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By *entlemanFox OP   Man
10 weeks ago

North East / London

Hard to believe it was 55 years ago.

My parents woke me up to watch the moon landing live on a small black and white television.

The future seemed so bright and full of hope then.

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago

Did they sit you on the small step to watch it?

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By *he love catsCouple
10 weeks ago

South Wales

But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

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By *entlemanFox OP   Man
10 weeks ago

North East / London


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure."

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

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By *ansoffateMan
10 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant leap for mankind.

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By *eordieJeansCouple
10 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

I think it went wrong when people lost their sense of humour.

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By *eordieJeansCouple
10 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant leap for mankind."

Take one down, pass it around?

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By *pankingNorfolkCouple
10 weeks ago

Norwichish


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

I’m not sure it’s going wrong, people have forgotten how to engage brain, think and research.

We use the internet to look up information, when Facebook/insta/snapchat whatever delivers information people have disengaged the BS filter. It’s unfortunately why there is a rise in populism, a lot of people believe what they are told without bothering to look it up.

Have disproved so many friends “news” as fake news over the years and show them source of fake when it started circulating etc, and the proof that counters it, unfortunately it’s too late.

Can only hope the next generations are taught how to use internet to fact check for themselves.

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By *offiaCoolWoman
10 weeks ago

Kidsgrove


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant leap for mankind."

Have we left other detritus ?

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By *otTheMessiah86Man
10 weeks ago

Stockton

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By *ornLordMan
10 weeks ago

Wiltshire and London


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

Ah, but they realised after faking it that they would have had to leave visible traces on the moon, so they made us get vaccinated with stuff that would make us think that... etc etc etc or sone other similar bilge.

Yes, 55 years ago it was all a cause for such optimism; now space travel is pretty much about jollies for the ridiculously rich or about a delusion that mankind can save itself by setting off to the stars in a tin can.

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By *ansoffateMan
10 weeks ago

Sagittarius A


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

I think it went wrong when people lost their sense of humour. "

Specifically, satire. We are doomed now. Humans will be pooping in their hands and wiping it on each others faces, in a couple of centuries. It will be the pinnacle of entertainment.

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By *ermite12ukMan
10 weeks ago

Solihull and Brentwood


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant leap for mankind."

Everyday's a school day. I thought Laika only orbitted the moon?

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By *urry BlokeMan
10 weeks ago


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant poop for mankind."

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By *he love catsCouple
10 weeks ago

South Wales


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant poop for mankind."

Shit joke.

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago

Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on"

A woman

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By *he love catsCouple
10 weeks ago

South Wales


"Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on

A woman"

His mother?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

Oh C'mon. We can't accuse the first two posters of being modern.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on

A woman

His mother?"

Probably Mrs. Armstrong the wife.

Someone had to be there to do the laundry

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

Oh C'mon. We can't accuse the first two posters of being modern. "

meow

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


"Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on

A woman"

in the studio

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

Oh C'mon. We can't accuse the first two posters of being modern.

meow"

I'd hisssssss but I don't think that's a pussy ....... is it a racoon ?

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By *agatoXXXMan
10 weeks ago

Mordor


"I'll raise the bar for you. There's 96 bags of poop on the moon.

A giant leap for mankind."

And you get fined for not binning your dog poop...

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

You said "on step", I was just asking which one they sat you on.

Now wondering if you had been naughty to be sat on the step, and so you were not able to watch the moon landing as a result!

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By *he love catsCouple
10 weeks ago

South Wales


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

Oh C'mon. We can't accuse the first two posters of being modern. "

I do all my research on TikTok thank you very much.

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

Oh C'mon. We can't accuse the first two posters of being modern.

meow

I'd hisssssss but I don't think that's a pussy ....... is it a racoon ?"

A beaver I would suggest?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

I think it went wrong when people lost their sense of humour.

Specifically, satire. We are doomed now. Humans will be pooping in their hands and wiping it on each others faces, in a couple of centuries. It will be the pinnacle of entertainment."

There's a site for that......

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By *8on33Man
10 weeks ago

winfrith


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

I’m not sure it’s going wrong, people have forgotten how to engage brain, think and research.

We use the internet to look up information, when Facebook/insta/snapchat whatever delivers information people have disengaged the BS filter. It’s unfortunately why there is a rise in populism, a lot of people believe what they are told without bothering to look it up.

Have disproved so many friends “news” as fake news over the years and show them source of fake when it started circulating etc, and the proof that counters it, unfortunately it’s too late.

Can only hope the next generations are taught how to use internet to fact check for themselves."

The internet is always factual ?

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago

A space fact I like is that if there was no vacuum and we could hear the sun from earth it’d be at a constant of 100 decibels, like being at a gig or standing next to a passing freight train

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
10 weeks ago

King's Crustacean


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

I’m not sure it’s going wrong, people have forgotten how to engage brain, think and research.

We use the internet to look up information, when Facebook/insta/snapchat whatever delivers information people have disengaged the BS filter. It’s unfortunately why there is a rise in populism, a lot of people believe what they are told without bothering to look it up.

Have disproved so many friends “news” as fake news over the years and show them source of fake when it started circulating etc, and the proof that counters it, unfortunately it’s too late.

Can only hope the next generations are taught how to use internet to fact check for themselves."

The next generation ?

I don't think lack of logic and reasoning are necessarily generational

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


"

The next generation ?

I don't think lack of logic and reasoning are necessarily generational"

I don't know, have you met any millennials?

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By *heBigLibowskiMan
10 weeks ago

Hampshire

It was honestly such a staggering accomplishment that I hardly believe it. The only way I know for sure they did it was that the Russian's never disputed it.

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By (user no longer on site)
10 weeks ago


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The next generation ?

I don't think lack of logic and reasoning are necessarily generational

I don't know, have you met any millennials?"

One try’s not to!

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By *ony MannMan
10 weeks ago

Wallop


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure."

With a good telescope you can see the landing sites, it happened.

The big question is, is it worth putting a colony on the moon. What could we bring back? Is it a low gravity place to build big ships to go to Mars. Could we survive on Mars or the Moon? Would we get bored swinging with a limited number of others?

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By *he Silver FuxMan
10 weeks ago

Uttoxeter


"Here is a poser if Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon whoem put the camera on"

The lander was built with a camera mounted externally on a landing leg to monitor the exit ladder. It wasn’t ON the moon.

“It’s easier to make everything a conspiracy when you are ignorant and don’t know how anything works”

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By *he Silver FuxMan
10 weeks ago

Uttoxeter


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

With a good telescope you can see the landing sites, it happened.

The big question is, is it worth putting a colony on the moon. What could we bring back? Is it a low gravity place to build big ships to go to Mars. Could we survive on Mars or the Moon? Would we get bored swinging with a limited number of others?"

The alternative viewpoint is that all the talk and Sci-fi movies and billionaire aspirations of leaving the earth and setting up a colony on a space station or on the moon or another planet to escape. The place where we live now is perfect, atmosphere, water, minerals, food sources, temperature, gravity, van Allen belts deflecting solar radiation… They never talk about looking after our home, the Earth, the perfect ‘space station’ on which we already live…

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By *till gameMan
10 weeks ago

two doors down


"A space fact I like is that if there was no vacuum and we could hear the sun from earth it’d be at a constant of 100 decibels, like being at a gig or standing next to a passing freight train "

My Dyson sounds like 100 decibels

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By *he love catsCouple
10 weeks ago

South Wales


"A space fact I like is that if there was no vacuum and we could hear the sun from earth it’d be at a constant of 100 decibels, like being at a gig or standing next to a passing freight train

My Dyson sounds like 100 decibels "

Mine sounded like that just before it packed in

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By *rHotNottsMan
10 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong. "

Have you actually been there and seen

It yourself ? Or did you just hear about it on tv and chose to believe? You were only three so it’s ok I spose but probably best to fact check things. It diddht really happen, the moon is made of cheese and impossible to land on

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By *agatoXXXMan
10 weeks ago

Mordor


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

Given the base of the Eagle lander is still there and has been photographed several times by different nations only a complete flat earther would still think that these days.

Here in the first two responses just shows where modern society is going wrong.

Have you actually been there and seen

It yourself ? Or did you just hear about it on tv and chose to believe? You were only three so it’s ok I spose but probably best to fact check things. It diddht really happen, the moon is made of cheese and impossible to land on "

That didn't hinder Wallace & Gromit.

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By *batMan
10 weeks ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

A fantastic achievement.

That left loads of evidence behind that proves it happened.

“If they could do it back then, why can’t they do it now?”

Easy, because no one wants to risk their life as much as they did back then.

Gbat

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By *till gameMan
10 weeks ago

two doors down


"A space fact I like is that if there was no vacuum and we could hear the sun from earth it’d be at a constant of 100 decibels, like being at a gig or standing next to a passing freight train

My Dyson sounds like 100 decibels

Mine sounded like that just before it packed in "

If mine packs in I’ll launch it to to moon

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By *ellhungvweMan
10 weeks ago

Cheltenham


"A fantastic achievement.

That left loads of evidence behind that proves it happened.

“If they could do it back then, why can’t they do it now?”

Easy, because no one wants to risk their life as much as they did back then.

Gbat "

I agree it was an amazing achievement but I think there would be a queue that would stretch over the horizon of people who would willingly risk going to the moon.

Until recently it has been _stupidly_ expensive to get into space. SpaceX has radically changed that cost equation. We will be going back and in decent numbers.

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By *heBigLibowskiMan
10 weeks ago

Hampshire


"A fantastic achievement.

That left loads of evidence behind that proves it happened.

“If they could do it back then, why can’t they do it now?”

Easy, because no one wants to risk their life as much as they did back then.

Gbat

I agree it was an amazing achievement but I think there would be a queue that would stretch over the horizon of people who would willingly risk going to the moon.

Until recently it has been _stupidly_ expensive to get into space. SpaceX has radically changed that cost equation. We will be going back and in decent numbers."

This is it - cost. To beat the Russians they had a blank cheque. Was astronomically expensive. There's much, much less funding now.

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By *batMan
10 weeks ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

I'm sure mankind will be back there again soon.

When I say no one wants to take the risk what I meant was that they will design as much risk out as possible before they go. It's been a while since any astronauts died.

This is a quirky little vid about how the US didn't have the technology to FAKE the moon landing, therefore it must have happened!!

https://earthsky.org/space/video-moon-hoax-not/

Gbat

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By *lder.Woman
10 weeks ago

Not Local


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure.

With a good telescope you can see the landing sites, it happened.

The big question is, is it worth putting a colony on the moon. What could we bring back? Is it a low gravity place to build big ships to go to Mars. Could we survive on Mars or the Moon? Would we get bored swinging with a limited number of others?

The alternative viewpoint is that all the talk and Sci-fi movies and billionaire aspirations of leaving the earth and setting up a colony on a space station or on the moon or another planet to escape. The place where we live now is perfect, atmosphere, water, minerals, food sources, temperature, gravity, van Allen belts deflecting solar radiation… They never talk about looking after our home, the Earth, the perfect ‘space station’ on which we already live…"

To Infinity and Beyond. Humans love to explore and do a bit of ransacking.

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By *aturesub60Man
10 weeks ago

Peterborough

A few hasselblad large format cameras..

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By *aturesub60Man
10 weeks ago

Peterborough

A few hasselblad large format cameras..(left on the moon)

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By *heBigLibowskiMan
10 weeks ago

Hampshire

I just read that it cost (including inflation) $257 billion ($25.8 billion in the 60s).

A quarter of a trillion dollars.

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By *heBigLibowskiMan
10 weeks ago

Hampshire

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By *egWorshipperMan
10 weeks ago

Gods Country


"But did it really happen we will never be 100 percent sure."

We are already sure it happened, they were tracked from Jodrell Bank in Cheshire all the way down onto the surface.

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By *eavilMan
10 weeks ago

Stalybridge

If the theories are correct there is enough Helium 3 on the Moon to provide clean energy for entire planet (Earth). The first country to exploit it will put the Opec nations wealth in the shade. Odds are it will be China.

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