by Black Man 89 Replies latest jw friends
Either way, it was a huge waste of money that could have accomplished something way better for humanity.
ya mean like discovery of non-radioactive Helium 3 where couple of tons can produce energy needed for the entire year of energy hungry country such as US of A. Not to mention that there's enough of it to mine it for many generations to come and it is non-polluting ...
I think the name of the tile they left behind proves it was all fake,
the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector
Now come on, who's gonna believe that?
Here's the vid. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4166049933953240830
There are also those who surmise that we are not real - we are just illusory dreams.
How could such a fabulously large conspiracy ever hold up? There were thousands of people involved in the space program - surely someone would have cried 'foul' in all these years while approaching death and wanting to clear his/her conscience? Impossible.
I enjoyed the fantasy of 'Capricorn 3', but never used it as basis for reality.
Jeff
Retro-Reflector is just a fancy name for a very old method of having a series of prism under I think 42 degrees angles (I'll have to check exact figure) that shots the beam back along the same line it came from. If they used ordinary mirrors even slightest imperfection might mean that light beam coming back would have missed the entire earth let alone the target in California.
ya mean like discovery of non-radioactive Helium 3 where couple of tons can produce energy needed for the entire year of energy hungry country such as US of A. Not to mention that there's enough of it to mine it for many generations to come and it is non-polluting ...
Lol, some of us can read and think.
Excerpt from first article:
Even so, the capital needed to support such a venture could amount to about $10-15 billion over a 15-year period.
"Is $15 billion an unreasonable capital requirement on the part of the private sector? Probably not," he said, citing the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline and the Eurotunnel as private projects that cost a similar amount of money. "We're talking about a scale of investment that is not outside the scale of what has already happened."
Lol, the two examples cited were rife with cost overuns, far exceeding the forecasted cost, not to mention the cost of maintenance and replacement. The Alaska Oil pipeline is due for wholesale relacement, as it was designed for a 20 year shelf life, and maintenance costs are skyrocketing because it's replacement is already ten years past due As for the Chunnel, similar story.
Also, the moon is known to be a major influence on Earth's tides, so screwing with it is not a wise step for human life, or any of Earth's life for that matter.
On top of which we have the cost of running the bloated carcass of NASA for these past decades being dwarfed by it's typically runaway costs when running any and all of it's programs:
http://www.spaceprojects.com/iss/
In conclusion, as of the Summer of 2000 the cost estimates for the U.S.A.'s share of the lone remaining space station were around $100 billion. This figure is broken down as follows:
INITIAL DESIGN PAPERWORK -- $10 billion
HARDWARE -- $25 billion
SHUTTLE SERVICING COSTS -- $20 billion
MAINTENANCE -- $41 billion
YEAR 2001 COST OVERRUN (disclosed immediately AFTER the presidential election of 2000): $5 billion.
ROFLMAO@allowing NASA to continue it's waste of taxpayers money- what a frikkin' joke.
What a waste of resources that could feed the hungry, clothe and shelter the poor and needy!
Screw NASA- time to stop the spending of taxpayer money on that bureacratic waste of an agency!
MORE EGREGIOUS NASA COST OVERRUNS:
MORE ON NASA WASTE OF MONEY:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NASA+spending+decades&btnG=Search
NASA has blown TRILLIONS of US taxpayer dollars to provide just what exactly? Anything even remotely worth the expenditures? Nope, nada, zilch, zero.
Privatize it, I say.
BA- My two pence.
funny isn't it, except that you missed the entire point. Helium 3 in the moon samples alone proves that they did land on the moon. And on another point, from what I have heard is that if US won't go EU, India, China and Russia certainly will. There's gotta be something there that far outweighs the set up costs otherwise they wouldn't be thinking of it. And yes many private companies are already thinking of it and doing calculations and planning various joint ventures. Heck there is even slingshot around the moon planned for paying tourists from next year for 100 million US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfSENkvJXY
funny isn't it, except that you missed the entire point. Helium 3 in the moon samples alone proves that they did land on the moon.
Wrong. You must have missed this excerpt from the same article:
"Earth's inventories of Helium 3 are very low"
So having a sample of Helium 3 proves nothing, it exists on Earth as well.
Time to eviscerate the bloated carcass of NASA and privatize.
BA- Govmint's got no bidness taxin' US citizens for such ventures.
Faking it once... maybe. They went several times. If you ever get to the Cape, Houston or Huntsville there are just too many people working for NASA and it's contractors for some one to spill documentable beans after 30 years.
~Hill
The moon landings were real.
A few years back I got all excited about the conspiracy theory and really dug in to it, and for a short period of time I actually believed it based on all the surface evidence.
Sadly, the more I looked in to it, on a point by point by basis, and dug below the surface, it all fell apart like a house of cards.
Kind of reminds me of something else I used to believe in...
The Oracle
