“Brilliant idea Redwas. I would have gone "Oh my God Houston, I've got stuck like a magnet and can't move my legs". As Mission Control (and the World) looked on wondering what was going to happen next I'd have simply lifted my left leg in the air and said "JOKING!!!"

My idea of getting every six year old (and over) kid on the planet giggling. I'd have ruled the World for a minute or two!

Don't worry about any flak I'll get. Have you seen the size of these shoulders?
But what a great post Redwas. I like you. I knew I would.”

“I'd say, assuming that it all wasn't going to grind to a halt in 1972 and more earthlings were going to follow and set up residence there, "We have managed to mess up Mother Earth. How long before we destroy the moon?"”

“Ghostwriter

Have we not already started the process ? , all the debris that has been left behind put there by NASA !!!!!!!!! or was it ?”

“Redwas

Yes but you asked for the comment as the first person to step on the moon. :-)

But you have a point, humans don't even need to go there in person to mess it up.”

“Thinking about this, because there's no atmosphere up there as such, the stuff will never deteriorate. Whereas, there's a good atmosphere here at the moment. :] It's called mutual respect ;} Let's hope it doesn't deteriorate again eh, oh great members of the Fora?

This could be another good topic.... did it ever happen? Or was it all a big con? Or have we had this before?”

“I'd have said "Good evening everybody on Earth, I am on a film set somewhere in the Nevada desert, and you are all being conned, over".”

“steveodore

I actually started my first post saying that though I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, I have myt doubts about the moon landing. They say that the 'space ship' was actually tracked going there and back by Patrick Moore and other astronomers, but the images broadcast certainly weren't from the moon.

Anyway I deleted that bit because I thought it wasn't what Redwas was asking, but I'm glad you mentioned it.”

“g69,
Have the courage of your convictions.
As you know, I am very lucky as I am always right, but lesser mortals should still say what their heart tells them to.
There is no way anyone could stand a trip to the moon and survive the Van Allen belts radiation. The whole thing is a set up in my opinion, the truth is out there.”

“steveodore

Since when haven't I had the courage of my convictions?#

Redwas is a new poster (well I think s/he is though s/he is very much one of us already) and I was just trying to be on my best behaviour. He did tell me off after all :'-((”

“I would have said doe's this space suit look ok and with the angle of the camera does my bum look big in this?

I hear the space suits are quite tight fitting ...worse case scenario would be known for the first camels toe on the moon...”

“Ah - one mention of the moon landing and the conspiracy theorists are out - if there was no moon landing how do you explain the moon rock brought to earth ?”

“Who's to say it's moon rock eh John, could be off the beach at With for all we know. Just because they say it's moon rock doesn't make it so. I could walk around with a bag full of dust and say it is the mortal remains of a unicorn, doesn't mean to say it is though (although they are, and if you would like to buy them don't hesitate to ask).

If it really did happen and I was Neil Armstrong I would have said " Hey you up there, yes you ,the third astronaut on this trip, you do realise nobody is ever going to remember your name don't you?"”

“bt,
Can't see camels toe being a problem in your space suit, the nappy should hide that problem.”

“My country's proud heritage, trampled thus in the dust...

Camel's toe? Yeah but no but yeah but no but... Speaking of dust, bt, just kick around a lot and everyone's visors will be all dusted over. Your bum won't show anymore! Only trying to help. Use the urge for a funky dance as the excuse (I know you could pull it off)...

Speaking from the gent's side, I can imagine that a bad case of Small Package Syndrome would have had quite a few folk disillusioned about the whole Bold Explorer myth.

I mean, speaking as one who's only heard about it, you understand. I could be wrong.”

“In the space of a few contributions , we have lost the context of this thread , makes you wonder why one should bother to even try to make this forum interesting etc , seems to me its a case of just trying to "out do each other " shame really .

Suppose I'll get a few neg comments now .”

“Redwas

That's what happens I'm afraid.”

“Sorry stevendore but moon rocks have a unique set of chemical characteristics owing to the conditions in which they were formed - not possible to reproduce the exact conditions or chemical composition on earth - trust me, I'm a geologist. As for the Van Allen belts the astronauts were inside a double-skinned vessel with a honeycomb skeleton and the time spent in the region was to brief to have affected them.

I know a man who can check out the DNA of your unicorn, if that helps

Personally my immortal words would have been ' Hey Buzz, I can see your house from here'”

“Well I don't believe that the photos were transmitted fropm the moon. They were far too good for that.”

“Ooops, sorry Redwas :-(”

“GW69 - I watched the orginal transmission and I wouldn't have called the picture quality good. There have been enhanced versions broadcast a number of times where the quality is much better”

“Better than most CCTV films we see 43 years later”

“Surely one of those astronauts can come clean and put us out of our misery? They all read this don't they?”

“Why would they bother ?”

“Bother what? To lie? You were there John (well not actually at Cape Canaveral but watching the event) and you know how much competition there was between the USA and USSR.

If you are asking the question of the poster above you, then no they probably wouldn't bother reading this forum and if they do they are hardly going to give the game away now. :-)”

“Can't Jerry Kyle get 'em on his supersuper lie detector? Surely that would tell us if they were fibbing. Actually there's a member of this Forum Club that would be able to tell.”

“No GW - I meant why would they bother dealing with conspiracy theory nonsense - they know they were on the moon, if you can't accept it the its your problem - I bet you believe in LGM and Area 51 as well - Oh and don't forget the lone gunman”

“John1947

If you had bothered to read my post properly you would have seen I'd put

by ghostwriter69
Sunday, November 25 2012, 7:01PM

"steveodore

I actually started my first post saying that though I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, I have my doubts about the moon landing"

I have no idea what you mean by LGM and Area 51 so you must know a bit more about conspiracy theories than I do. However I do know that wozza had one about Paul Macartney's ears a few months ago.

Since when have you joined the mind police? And why so earnest?”

“When Roswell or Area 51 is mentioned some say Aliens, the more sensible say secret,but earthly
flight testing. Conspiracy theories (grassy knolls,Alien bodies) are one thing but can anyone imagine Americans,hundreds of them all keeping quiet? Capricorn one was fiction,not a documentary.

How calm was Armstrong when landing manually ?
I would have said "did you lot put enough fuel in or what?”

“I think I may have posted this already, but I'm not even saying that it didn't happen. JUST that the photos might have been rigged.

Apart from that, I don't believe on lizards running the earth or aliens landing. In my experience people just aren't 'cleaver' enough to carry them all off. I used to work at a company with more than one site and ours was struggling and some people thought that the managers, based at another site, were trying to make us fail and shut us down so their site got all the work. I knew that it was 3 really bad decisions made one after the other by stupid people that had caused all the problems.”

“I heard a thing on Capital yesterday about some plans to blow the Moon up by the USA some years ago. Surely not and why would they want to do that? Keep meaning to see if I can see anything about it on The Google. Must remember to have a little looksie....”

“"Oh my god it is made of cheese!!!"”

“Sorry GW but having retired from a career in science I get fed up of people knocking the achievements of others. Conspiracy theorists and creationists are the worst. To answer your query look at the recent photos from the Mars rovers - high quality colour photos using the same basic technique as the moon landing broadcasts. Just because a signal has to travel a greater distance doesn't mean it has to be poorer quality - you just need to allow for the time lag”

“John

If you retired from a career in science then surely you read your sources thoroughly before you took further action?

I'm not talking about the distance, I'm talking about the time - as in 1969. We'd only just got coloured TV and images were not of the quality that we have today.”

“John,
If, as you say, you have just retired from a career in science, then how do we know that you are not part of the cover up and are now gainfully employed going around various forums poo-pooing any kind of conspiracy theories that you come across, thereby perpetuating the moon landing myth and others?
You say you speak with a scientific knowledge, but for all we know you could be posting from Illuminati Towers with your co-workers Lord Lucan and ET :)”

“steveodore - Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you ;) Don't think we have a branch of the Illuminati in West Hull

GW - unless you watched the landing live as I did you won't have seen the original broadcast - it was edited and enhanced before the press or TV got hold of it.”

“John

So are you saying that you were in Cape Canaveral or do you mean you watched them 'live' as they were transmitted on TV?”

“Just been having a sniff round the interweb and apparently they are gonna slam a rocket into the moon to see what' underneath the moondust. Barmy gets. On a sub-thread (if I may) what's the thoughts of the sisters and brothers.....?”

“Watched live on TV in the early hours on German TV”

“So German TV had a broadcast that UK TV didn't?”

“Don't know about UK TV - I was posted to Germany at the time so I can't really say”

“John1947

Yes well so was my ex-husband (not in 1969 obviously) and I was with him and the TV reception was pretty poor.

Maybe this lower quality transmission that you saw was due to the German inadequate TV transmission and that the higher quality pictures shown in the UK were because we have a better TV system.

I watched a TV programme a couple of years ago giving all the reasons why people disbelieve that the moon landing happened and de-bunking them and never once was the high quality transmission put down to it being edited/enhanced.

But more important - what business of yours is it what stevedore and I believe?”

“Bored now”

“Good because I was bored when you had a bet that I believed in 'LGM and Area 51' - whatever they are.

It may annoy you when people question science, but it annoys me when people think they know you because of one post they have read.”

“After the descent I guess I would be too frightened to say a word, and millions of viewers around the world would witness that old saying of "as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit".”

“I honestly think that if it all did happen in a movie studio, surely one of the broke stage-hands would have come forward with their story and made everyone say "flippin' knew it!"”

“Next Wednesday on Channel 5 there is a programme asking if we really landed on the moon.

They must read this forum and have decided to answer us.”

“Love Channel 5, you can make a CUPPA in the ad break and everything.”

“Or you can record it - and maybe start watching 15 minutes after it starts then fast forward over the ads.

That way you can stop watching when you want a cup of tea rather than when the ad breaks allow you to have one”

“Then you'd miss the ads?!?! Best part of the programme?!?! No ta.”

“Wow. Will I? Never thought of that. So by fast forwarding over the ads I miss them do I? Nothing gets past you.”

“Back to the thread then........ what about "You put your left foot in, your left foot out......"”

“GCtheDJ

I don't really care whether or not you have the facility to record or fast forward programmes because your viewing habits are of no interest to me, but if people didn't use the fast forward facility on recorders, the manufacturers wouldn't put the facility on.

My dvd recorder doesn't have the facility to show 'pinky and perky' type recordings.

You can press the fast forward button once and it shows the programme at double speed and surprisingly most programmes can be watched like that. Especially documentaries - without missing anything. After that, I can press it again and again and there is no sound at all and the images flash past. However, I also have a 'skip' button which I have set to the approximate time the commercial breaks come on. And, on the odd occasion that I am watching commercial TV and the ads start I press this button and hey presto, I am watching the next part - and not seen one commercial.

Why this bothers you I just don't know. What difference does it make to your life as to whether or not I watch commercials? And if your constant references to my new photo isn't bullying, I don't know what is.”