Thread: Moon Landing-->Loon Landing

Originally Posted by bsnub

Tin foil morons this puts a smile on my face every time I see it....

Love it!!!

Originally Posted by tomcat

...no, merely suspicious as to why you posted it on a lunar conspiracy thread...as if to suggest the moon landing was yet another conspiracy that was proven accurate...

Not yet re moon landing!!! The article was just to point out that numerous conspiracy theories where people were demonized and laughed at have turned out to be correct as time has gone on. Then you have the biggest conspiracy theory of them all that God doesn't actually exist....

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Then you have the biggest conspiracy theory of them all that God doesn't actually exist....

What a fucking retard club member. You dimwitted fool there is no god in the sky as much as you may pray away your repressed homosexuality it will not go away twinkboy. You drive a hairdressers car and love cock. Jeebus will not save you for that.

Originally Posted by bsnub

What a fucking retard club member. You dimwitted fool there is no god in the sky as much as you may pray away your repressed homosexuality it will not go away twinkboy. You drive a hairdressers car and love cock. Jeebus will not save you for that.

Oh dear, the obese imaginery Tesla driver is on the cheap booze again and a post goes straight over his inbred head.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

How about you divert some of your absurd military budget to build toilets?

That's 30 times what is spent on NASA.

Works for me..

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Oh dear, the obese imaginery Tesla driver is on the cheap booze again and a post goes straight over his inbred head.

Oh stop not one person on this forum other than Chitty would consider you smarter than I. Over the years you have humiliated yourself time and again as you continue to do so now. I am wasted it is after 0600 here yet you are easy entrapped and humiliated. Even sober you are an idiot.

Trolling your is the easiest thing ever. You always take the bait.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

God doesn't actually exist....

Originally Posted by bsnub

there is no god

So you two essentially said the same thing and there's an argument about it.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Oh stop not one person on this forum other than Chitty would consider you smarter than I. Over the years you have humiliated yourself time and again as you continue to do so now. I am wasted it is after 0600 here yet you are easy entrapped and humiliated. Even sober you are an idiot.

Trolling your is the easiest thing ever. You always take the bait.

I am smarter than you, it's not even up for debate. Only thing you win on is making shit up and being a total retard.

Originally Posted by SKkin

So you two essentially said the same thing and there's an argument about it.

Bsnub is just dumb as fuck, something most posters are aware of and no further comment is required.

Originally Posted by SKkin

How about we put that money towards rebuilding some infrastructure here at home?

until everyone is wearing a no collusion , keep calm badge then - no

do moon missions produce contrails ?

He has got a valid point Buffy...

Originally Posted by bsnub

Over the years you have humiliated yourself time and again as you continue to do so now. I am wasted it is after 0600 here yet you are easy entrapped and humiliated. Even sober you are an idiot.

Trolling your is the easiest thing ever. You always take the bait.

Originally Posted by baldrick

do moon missions produce contrails ?

I'll bet more rocket launches would contribute to climate change...

...^...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...cynicism is one thing; plain ol' stupid is another...

Speaking of stupid, antibiotics alone can't clear up h pylori in a matter of weeks.

Buzz Aldrin at it.

The guy sued because of the hit and lost.

I recently watched this interesting TED talk on:
Why do we believe things that aren't true?

Originally Posted by Takeovers

Buzz Aldrin at it.

The guy sued because of the hit and lost.

He should have hit him harder, he was still standing afterwards.

But... that wasn't bad for a 72 year old!

Originally Posted by YourDaddy

antibiotics alone can't clear up h pylori in a matter of weeks.

...medical professionals say about 2-3 weeks; witch doctors may need a year or two and the intervention of a deity...

Originally Posted by YourDaddy

antibiotics alone can't clear up h pylori in a matter of weeks.

They did for me.

Would you believe it, turns out we never actually went to the moon. Earth has no moon. But we do have what we like to call a moon, our very own, it's a prestige thing.

Lets go back billions of years, the Earth was a young planet orbiting the Sun. Back then there was no moon, and now there is, so obviously it came from somewhere.

The commonly accepted theory is that a large Mars-sized planet called Theia collided into the Earth, melting both planets and joining them together, while the collision displaced and ejected a large portion of the Earth into space. Maybe that's how the Pacific was formed, and maybe Theia also introduced the elements for life, but that's for the TD menagerie to decide. Anyway, this ocean-size volume of debris floated around for a while as gravity began pulling it together, eventually forming an object that was arrested by the Earth's pull, and after a cooling period this object became what we call the moon.



Yes squirrel, I know, they never had cams back then, this is just an artist's impression.

Scientific evidence supports this theory. Moon rock’s composition closely relates to minerals found on Earth, and much of the sample matter and minerals collected on the moon match with the minerals and materials on Earth, suggesting that both celestial bodies came from one source.

So technically the loons are right, when we went to the moon we were simply travelling to another part of the Earth, much like a whopping great continent.

Originally Posted by jabir

So technically the loons are right

...*cough*...no, they aren't...

Out of this world: Shepard put golf on moon 50 years ago
by Doug Ferguson Feb 5, 9021


In this Feb. 6, 1971, file photo, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. conducts an experiment near a lunar crater using an instrument from a two-wheeled cart carrying various test tools. Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. and his crew brought back 42 kilograms of moon rocks. Left behind were two golf balls that Shepard, who later described the moon's surface as "one big sand trap," hit with a makeshift 6-iron to become a footnote in history. (NASA via AP, File)
Fifty years later, it remains the most impressive bunker shot in the history of golf, mainly because of the location.


The moon.

Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and his crew brought back about 90 pounds of moon rocks on Feb. 6, 1971. Left behind were two golf balls that Shepard, who later described the moon's surface as "one big sand trap," hit with a makeshift 6-iron to become a footnote in history.

Francis Ouimet put golf on the front page of American newspapers by winning the 1913 U.S. Open. Gene Sarazen put the Masters on the map by holing a 235-yard shot for an albatross in the final round of his 1935 victory.

Shepard outdid them all. He put golf in outer space.

"He might have put golf on the moon map," Jack Nicklaus said this week. "I thought it was unique for the game of golf that Shepard thought so much about the game that he would take a golf club to the moon and hit a shot."

Shepard became the first American in space in 1961 as one of NASA's seven original Mercury astronauts. After being sidelined for years by an inner ear problem he became the fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as Apollo 14 commander.

But he did more than just walk the moon.

Shepard waited until the end of the mission before he surprised American viewers and all but a few at NASA who did not know what Shepard had up his sleeve—or in this case, up his socks. That's how he got the golf gear in space.

"Houston, you might recognize what I have in my hand as the contingency sample return; it just so happens to have a genuine 6-iron on the bottom of it," Shepard said. "In my left hand, I have a little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans."

He hit more moon than ball on his first two attempts. The third he later referred to as a shank. And he caught the last one flush, or as flush as an astronaut can hit a golf ball while swinging with one hand in a pressurized spacesuit that weighs 180 pounds (on Earth).

"We used to say it was the longest shot in the history of the world because it hasn't come down yet," famed golf instructor Butch Harmon said with a laugh.

Harmon is loosely connected with the shot through his relationship with Jack Harden Sr., the former head pro at River Oaks Country Club in Houston whom Shepard asked to build him a 6-iron he could take to the moon. Harden managed to attach the head of a Wilson Staff Dyna-Power 6-iron to a collapsible tool used to collect lunar samples.

The shots did come down on the moon. Still up for debate is how far they went.

"Miles and miles and miles," Shepard said in a light moment that was broadcast in color to a captive television audience watching from nearly 240,000 miles away.

Not quite. The shot for years has been estimated at 200 yards, remarkable considering how much the bulk of his spacesuit restricted Shepard's movement. He had even practiced in his spacesuit in a bunker in Houston when no one was around.

On occasion of the 50-year anniversary, British-based imaging specialist Andy Saunders provided a more accurate account. Saunders, who is working on a book called, "Apollo Remastered," worked out through digital enhancing and stacking techniques of video footage that the first shot went 24 yards. The second ball went 40 yards.

Former PGA champion Jimmy Walker hits a 6-iron about 200 yards on Earth. Walker, a space enthusiast with a skill and passion for astrophotography, worked with the USGA and Saunders as the Apollo 14 anniversary neared to see how far he could hit a 6-iron in one-sixth gravity of the moon.

"He was known for saying miles and miles," Walker said. "They took my launch conditions and said my ball would fly 4,600 yards and it would have just over a minute of hang time."

That would be a little over 2 1/2 miles.

That also would be a conventional 6-iron while wearing golf shoes and a sweater vest.

What stands out all these years later is Shepard even thinking about taking a golf club to the moon and back. The inspiration came from Bob Hope, who carried a golf club just about everywhere he went. That included a trip to Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston a year before the Apollo 14 mission.

According to USGA historian Michael Trostel, that's what made Shepard realize a golf shot would be the ideal illustration of the moon's gravitational pull. To build a club, he found the right person in Harden at River Oaks.

"He was incessant tinkerer with equipment," said Brandel Chamblee, a Golf Channel analyst and longtime friend of Harden's son. "I would tease Jack and his father, any club they got had been 'Hardenized.' No club off the rack was ever good enough for them. They always changed the lie, the loft, the bounce. They used lead tape. It was apropos he made Shepard's 6-iron."

Convincing his superiors took some doing. In a 1998 interview with NASA, Shepard said he ran his idea by the director of the Manned Spaceflight Center who told him, "Absolutely no way." Shepard told him club and two golf balls wouldn't cost the taxpayers anything. And he would only do it if the entire mission was a complete success.

Shepard said he told director Bob Gilruth, "I will not be so frivolous. I want to wait until the very end of the mission, stand in front of the television camera, whack these golf balls with this makeshift club, fold it up, stick it in my pocket, climb up the ladder, and close the door, and we've gone."

The actual club is one of the prize exhibits at the USGA Museum in New Jersey, which came with one awkward moment.

"He donates it at a ceremony at the 1974 U.S. Open," Trostel said. "NASA called him later and said it was looking at the club for the Smithsonian. He said he already had donated it to the USGA Museum. They said, 'Mr. Shepard, that's government property.' We had a replica commissioned and gave it to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum."

For years, no one knew what golf balls he used and Shepard was determined to avoid any commercialism. Chamblee and Harmon unlocked the mystery this week, and it came with a twist.

They were range balls from River Oaks.

"Within the Hardens, the legacy is he gave him golf balls from the range that had 'Property of Jack Harden' on them," Chamblee said. "Technically—if the balls aren't melted—Jack is the only person who owns property on the moon."

All because of a one-handed swing by Shepard, still the only person to hit a golf ball on the moon.

"It was designed to be a fun thing," Shepard said in the 1998 interview, five months before his death at age 74. "Fortunately, it is still a fun thing."

Out of this world: Shepard put golf on moon 50 years ago

^^^That post was one backspin would be proud of.

Lots of found material, plus a 'concluding' sentence at the end that is total fuxin bollocks.