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Quote by: Plasma Snake[D]  As you all know, there are several conspiracy theories surrounding the moon landing. I never took them seriously until now. I thought about what it would realistically take in order to land on the moon, and it got me thinking that perhaps the technology available in 1969 wasnt capable of succesfully landing humans on the moon. For one thing, how would they take off from the moon? I know that the moon isnt as large as the Earth, so it would take less force to escape its gravity, but the implications of it are conflicting. In order to take off from the Earth we need these huge towers to help the spaceship along, but landing on the moon and then succesfully taking of in the FIRST attempt seems impossible to me. I mean think about it. We barely even got into space before we supposedly landed on the moon. And why is it that we havent gone back ever since then? Im sure if it was that easy we would have gone back many times with our new and improved technology. |
The first one in bold has at least two answers: I'm sure more. A. gravity (as in almost none) B. No atmosphere; hence little resistance... all of which contributed to killing our last set of astronauts who died. If that landing had happened on the moon they would have survived: until they ran out of air.
Second "bold:" because unlike JFK every Pres. after was intent to use what he started for political gain and say (without actually saying) "screw all the benefits." I'm not a JFK worshiper. He certainly did things for political gain, and this was driven by pure politics to begin with: competition with the USSR. But, in this case, the dream lived on until we reached our goal. In an Arthur C. Clarke book. Clarke has the government create an agency that funds impossible projects. What they find is that when we reach beyond who we are and what we think is possible... wonderful advances happen. Unfortunately such forward thinking is absent in most of today's crop of pols except during pure posturing. Then we find out it was all BS designed just to get them in power.