UM. IT's National Aeronautics (&) Space Administration.

you could have googled it before asking us stupidfarks.

im pretty sure they were joking.

I don't get it. We won't find another monolith on Mars. It's Europa we should be checking out.

Look what I can do:
Gather many cockleburs, grind them into a flour to mix with molasses, butter, salt, and yeast. After rising, knead and form into balls, space in pan appropriately and drizzle with, yes, more butter. Bake. Hold one in front of you. What is it? A bur bun. Praise my wit. Do it. Do it now.

Ill stay loyal to my home planet........

Didn't somebody already post a link once where some family (Mormons I presume) has claimed Mars as their own? It was pretty elaborate, with the government being a "constitutional monarchy" hosted by theirs truly.

I say we steal Mars from the Mormons and use it to establish a Palestinian home world.

Young_Fart Are you farking crazy?!!?

All these worlds are yours - except EUROPA. Attempt no landings there.

LISTEN TO YOUR ALIEN MASTERS!

has anyone ever been to

www.banja.com ?

Lindseyp That was before they learned that the ice is something like 12 km thick.

Hytes: Eeyore eats those as snacks when he's not eating thistles.

Cool, this means we can build subterainian warrens and send our convicts up for "rehabilitation" but dont make them send any rice back to earth.

Uh, maybe I should have gone with the Valentine Micheal Smith comment.

I think it's possible the moon landing was fake. It's somewhat possible that the US felt it had to beat out Russia, who had beaten them by sending the first object (Sputnik), the first living creature (A dog named Laika), the first man (a guy named Uri), and the first woman (a lady who few people talk about) to outer space.

I'm also sure that if it was, a real one had already happend. There probobly is a US flag up on the moon, and I'm willing to bet within out lifetime we will be able to go up there and see for ourselves.

TheRapy: you forget one thing. Even if the public couldn't have known if it was fake, one organization would have found out: the Russians. They would have seen ANY sign of falsification and publicized it to try and discredit the US. Hey, if it got the "godless commie seal of approval" I think it probably happened.

Sorry , I guess there are no Heinlien fans here.

so steve--if the N stands for nipples then what does the ASA stand for?

Mars needs women.

Mars needs hot hot co- wait, where am I again?

my Boobies

Good point.

The Russians, who at that time were tied for the most advanced nation in the world (I say tied as they beat the US in some fields yet were behind it in others, so it's hard to tell), and for whom the moon landing was a major low blow, tipped their collective fuzzy hat to the US.

I'm willing to bet they knew a bit more about it then the morons who are dissecting it years from now just to sound "different", and act like they aren't a "corporate tool".

The moon landing isn't fake-- you can verify it for yourself. One of the apollo missions put a reflector pad down at specified coordinates, for the sould purpose of letting earth-bound lasers bounce singals off of it (can't do it with grey lunar surface). People from all over bounce lasers off this pad all the time-- there's your 'proof'.

duh.

Tairngire,

Alan Shepard didn't go to the moon "to hit the longest drive in human history..."

He went to hit the longest one-armed 6-iron shot in history.

Check your facts, man!!!!!!!

Lindseyp:

Europa would probably be incredibly beautiful, in an arctic sort of way. Ice just under the feeble pressures it gets on earth constantly reforms and reshapes itself over the years into beautiful structures. I would love to see what it does in a lower-gravity, higher-pressure environment, where the whole world is covered :)

Bauer,

As you are scientifically incompetent, let me start with a simple analogy. Try focusing a pair of binoculars on your foot... it's called FOCAL LENGTH and anyone who's taken High School physics knows what it is. You can't point Hubble at the moon and see what's been left behind.

...and obviously, I have not been to the moon. I do however work for NASA. You're out of your element (Donnie)...

Now go watch a Fox conspiracy theory special and "learn" something you farking moron.

I just want to say that this thread has left me wiser. I followed a link, and read up a bit on the moon landing and the conspiracy theory.

I read an interview done with the leader of the theory, and while he does make a valid point (which I thought of seriously for a while) I began laughing insanely when he mentioned sending his story to Weekly World News. While Weekly World News is a fine paper, and Batboy is in fact my hero, this proves the guy is what science likes to call a "nutbag". (Just so you know, Weekly World News is a tabloid that runs stories like "I was Bigfoot's Love Slave")

I would like to give some evidence to support my claim.

The interview with Bill Kaysing.

A good site debuting all the "photographic evidence" Bill talks about, using simple household objects. Prove the Conspiracy Nuts insane on your own using gray paper and magic marker!

The final blow. A great website I'm still reading, that not only pokes moon craters in the "We never landed on the moon" Conspiracy theory, it explains why and how it is made.

To sum it up.... I now believe in the moon landing. Woo! Go team USA.

Drivenwest,

Did you miss the earlier reference to

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/14/

Maybe you and your over-inflated ego should take a look, then come back and show a shred of character by apologizing to Bauer.

Geez . . nothin' more irritating than a know-it-all that doesn't.

Why drink bourbon when you can have

Aztex999,

I said, "You can't point Hubble at the moon and see what's been left behind (by the lunar lander)."

Due to the focal length of Hubble, you can't get the degree of resolution required. Don't you think it would have been done by now if it were possible? Sorry buddy, you're also wrong.

Now show a shred of character and admit that you are also incorrect.

With all of the bs that the us govt has been pulling on its people for the last fifty years in particular, those of you who would be so enraged by my views to call me "moron" on a faceless website, well....I like it. You have your opinion, we have ours...debating the issues keeps this nation strong.


I'm Squidward...I'm Squidward...I'm Squidward-Squidward-Squidward!

DrivinWest-
I was referring to your comment "You can't point Hubble at the moon and see what's been left behind"
I took the main point of it to be what you said first (normally put forth in the beginning of a statement) that you can't point it at the moon. However, if your main point was that you couldn't "see what was left behind." you could've just said we didn't leave anything behind "big enough to see."

However, since I don't pretend to read your thoughts, if the main focus of your sentence was, indeed, the latter part, then , yes, I misunderstood.

The gist of my post, however, was that there was no reason to berate Bauer like he was your inattentive schoolchild. Saying things like "scientifically incompetent" "out of your league", and "farking moron" just, in my opinion, are totally unnecessary in a mature discussion, and shows a lack of character. I'll quit defending him, though, since in his last post he proved he was the better man by magnanimously accepting your and others' criticisms.

Bauer,

I have no argument here, in fact, I love 98% of what you say here: "With all of the bs that the us govt has been pulling on its people for the last fifty years in particular, those of you who would be so enraged by my views to call me "moron" on a faceless website, well....I like it. You have your opinion, we have ours...debating the issues keeps this nation strong."

Aztex999,

A Fox special, and a website by a guy who deems the Weekly World News a legitimate news source, have been touted as the weight that supports the hoax believers' views in this debate (I have not pointed any fingers with this comment BTW). I'm sorry, but that's plain... dumb. Alas, I once believed in Chupacabras and the Loch Ness Monster and back then I WAS scientifically incompetent, out of my league, and GOD KNOWS a farking moron. But we all learn, sometimes by fire, that often we're wrong. I do apologize for some harsh words though, but as I see nothing but a dramatic trend of American Anti-intellectualism, I find it remarkably troubling.

DrivenWest

Well spoken.

Now that we have that out of the way, I have a question - do you NASA guys think that Mars is made of the same kind of cheese as the moon?

Actually I think it's reddish hue is a result of it being Meunster cheese, not green cheese like the moon. Or maybe it's wrapped in red wax like those little cheeses with the cows on them :)

Is that where the "waxing and waning" comes from?

I can't remember: what has to happen for Martian liquid water to not escape into space?