Apollo 11 - 40th Anniversary

[buzzlightale]

Hi everyone

Sorry to butt into your forum but thought you might be interested in this, and I'm always keen to here from anyone else who shares my distinction of being named after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

My name is Aldrin Armstrong Wilding-West (my wife happened to be a Wilding, and with a name pairing like that, you just have to hyphenate, don't you... :)

40 years ago this July 20th, am I really that old...omg...

So....where do you sit on this...?...I personally would hate to think I'm named after the biggest hoax of the last millennium........

This my article.....I'd appreciate your views...
http://www.socyberty.com/History/Apollo-11-Moon-Landing-40th-Anniversary-Did-They-or-Didnt-They.508751

If you want to get in touch, you can email me via my site at: http://www.triond.com/users/Aldrin+Wilding+West (http://www.triond.com/users/Aldrin+Wilding+West)

[Ric]

My god, 40 years already. :eyepop:

We should at least be on Mars by now.

[Dog Star]

G'day Aldrin,
Wear your name(s) with pride mate. They were true pioneers in a very real sense.
Anyone who doesn't think that the Moon landings happened probably doesn't think much at all.:screwy:

[Ric]

I almost forgot Aldrin, welcome to IIS as well.

[Quark]

Welcome to IIS Aldrin,

Must say I agree with Phil only I probably would express it a little less tactfully.

Regards
Trevor

[GrampianStars]

we should know definitively soon with the Chinese reportedly in the vicinity ;)

I mean to the moon and back on cpu power of a cheap calculator :lol:
makes me think Bin Laden is Colonel Sanders living in Florida running a chain of KFC stores :rofl:

[Jen]

:hi::hi: :hi::hi::hi::hi:
G'day Aldrin :welcome: to IIS ;) nice to see a few UK peeps getting around here these days cheers buddy :thumbsup:
Oh and by the way be loud and proud of your name :lol: even if they didnt go to the moon they can keep a bloody good secret :rofl::whistle:
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Neil]

I was still at school at the time,when Neil Armstrong came down that ladder, the entire school where packed into a large room,glued to a B&W image.I,ll never forget the fasination on everyones face.Every one was silent listening for thoes much quoted words. To me that wasnt a hoax. Infact an inspiration to pursue our great hobby, obsession or what ever it means to you. Its time we went back, ....40 years...much too long.

[OneOfOne]

If they didn't go to the Moon, no one has explained how they got hundreds of kilos of rock samples back to Earth that display a chemistry that is totally alien to this world, the samples contain Helium 3 which does not occur on this planet and so would need to be secretly manufactured somewhere and incorporated into artificial rocks. All scientists today who examine the samples would need to be informed of the "secret"...by now more than a million people worldwide would need to be "in on it".

How did they get the parts from Surveyor back to Earth if they didn't retrieve them from one of the Apollo missions? Or did they keep a few spare parts just in case one day they had to pretend they brought them back, and store them under intense radiation in the interim.

How did they do the feather and hammer trick? Other than having a huge vacuum chamber.

Anyone that grew up in the 60's and early 70's would know that the technology that was around then would never be able to do the amount of "photo shopping" that was required. If you look at the special effects of movies even from the 1970's, they are obviously "fake" by todays standards so how could they do something so good back then. Even the best sci fi today looks to perfect to be real.

The whole thing was started by an EX NASA employee who thought the men would never survive the radiation etc. and so has a bit of an axe to grind....don't we all know "experts" who are fools?

All of the supposed evidence has been debunked on many occasions, even Myth Busters did a show on it once...but I guess they could be in on it too.

I guess if they are able to get high enough resolution pictures showing the lander still sitting there, they will say it was done in PhotoShop! I am sure if they do go back and show pictures of it all sitting on the surface, they will say that they actually put it there a few days earlier...on the back of an interplanetary trailer :lol:

I think Occam's razor says it would be easier to have actually gone to the stupid Moon rather than try to fake the whole thing and carry on the deception 40 years later. Those that think they never went should go back to Area 51 and do some real conspiracy research...:ship2: