We put a man on the moon?

ForeverYoung90

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.

Mint Sauce

Answer. A TV studio.

cassel16

That never happened....

chin_grin

irish-stew wrote: »

Answer. A TV studio.

And why hasn't it been done again eh? They just keep sending all these "unmanned" satellites up there to spy on us. The mind boggles.

AlmightyCushion

chin_grin wrote: »

And why hasn't it been done again eh? They just keep sending all these "unmanned" satellites up there to spy on us. The mind boggles.

It's crazy expensive to do and after apollo 11 nobody really gave a shít about the moon landings.

Mint Sauce

chin_grin wrote: »

And why hasn't it been done again eh? They just keep sending all these "unmanned" satellites up there to spy on us. The mind boggles.

What, sending man to the moon, or doing it in a TV studio?

I ask my self the exact same question everytime theres a man on the moon debate.

BBDBB

whats this "we" business???

joshrogan

It's a shame we don't spend more on space exploration considering it's necessary for the survival of the human race after all.

starbelgrade

The moon doesn't even exist. It's just a big light shining up in the sky, done to comfort us.. like a nightlight for humans.

admiralofthefleet

chin_grin wrote: »

And why hasn't it been done again eh? They just keep sending all these "unmanned" satellites up there to spy on us. The mind boggles.

have you seen apollo 17

chin_grin

BBDBB wrote: »

whats this "we" business???

What do we mean by "'we' business'?

Mint Sauce

BBDBB wrote: »

whats this "we" business???

Well ever since oil was found of Cork, the Americans will eventually own our arse. We might as well play along.

Ghandee

I saw a picture of the American flag 'fluttering' on the moon before....

Imagine that?


And, why don't they hold any parties on the moon? Cos its got no atmosphere....:rolleyes:

KeithAFC

It never happened. Forget about it.

squod

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

... how the fook did we manage to put a mere ordinary man on the moon.

Ray Mears could have got there by himself

EarlERizer

joshrogan wrote: »

It's a shame we don't spend more on space exploration considering it's necessary for the survival of the human race after all.

Only because we havn't spent enough on exploring how to look after the planet we're already on! more of an immediate necessity I reckon.

admiralofthefleet

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

have you seen apollo 17

I have seen Apollo 18. There's some crazy shit up there.

Slydice

A magical ingredient they called rocket fuel. Honestly, the nerve of them trying to get us to believe that. :rolleyes:

YOU CAN'T MAKE FUEL OUT OF LETTUCE!!!!

starbelgrade

squod wrote: »

Ray Mears could have got there by himself

Ray Mears was on the moon once. Well, when I say he was on the moon, he stayed at a hotel near the moon.

ejmaztec

irish-stew wrote: »

Well ever since oil was found of Cork, the Americans will eventually own our arse. We might as well play along.

The ones who put the Americans on the moon already own our arse i.e. the Jairmans

krudler

chin_grin wrote: »

And why hasn't it been done again eh?

too many evil transformers up there

Toby Take a Bow

Is it true that the computer they used to go to the moon was something like a 64 GB type thing? If that's true, that's pretty nuts.

paddyandy

"We" put a man on the Moon ???? They put a man on the Moon .

IvySlayer

This is no point in returning to the moon, there's nothing there!

Bajingo

IvySlayer wrote: »

This is no point in returning to the moon, there's nothing there!

...and so on to mars we go!

Red Hand

paddyandy wrote: »

"We" put a man on the Moon ???? They put a man on the Moon .

We put him up there. Using nothing but firelighters and turf.

af_thefragile

And almost 50yrs later we are all covered in deep ****!!

Sindri

squod wrote: »

Ray Mears could have got there by himself

That man with a pullover, a tooth brush and a loose button could kill a bear, skin him, start a fire, cook him, and build a 4 bedroom house with an en-suite.

All while being polite and modest.

Fuck Bear Grylls!!!

Rockn

starbelgrade wrote: »

The moon doesn't even exist. It's just a big light shining up in the sky, done to comfort us.. like a nightlight for humans.

Lunar eclipse means they're changing the bulb.

af_thefragile

Sindri wrote: »

That man with a pullover, a tooth brush and a loose button could kill a bear, skin him, start a fire, cook him, and build a 4 bedroom house with an en-suite.

All while being polite and modest.

Fuck Bear Grylls!!!

But Ray Mears can bore you to death!

Bear Grylls is a lot more exciting when he runs around jumping over rocks and sliding down dunes!

Doc Ruby

starbelgrade wrote: »

Ray Mears was on the moon once. Well, when I say he was on the moon, he stayed at a hotel near the moon.

Ah now Ray is the real deal to be fair, it's Bear "anyone seen my bottle of urine" Grylls that's the darling of B&Bs around the world. The world would be a better place with a bit more Ray Mears in it.

KeithAFC

Bear Grylls knows what he is doing too, his shows are just designed to be entertaining.

galwayrush

joshrogan wrote: »

It's a shame we don't spend more on space exploration considering it's necessary for the survival of the human race after all.

Space residental tax anyone?

Wibbs

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Is it true that the computer they used to go to the moon was something like a 64 GB type thing? If that's true, that's pretty nuts.

Nope. More like 74 kilobytes of ram on the LEM. Waking your smart phone from sleep likely takes more. Just goes to show it's not the capacity, it's all about what you do with it. Doesn't work for engines or willes so much. Generally with them a big un is better than a small un.

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Ah now Ray is the real deal to be fair, it's Bear "anyone seen my bottle of urine" Grylls that's the darling of B&Bs around the world. The world would be a better place with a bit more Ray Mears in it.

+10000000

delw

starbelgrade wrote: »

The moon doesn't even exist. It's just a big light shining up in the sky, done to comfort us.. like a nightlight for humans.

:eek: maybe we are all part of "The Truman Show"

Overheal

Not a whole lot of economic benefit to going to the moon right now, frankly. They keep sending probes up and such to search for water and all, but until they have a reasonable, long term strategy for how to economize it, nobody is going back up there. Nevermind that back when they did it the math involved had to be absolutely boggling and there was no room for errors. But just developing the capsule and the procedures takes years and would cost billions.

Ignore the majority of the science and just think about this: you had to detach from your orbiting ship, land, then ascend later in such a way that you rendezvous with your still orbiting ship before flying back to earth. I mean seriously, what happens if you, or the orbiter, drift apart by a couple miles when all this is going on? you'd be fcuked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous

4zn76tysfajdxp

irish-stew wrote: »

Answer. A TV studio.

cassel16 wrote: »

That never happened....

KeithAFC wrote: »

It never happened. Forget about it.

lol wut

Superbus

delw wrote: »

starbelgrade wrote: »

The moon doesn't even exist. It's just a big light shining up in the sky, done to comfort us.. like a nightlight for humans.

:eek: maybe we are all part of "The Truman Show"

You didn't know?

Well this is awkward...

Casillas

chin_grin wrote: »

And why hasn't it been done again eh? They just keep sending all these "unmanned" satellites up there to spy on us. The mind boggles.

The Americans beat the Russians there and didn't care much after that. Now though the Chinese want to send man to the moon so I guess round 2 is under way.

Mightn't be a person though;

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2108652,00.html

Wereghost

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Is it true that the computer they used to go to the moon was something like a 64 GB type thing? If that's true, that's pretty nuts.

Read-only storage on the Apollo Guidance Computer was 32K. 2 million or so of those gets you 64GB. Linky here.

Pottler

I brought the kids to an "Apollo" touring museum thingy in London where they had a full sized replica of the lunar module. As a fairly competent type when it comes to building stuff, I left thinking "feck off lads, ye did in yer shyte". 1.it was tiny - where'd ya keep the lunar rover lads, on the roof-rack? 2. It costs an arm and a leg to send 1kg into space - that "lunar rover" looked like a two post lift would struggle to lift it. 3.The "capsule" looked like somthing my kids would build in the kitchen to act the bollix in, re-entry me hole, ye'd a fried lads, come on, pull the other one. It's a bit like your small, scrawny mate with the dodgy moustache telling you he pulled Maria Sharapova last night at the local flea-pit,... you just kinda take a look and go "ye did yeah...."

Mr.Crinklewood

cassel16 wrote: »

That never happened....

FFS "That never happened".

How do you explain this then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0o6u1VmGE

Some people on here just piss me off.

Chuck Stone

Robotic exploration comes at a fraction of the price and no risk to humans. You could probably land robotic vehicles on every solid planet in the solar system for the cost of a manned mission to Mars (complete guess).

Sending men to Mars would be a prestige thing.

Wereghost

More than forty years since humans first went to the moon and yet no human being - not a single one in all of our history! - has ever left the vicinity of the Earth-moon system. We need to sort our stuff out; time and Earth-wrecking supernovae wait for no man. Time we were thinking about another Giant Leap, perhaps.

The Onion apparently had some succinct thoughts on the original moon landing.
Link here, not for the prudish.

NIMAN

We put a man on the moon ....... yet 40 yrs later can't produce a packet of biscuits in a supermarket that when you get home haven't got 20% of them broken to bits.

Sindri

Pottler wrote: »

I brought the kids to an "Apollo" touring museum thingy in London where they had a full sized replica of the lunar module. As a fairly competent type when it comes to building stuff, I left thinking "feck off lads, ye did in yer shyte". 1.it was tiny - where'd ya keep the lunar rover lads, on the roof-rack? 2. It costs an arm and a leg to send 1kg into space - that "lunar rover" looked like a two post lift would struggle to lift it. 3.The "capsule" looked like somthing my kids would build in the kitchen to act the bollix in, re-entry me hole, ye'd a fried lads, come on, pull the other one. It's a bit like your small, scrawny mate with the dodgy moustache telling you he pulled Maria Sharapova last night at the local flea-pit,... you just kinda take a look and go "ye did yeah...."

Yeah, I heard Buzz Aldrin say once that a light jab from a pencil could of punctured the wall of the lunar module.

im invisible

4zn76tysfajdxp

Pottler wrote: »

I brought the kids to an "Apollo" touring museum thingy in London where they had a full sized replica of the lunar module. As a fairly competent type when it comes to building stuff, I left thinking "feck off lads, ye did in yer shyte". 1.it was tiny - where'd ya keep the lunar rover lads, on the roof-rack? 2. It costs an arm and a leg to send 1kg into space - that "lunar rover" looked like a two post lift would struggle to lift it. 3.The "capsule" looked like somthing my kids would build in the kitchen to act the bollix in, re-entry me hole, ye'd a fried lads, come on, pull the other one. It's a bit like your small, scrawny mate with the dodgy moustache telling you he pulled Maria Sharapova last night at the local flea-pit,... you just kinda take a look and go "ye did yeah...."

You're more of an expert than NASA on space exploration because you're fairly competent when it comes to building stuff, yeah?

Overheal

Strictly speaking, the LM was constructed by [Northrop] Grumman

WoollyRedHat

RichieC

Ruskies sent two lunar rovers up. one lasted 9 months driving around. Tech was years ahead of its time.