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  • The Moon. Why left alone? Or has it?
  • benz
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    I believe it has been a long time since any human visited the moon. Why?

    mikewsmith
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    Money

    zippykona
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    I believe it has been a long time since any human visited the moon

    You really shouldn’t have said that.

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    lister
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    Because in these HD days it’s too hard to fake the images.
    Back in the day you just made the film a bit grainy and everyone believed you.
    I thought everyone* knew that!

    *who know the real truths of the world…

    legend
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    Lizards

    zilog6128
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    I saw a documentary about a Nazi base on the dark side of the moon.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    *who know the real truths of the world…

    P-Jay
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    Money and it’s been studied.

    Truthfully Manned space travel is a bit of a folly these days, there’s not much benefit to building a massive craft with life support and whatnot for a human to hold something you can mount on a robot that you don’t have to bring back.

    wukfit
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    Russia have been working on spacesuits in a lunar gravity simulator, and 3ish years ago China announced they were going to put a man on the moon
    That said China’s lunar rover they landed learnt more that any astronaut that’s been, so why waste money sending a person

    vongassit
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    I’m kinda between weve never been or the nazi’s have a secret base there. maybe only nazi lizards have been.

    seosamh77
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    benz – Member
    I believe it has been a long time since any human visited the moon. Why?

    why do you want to visit the moon?

    enfht
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    The Poles could do it for half the price. Cheaper for cash.

    CountZero
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    I’m kinda between weve never been or the nazi’s have a secret base there. maybe only nazi lizards have been.

    I so hope you’re kidding…

    bikebouy
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    It’s all been done, what’s left can be done from a lab in Staines now.

    I learned the other day that’s China plonked a rover on it last year, quite why I have no idea.

    If you are interested in this, check out Quest TV for thier “space”season..

    chip
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    The Poles could do it for half the price. Cheaper for cash.

    And they will throw in a tazer

    lister
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    Where did my knowing wink go at the end of my post??? I’m not one of them!!!

    tjagain
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    The clangers got awful cross and refused permission for any more flights

    Speeder
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    Because it’s been done and it proved pretty pointless? At best it was a boys own adventure at worst a pure willy waving contest. *

    * I still always think of this when anyone mentions moon landings

    [video]https://youtu.be/Y03zBX_q4TM[/video]

    CaptainFlashheart
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    I’m not one of them!!!

    That’s what THEY want you to think.

    devash
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    Glad they’ve left it alone. Shhhhhhhhhh but there’s some great cheeky trails up there. Low gravity means some massive air.

    I took this photo last night up there on a night ride.

    You also don’t need a particularly bright front light as the moon glows.

    slowoldman
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    The Americans discovered it wasn’t made of cheese after all.

    wobbliscott
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    Pah, what do the Americans know about cheese? They think it comes out of a tube.

    vongassit
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    I so hope you’re kidding…

    user-removed
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    “A tube”?! Not in the upper echelons…
    [video]https://youtu.be/fXwvL7n7NCQ[/video]

    Ming the Merciless
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    You have seen the documentary “Iron Sky”?

    zilog6128
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    ^^^ don’t think we’ve forgotten that time you tried to crash it into the Earth back in the 80s 😡

    seadog101
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    It was actually just a bit boring and nobody could be arsed anymore.

    cloudnine
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    Cant they just send Tom Hanks again?

    scaredypants
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    China plonked a rover on it last year

    Those pics were actually at Longbridge. Much like the moon in many respects

    squirrelking
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    I learned the other day that’s China plonked a rover on it last year, quite why I have no idea.

    Pff, someone managed a B52 once…

    Northwind
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    It’s a big rock. We have them here too. We’ll go back but right now there’s not that much point.

    It’s unintuitive but manned space exploration only really made sense because we lacked the technology to do it remotely. If you just want to go and have a look and drill holes in rock there’s no reason to send a dude any more. Little robots lack the wow factor of Armstrongs but they’re way harder to make, I mean, I could make a human with a total project team of 2 but I couldn’t make a little space robot.

    tomhoward
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    trongs but they’re way harder to make, I mean, I could make a human with a total project team of 2 but I couldn’t make a little space robot.

    Recruitment of a willing second team member may prove a struggle, if you put it like that…

    ‘You’re easier than a space robot…’

    Northwind
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    tomhoward – Member

    Recruitment of a willing second team member may prove a struggle

    Correct

    Scapegoat
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    Mate of mine was working with NASA to open a Wetherspoons on the moon. They had to give up though, there was no atmosphere.

    P-Jay
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    Scapegoat – Member
    Mate of mine was working with NASA to open a Wetherspoons on the moon. They had to give up though, there was no atmosphere.

    Sounds perfect for a ‘spoons

    akira
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    There would still be that one guy sitting outside with a pint at 9am though.

    jekkyl
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    whatever happened to plans for tourist flights to the moon for the mega rich?

    funkmasterp
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    Ger off mi land ya bastards!

    wobbliscott
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    We will go back to the moon and we will build a manned base there, especially since we know there is water ice there, so a good staging post for manned missions further afield. However we’re not going there until we’ve invented these….

    mikey74
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    We’ll go back once we’ve developed an economic way to mine the hell out of it.

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