Buzz Aldrin knocks out a reporter

[Mauzy]

My brother just showed me this. Not bad for his age...


http://www.youtube.com/v/mQKxAqpjroo&hl=en&fs=1

[Namco]

My brother just showed me this. Not bad for his age...


http://www.youtube.com/v/mQKxAqpjroo&hl=en&fs=1

Calling Buzz Aldrin, one of our Nations great heroes a "coward and a liar" should get you more than a smack in the jaw. Nice shot Buzz!!!

[ark_ader]

Watching that was truly out of this world. 

[shardian]

I hope he kicked him in the nuts too after the camera went off.

[Mauzy]

Buzz Aldrin gets physically ill if someone asks him, "what did it feel like to be on the moon".  (he's admitted it several times in interviews and discussed it at length)

The conspiracy theorists say this is because NASA brain washed him and erased his memory about things he saw on the moon.  The 'landing was faked' people say it's because he never went.

 

Weird. Ive heard the theories, but I didn't know he physically couldn't talk about it...

[shardian]

Or maybe it is because it is the same question he has been asked more than 1 million times over the last 40+ years.

[grantspain]

bloody good punch for an old fella

[Ginsu Victim]

I'd heard about this a while back, and I'm glad I got to see it.

GO BUZZ!

Anyone who talks to you like that deserves a punch in the face.

[SavannahLion]

The conspiracy theorists say this is because NASA brain washed him and erased his memory about things he saw on the moon.  The 'landing was faked' people say it's because he never went.

Meh, just go for broke. The moon really is hollow. When Buzz landed there, the lander broke through and landed in a studio control room. There, the aliens built a new set in order to fake the landing. Then the aliens brainwashed him, patted him on the back, and sent his ass back to Earth.

DUH! Where else do you think the idea for this movie came from?

[Mauzy]

Now THERES a plausible story. 

[Dartful Dodger]

It's funny how defensive people get over this.

A friend of mine is a few years older than I.  When I brought up that I saw a show that pointed out all the inconsistencies involved in the moon landing he became enraged. He remembers when Buzz supposedly landed on the moon.  His dad bought their first television just to watch it. 

[AtomSmasher]

It's funny how defensive people get over this.

A friend of mine is a few years older than I.  When I brought up that I saw a show that pointed out all the inconsistencies involved in the moon landing he became enraged. He remembers when Buzz supposedly landed on the moon.  His dad bought their first television just to watch it. 

Heh, I remember watched that show on Fox back in college, it was a few years after their alien autopsy special.  I also remember my friends and I figuring out why each of their claims were wrong.  Good times 

One thing one of my friends kept pointing out everytime they showed some of the footage of the moonwalk is that the dust moves in a slow and perfect parabolic arc when they kick it up, which can only be explained by there being no atmosphere and low gravity.

[Malenko]

at least they are consistent, all the faked images from space of the world n stuff always look pretty much exactly the same. Im still amazed they can fake pictures of cloud movement on the news right before it rains; its almost like they actually sent stuff into space. One day I might believe but theres no proof right now!

[Ed_McCarron]

I always laugh at those "we didn't land on the moon" folks.

They placed a retroreflecting mirror when they were there.  Scientists have bounced lasers off it to measure the earth-moon distance fairly accurately.

Unless moon rock is reflective, or the mirror is a conspiracy too...

[RayB]

The conspiracy theorists all point to the dumbest so-called "inconsistencies" and completely ignore the fact that there is a TON of photos (don't know what the hell you're talking about Jim, NASA has been scanning in their archives and putting a crap-load of photos online).

(This isn't the archive) http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS01/a01.htm

A quick scan through the Apollo mission web pages shows they did a heck of a lot of test flights and really baby-stepped their way through to finally landing (2 flights were just orbits without even attempting a landing, with a third testing getting low in orbit, and finally a FOURTH trip was the famous one we all know. It's not like they built 1 rocket and against all odds made, landed and came back).

Many of the photos are just too "real" to have been invented. Consider how crappy movie effects were in those days. What I find really stupid is the same believers in no landing are the same types who will then be complete believers of far-out nonsense like alien visitors, etc.

[danny_galaga]

you know, i used to dig all the alien conspiracy theories, and faked moon landings etc when i was a kid. i loved the movie 'capricorn 1' (incidentally, apparently there is a remake in the works). loved eric von daniken, all that stuff. but after about sixteen i started to be able to discern silliness from facts. you can only really doubt the moon landings in the most philosophical of ways, boiling down to 'is anything real?'. if you accept normal everyday life is real, then so too are the moon landings in my opinion.

now to watch the vid 

watchd 

i was wondering why this came about. this is why:

"The controversy recently emerged from cyberspace in the person of Bart Sibrel, who has made a film questioning the Apollo Moon missions and who confronted astronaut Buzz Aldrin at a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9 and demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had in fact walked on the moon."

[ChadTower]

Honestly, why would someone get up in an old man's face like that?  It's not like he is a war criminal or a child molestor even if they did fake the moon landing.  There are just way too many losers out there now trying to get a little net notoriety by doing crap like this and getting it on youtube. 

Good for Aldrin... hopefully he had some younger folks with him that could stomp that dude's ass the way it should have been done.  No man should stand there and take verbal abuse like that in a social situation.

[SavannahLion]

Yeah, that's what makes the whole thing so damn funny about the conspiracy theorists. They're a bunch of ill-informed armchair sleuths with virtually no background in any conspiracies they theorize about. eg, any decent photographer will know why stars are virtually non-existent in many of the photos taken. Present these facts to any conspiracy people and they'll poo poo them.

The few so-called engineers or scientists they do have supporting their theories are all crack pots anyways. Sure, I'd believe your theory about UFO's building the pyramids if only... well... you know... if your perpetual motion machine actually worked! 

[ahofle]

I also have to laugh at the moon landing conspiracies.  Besides all the items already mentioned, the simple fact that the Saturn V rocket was filmed and viewed in person by hundreds of thousands always seems to be ignored.  That thing dwarfed all previous launch vehicles such as Mercury and Gemini's and had enough power to exceed escape velocity and propel the craft toward to moon at 25,000 MPH.  I would say that was definitely the most complex and challenging part of the entire process.  Seems like a massive waste of PhDs and money if the plan is to just doctor up some photos. 

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

Also, the only way that clip of Buzz Aldrin could have been better would be if he gave him a cock punch.  I can't think of a better application than that situation. 

[Dartful Dodger]

I'm curious as to why we(or any other nation) hasn’t gone up since.

I know it’s expensive, but so are all those useless shuttle missions.

[shmokes]

I've wondered that before too.  My guess is that it's far more expensive and dangerous than a plain old trip into space.  That, combined with there being very little practical (read: economic) value to it other than as an achievement, made it a low priority once it had been done.  Of course there are ideas for putting the moon to use now that are pretty practical, like using it to launch a mission to Mars, among other things, which is probably putting the Moon back on our radar.

[ChadTower]

I think the more telling fact is that no one else has bothered going there tells us what we need to know about why we haven't gone back.

[Dartful Dodger]

I think the more telling fact is that no one else has bothered going there tells us what we need to know about why we haven't gone back.

Because it's impossible with our current(past) technology?

[ahofle]

Interesting table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_budget#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2008

Looks like the NASA budget (adjusted to 2007 dollars of course) now is about half of what it was in its heyday according to those numbers. 

[SavannahLion]

That entire agency needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.  It won't happen, so I sure hope everyone enjoys watching China and India do great things in space in our lifetimes.

Of course it won't happen. Even if there was the political desire to do so, it won't happen because the U.S. lacks the panache, desire, or even the wherewithal to pull something like that off. A lot of fundamental things must change before NASA changes (for the better).

[ChadTower]

That entire gov't needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.  It won't happen, so I sure hope everyone enjoys watching China and India do great things in our lifetimes.

Fixt.

[shmokes]

Is panache really even an ingredient, let alone the number one ingredient in rebuilding NASA from the ground up?   

[whammoed]

Is panache really even an ingredient, let alone the number one ingredient in rebuilding NASA from the ground up?   

It is if you want your new NASA to be fabulous.

[Jdurg]

Money for Space Exploration will never exist since society in general would whine and ---smurfette--- like you wouldn't believe if they spent one flippin cent on the space program.  Society would rather that money be spent preventing pre-marital sex, abortions, drug use, or anything that their bible tells them is bad.

[Ed_McCarron]

I think the more telling fact is that no one else has bothered going there tells us what we need to know about why we haven't gone back.

For millions of years, man thought the moon was made of cheese.

In 1969, we finally made it to the moon and discovered it was solid rock.

We have not returned since.

Behold, the Power of Cheese.

[DaOld Man]

Maybe we havent went back because there is nothing of value there?
I know there MAY be minerals and gasses there that will be valuable, but the cost to retrieve them (with todays technology) would be enormous.
Plus we have people like Al Gore down here telling everyone that we shouldnt drill for oil even in our own back yard.

Or maybe the whole romantic idea of the moon would be spoiled if we had to watch people like Gore chastising us for wanting to mine it.

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

[Level42]

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

Well congratulations ! And what has it brought us ?

I think people thought this was the first baby-step for interstellar travel. But then, reality set-in and we all know that it's simply impossible.

We're stuck on this planet, yeah we could visit Mars, heck maybe even a colony there, but would you want to live there ?

It's something like nucleair fusion power. Acc. to what we were told about it at school, we would already be using it now....well don't you believe it. Not in another 50 years and research programs are at a very low level (probably because of that).

[saint]

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

Well congratulations ! And what has it brought us ?

A staggering number of technological advances used in everyday life.

[mountain]

NASA plans on returning to the moon is 2020.

[Ed_McCarron]

NASA plans on returning to the moon is 2020.

Good.  I need a new moon-rock needle for my turntable.

[boykster]

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

Well congratulations ! And what has it brought us ?

A staggering number of technological advances used in everyday life.

Exactly. 

[Dartful Dodger]

...and Tang

[patrickl]

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

Well congratulations ! And what has it brought us ?

A staggering number of technological advances used in everyday life.

Exactly. 

I could only think of Teflon. Which are some of the others?

[Ed_McCarron]

I could only think of Teflon. Which are some of the others?

Start here?

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/shuttle.htm

[Level42]

I think the moon race was just that, a race. And we won it baby!

Well congratulations ! And what has it brought us ?

A staggering number of technological advances used in everyday life.

Exactly. 

I could only think of Teflon. Which are some of the others?

Ha, teflon was commercially released in 1946 !

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon/Teflon-HistoryDuPont.htm

Funny how no-one can actually name something......mmmmmm, maybe there wasn't anything