Off Topic 50 years on...Apollo 11
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The conspiracy theorists were helped in no small part by the release of the film 'Capricorn 1' which depicted a hoax landing on Mars.
Exactly 30 years and one week later, Slipknot released wait and bleed.
There’s a far more fascinating tale in that than 2 men in a studio dressed up like astronauts.
There’s a far more fascinating tale in that than 2 men in a studio dressed up like astronauts.
Apparently, Neil Armstrong was asked if, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," were his words or those supplied by NASA. He replied the words were supplied to him and when asked what he would have said in his own words he replied, "Open your mouth Mrs. Jones."
As a young boy his neighbours were Mr. And Mrs. Jones and one Sunday afternoon, young Neil was playing under their bedroom window and he heard Mrs. Jones say to her husband, "A man will walk on the moon before I let you put that thing in my mouth."
As a young boy his neighbours were Mr. And Mrs. Jones and one Sunday afternoon, young Neil was playing under their bedroom window and he heard Mrs. Jones say to her husband, "A man will walk on the moon before I let you put that thing in my mouth."
I must have seen it on the telly but I can't remember it. I was 7 at the time.
In a related story though as you go through life some things you can never forget and for me one of those is the wow moment of seeing the huge Saturn 5 rocket compared to the tiny capsule that the 3 astronauts came back in at Cape Canaveral.
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I never fully appreciated until recently how accomplished Buzz Aldrin is. Distinguished military service, academic qualifications to phd level, as well as astronaut. While I don’t generally condone violence, anyone calling him a liar and a coward is due what’s coming.
I think if there had been any evidence that it was a hoax the Russians would have been all over it .
Absolutely, and bearing in mind that the Apollo programme employed nearly 400,000 people with the support of over 20,000 business and universities, the odds of all those people keeping the hoax a secret for 50 years, are slim at best. Not to mention all of the amateur astronomers and independent observers including Jodrell Bank and a grammar school in Kettering monitoring events as they happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings
Or all of their friends, families and neighbours. I saw somewhere (maybe somebody can find it) that it would have cost twice as much to hoax the moon landing as it would to actually go to the moon.
I think the BBC transmission didn't start 'til a couple of hours later, say around 11:30 pm GMT. I'm pretty sure I'm recalling correctly as I was staying at my then current girlfriend's parents in Sandwich, Kent, that night, a couple of days before my birthday.
It must have been around 2:30 a.m.(GMT) when Armstrong laid his foot on the moon's surface - I must retrieve the photo's (B & W) I took off the telly when that action was taking place, to confirm the actual time. Come to think of it, there would be no time stamp as digital cameras had not been invented yet.
Unbelievable moment in history, The girlfriend stayed awake to watch until about 3 or 4 a.m. Her parent & sister had sodded off to bed about mid-night.
Happy days.
the sad thing is it was 50 bloody years ago
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