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30 Years Since Last Man on the Moon

Honeydipper Dan writes "December 14 marks the 30th anniversary of the last man on the Moon . I haven't noticed any hoopla about this. Perhaps this event raises the subtext of why we haven't been back a little more than the first Moon landing's 30th anniversary did over 3 years ago. The Apollo 17 mission was a great success, however, and deserves to be remembered. It marked the first (and last) time a geologist was on the surface of the Moon. Meanwhile, NASA is commemorating the Wright brothers' flight of December 17, 1903, getting ready for next year's Centennial of Flight."

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  1. Celebrating the 30th moon landing anniversary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. 30 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    since i went to uranus

  3. It's all a conspiracy... by eb4x · · Score: -1, Troll

    We haven't returned to the moon because we never went there in the first place.

  4. Incorrect by crestfallentears · · Score: -1, Troll

    December 14 does not mark the 30th anniversary of the last man on the moon, but rather the 30th anniversary of the government's final attempt to trick its people into believing that it had sent men to the moon. We, of course, were not fooled. How stupid do they think we are?

  5. Profit! by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    To anymore who can make the moon would land on Soviet Russia.

    --

    Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.

  6. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by CmdrTypo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apologies, Comrade Keds. Of course, you are correct.

  7. Misleading title.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's like saying this is is the 3rd year aniversary of the end of our planet wide genetic wars, just like star trek said about it in the 60s.

    Of course the difference is that what trek says is more believable.

  8. Re:Still, some don't believe it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do some research on it. It seems fishy that spots on the moon reported as being miles away have the exact same camera position and terrain. Why would NASA release photos that have parts of the picture placed over the permanent etchings on the lens? The moon should also not have multiple light sources, but the photo's show that there was. Theres a lot of information against the landing out there.
    If you want to fork over money, there's a good video that I believe has been aired on FOX before.

  9. Re:It is a shame but... by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Troll

    We can go to the moon any time we want to.

    That fact alone means that Al Quieda will never invest in a space program. They know if they launch even a small satellite, the USA has the ability to shoot it down. The moon will never be used as a weapons base with which to threaten America.

  10. Re:This post is -1 offtopic! Mod properly! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We should meet up sometime.

    I'm a real bastard.

    I used to be a great troll, but now I'm just a bitter sonofabitch.

    Still hanging around slashdot.

    " Post Anonymously "

  11. Re:If we can afford war, we can afford space by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Troll

    Would you trade another September 11-sized attack for the ability to put another manned mission on the moon?

    Time to get your priorities straight... we're gonna get nothing done if we're not safe first.

  12. "Airplanes": Absurd liberal myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that - 100 years ago, no less - human beings blatently defied the will of God by building some kind of "flying machine" is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.

    The Liberal masterminds in Davis and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of promoting "aviation", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to shed doubt to the undeniable existence of God. If almighty God had intended for us to fly, He would have granted us the ability. The fact that the American people, the greatest on God's green earth, have deceived by such obvious fraudulence is disheartening. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "airplanes" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "airplanes" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as "The Wright Brothers" in order to legitimize their anti-religious agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly engineered machine of deception.

    Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedom to worship the one true God. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.

    A tribute to the great Right Wing Maniac

  13. Re:Wasn't Nixon responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod the parent communist troll down.
    Friends don't let friends mod drunk.

  14. I know! by Faggot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Land on a planet.

    --

    But what do I know. I'm just looking for anonymous gay sex.

  15. Something Happened to America by Baldrson · · Score: 2, Troll
    • The first Arab Oil Embargo subsequent to the Yom Kippur War.
    • Zero Population Growth became a religion among the population most likely to pioneer space and most likely to stop breeding if bound to Earth.
    • Birth control went big time.
    • The largest influx of nubile females in the history of the west spawned the Summer of Love and Sexual Revolution.
    • These soured into Disco and Women's Lib.
    • The US lost its first war.
    • Immigration laws were liberalized to a degree that seemed to demand the existing population move on to space (or somewhere).
    • Young boomer males who dreamed of developing space as youth started getting infected by a deadly virus while squealing like sows -- not in the rural hills of "Deliverance" as they had been warned -- but in the urban bathhouses as they had not been so warned.
    • We were very very worried by about former Nazis like Werner Von Braun leaving their hiding places in South American running the world with clones and hidden diamonds by exploiting dissatisfaction with poor economic conditions.
    • Stagflation defied economist theories.
    • Real estate prices inflated far faster than the wages of entry-level jobs for young couples.
    • Interest rates were set to skyrocket to 19% fixed rate for mortgages.
    • Divorce rates skyrocketed. ... and the last man on the moon stepped off.
  16. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Moon lands on YOU!