I never said anything about the US being the first

 

We haven't been to the moon in so long because there are transformers that crash landed on it!!!! Haven't you guys seen Transformers 3? Pure truth!

 

There are so many benefits that have been reaped from space exploration.. Its all around everyone who lives a modern life.. Pushing the limits of whats possible is what humans do. If it were not in our nature to do that we would still be living in caves. Our ancestors explored and settled the world. It up to us and our descendants to do the same thing in the galaxy and the universe in general..

 

Don't you people know that tin foil hats wont protect you. You gotta to get a armadillo helmet.

 

The last trip anyone made to the moon woke up the decepticons.

 

Without space exploration, we would not have velcro, serious, do the research, I know I couldn't live without velcro.

 

Hook and Loop was invented way back in 1948.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro


Space exploration hadn't begun then.

Popular misconception, tho. Some think the Vulcans gave it to us.

The space program found practical uses for it.

 

I think the true reason we have not been back is we were driven off by The Clangers & The Soup Dragon!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3d3...eature=related

 

I read this entire thread and really enjoyed it...That is all ha.

 

There was a movie where the government faked a moon landing, can't remember its name.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One

Sez it's a Mars landing inspired by those who don't believe in space travel.


Barb Streisand's husband stars in it. O.J., too.

 

Doesn't anyone remember that in 1567, Galileo transported the moon to Alpha Centuari using da Vinci's forgotten "laser" technology? That is why Mona Lisa is a painting instead of a laser etching--no one was "rad" enough to appreciate lasers at the time.

Galileo replaced the moon with a holographic image, also first found in Leo's notebooks...

 

And, here's another way to look at it. You may have seen satellite image photos on Google maps, Google Earth, etc. Those are taken from a distance of a few hundred miles away, with excellent high-power optics -- and in the best ones, you can see the cars on a parking lot.

The moon is about 235,000 miles away, or about 800-1000 times as far as those satellite photos. The lunar lander chassis is well under two car-lengths long -- so there's no way you're going to be able to spot objects that size from as far away as the moon is. And the other stuff they left there is much smaller than the chassis.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44411123/?GT1=43001

 

I was about to post something similar

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...llo-sites.html