Posted on 09/06/2018 3:14:50 AM PDT by DWW1990
When it comes to the American flag on the moon, Hollywood takes a knee. With its soon-to-be released film, First Man, it seems Universal Pictures doesn’t want the world to remember that it was Americans who first landed on the moon. On the contrary, Hollywood again reminds us why Trump was elected and why liberals should never be in any position of power. Remember such come this November.
The absurdity of a film about the first manned mission to the moon—an exclusively American accomplishment—that doesn’t show the moment when Neil Armstrong planted the U.S. flag on the moon makes me wonder: would such a move by Universal and the producers and directors of First Man have taken place had Donald Trump not been elected President of the United States?…
I know well the truth of the moon missions, what went into placing American men on the moon, and the importance of such achievements in the telling of America’s history. One of the chapters in The Miracle and Magnificence of America details how scientific, political, and flight pioneers in the United States turned science fiction into science fact. Prior to the amazing Apollo missions, Americans spent decades pioneering the science, technology, and grit necessary to placing men in space and on the moon.
…Robert Goddard was the first scientist to give serious scientific treatment to the idea that space travel was possible…Goddard—an American physicist, engineer, and inventor—was already famous worldwide for his contributions to rocketry. In 1920, less than two decades after the Wright brothers astounded the world by flying for 12 seconds at an altitude of 10 feet, the Smithsonian Institution published Goddard’s groundbreaking paper, “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes.”…
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Conversely, if you believe that man has placed a flag on Mars, then by all means, go see it.
Them commies in Hollywood are still angry the USSR lost the race to the moon and are trying to rewrite history.
Actually, the converse would be, “If you believe the movie “First Man” then don’t go to the moon (because there’s no U.S. flag there).” Which is, of course, false.
Good point! I forgot how loved the Russians were before Trump came along!
Why oh why, do so many want this country to fail?
I will never watch this movie I remember it live ,don’t need to.
“Why do so many want this country to fail?” Because to “fundamentally transform America” we must fail. And because most liberals are miserable and they want the rest of us to be miserable too.
And when men were men (and women were women for that matter). Nothing scares the left like the Truth.
shouldn’t the Hubble telescope be capable of photographing the flag on the moon?
I would imagine it could even show the footsteps on the moon.
It can, but the resolution is poor. That’s an interesting question and I read about it this week. If you’ll do an internet search, I’m sure you’ll find what I did.
This crap has been going on for a long time. Remember the movie “How the West was Won”? Did you see it on TV or in the theater? If you saw it on TV you didn’t see the final scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_qToyqiOU
narrated by Spencer Tracy with scenes from modern day America as it was in the ‘60s.
I think it was in the ‘70s that Hollywood released the TV version with the last scene axed. Seems that by that time they no longer liked a healthy dose of patriotic Americanism.
The Moon landing was a symbol of American greatness. The left hates that, and is doing its best to change peoples’ memories of the event.
They have already done that with 9/11.
I vaguely remember that movie.
I doubt it could even clearly resolve an image of the moon itself. It was designed to look thousands to billions of light years out into space. It would be like reading a newspaper with a telescope from a foot away.
The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors. And as we cannot always be satisfied merely with being admired, unless we can at the same time persuade ourselves that we are in some degree really worthy of admiration; so we cannot always be satisfied merely with being believed, unless we are at the same time conscious that we are really worthy of belief. As the desire of praise and that of praise-worthiness, though very much a-kin, are yet distinct and separate desires; so the desire of being believed and that of being worthy of belief, though very much a-kin too, are equally distinct and separate desires.“Liberals” know that they can’t routinely make better decisions than society (“the market”) does, in all the fields of endeavor that society organizes and rationalizes via the market. But because they lust for authority, they want society (“the market”) to be seen as failing - and they want to believe it themselves - to rationalize a regime in which society does not self-govern but is governed by a higher agency which they fancy themselves as being rightfully part of.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Ha! Yeah, that certainly played into it (as Mr. Thomas points out in his book), but as Goddard, the Wright brothers, and the like prove, there were many Americans at the forefront of flight.
No, it cannot. There are articles explaining it more fully, but It’s simply not built for such tasks.
I saw the movie when it came out in the theaters. I also saw it at least a couple of times on TV, and I remember having an odd feeling after seeing it on TV but couldn’t put my finger on it. Now I can. As far as the flag on the moon, I assume eight years of “you didn’t build that” and this country isn’t exceptional had an unfortunate influence.
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