"Space maybe the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement"
-- Californication
-- the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Real or Not Real?
The other day a friend and I were discussing NASA's Lunar Landing Mission and whether or not it actually happened. It all started when @kid4life asked Which Influential Figure Would You Be for a Day? and he mentioned Neil Armstrong. The topic stood in my head for a bit, and so I eventually discussed it with some friends.
Some of my friends believe that NASA did succeed in landing on the Moon and returning the astronauts back to Earth, while some of my other friends don't believe that NASA put human beings on the Moon, and then returned them safely to Earth. So today's Question of the Day is Did Nasa Really Land on the Moon or Not? State why or why not in your comment.
I personally want to be believe that NASA succeeded in placing human beings on the Moon, and then was successful in returning them safely back to Earth, but the cynical side of my mind casts so much doubt on that belief. The reason I want to believe that mankind was successful is because this would be one of if not thee greatest achievement in the history of mankind. The ability to transcend Earth's gravitational grounding, land on another terrestrial object and then return back to the home planet Earth is beyond amazing for a creature that shares 98% or 99% DNA with chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
If NASA was successful, this could eventually lead to colonizing the Moon with the intent of using it for storage as well as a staging area for launching towards Mars. Since the Moon is much closer, it would be easier to go back and forth to Earth with supplies in both directions (thinking Moon mining for ores). Once a successful space colony is established on the Moon, the next step would be to prepare a staging area for launching to Mars. Even if this is not a viable option for launching to Mars, it still would be a great place to start experimenting with space colonization, while still somewhat being tethered to Earth.
This all sounds great, but if we are to consider space travel and colonization an experiment, then there are some gaps in the data. The biggest notable gap is that like in all breakthrough scientific experiments, it has to be at the very least replicated, if not by other "space scientiest" then the original experimenters. Considering NASA's scientific experiment from 1969 - 1972, then this experiment has never duplicated "in the lab" again. In scientific circles, this NASA "experiment" would be considered bogus since it has not be done by NASA or anyone else since the original period.
Did you know that from 1958 - 1965 NASA attempted 18 unmanned lunar missions, with only 3 of them being fully successful. That means NASA was only successful about 17% of the time it attempted to simply land on the Moon. The Russians fared worse during this time period with only a 10% success rate. From 1966 - 1968 NASA completed 5 of 7 lunar landings only, for a much better percentage rate of 71%. Then, all of a sudden NASA is 100% successful in not only landing on the Moon, but then successfully returning the Astronauts to Earth the following years from 1969-1972.
Secondly, the original NASA film footage of mankind's greatest achievement, the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, has been lost. Somehow the U.S. government still has a 240 year old document, the Declaration of Independence, but does not have the original footage from NASA's 1969 Moon Landing. This is very hard to believe, casting a long shadow of doubt and opening the door to conspiracy theory. The quickest conspiracy that arises is that this film was lost in order to avoid scrutiny for evidence of proof that the Moon landings were faked by Hollywood. I know some will point to the LROC images of the Moon, but the Government has space satellites that can probably read what is on your iphone dispay when out and about, and those LROC images are a joke.
Is this Real?
Stanley Kubrick with NASA Official?
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