Why has nobody been to the MOON lately ?

[pishhead]

kind of a serious question what is to stop some company manufacturing a huge huge sign/banner and putting it on the moon?

 

[Icy Gull]

kind of a serious question what is to stop some company manufacturing a huge huge sign/banner and putting it on the moon?

Kind of serious follow up question, how big would it have to be to be seen from Earth??

 

[pishhead]

Kind of serious follow up question, how big would it have to be to be seen from Earth??

I wondered that too probably a few hundred miles long!

 

[Ecosse Exile]

I haven't been.

I have

 

[Brovion]

Why haven't we been lately? Get with the programme Easy, man is yet to set foot on the MOON.

The one thing the conspiracy theorists have never been able to answer was that IF the moon landing in 1969 was successfully faked - why did they fake it again? And again? And again? And again? And again? Surely once would have been enough? And how much of it was faked? Did the astronauts actually never take off? And if the take-off was real how did they fake the source of the radio transmissions and the physically-observable path of the rocket to the moon? (To say nothing of the return)

The Yanks must have picked up some seriously-good technology from the ailens at Roswell in order to have fooled the entire world - six times! And paid the Russians a fortune to stay quiet.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The moon's the past, it's all about the SPACE ELEVATOR nowadays...

The Spaceward Foundation

Is no-one else amazed that scientists are trying to build a lift into space?!

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

theres not enough interest scientfically (never was really for manned exploration) and its still too expensive for any sort of commercial activity.

or, you can go conspiracy and say it proves no one went there in the first place, ignoring the witnesses, rocks gathered and f***ing tracks that can be seen on Google Moon.

Witnesses of what exactly? Surely the only witnesses are the astronauts.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

The Russkies still have grand plans, it seems:

Russia to send manned mission to the Moon by 2025 - space agency | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

And the prize (another Google thing, I think?) for the first privately funded and run manned moon landing remains unclaimed, so there may still be some eccentric, wealthy loonies out there trying.

 

[Trufflehound]

And until I see David Beckham on the Moon, I won't believe we've DONE it.

While he's up there perhaps he can retrieve his ball from that penalty miss against Portugal.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

kind of a serious question what is to stop some company manufacturing a huge huge sign/banner and putting it on the moon?

The cost?

 

[pishhead]

The cost?

Of course but whats to stop some huge corporation with a limitless advertising fund to do it, I guess what I'm getting at is there anything to stop anyone from doing this?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I agree, Easy.

I can remember the Tomorrow's World programmes of my youth, where the presenters earnestly forecast that by 2010 we'd all be flying to work in our own personal spaceships, wearing outfits made for some unfathomable reason of shiny metallic material, and colonising the Moon.

Why did all future prediction shows of the 80s insist we'd be wearing shiny metal clothes?

 

[Hungry Joe]

No one wants to go up there since they saw what it did to Johnny Depp.

FACT

 

[skipper734]

Cause if they told us ,Albion supporters would be proudly wearing pink striped shirts to matches, nobody would have believed them!

 

[Hungry Joe]

They should do a 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Off The Moon' special

 

[Storer68]

We should have had some kind of MOONBASE there by now, surely.
If I was watching that first lunar landing back in 1969 (I wasn't, because I was -2), and someone had said to me that very day that there'd be a handful more landings but then absolutely bugger-all for at LEAST 50 years, then I'd have SCOFFED in their face, and gone and made a Buck Rogers starfighter out of an eggbox.

I was but by 1972 we'd seen it all before. It was so LAST decade darling.

Actually it stopped because it cost the US taxpayers an absolute shedload of cash which they hadn't got the will to spend by 1972 (Vietnam war, looming energy crises etc)
In March 1966, NASA told Congress the "run-out cost" of the Apollo program to put men on the moon would be an estimated $22.718 Billion for the 13-year program which eventually accomplished six successful missions between July 1969 and December 1972.

According to Steve Garber, the NASA History website curator, the final cost of project Apollo was between $20 and $25.4 billion in 1969 dollars (or approximately $135 billion in 2005 dollars).

The costs associated with the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rockets amounted to about $83 billion Apollo spacecraft: $28 billion (Command/Service Module: $17 billion; Lunar Module: $11-billion), Saturn I, Saturn IB, Saturn V launch vehicles: about $46 billion] in 2005 dollars.



It was all about getting there, and once we'd got there, there didn't seem much point in going again and again and again

 

[Storer68]

I agree, Easy.

I can remember the Tomorrow's World programmes of my youth, where the presenters earnestly forecast that by 2010 we'd all be flying to work in our own personal spaceships, wearing outfits made for some unfathomable reason of shiny metallic material, and colonising the Moon.

Why did all future prediction shows of the 80s insist we'd be wearing shiny metal clothes?

and even Versace.......

although the police uniform might have been a bit more interesting (BUT NOT PRACTICAL)

 

[magoo]

I love seeing the advancement of the human race and a moon mission would excite me but seeing as we can't even feed over half the planet at the moment i reckon the money should go on that instead...

 

[auschr]

We can use the money better to bomb each other

 

[Storer68]

While he's up there perhaps he can retrieve his ball from that penalty miss against Portugal.

and Chris Waddle's one against West Germany in 1990.


Although that might have gone further into the solar system.............