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U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.
The family said in a statement online that Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on Aug. 5.
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he took part in one of the most momentous acts in human history, the first human being to set foot on another world, a cold dead small world, but still.
for that he has earned his place in history.
when humanity does visit other worlds in person, Neil Armstrong will always be remembered as the pioneer.
the moon is a dead star not a planet
moon is a dead star
dead star......
You kidding me man?
I really don't be leave we had the technology to broadcast that to every home back then.
How about you think before you say something so fantastically stupid next time.
But they've said nothing. Absolutely nothing.
We've landed on the moon. Take a moment to relish in how special that actually is.
The idea you could keep a cover up like that secret for so many years is laughable, I mean, the government leaks like the Titanic and always has when there are more than a couple people involved. Let alone thousands!
But the idea that you could keep it totally secret from the Soviets at that time is just outright retarded.
They had the capability, technology and understanding to track the whole thing. They could just as easily bounce their lasers off the reflectors left on the moon surface by the Apollo missions. I am quite sure they did, as soon as possible.
They had the ultimate motivation to expose any conspiracy. They had the spies, expertise and the money and most importantly that motivation to do so if one existed.
But they never did, they accepted it.
You could turn around and say the lunar recon photos of the landing sites a few years ago were also fakes, but you can't fake human nature to uncover secrets.
i used to take it as a fact, but the science about it makes it hard to believe, the strong popular opinion about it is making the masses believe it truth.
if they can send men to the moon and back way back then, the we should have a small base by now, but no , not even a foothold
Bollocks did they. They acknowledged the feat.
The science backs the landing to the hilt, only idiots with their 'pseudo' science pretend otherwise.
The climate was very different after the accomplishment, NASA's budget was continuously cut and their aims changed. The space race was essentially ended with the moon landings, and so the public were less interested in seeing so much spent on something many started to see as pointless when there were other huge distractions and problems at the time, like Vietnam.
The moon rocks are completely unique. Their geology is like nothing found on earth. NASA were extremely generous and supplied hundreds and hundreds of samples and gifts of it to other countries.
Many analysed them and came to the same conclusion, these were alien rocks, all from the same place.
The moon.
Soviet probes collected small samples from the moon robotically, and returned them. They match the massive samples brought back only possible by a human landing program.
THIRD PARTY EVIDENCE all agrees that the landings took place. Beyond control of influence by the american government.
People that deny the landing took place make me angry because of their ignorance and piss poor examination of all the evidence.
+ heres some images of the shadows going two different ways even though there is only the sun as a light source lol. you can tell they used studio lights with these, especially the 2nd one.
http://www.aulis.com/jackim...
http://www.aulis.com/jackim...
Besides even if my first unbreakable statement of logic wasn't enough for you tin foil hat conspiracy nuts, there is also the fact that we left plenty of evidence on the moon to prove that we have been there including laser detectors that could only be there if a human being had landed there and put them there. (link 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Link 1 also leads to more videos debunking further rebuttals you may have. (eg the infamous flag waving) I highly suggest watching them in order to educate yourself. Conspiracy theorists prey on those who are ignorant of the world around them and brainwash them to sell them books. They don't care about the truth, they care about exploitation of the ignorant.
HD? What the foo was HD in 1969? Apollo 11 just had film like everybody else, top quality film in a top quality camera at that time for stills. 70mm Hasselblad cameras on the surface, we are talking expensive top end things for stills.
As for stuff like the colour video, there was a small 200 line colour camera with a pathetic broadcast bandwidth. This was the 1960's FFS! Live international TV broadcasting was in its infancy, let alone from the moon....
Do you honestly think a 1960's colour video camera was anything like as sophisticated as the stills cameras? Even non broadcast film cameras were not stupendous quality, just watch any TV recorded programme from that era. I hasten to add, most TV programmes were not filmed on the moon's surface!
It isn't a mystery that still photography technology was vastly superior to broadcast video in 1969 seeing as though it had been around 100 years longer. Its bleeding obvious.
that of all the thousands of people that would have had to have been involved, not one would let the secret out?
there were dishes round the world picking up the signal from the lunar lander, you know where they were pointed?
THE MOON.
but they didn't bradcast straight from the lander to people's homes, they didn't have the technology to do that then, and i doubt we could do that now, those dishes received the signals and then relayed them to tv stations round the world who showed them.
they had communication satellites then, they'd been used for tv since the 1964 olympics at least.
sure it was dangerous, but that's the risk with exploration.
i mean, people had died on the launchpad, but they knew the risk was worth it.
they knew this was a step humanity needed to take.
and they wanted to be the ones to take it.
I think it was done because of the space race, way to many people that worked for NASA died during that time, i think murdered. Some astronauts burned to death, some died in weird accidents
http://en.atropedia.net/art...
http://www.airsafe.com/even...
You might not agree, that's fine.
But every has there own opinions.
Boldly go where no one has gone before...
Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Have a good journey, moon man (spoken by me)...
...close out with Strauss' Thus Spoke Zarathustra Op. 30 from "2001: A Space Odyssey"...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...