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Topic	This poll of the day kind of actively pisses me off.
red13n 07/22/19 11:24:17 PM #80:	Waluigi1 posted... Well like the first thing I asked, why have we never been back or done anything similar? How was technology good enough to make a trip there and back so long ago? First off, we went to the moon 5 times after that. Why we didnt go back? Because its fucking expensive and the government was willing to fund it to show superiority to Russia in the midst of the cold war. Technology not good enough? Satellites began being launched into space in the late 1950s. Think about how fucking precise they got. Also remember, the gravity on the moon is different from the earth, it doesn't take nearly as much power to make the trip from the landing vehicle to the orbitting return vehicle. Not that this wasn't dangerous as hell, there was signifcant risk involved. In todays world, we probably never take that risk. But this was the cold war days and the moon landings were at their heart all about rubbing it all in to Russia. Unless your going to get all conspiracy theory about cell phones or the fact at this point mankind has literally landed rovers cleanly on fucking asteroids. But at that point you are lost. https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-astronauts-take-off-from-the-moon-to-go-back-to-Earth-How-did-they-launch-the-rocket-back Thats a good basic rundown of how it works. --- "First thing that crosses my mind: I didn't get any GameFAQs Karma yesterday." Math Murderer after getting his appendix removed. <cite>red13n posted [p:925054988] in This poll ... [t:77876674]...</cite> <quote><cite>Waluigi1 posted...</cite> <quote>Well like the first thing I asked, why have we never been back or done anything similar? How was technology good enough to make a trip there and back so long ago?</quote> First off, we went to the moon 5 times after that. Why we didnt go back? Because its fucking expensive and the government was willing to fund it to show superiority to Russia in the midst of the cold war. Technology not good enough? Satellites began being launched into space in the late 1950s. Think about how fucking precise they got. Also remember, the gravity on the moon is different from the earth, it doesn't take nearly as much power to make the trip from the landing vehicle to the orbitting return vehicle. Not that this wasn't dangerous as hell, there was signifcant risk involved. In todays world, we probably never take that risk. But this was the cold war days and the moon landings were at their heart all about rubbing it all in to Russia. Unless your going to get all conspiracy theory about cell phones or the fact at this point mankind has literally landed rovers cleanly on fucking asteroids. But at that point you are lost. https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-astronauts-take-off-from-the-moon-to-go-back-to-Earth-How-did-they-launch-the-rocket-back Thats a good basic rundown of how it works. --- "First thing that crosses my mind: I didn't get any GameFAQs Karma yesterday." Math Murderer after getting his appendix removed.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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