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Topic	This poll of the day kind of actively pisses me off.
NFUN 07/22/19 9:21:59 PM #60:	Actually, there's quite a lot of evidence that the Moon landing was faked. Well, "faked" is a strong word. It's pretty undeniable by detectable debris and experiment that something got there, but actual humans? Give me a break. The Moon was landed upon in 1969; not by living people but by an unmanned probe. The Saturn V is roughly comparable to modern rockets in term of sophistication (the only substantial change has been in being recoverable). Even so, age adds a gravitas that can't easily be replicated by even the most rigorous theory and vigorous testing. The technology was still seen to be in its nascency and the government was loathe to run the risk of real humans dying in this mission. The Mercury fire that killed a few astronauts including Alan Shepherd was embarrassing enough. Have you read the speech Nixon was to give in the event the mission was a failure? Imagine the demoralizing effect that this hugely publicized event ending in disaster would impose. At least this way if the lander failed NASA could claim that the astronauts aborted the mission and merely orbited the moon and returned home safely. Despite this being the age before dramatic miniaturization and the computers being awfully crude by modern standards, the computers aboard the craft were capable of executing the pre-programmed routines enough to get the job done, with only a little real-time calculation being done to adjust throttle while landing. Even with all of weight that the computers added to the mission, the lack of a requirement for life support and dramatic reduction in redundancy and supplies nearly doubled the delta-v achievable by the upper stages, which brought the feasibility of the mission from "just about impossible" to "perhaps doable?". When you get down to it, you only have proof that something landed on the Moon, not necessarily people. Of course, a man was needed to place the flag and the other miscellany left behind, at least in the organized way we know today. This, naturally, was what was filmed in Kubrick's famous soundroom. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 winner: Terraria Calamity - Scourge of the Universe <cite>NFUN posted [p:925049569] in This poll ... [t:77876674]...</cite> <quote>Actually, there's quite a lot of evidence that the Moon landing was faked. Well, "faked" is a strong word. It's pretty undeniable by detectable debris and experiment that something got there, but actual humans? Give me a break. The Moon was landed upon in 1969; not by living people but by an unmanned probe. The Saturn V is roughly comparable to modern rockets in term of sophistication (the only substantial change has been in being recoverable). Even so, age adds a gravitas that can't easily be replicated by even the most rigorous theory and vigorous testing. The technology was still seen to be in its nascency and the government was loathe to run the risk of real humans dying in this mission. The Mercury fire that killed a few astronauts including Alan Shepherd was embarrassing enough. Have you read the speech Nixon was to give in the event the mission was a failure? Imagine the demoralizing effect that this hugely publicized event ending in disaster would impose. At least this way if the lander failed NASA could claim that the astronauts aborted the mission and merely orbited the moon and returned home safely. Despite this being the age before dramatic miniaturization and the computers being awfully crude by modern standards, the computers aboard the craft were capable of executing the pre-programmed routines enough to get the job done, with only a little real-time calculation being done to adjust throttle while landing. Even with all of weight that the computers added to the mission, the lack of a requirement for life support and dramatic reduction in redundancy and supplies nearly doubled the delta-v achievable by the upper stages, which brought the feasibility of the mission from "just about impossible" to "perhaps doable?". When you get down to it, you only have proof that something landed on the Moon, not necessarily people. Of course, a man was needed to place the flag and the other miscellany left behind, at least in the organized way we know today. This, naturally, was what was filmed in Kubrick's famous soundroom. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 winner: Terraria Calamity - Scourge of the Universe</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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