We literally went to the moon. how fucking cool is that?

Who's holding this against you?

Me. I hold it against him.

proof?

Yes

Just think, in 50-100 years time there won't be anyone around that witnessed the moon landings. Our technological and societal degradation will be at a point where most people won't even be able to comprehend the fact that we went to the moon. Most people won't understand why anyone would even want to go to the moon, I mean why would anyone want to leave the comfort and safety of the home, where they can browse facebook and watch reality tv all day? More and more 'evidence' will surface that the moon landings were faked, and it will be easier for people to believe that it was all fake, rather than admit that we achieved in the 1960's what will be impossible to us in 2060's.

Just stop for a moment and think of it differently. How much pollution did the industry spew for that specific stunt? Was it worth it? Are we and the planet better off?
Seeing the fumes from one small rocket launch is enough to make a person's hair stand, and that's with modern technology. I literally weep thinking how it was before when nobody opposed environmental destruction out of ignorance.

Shoo, hippie, shoo!!

I think the internet is a more important succes

I bet your existence alone caused more harm to the environment than the moon landing did. Were you worth it?

>Our technological and societal degradation
I really wouldn't assume there's any degradation.
The Apollo program wasn't the last stand of a dying golden age, it was a historical freak accident.

>How much pollution did the industry spew for that specific stunt?
Very little. The rockets might have looked impressive, but the program was mostly people sitting at desks.

we should use harmonic drive hubs in all wheeled vehicles

This is a science board gtfo you giant pussy

We gotta get off this rock eventually. Stop whining about how you don't like it you insufferable vegan faggot.

in your dreams?

nigga why you posting on Veeky Forums. did you not think of all the elctricity you wasted and all the coal that was burned just so you coul;d post this? think about the environment nigga. you supporting strip mining coal and ruining everything.

Who's we, white man?

>We made a trip from our planet to our planet's natural satellite.
That being the extent of our live space travel might qualify us as the most retarded lifeform in the galaxy. We're basically space abbos, this is nothing to be proud of.

>Were you worth it?
1080p Kek detected

>implying we did

I think the Apollo program is the greatest accomplishment in human history. Hominids have been looking at the moon for +1 million years, and now we've finally actually set foot there.

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>AEIOU

>We're basically space abbos
How do you know that there aren't other life forms out there who are less intelligent than us but more intellgent than, say, a lizard?

How do we know there are other life forms out there at all? All we know for sure is that we haven't found anything.
Even if there is other life out there, would it even CARE about space travel? Or us?

>I don't consider an achievement good so it is worthless and everyone is retarded
The moon landings were and still are a grand achievement to be proud of
No matter how far we go, it will always be our one giant leap for mankind

Landing on the moon less than a century after planes were invented is pretty goddamn impressive

What do you mean by "we", Peasant?

we as humans excluding the monkeys like you who only exist to shitpost

Wasn't there a short time that they were worried that landing would sink them into it like quicksand?

That was one of the theories that Surveyor was sent to test. I think the possible ideas went from
>its a hard rock with a cm of dust on top
to
>a rocky core covered in hundreds of feet of talcum powder

no you didn't, it was proven to be a hoax now fuck off

very cool. i love reading about Wernher von Braun and the NASA projects that lead to the moon landing. Building a rocket is the holy grail of engineering. A rocket looks so much simpler than a plane but is so much more complicated and powerful. A rocket has oxygen tanks that mixes with the fuel at the exit what is really amazing for me. All the technology it needs to fly is inside that thing while planes are incredible depended of their environment. The only thing that upsets me is that a rocket is just another device that heats up our atmoshere. we also don´t really know how our atmosphere really works in higher layers so we don´t know how much damage we are doing.
It´s still great to see this industry building up even though it just does for obvious economical reasons.

youtu.be/TkmmyXb9Svw

>I think the Apollo program is the greatest accomplishment in human history
Now the official primary objective of the agency that accomplished it is to make sandniggers feel better about themselves.

Save us, Elon.

Will conservatives please stop with that nonsense and at least try to educate themselves on the topic a bit?

And no, Elon's promises are not realistic or any way feasible in the near future.

moar moon porn

>And no, Elon's promises are not realistic or any way feasible in the near future.

A fucking city on Mars is not realistic, however a fully reusable rocket reducing launch costs by an order of magnitude is entirely realistic. That much became clear the moment a Falcon stage was reflown. It is mere engineering rather than science.

What's unrealistic about FH and a moon flyby versus a launch system and crew vehicle that were just started from scratch because a certain president took a steaming shit on Constellation?

the ALSJ is an incredible resource. Literally everything is in it

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It will probably become infused in religious myth in 500 years, they will no loinger take it literal.

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That's a nice boulder

but can't cure balding

sorry to hear that user

Comparison is the thief of joy.

my greatest fear is a St. Leibowitz future

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that streak you see is there Pete brushed dust off of the surveyor TV mirror

feel free to go through the image libraries yourself

link
hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

>mfw nasa or space-x announces they will have a woman be the first to set foot on mars
Fucking stop and grow a pair.

There are almost certainly animals on other planets, I'm only comparing us to alien peope though, not to alien animals.
Given the size of the observable universe, the amount of time elapsed since the big bang, and the lack of hard limits on space travel (e.g. it's not physically impossible to colonize other star systems in any absolute way), I would be surprised if no one made figured out how to do to other stars and planets what we did by analogy when colonizing other lands on Earth.
In which case a civilization that only makes it as far as its own nautral satellite would be analagous to an aboriginal tribe compared to a colonizing empire in Earth history terms.
We're also located in a random offshoot of space compared to the more densely packed / centralized regions of space that are probably where the civilized aliens live.

apollo17.org plays the video and audio from its namesake mission on an infinite loop, plus thousands of pictures. But right now the site's not loading for me.

Then Jack Schmitt is publishing a very wordy diary of his experience one chapter at a time. Search for Diary of the 12th Man, I think it's called.

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Feels like the lost technology of ancient Rome and we are on the brink of the dark ages.
Access to information is killed with missleading spam.
Democracy is steered by propaganda.
Anything useful becomes uneconomical as the only worthwhile occupation is tapping to financial mechanisms.

No one has been to the moon in 45 years, and there are no plans to return. I sometimes wonder why "we" even bothered.

I'm not so sure. The Columbus voyages were 500 years ago, but we still believe they actually happened.

So long as she has a feminine penis I'm cool with it.

The first feet on Mars will belong to a black Muslim gay transexual refugee.

Just how I like it

>implying

Literally just luck, had the gravity be a little higher, like 11 and it would be still impossible

funny you mention that

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe

it's one spooky wikipedia article. Makes you (honestly) think

If Earth's gravity was higher we would have evolved to withstand higher gravity and thus could tolerate more extreme launches required to escape Earth.

it's assuming society degenerates into a sort of post-roman dark era which all indicators show it will. this age of learnedness and modernity is temporary.

Its not about human resistance you nigger, its because fuel wouldnt give enough power to escape the earth, the fuel/total mass is alreadt like 95%

Who the fuck is "we"?

Some people went to the moon. And they used a shitload of resources to get there, which made my breakfast cereal more expensive. Fuck them for making my cereal more expensive.

How did the moon program make cereal more expensive?

more money to nasa => less money for subsidizing corn

No.

Its a simple supply and demand economics principle.

By buying the limited amounts of raw materials needed to launch rockets into space, you raise their price. (More demand = higher price, literally the first thing they teach you in economics 101) Therefore, the price of the raw materials needed to maintain farm and transport equipment goes up, causing the price of the end product to go up for the consumer.

This is a fundamental concept that many of the smartest people in society do not understand. It essentially proves that consumerism is morally bankrupt.

>the fumes from one small rocket launch
RUINING OUR ATMOSPHERE WITH ALL THAT HYDROGEN... AND OXYGEN!
You think those things run on unleaded, you prolapsed anus of a man?

>humanity can never launch rockets or try to leave Earth because it might make some other stuff a tiny bit more expensive
Food and farms are massively subsidized in America so this is not an argument

>retarded nonsense
>t. bloated morally bankrupt consumer

Sad. lol

Comfy video of how the moon rocket works:

youtube.com/watch?v=8dpkmUjJ8xU

Is there any interesting landscape on the moon? Because all I see is a grey desert with some hills here and there.
Any canyons or cliffs? Something worthy of a postcard?