Moon Landing 40th Anniversary - 20/7/2009

[mighty_tiger_79]

well there is a group of people who believe the earth is still flat, they are on the net somewhere out there, probably the same people who think Man didnt go to the moon

[mick]

I sat in the school assembly hall with about 250 other students, watching it all on a black and white 25 inch television, I remenber the images were terrible. About six of my mates slipped out while it was on for a smoke, got caught and suspended

[heater31]

It was a great achievement and a huge risk (which almost came unstuck with Apollo 13). I remember arguing with somebody about whether it happened and they were a firm non-believer who didn't realise they went up there 6 times! Why fake it 6 times and risk 6 x the number of people knowing the big secret?

Yep and another point is the Soviets never disputed that it was real, despite the high stakes.
They would've been first, but were more cautious in their approach.

They even have their own conspiracy theories. Most of them have been disproved though.


I was a long way off. But from what I have read. The weather conditions in Australia were not that favourable at all. At Parkes the radio telescope almost collapsed during 100km/h wind gusts and the conditions in SA were not that much better either.

For those that did watch it the TV viewers in Australia got to see history 0.3 seconds before everyone else in the world. The ABC took a direct feed from Parkes before it was sent back to space to a satellite then back down to the US

[rod_rooster]

well there is a group of people who believe the earth is still flat, they are on the net somewhere out there, probably the same people who think Man didnt go to the moon

Makes for some entertaining reading. These people are dead set serious. Clearly a few sandwiches short of a picnic

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

[Cambridge Clarrie]

well there is a group of people who believe the earth is still flat, they are on the net somewhere out there, probably the same people who think Man didnt go to the moon

Makes for some entertaining reading. These people are dead set serious. Clearly a few sandwiches short of a picnic

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

I believe Southee's a member...

[CK]

It was a great achievement and a huge risk (which almost came unstuck with Apollo 13). I remember arguing with somebody about whether it happened and they were a firm non-believer who didn't realise they went up there 6 times! Why fake it 6 times and risk 6 x the number of people knowing the big secret?

Yep and another point is the Soviets never disputed that it was real, despite the high stakes.
They would've been first, but were more cautious in their approach.

They even have their own conspiracy theories. Most of them have been disproved though.


I was a long way off. But from what I have read. The weather conditions in Australia were not that favourable at all. At Parkes the radio telescope almost collapsed during 100km/h wind gusts and the conditions in SA were not that much better either.

For those that did watch it the TV viewers in Australia got to see history 0.3 seconds before everyone else in the world. The ABC took a direct feed from Parkes before it was sent back to space to a satellite then back down to the US

Inspiration for an enormously underrated classic Aussie movie, "The Dish".

Fans of Ten's "Rules Of Engagement" may recognise a very familiar face in this, although a bit less world weary than the character he portrays on that show.

[southee]

well there is a group of people who believe the earth is still flat, they are on the net somewhere out there, probably the same people who think Man didnt go to the moon

Makes for some entertaining reading. These people are dead set serious. Clearly a few sandwiches short of a picnic

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

I believe Southee's a member...

Sure are....just call me Agent Fox Mulder

[Pseudo]

Here's Buzz Aldrin punching one of these clowns in the face:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaUqaVj51w4&feature=related

[mighty_tiger_79]

what about the ufo that was witnessed by the crew on the way up??????

[MagicKiwi]

We had to stay at school in the Shaky Isles and listen to it on the radio. Couldn't watch it on the telly until we got home and yes, the old black and white was very fuzzy.

Kindof like my eyesight now...

[Adelaide Hawk]

Southee, I know you're a non-believer. Give us the reasons why you think it never happened...

Why would you even be interested in the opinion of someone who wasn't involved in the space program in 1969 and seriously wouldn't have a clue?

I just laugh at the sceptics, none of them have one ounce of proof that it never took place, and yet they are prepared to believe their own crap.

Imagine being one of the three astronauts who achieved something truly magnificent and then have to put up with a lifetime of idiots calling them cowards and liars.

If I was Buzz Aldrin, I would have done more than just punch that wanker in the face.

I recall watching the whole thing on TV at home as my parents allowed me to stay home from school and watch it. Later that evening when the moon could be sighted, I went outside and stood looking up at it and thinking there were two men on that planet. It was just an awesome thought.

[prowling panther]

I'd turned 21 a couple of months before the event, so I was part of the new age, hippy, make love movement, but somehow I had forgotten about the not war part of it or was never involved in that side if the arguement, you see when man made his famous walk on the moon I was walking around the jungles of Sth Vietnam, looking for blokes wearing black pyjamas, trying to put air vents in him before he did the same to me, contrary to what you hear and heard, radios were not a big thing of the Australians when we worked, and on that very day we were busy trying to get the Nth Vietnamese to leave a bunker stronghold that we thought they should vacate and go dig anotherone somewhere else, now they wern't that keen on the idea, so the stubborn buggers made us take it from them with quite a bit of force, it wasnt until we finished that operation and were back in Nui Dat about 3 weeks later, upon going to the outdoor pictures one night, a newsreel showed all about the launch the flight and the landing, funny, that event seemed that long ago that night, that it really didnt rate at the time, maybe we had other issues on our minds.

[Pseudo]

http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonhoax.html

[dedja]

Some bloody good space docos on Fox at the moment ... some of the vision from 40 years ago is amazing.

[Hondo]

Yes, the history channel has been great this week

I love all that sort of stuff. I find the moon landing and the whole space programme of that era fascinating

[Interceptor]

Some bloody good space docos on Fox at the moment ... some of the vision from 40 years ago is amazing.

Don't know if they've included the "When we Left Earth" series, but that is well worth a watch.
It has an awesome intro sequence (as well as great footage all the way through).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvVWwg2oXWU

When I get around it to it I'll be ordering it on blu-ray.