40 years ago today man walked on the Moon.

YAY!

7/20/2009 7:44:35 AM

7/20/2009 7:45:45 AM

I think the more important thing to remember is that 24 years ago, I was born.

7/20/2009 7:46:30 AM

My grandmother is all excited. She got an invitation to a Gala at the air and space museum with the Apollo 11 astronauts tonight

7/20/2009 7:51:40 AM

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/5587496/


how they lost the original video, I don't know....

7/20/2009 7:56:53 AM

DA MOON RULZ #1

7/20/2009 8:04:19 AM

ibtmoonlandingwasahoaxers

7/20/2009 8:05:35 AM

7/20/2009 8:43:23 AM

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"how they lost the original video, I don't know...."

a friend sent that to me last week, and how they lost it is just idiotic. recording over tapes? didn't think to keep the most important one of all? just silly.

7/20/2009 8:51:02 AM

^^^

videotape in those days was recorded on these:



Thats a 4 head, 2" wide VTR otherwise known as a "quad" machine.
Not only are the reels big, but after time the oxide would flake off of the tape.
By the time VHS came out for home use the bonding process for the oxide was much improved.
They may have been dumped forr that reason. Just wouldn't play back any more.

7/20/2009 8:51:36 AM

no way...?????? thats great

WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!

7/20/2009 8:53:09 AM

now think about how crazy it will be with today's technology when we go back to the moon in 10 years.

7/20/2009 8:54:57 AM

never forget

7/20/2009 8:55:10 AM

^^^^they said they were either misplaced or erased ... i don't think it was due to the age of the films

7/20/2009 9:07:15 AM

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"no way...?????? thats great WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!"

7/20/2009 10:04:01 AM

People today really have no appreciation for this accomplishment. It's pretty sad honestly.

Shit goes to the moon and people are like, "Yeah, whatever." Or there are people who claim it didn't happen. Those people tend to be so uninformed it's ridiculous. I'd like to take them all to a powerful observatory to take a look at the lunar landing sites, complete with leftover vehicles and other bullshit son.

7/20/2009 10:12:13 AM

so we've even littered space, great.

7/20/2009 10:15:53 AM

i'm sure the astronauts cut their six pack rings before they threw them out

7/20/2009 10:17:29 AM

^^To an incredible degree actually. It's getting to where debris strikes are one of the biggest hazards in relatively close orbit. Fortunately for us, littering on the moon wont matter at all in the meantime. There are no organisms or habitats to destroy there and there most liklely never will be unless we put them there.

^ Exactly. THINK OF TEH ALNS PPL. TEH ALNS.

7/20/2009 10:17:52 AM

The mythbuster moon hoax show was the best one in a looong time.



[Edited on July 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM. Reason : cg]

7/20/2009 10:20:05 AM

what blows my mind is we got to the moon 66 years after the Wright brothers did their thing.

66 years.

that just seems like an incredibly short amount of time between first flight and moon landing.

7/20/2009 12:19:32 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=537599

7/20/2009 12:22:00 PM

What's cool is the record store down the street plays music outside and right now it's talking about man in space for the first time, sadly I don't know any more specifics.

7/20/2009 12:28:00 PM

HEY NORM

IF THE MOON WERE MADE OF BBQ SPARE RIBS, WOULD YOU EAT IT THEN?

7/20/2009 12:29:47 PM

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"We choose to go to the moon. 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, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. "

JFK was a damn good orator

7/20/2009 12:32:20 PM

I saw that speech during that damn commercial Discovery likes to play OVER AND OVER again for that watch.

ugh

7/20/2009 12:36:03 PM

...and these things and the other stuff.

7/20/2009 12:36:21 PM

No such thing as the moon.

7/20/2009 12:37:40 PM

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"Instead of being able to jump at least ten feet high in "one sixth" gravity, the highest jump was about nineteen inches."

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"The fabric space suits had a large zipper. There should have been fast leakage of air since even a pinhole deflates a tire in short order. The astronauts in these "pressurized" suits were easily able to bend their fingers, wrists, elbows, and knees at 5.2 p.s.i. and yet a boxer's 4 p.s.i. speed bag is virtually unbendable. The guys would have looked like balloon men if the suits had actually been pressurized. During the Apollo 14 flag setup ceremony, the flag would not stop fluttering even though there is no air on the moon."

7/20/2009 12:41:07 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haAhdtDmsOw

7/20/2009 12:45:09 PM

7/20/2009 12:45:42 PM

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"that just seems like an incredibly short amount of time between first flight and moon landing."

Rockets have been around for just as long and really, the only technologies from aircraft that I see being used in those rockets are things like pressurization and instrumentation/computers. Hell, the Nazi's figured a lot of shit out for us with their V2 rockets. Then we just had to make a way to put a sustainable living environment onboard, which wasn't that big of a leap from the environment needed to cradle a nice, beautiful nuclear warhead. Adapt the ICBM to fire human payloads and now you've got spaceflight son.


I do see what you're saying though, it only took like 66 years from the time man made the first powered journey skyward to get to the moon. It's just that when I think about it, the rocket doesn't have a wing or anything really, in the atmosphere the only things really keeping it on course are the canard type surfaces (Stabilizers) and the ability for thrust to be vectored around by placing the engines on gimbals (At least from my understanding). Then once outside of the atmosphere you're forced to use jets of pressurized gas to change positions, although this is capability I belive the X-15 (A "winged aircraft") actually used at extreme altitudes as well. I'm not sure that it was first used on a "winged aircraft" or a rocket though. It also seems like the first liquid fuel rocket was launched before the Wright Brother's first flight (Although obviously the rocket was not manned).

7/20/2009 12:54:51 PM

follow the mission at

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

7/20/2009 12:59:16 PM

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"It also seems like the first liquid fuel rocket was launched before the Wright Brother's first flight (Although obviously the rocket was not manned)."

Close, but not entirely correct. Goddard invented and flew the first liquid fuel rocket in 1926. There were plenty of solid propellant rockets waaaay back through the 13th century though (Ancient China obviously used a lot for weapons and stuff).

7/20/2009 1:36:00 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5318479/robots-to-draw-ads-on-the-moons-surface

7/20/2009 2:10:52 PM

^That's ridiculous. If any company ever did try to advertise on the moon like that, I would immediately boycott them. This is immediately what I thought of though:

7/20/2009 2:31:35 PM

7/20/2009 2:33:18 PM

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"If any company ever did try to advertise on the moon like that, I would immediately boycott bomb them"

7/20/2009 2:33:39 PM

i don't understand, willy. the company has the money and nobody owns the land up there.

7/20/2009 2:34:27 PM

see ya later, forever!

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7/20/2009 3:48:51 PM

haha winner

7/20/2009 3:49:50 PM