Comments on: The moon landing

By: Murray

Murray — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:17:43 +0000

Very origional Chris, repeat the whinge of the small minded like it has meaning.

There is a list of benefits and advances from the manned space program. It comes in BOOK form. NASA is also one the best investments available returning $7 worth of research results for each dollar invested. There’s a lot of people who are a. alive b. have a much higher quality of life because of manned space program.

Make at least the slightest effort to get a hint of what you’re talking about first. Either that or enjoy the gloom in the back of your cave since you seem to prefer it.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:26:25 +0000

Why would we want to put men on mars? Waste of billions of dollars that could be spent on the poor. or a whole host of things.

By: Gumby

Gumby — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:49:01 +0000

Starvation is not the problem. It’s a solution. Over population is the problem. Space travel offers a nicer solution.

By: Kapital

Kapital — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:26:41 +0000

Hm i always thought that landing on the moon when a good proportion of the planet struggled to find enough to eat was immoral at best.
However i will concede If they did find enough to eat at least they could have cooked it in nonstick fry-pans

By: kaya

kaya — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:37:51 +0000

“Compare that to earlier explorers, Everest and North/South Pole pioneers, Columbus, Cook etc – they were going into a much bigger unknown and had to survive by their wits for extended periods of time.”

I think sitting in a tin can on top of a fuel tank with over 3.6 million litres of fuel waiting for someone to light the fuse gets the nod from me.
I remember as an 11 year old being fascinated with the buildup. The facts and figures, explaining angles and velocity and what could happen if they got anything wrong. All done with computers less powerful than a modern day warehouse calculator.
The countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7…….was nerve wracking.
I achieved an ambition when I went to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston and got my pic taken beside the Saturn V replica lying on it’s side. Huge! What blew me away most was looking at the engines – when you see the nuts and bolts (literally) up close and the metres of small bore stainless steel pipe, all put in by hand, you realise this ain’t the Starship Enterprise!

By: Foxton

Foxton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:35:55 +0000

Hurf Durf what does Sinoboo mean? Also just because Rudd is a Sinophile doesn’t stop him from acting in what he believes (rightly or wrongly) to be his country’s best interests even if it will annoy China. Example – Australia’s planned military build up

By: Hurf Durf

Hurf Durf — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:55:46 +0000

Not particularly.

Lange screwed over Australia and the US with his anti-nuke ludditry. China is buying up African resources like it was going out of fashion, and Krudd is a well-known Sinoboo who wants Chicom meat in his mouth. Won’t be too long until SNOOC is exploring the Taranaki fields and shipping in Pacific Islanders to work in near-slave conditions.

By: philu

philu — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:37:24 +0000

you are a tad scattered/confused/disjointed..in yr thinking there hurf..

..i might just leave you to it..i think..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Banana Llama

Banana Llama — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:37 +0000

All i can remember about the Berlin wall coming down was my mum forced me to wear a florescent tracksuit outfit, repressed memory’s should stay repressed =(

By: Hurf Durf

Hurf Durf — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:07:54 +0000

“and they will rush down to protect us..eh..?”

No. I wouldn’t expect them to. Not since the ANZUS betrayal, anyway (Thanks again Lange!). But then, they won’t swallow our resources and government whole in their quest for power and control, like they’re doing in Australia and Africa.

By: philu

philu — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:02:16 +0000

btw hurf..i think it was about 1984..

(around about when you were born..eh..?..)

..that i last used smack..

so you can stop ‘getting off’ on that..

…eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: philu

philu — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:00:46 +0000

yeah hurf..and they will rush down to protect us..eh..?

you are young..

..aren’t you..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Hurf Durf

Hurf Durf — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:30:11 +0000

Heh, in your smack-riddled dreams, phool. I know you’d love to be a slave to the Chinese dragon (which is basically what NZ foreign policy has been post-Lange) but there are quite a few who do not, and who appreciate American power and protection in the Pacific (quelle horreur!).

By: Foxton

Foxton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:25:48 +0000

Glutaemus Maximus “With all respect to Polynesian intrepid exploration, wouldn’t it make sense for a Maori Only, Moon landing?”
I’m a little confused, can you clarify what that post meant? I need things to be spelt out for me as my grasp of the english language in tenuous despite it being my first language.

By: Andrew W

Andrew W — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:16:22 +0000

Glutaemus, I would have said the moon landing conspiracy theorists are like the global warming conspiracy theorists.

By: philu

philu — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:14:39 +0000

“..[DPF: 9/11 is 2nd on my list but a fair way behind. The fall of the Soviet empire, with hardly a shot, was mind staggering.]

how do you think the fall of the american empire will go..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Glutaemus Maximus

Glutaemus Maximus — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:06:32 +0000

With all respect to Polynesian intrepid exploration, wouldn’t it make sense for a Maori Only, Moon landing?

Just think of the ongoing Land Claim settlements they could extract from any further landings?

That American Landing could easily be debunked.

DustLords, CraterLords, GravityfreeLords,SerenityLords, DarksideLords, The possibilities are endless. Could build the first KFC there as well!

By: Glutaemus Maximus

Glutaemus Maximus — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:01:19 +0000

As much as conspiracy theories are amusing, the folk who insist that the Moon Landing was fake are the same types that believe that we will be submerged by rising sea levels in the next month or so.

I guess its what suit perception, outlook, and political stance.

NZ soldiers never got involved in any fighting in Iraq either. Did they Helen?

By: Foxton

Foxton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:37:12 +0000

I’m too young to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union a couple years after. I guess the biggest event I’ve been old enough to observe with a level of understanding was 9/11. Watching man land on the moon would have been quite a sight, maybe in my life time Mars will be the next step.

By: Akaroa

Akaroa — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:34:23 +0000

9/11? Berlin Wall? Matey, I remember listening crouched with the parents round the old steam radio to the American nuclear bomb tests at Bikini Atoll! Gripping stuff! Oh how we breathed a sigh of relief back then in 1945 realising that with the existence of the Bomb the future peace and securiy of the whole world was at last secured! Calloo Callay – Oh frabjous day!!!