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Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:25 pm

So we've had a man on the moon and have been making "We can send a man to the moon but we can't..." jokes for forty years now. What does everyone think of this now? I know a lot of people back in 69 didn't think it had happened, and still a lot of people don't believe today. I wasn't alive back when it happened, so I don't really know the social or political climate, but I do know I would have been excited to see it happen.

Also, looking into the future, how about the plans to soon send someone to Mars? What about colonizing the moon?

by **Dagon** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:20 pm

Moon landing, shmoon landing. Obviously it was faked.

No, sorry, I'm not that stupid. It really did happen. HEard on the news this morning that there was a survey in London where something like 40% of people surveyed thought that Buzz Lightyear was a real live astronaut.

Now is not the time economically, but I thnk that we should get back into the space race/exploration venue. As for Mars, a rocket base on the moon would better the chances in terms of fuel expenditure and so forth.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:30 pm

NASA wants to start the next moon mission 2019 or 2020 ish and start constructing a moonbase from where Mars missions would be started. Also that base will allow us the mine the moon for it's resources.

by **Dagon** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:37 pm

Dead Metal wrote:NASA wants to start the next moon mission 2019 or 2020 ish and start constructing a moonbase from where Mars missions would be started. Also that base will allow us the mine the moon for it's resources.

Finally, a fresh source of green cheese.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:15 pm

Well, I think the whole feat was amazing, from start to finish. Jack Kennedy in 1961 said there would be a man on the Moon by the decade's end, and sure enough, with 5 months to spare, Neil Armstrong was skipping and hopping.

But seriously, I think it is the most amazing feat of the 20th century, edging out the development of the atom bomb only because the moon landing was such a positive thing. Yeah, there are people who say it's fake. I choose to believe it is real, and salute the spirit of the people involved, from the lowliest clerk at NASA to Commanders Armstrong and Aldrin themselves. A giant leap indeed.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:32 pm

Me, Grimlock! wrote: and still a lot of people don't believe today.

There isn't fire hot enough to burn those people properly.

News Credits: 1 · by **cybercat** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:49 pm

For your trivia collections: apparently the lunar rovers were all built out here in beautiful Bethpage, Long Island. They built thirteen; only three exist today.

I say, yay to Mars. Actually, I'd be pretty okay with anything that got kids wanting to do something with their lives other than 'make money'. I remember how we all used to actually study math and science and stuff, and everyone secretly wanted to be an astronaut.

Now: I had a student the other day who resisted learning how to calculate GPA because he figured if he ever did anything that *mattered* about math (meaning, not GPA), he'd have an accountant in his retinue.

HK, depressed because I start teaching soon.

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:51 pm

EVERTHING IS LIES!!111! THE MAN NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON!!!11!!

Seriously though,there are enoughs facts to raise the question.

News Credits: 2 · by **Skyfire77** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:19 pm

I'm disappointed that we last set foot on the moon five years before I was born and haven't been back since. We're never going to find the Monolith at this rate. We may already be too late: