OT: Moon Landing (cool story bro)

There was essentially a single academic with some influence within NASA who warned of this possibility.  He was not really taken completely seriously, but seriously enough that an experiment of his was placed on the Apollo 11 mission.

Here is a rather sympathetic look at his work:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/shooting-the-moon-27389927/

 

However after the ship landed, he should have known he wasn't going to fall through the moon.

Do you think Neil Armstrong would've eaten the moon if it were made of ribs?

Makes no sense.  You can see the craters with a cheap telescope and a probe landed on the moon 10 years prior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes

What does this mean?

"Or the moon had a center comprised of space dust and any human who touched it's surface would fall a hundred meters into it's center and be lost forever."

The moon has a radius of 1000 miles.

 

The Russians and Americans crashed and successfully landed many probes on the moon in the 60s prior to Apollo 11. Took pictures, samples, etc. He was just trying to dunk on the moon.

As a guy with an Aerospace Engineering degree from Michigan, that is the dumbest thing I heard. We understood pretty well about the density of the moon. There was no chance that someone thought Armstrong would fall "hundred" feet down. There is a MOON LANDER that weighs thousands of pounds supported by tiny feet securely standing. Why would anyone think they would fall? I think someone was pulling a fast one on your expense. 

Lol. Everybody's knows the whole "moon landing" was simply shot in Hollywood by Stanley Kubrick. Pretty sure Stanley, knowing his legendary attention to detail wrote the hop into the script. My guess is that he had multiple takes on that shot till he got it just right.
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Wasn't the lunar landing vehicle already hanging out on the surface when he hopped out?

was from taking his first step on 1/6th gravity.  probably thinking that was the day to try a two-handed, reverse, spinning, upside down jam.

A lot of people believe we never landed on the moon and that it was an elaborate hoax.

I am here to tell you I have no clue if we did or didn't lol

It was because you naturally bounce around in lower gravity. Or, you know, the sinkhole moon dust thing, I guess.

This is a Michigan site? Really? intelligence?

FUCKING pearl harbor never happened either according to you idiots. GEEZ!

Why would we send a man to the moon?

OK...I have the advantage of using my M Aero Eng degree to work on the space program. A few years after the moon landings, but I have a few cool story brahs on the Shuttle and Space Station. In any event, as a few people posted above, before the Surveyor flights a few people speculated that the lunar surface might be a deep layer of loosely packed dust that would swallow a landing vehicle. By the time we sent Apollo 11 to the moon, everyone who counted knew that the surface could support humans. The reason Neil Armstrong did the "bounce" was to test his ability to jump back up to the lower rung of the lunar module, which was just over three feet from the landing pad. So much of what the astronauts did were engineering tests, since earth-based simulations could only go so far in testing these things in 1/6 G. Another minor add-on...Armstrong was a consultant on a project I worked on in the late 80s, and he came in for several program reviews. Needless to say, when he came into the meetings, the level of respect and awe was through the roof, even among a large group of deeply experienced rocket scientists. And he was the nicest, most gracious person you could imagine in those circumstances, even though he had achieved one of the most awesome human accomplishments in history. It's just a damn shame that we're not striving for those same accomplishments any more.

NASA is a scam

What?? No way.

Seems silly. Wouldn't the Apollo craft fall through the dust before he ever got off the lander? Sounds like Sparty science to me.

Would someone need to see the equipment NASA left behind? Are we talking store bought, a professional astronomer type or one of those huge observatory types? I think that would finalize the debate of were we/weren't we there. No?