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We put a man on the moon?

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    #122
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    By the way the Russians are heading to the moon.... Hoping to have a man there by 2030.

    Are they getting a bus?

    That would be 60 years after the americans first done it??
    There wasn't never no man on the god damn moon!!


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    #123
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    rgmmg wrote: »
    I was wondering why folk called you a space cadet alright ;)

    i use a stargate i have in my living room but shhhhh don't tell the yanks.


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    #124
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Are they getting a bus?

    That would be 60 years after the americans first done it??
    There wasn't never no man on the god damn moon!!

    These things take a lot of planning. There are reputations to uphold (and in the Russians case make better).

    In any case, I can't recall hearing that they are actually planning this but if they are, it won't be a get there and plant a flag mission. It will definitely have development in mind.


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    #125
    AngryBollix
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    ForeverYoung90 wrote: »
    It may be the drink talking but how the fook did we manage to put a mere ordinary man on the moon.The technology and physics etc is just mindblowing to me.
    Just makes you feel good to be honest and believe you can do and achieve anything and nothing is impossible.


    It's all like flying in the sky and sh1t


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    #126
    Statistician
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Statistician


    ForeverYoung90 wrote: »
    It may be the drink talking but how the fook did we manage to put a mere ordinary man on the moon.The technology and physics etc is just mindblowing to me.
    Just makes you feel good to be honest and believe you can do and achieve anything and nothing is impossible.

    The revenue/irish government will soon quash those dreams of yours!

    Now back to work. Bondholders need paying.


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    #127
    wdwoods
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    44leto wrote: »
    Ohh right I think I may have been at the USA amazon.

    There are two editions of 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. As its author, I'm bound to recommend the newer edition. It's more expensive but it is 25% thicker and is much more the book I originally intended. W. David Woods


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    #128
    shizz
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    wdwoods wrote: »
    There are two editions of 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. As its author, I'm bound to recommend the newer edition. It's more expensive but it is 25% thicker and is much more the book I originally intended. W. David Woods

    Haha I dunno what to make of this?


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    #129
    summerskin
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    shizz wrote: »
    wdwoods wrote: »
    There are two editions of 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. As its author, I'm bound to recommend the newer edition. It's more expensive but it is 25% thicker and is much more the book I originally intended. W. David Woods

    Haha I dunno what to make of this?

    Perhaps a large paper rocket?


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    #130
    squod
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    wdwoods wrote: »
    There are two editions of 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. As its author, I'm bound to recommend the newer edition. It's more expensive but it is 25% thicker and is much more the book I originally intended. W. David Woods

    Andrex is cheaper.


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    #131
    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/musk_mars_colonization/
    SpaceX boss Elon Musk has said that later this year or in early 2013 he will announce a plan to offer flights to Mars and back for half a million dollars, hopefully within the next decade.


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    #132
    squod
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/musk_mars_colonization/

    Goes on to explain the need for water to act as a barrier. Not aluminium. 'Cause that would fry people like.


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    #133
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Water acts as a better barrier to radiation what more can you take out of it?


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    #134
    Capt'n Midnight
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    shizz wrote: »
    Water acts as a better barrier to radiation what more can you take out of it?
    to some types of radiation


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    #135
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    to some types of radiation

    Yeah I know, Just wondering why squod was using sarcasm.


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    #136
    GavRedKing
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    Its an old article but still.

    : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324192/Hundred-Year-Starship-Mars-mission-leave-astronauts-planet-forever.html

    One way mission to Mars anyone?


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    #137
    JohnMarston
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    Going to mars? To what point and purpose?

    Isn't that money better spent on fixing stuff on this planet.

    Yes it would be impressive but seems pointless to me


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    #138
    Canis Lupus
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    JohnMarston wrote: »
    Going to mars? To what point and purpose?

    Isn't that money better spent on fixing stuff on this planet.

    Yes it would be impressive but seems pointless to me

    We'll have to move out of earth eventually. If someone said I don't see the point in moving on from donkey and cart where would we be. This planet is fooked anyways... might as well find somewhere else to screw up as well.


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    #139
    Capt'n Midnight
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    JohnMarston wrote: »
    Going to mars? To what point and purpose?

    Isn't that money better spent on fixing stuff on this planet.

    Yes it would be impressive but seems pointless to me
    From Yes Minister (The National Education Service First airtime BBC: 21 January 1988)

    Jim Hacker: "Math has become politicized: If it costs 5 billion pounds a year to maintain Britain's nuclear defences and 75 pounds a year to feed a starving African child, how many African children can be saved from starvation if the Ministry of Defence abandoned nuclear weapons?"
    Sir Humphrey: "That's easy: none. They'd spend it all on conventional weapons."

    The point is that that money would never be spent fixing stuff on this planet, it would go to Homeland Security or the NSA or


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    #140
    RichieC
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    JohnMarston wrote: »
    Going to mars? To what point and purpose?

    Isn't that money better spent on fixing stuff on this planet.

    Yes it would be impressive but seems pointless to me

    "what's the point in getting down out of this tree, it's perfectly fine up here" :rolleyes:


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    #141
    Duggy747
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc


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    #142
    Phill Ewinn
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    Is it true the spacesuits worn by Buzz are still on display in some meseum?


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    #143
    sunflower27
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    squod wrote: »
    Ray Mears could have got there by himself

    Alf from Home & Away???? :D


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    #144
    120_Minutes
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Are they getting a bus?

    That would be 60 years after the americans first done it??
    There wasn't never no man on the god damn moon!!

    Actually 12 men walked on the moon. deal with it.
    shizz wrote: »
    These things take a lot of planning. There are reputations to uphold (and in the Russians case make better).

    In any case, I can't recall hearing that they are actually planning this but if they are, it won't be a get there and plant a flag mission. It will definitely have development in mind.

    here's the linky.


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    #145
    Jarren
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    Nazis got there first

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2cS8wvQHI


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    #146
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Jarren wrote: »
    Nazis got there first

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2cS8wvQHI

    So much wrong.....


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    #147
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    ForeverYoung90 wrote: »
    It may be the drink talking but how the fook did we manage to put a mere ordinary man on the moon.The technology and physics etc is just mindblowing to me.
    Just makes you feel good to be honest and believe you can do and achieve anything and nothing is impossible.

    The physics was pretty basic.
    The engineering was amazing.


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    #148
    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    chin_grin wrote: »
    And why hasn't it been done again eh?

    It has been done again.


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    #149
    JohnMarston
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    We put a man on the moon?

    Now the REM song is stuck in my head, and yours too.


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    #150
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    Actually 12 men walked on the moon. deal with it.

    I just don't buy it.
    It would be an absolutely enormous undertaking today. I just don't believe it was doable in the 60's, when calculators were still the stuff of sci fi films. I still haven't seen anything to convince me otherwise, and the russians saying they'll do in 18 years time, doesn't make those doubts any smaller!
    JohnMarston wrote: »
    Now the REM song is stuck in my head, and yours too.

    Good tune though!!


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    #151
    AlmightyCushion
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    So for all the people who don't believe the moon landings happened, where exactly did the rockets go when they were meant to be on their way to the moon? Do you think they just stayed in orbit for a few days before sending the astronauts back to earth?


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