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Shadesofcraig wrote:

Elessar [Sly] wrote:That reminds me... Blockbusters has just closed down =/

Yeah our town used to have like 10 video store, now there are none... Our Blockbusters went last year, it is a mens clothes store, just what we needed.

Ahh dear. It is a shame really... the one I went to locally was one of my favourite places to pick up DVDS (and once in a blue moon games and snacks). The staff in there were really friendly.

Right on! I lost my virginity in the VHS rental section, back when it was £1.20 for 3 nights.

Elessar [Sly] wrote:Right on! I lost my virginity in the VHS rental section, back when it was £1.20 for 3 nights.

Three nights, and only *one* pound & change? Well, at least you got that one...


Oh, wait -- you're in yhe UK. Nevermind!

draelyc wrote:

Elessar [Sly] wrote:Right on! I lost my virginity in the VHS rental section, back when it was £1.20 for 3 nights.

Three nights, and only *one* pound & change? Well, at least you got that one...


Oh, wait -- you're in yhe UK. Nevermind!

It was £3 for 3 nights before it closed down

Elessar [Sly] wrote:

draelyc wrote:

Elessar [Sly] wrote:Right on! I lost my virginity in the VHS rental section, back when it was £1.20 for 3 nights.

Three nights, and only *one* pound & change? Well, at least you got that one...


Oh, wait -- you're in yhe UK. Nevermind!

It was £3 for 3 nights before it closed down

haha

I will miss you Blockbuster RIP.

I just saw the 2009 movie called 'Moon'. If you work shiftwork, especially a gig where you spend time alone WATCH THIS MOVIE!

Here, go look at this.

The one bit about the Moon Landing Denial folks I can accept is that they can't believe people were audacious enough to do it 'on a shoestring' like that.

I happen to be a slobbering fanboy of the manned space program, so let me be clear about that. But I can sort of understand if someone now looks at it and says, "that is CRAZY. There is no way in HELL anyone was insane enough to do that." Fair enough, it IS a preposterous, terrifying, insanely dangerous thing.

They navigated using a sextant, clocks and stopwatches. They fired rocket engines manually, and were hand steering a spacecraft trying to lock into a 3-D orbit at an exact second (OK, actually that's 4-D, but anyway, all by hand).

What they are overlooking is these guys were all thrill-seeking test pilots. They did dangerous shit FOR FUN. Today they'd be jumping out of helicopters to snowboard down insane mountains in British Columbia. Back then they flew experimental rocket planes, chased women and drank whiskey. And the twenty or forty BEST of those lunatics put aside all the craziness and got serious because we promised them a ride atop a rocket into Outer Space.

That kind of person doesn't care if he has to use a slide-rule calculator and a sextant to fly to the moon.

I can understand that today it might be hard to believe. The cool part is those old bastards WERE that bad ass. Neil Armstrong's bravest achievement wasn't the moon landing. Read about the near disaster of Gemini 8 and what he did to fly out of trouble. That's the kind of guys who went to the moon. Unbelievable ? Sure. Awesome, too.

This is one of those topics where its almost impossible to even seriously consider the notion of a conspiracy. I guess thats the beauty (or retardedness rather) of conspiracy theories.

Took this in my back yard:



I never got religion...But I'm not surprised the earliest religions were moon/sun based.

wow maybe they didn't land there - I don't see anything in that pic.
Didn't they supposedly leave a flag and part of the lander there?

mamberg wrote:wow maybe they didn't land there - I don't see anything in that pic.
Didn't they supposedly leave a flag and part of the lander there?

If you look close, someone scrawled "TAG knows tone" on the Mare Tranquillitatis.

Reverse Entropy wrote:The one bit about the Moon Landing Denial folks I can accept is that they can't believe people were audacious enough to do it 'on a shoestring' like that.

I happen to be a slobbering fanboy of the manned space program, so let me be clear about that. But I can sort of understand if someone now looks at it and says, "that is CRAZY. There is no way in HELL anyone was insane enough to do that." Fair enough, it IS a preposterous, terrifying, insanely dangerous thing.

They navigated using a sextant, clocks and stopwatches. They fired rocket engines manually, and were hand steering a spacecraft trying to lock into a 3-D orbit at an exact second (OK, actually that's 4-D, but anyway, all by hand).

What they are overlooking is these guys were all thrill-seeking test pilots. They did dangerous shit FOR FUN. Today they'd be jumping out of helicopters to snowboard down insane mountains in British Columbia. Back then they flew experimental rocket planes, chased women and drank whiskey. And the twenty or forty BEST of those lunatics put aside all the craziness and got serious because we promised them a ride atop a rocket into Outer Space.

That kind of person doesn't care if he has to use a slide-rule calculator and a sextant to fly to the moon.

I can understand that today it might be hard to believe. The cool part is those old bastards WERE that bad ass. Neil Armstrong's bravest achievement wasn't the moon landing. Read about the near disaster of Gemini 8 and what he did to fly out of trouble. That's the kind of guys who went to the moon. Unbelievable ? Sure. Awesome, too.

That's because nowadays, we have accepted the fact that everything is too dangerous. Even if someone were to be that crazy of an asshole to try, the paperwork and licensing/permitting process would either make it time or cost inductive.

We built the Empire State Building in less than a year. Try doing that today. It'd take over a year just to pass the first phase of drafting the plans for review. It'd take a year to convince the city council to zone an area for it, permit it, etc.

That's just life. Back then, people were like, "well fuck, the rocket has the power to get there, lets stick a sorry assed monkey on it. If it works, we'll put a human on it."

If we shot a monkey to mars today, PETA and animal rights groups would be spanking that ass in court. Tie it up for years.

wish this was still called the Tin Foil hat forum ...

Hardtail wrote:wish this was still called the Tin Foil hat forum ...

thefyn wrote:

mamberg wrote:wow maybe they didn't land there - I don't see anything in that pic.
Didn't they supposedly leave a flag and part of the lander there?

If you look close, someone scrawled "TAG knows tone" on the Mare Tranquillitatis.

ROFL

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZNEXrElw[/video]

didnt the mythbusters episode, in rare burst of premise-fitting, debunk most of the conspiracy theorists' complaints, as well as point out that manually placed reflectors were set up that can still be pinged? though i supposed they could have just been dropped there, or be self-slewing, but whatever.

Reverse Entropy wrote:The one bit about the Moon Landing Denial folks I can accept is that they can't believe people were audacious enough to do it 'on a shoestring' like that.

I happen to be a slobbering fanboy of the manned space program, so let me be clear about that. But I can sort of understand if someone now looks at it and says, "that is CRAZY. There is no way in HELL anyone was insane enough to do that." Fair enough, it IS a preposterous, terrifying, insanely dangerous thing.

They navigated using a sextant, clocks and stopwatches. They fired rocket engines manually, and were hand steering a spacecraft trying to lock into a 3-D orbit at an exact second (OK, actually that's 4-D, but anyway, all by hand).

What they are overlooking is these guys were all thrill-seeking test pilots. They did dangerous shit FOR FUN. Today they'd be jumping out of helicopters to snowboard down insane mountains in British Columbia. Back then they flew experimental rocket planes, chased women and drank whiskey. And the twenty or forty BEST of those lunatics put aside all the craziness and got serious because we promised them a ride atop a rocket into Outer Space.

That kind of person doesn't care if he has to use a slide-rule calculator and a sextant to fly to the moon.

I can understand that today it might be hard to believe. The cool part is those old bastards WERE that bad ass. Neil Armstrong's bravest achievement wasn't the moon landing. Read about the near disaster of Gemini 8 and what he did to fly out of trouble. That's the kind of guys who went to the moon. Unbelievable ? Sure. Awesome, too.

Awesome post!

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:didnt the mythbusters episode, in rare burst of premise-fitting, debunk most of the conspiracy theorists' complaints, as well as point out that manually placed reflectors were set up that can still be pinged? though i supposed they could have just been dropped there, or be self-slewing, but whatever.

Not most. They demolished every one (at least every one that I ever heard of). Fantastic episode, imo.