detail of an object that close.

The best bet to get pictures of the objects left on the Moon is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will start its primary mission of mapping the Moon in August.

[TykeClone]

Or an interrupt-driven I/O system. Many of the small programmable logic controllers I work with still use processors roughly equivalent to 80286/80386 processor (some even use lesser processors). It's amazing what computing and control power these processors have when they aren't saddled by excessive overhead.

Or users.

[Cyrocks]

3. I don't see how the US benefited from putting men on the moon. Sorry, but I'm all for space exploration and advancement of technology, but the cost of putting men on the moon goes up exponentially vs just doing un-manned missions and I just don't see the return for humanity.

What did the US get out of it? Do you care if the Chinese land someone on the moon in the next 10 years? Big Deal.

Well according to Jerry Seinfeld, Americans went to the moon ..."just to see if there any women there. That's why we brought that little car. Why would you bring a car unless there was some chance of a date."

And he also said landing on the moon was a big mistake because we now measure everything by that accomplishment: "We can put a man on the moon but I can't get a good cup of coffee anywhere."

[jumbopackage]

I really want to see this, but haven't had a chance to sit down and watch it. I LOVE James May.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDrj2dPrTY]YouTube - James May On The Moon Preview - BBC Two[/ame]