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47 Years Ago Today, Apollo 11 Landed On the Moon (foxnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: At this point 47 years ago we had begun our orbit around the Moon," writes Buzz Aldrin in a tweet. Today, Wednesday, July 20th, 2016, marks the 47th anniversary of when NASA astronauts landed on the moon for the very first time. Fox News reports: "Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted off from Earth on a massive Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969. Four days later, the Eagle module landed on the surface with Aldrin and Armstrong inside; Collins stayed behind in the orbiting Columbia craft. Millions of people back on Earth watched, captivated, as Armstrong was the first down the ladder, then uttered his now-famous line: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' The astronauts eventually returned to Earth, splashing down four days later in the Pacific. On the moon, an American flag and a plaque that read, in part, 'We came in peace for all mankind,' remained." To this day, only 12 people have ever walked on the moon. Hopefully, that number will increase within the next decade. NASA is also celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Viking 1 lander's arrival on Mars. Viking 1 was the first American craft to land on the red planet on July 20, 1976.
Well, there are dates that are important in our collective consciousness. 11/22/63, 07/20/69, 09/11/01. Get it ?
No idea what you are talking about.
I didn't even know there was a 22nd month.
Now that would be something worthy of Slashdot.
Nixon couldn't successfully cover up a simple burglary involving a handful of people, but he was able to cover up a fake moon landing involving tens of thousands?
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One small punch for one main,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Unfortunately video technology has come so far that the next big space hoax will probably fool most of the world all over again. I have one word for you all: electrogravitics.
Or you could have just used the ISO standard format, which also has the nice property that it's easy to sort: yyyy-mm-dd. ISO dates are big endian. UK dates are little endian. US dates are VAX byte order.
Bah, who wants universal when my way is right!
Sure, we believe you. That makes TOTAL sense. Re-entry is impossible:
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/moontravel.htm
Look at the shape of the re-entry module: the broadest part (the heat shield) allegedly faces into the atmosphere and magically stays that way all the time! Despite being constantly buffered by the atmosphere at 11,000 m/s! You seriously don't think that the module would immediately start spinning? And kill the occupants due to centrifugal force? Not to mention that all parts of the module would be heating up now, instead of the heat shield?
It can't be all staged so far.
I've personally talked to Sandra Bullock from Greenland while she was reentering with the Chinese module.
I am Aningaaq in person!
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.