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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    Un manned you say?
    You would thing they could pick up some 50 year old technology cheap that was 100 percent reliable back in the day to take some blokes back there.
    Oh, is it that pesky radiation thing?
    China has a rover currently on the "dark" side of the moon. The most interesting part of that project is that in addition to getting the thing there, they also had to launch a satellite so the rover could "see" the telemetry feeds (including video) and bounce them back to Earth.

    India was set to launch yesterday I think but aborted with about an hour to go on their count down.

    One of my favourites recently was about five years ago the joint US/European mission to land a rover on mars. They miscalculated the entry velocity and instead of going 100kph the thing was going 100mph and formed a satisfyingly large impact crater......
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    China has a rover currently on the "dark" side of the moon. The most interesting part of that project is that in addition to getting the thing there, they also had to launch a satellite so the rover could "see" the telemetry feeds (including video) and bounce them back to Earth.

    India was set to launch yesterday I think but aborted with about an hour to go on their count down.

    One of my favourites recently was about five years ago the joint US/European mission to land a rover on mars. They miscalculated the entry velocity and instead of going 100kph the thing was going 100mph and formed a satisfyingly large impact crater......
    Apparently there are temp sensors on the moon with 50 year old batteries that still work, transmitting live in real time as we speak. Amazing! https://www.businessinsider.com.au/n...18-6?r=US&IR=T
    Its astonishing that a walkie talkie transmitted dialogue of the first moon walk in real time faultlessly, the first time it was used live from 384,000 km away though a belt of radiation.
    The radio in my van can't even pick up Coast from just out of Taihape.

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    The same people who believe in invisible friend have to touch wet paint to see if its dry.

    I do recall reading back in the day Chariots of the Gods and other twaddle but that was before it was supercharged by the internet........or was it really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    They had a lot of failures. So did the Mrkns... check out some of the youtube footage from Redstone/Saturn etc. The fantastic thing about a rocket failure is there is no "oopsie" lets just pull over here and pop the hood and check out what went wrong...... by definition almost, it either works flawlessly or there are bits of the vehicle scattered about a wide area downrange. Fun times.

    You know how at present (apart from SpaceX) humanity's only heavy lift capacity to LEO is via Russia? That is what happened to those rocket motors once they got their shit working. Very reliable. (now)....
    Yeah but USA still has the many missles in the silos that will need decommissioning these as far as i know were actually based on saturn and atlas and titan.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman
    From what i understand Russia has long held the edge in big rockets as the Yanks concentrated on the shuttle program.
    But what i was saying is the Soviets were according to the soundbite i seen ready to go but the blow up delayed the program and the yanks got their first.

    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    Un manned you say?
    You would thing they could pick up some 50 year old technology cheap that was 100 percent reliable back in the day to take some blokes back there.
    Oh, is it that pesky radiation thing?
    that tech clearly wasn't that reliable back then.
    pretty sure the computing power on the nav system was about 64K

    Okay not even that
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

    Quote Originally Posted by SaferRides View Post
    They did build a couple of lunar rovers, which they used at Chernobyl to clean up radioactive debris.
    i never heard that one nice.
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    A safe return from the moon was by no means guaranteed. Apparently there was a plan by which the astronauts would commit suicide should a return to earth not be possible. Nixon had a condolences speech prepared in case that became necessary.

    Husaberg, the Israelis launched a moon lander just a few weeks ago, it was supposed to do a soft landing but alas, it just went splat. That's pretty bad, but I guess it could have missed the moon completely which would've been worse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by russd7 View Post
    wasn't there, but I do have it on very good authority that the earth does rotate around the moon. . . .
    Oh c'mon what twaddle.

    Of course they didn't fly through the heavens.

    They would have bumped into God. And he would have been a bit cross.

    I'm pretty sure satellites are fictitious, and there is a secret deep sea radio network to replace it. The 'pictures are just a software algorithm of what they think should be there supplemented by drones'
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    I was asked yesterday if I remembered the Moon landing in 69. lol (it happened as I recall at night).
    I was 20 years old,terribly pissed,and in some sheilas flat in Majoribank St', Wgton.
    A fine effort as later I climbed on the roof of my near new Ford Escort and dented it (popped it out from inside !).
    Yes I remember well !!!!!!!!!!

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    I don’t get why people don’t think they were technologically up to it at the time, the shuttle was in operation only a decade or so later and that was demonstrably not fake and also remarkably reliable considering.

    ICBMs, supersonic aircraft, stealth bombers were all around and fully functional long before the internet spawned the opinion-trumps-fact smartphone conspiracy theory era.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post

    Husaberg, the Israelis launched a moon lander just a few weeks ago, it was supposed to do a soft landing but alas, it just went splat. That's pretty bad, but I guess it could have missed the moon completely which would've been worse.
    For their shape-shifting lizard overlords? where is Oldracy's 100 posts about it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by roogazza View Post
    I was asked yesterday if I remembered the Moon landing in 69. lol (it happened as I recall at night).
    I was 20 years old,terribly pissed,and in some sheilas flat in Majoribank St', Wgton.
    A fine effort as later I climbed on the roof of my near new Ford Escort and dented it (popped it out from inside !).
    Yes I remember well !!!!!!!!!!
    You must have been seriously pissed because it happened during the day. We listened to it during 3rd form science.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nerrrd View Post
    I don’t get why people don’t think they were technologically up to it at the time, the shuttle was in operation only a decade or so later and that was demonstrably not fake and also remarkably reliable considering.
    So explain why no Shuttle is flying now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaferRides View Post
    You must have been seriously pissed because it happened during the day. We listened to it during 3rd form science.
    Did it? my first memory of TV was being woken up by my parents to watch that event
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaferRides View Post
    You must have been seriously pissed because it happened during the day. We listened to it during 3rd form science.
    Was it a recording?
    We had it played to us on a record player at school
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    Is it possible that they could have replayed it? Did they have the technology back then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    So explain why no Shuttle is flying now.
    They had to stop using it because NASA couldn't afford the rego.
    It'll be back in the air soon though, now that it's a classic
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