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Apollo 11 Astronauts Walked on the Moon 45 years ago Today! (Or Did They?)
July 20 2014 | lee martell

Posted on 07/20/2014 3:40:37 PM PDT by lee martell

I vividly recall being in the living room with my family watching tv in 1969 as the American Astronauts walked on the moon. The pictures were fuzzy, black and white, somewhat indistinct. It almost resembled an Ultrasound image an expectant mother would see. We were thrilled to be part of a country, a culture so advanced as to put men on the moon and later, to bring them back safely to earth. We had completely one-upped communist Russia! Sputnik was a very important step in space exploration. Quite significant back in 1957, but that was a long time ago, back when the United States only had 48 states. As America was bustin it's collective buttons with prideful , joyful celebration, Leonid Brezhnev most likely uncorked and emptied multiple bottles of Vodka on that day, attempting to drown his frustration. I think it was on a Saturday, but I'm not sure.

About 10 years after that, some people began asking questions, filing Freedom Of Information requests, wanting to verify the authenticity of reports that , yes, indeed, the United States really had done what was reported in Life Magazine, in Look, in Time, in Scientific American, Engineering Today, and so on. Yes, of course we put a man on the moon, didn't you hear the reports? You gotta be crazy or some kind of communist to question whether we did it. What do you mean, did we actually go there? Still, to this day, many people question exactly what did happen and where, and to whom did it happen? Does Russia know what really happened, and have they decided also to stay quiet? Was Hollywood stage setting involved to offer a 'simulation' for the public? Why did we never return there, when we have billions for wars and redundant infrastructure to please Labor Unions. Some scientists have said, the human body could never survive the extreme atmospheric pressures and temperature changes that await beyond the stratosphere. This question, like the question of who killed John Kennedy will never be answered to everyone's satisfaction. I still think we should explore attempts to mine minerals such as Helium from beneath the moon's crusty outer surface. We would benefit by learning how to set up enclosed colonies on the moon as well. I am not very certain what the benefits would be of Mars exploration, other than an Engineer's individual triumph.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: apollo; apollo11; moon; moonlandings; nasa; spaceexploration; thread4dummies
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To: lee martell

What do you mean “And did they”?

Only a DAMN FOOL IDIOT thinks we had the ability to fake the moon landings with the technology we had at the time.

Even then, only an IDIOT would think we faked it in the first place.


101 posted on 07/20/2014 8:25:13 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: lee martell

You’re welcome, Lee Martell!


102 posted on 07/20/2014 8:28:52 PM PDT by bd476
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To: VerySadAmerican

I recall looking at some site years ago with all of the supposed photos from a stage somewhere - seemed the argument was with lighting, shadows, etc.

I wonder if the government DID stage some photos. Either to show if the landing(s) did fail and to use as propoganda, or as sort of higher quality PR photos. Of course, that is assuming that the photos that were being discussed were fake. I imagine that lighting on the moon (with a bright sun and perhaps a bright earth reflection) is different than here on Earth.


103 posted on 07/20/2014 8:32:41 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: lee martell
Why did we never return there, when we have billions for wars and redundant infrastructure to please Labor Unions.

Because the Liberals got the microphone, and rallied under the banner of the 'po', howling the battle cry of "For the chilrennnnn!!" stripped away funding from outer space to feed the starving chilluns right here on Earf.

Well, you get what you pay for, and now we have more of those 'po' chilluns, and the fattest 'po' starving chilluns on the Earf, ever.

We would have been better off with more boxes of rocks.

104 posted on 07/20/2014 8:36:42 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ansel12
...yet if they were actually on the Moon, there is no gravity to make it dribble...

Think that one over. The moon exerts 1/6 the Earth's gravity. Not as much, but enough to still bring things that go up, down.

105 posted on 07/20/2014 8:38:43 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ansel12

Really, check the 5 dollar bin at Wal-Mart...you can catch up on all the movies you will be glad you didn’t buy a theater ticket to see.


106 posted on 07/20/2014 8:50:10 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: moose07; Darksheare

But has BPEarthgrotch chimed in on this yet? He is sure to have the truest true facts, revealed to him by the nine foot tall aliens living in the mountain.


107 posted on 07/20/2014 9:31:46 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare

No information as provided by nine foot tall Aliens has yet been posted.
But now you’ve alerted me to the possibility of such, hope it is posted soon. LOL.


108 posted on 07/20/2014 10:11:18 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: moose07

Are you saying that you haven’t heard about Gilgamesh and the Nephilim Giants written about in Genesis .6? Gilgamesh was the ruler and builder of Uruk 5000 years ago. He was said to stand 16 feet tall. There is a life sized statue of him at The Louve in France. The statue portrays Gilgamesh strangling a lion, giving the apperance of an adult man about to throw a house cat away from him. A distant cousin was King Og, who stood a mere 14 feet tall.The Canaanites worshiped these giants as Gods.


109 posted on 07/20/2014 10:37:35 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: NoCmpromiz; moose07

Glycon laughs at bpearthbotch and urinates on his concepts!
(Picture a large snake with long flowing hair. Now picture it trying to pee. Gruesome.)


110 posted on 07/20/2014 10:38:46 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: lee martell

“Now in those days there where Giants upon the Earth....”
At 06:00h nothing computes. :)
‘Night.


111 posted on 07/20/2014 10:58:28 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: lee martell; moose07; NoCmpromiz

The nutcase we are referring to, one bpearthwatch, honestly believes there is a secret underground base in Dulce New Mexico where “reptoids” have been holding a civil war or some such.
Supposedly between two “reptoid brothers”.

The Anakim and their relations are of no relation to what we’re babbling about.


112 posted on 07/20/2014 11:05:53 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: ansel12
If you watch film of Neil Armstrong setting his canteen down, you can see Tang dribbling from the loose cap that he forgot to tighten down, yet if they were actually on the Moon, there is no gravity to make it dribble.

Er, the Moon has gravity. . . 1/6th that of Earth's gravity. A 180 pound man on Earth, stepping on the same scale on the Moon would see only 30 pounds on the dial. The Tang would still dribble. . . and it would slosh easier and longer. Sorry.

113 posted on 07/21/2014 1:54:21 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: mikrofon
Not necessarily, but it lends support to the belief that the Moon is made of cheese — all I know is that when it’s consumed, a lot of gas is produced ....

Most people think the moon is made of Green Cheese. That's wrong. True, real, bonifide lunar scientists know what's its made out of. That's why the moon walkers wear hermetically sealed suits to walk around up there. They know it's really Limburger Cheese!

114 posted on 07/21/2014 2:18:20 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: eartrumpet

My oldest brother, Richard, fought in Korea. He was a tall, handsome man. He was a DI, and
he knew how to impel people to hop to. He passed away in 1990, cancer, only 58 years old.

I’m going to snag the URL of the great punch and save it to watch again.

It’s nice to know that Buzz “has a way” to deal out retribution to some yurkie (I just made that
up) who calls him a liar, cheat, and thief.


115 posted on 07/21/2014 2:44:56 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: ansel12

Feel like a fool yet?


116 posted on 07/21/2014 5:12:40 AM PDT by Rickity Plumber
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To: Rickity Plumber

Really? Do I feel like a fool for making a joke about Neil
Armstrong drinking Tang out of a canteen while walking on the moon? No, do you feel pretty silly?


117 posted on 07/21/2014 6:27:37 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It would’ve taken more effort to fake them than to launch them for real.


118 posted on 07/21/2014 7:58:56 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: lee martell; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ..

Thanks lee. Extra to APoD.

> About 10 years after that, some people began asking questions...

The ‘questions’ actually started before the first landing — the dolt who dreamed up the “can’t survive the Van Allen Belt radiation” nonsense got fired from his job with one of the contractors who built part of the Apollo program hardware.

> You gotta be crazy or some kind of communist to question whether we did it.

While it does serve the interests of commies and other cultists to undermine people’s confidence in reality, I doubt that commies would have come up with this one.


119 posted on 07/21/2014 8:04:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Charlatans irritate me.

The science channel is running a bunch of aliens crap today right now they’re “suggesting” that the Martian moon Phobos is an alien space station because it “can’t” be in that low of an orbit. Never mind that it is in that low of an orbit and getting lower all the time.


120 posted on 07/21/2014 8:11:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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