Baboon said:
Sander said:
Which moon?
Oh, okay, it isn't really a moon, but it's close enough.
PS: It was a fake.
PPS: UNdoubtedly they've landed on it by now, though.
Duh, there's The Moon and that's it. The others aren't The Moon, they're satellites. It's like saying there are other Suns out there. No. They're stars. Sun and Moon are specific names. Ha.
It was obviously real, by the way. Stupid to lie about it. In fact, stupid to go there.
Actually, "sun" also refers to any star when talking about the star's system restrictively. Or at least that's how people like to use it.
IIRC the specific names are Sol and Luna, which are the Latin names.
"Sol" and "Luna" are being overused for other suns and moons as well tho (I blame SciFi), so I doubt they are especially scientific (anymore).
Anyway.
I think the landing was real, but the race to the moon was a lame excuse for revenge for losing the space race (which is, in my opinion, a lot more important and interesting than landing anywhere).
Thanks to the space race we have sattelites and space stations now. Who cares about getting humans onto another planet of our boring system?
By now we know that the other planets of our system are just boring desolate wastelands inhabitable to humans.
Rather than pumping money into research on how to send people to an inhabitable planet they should have better researched how to fix our local problems.
Bah. All the moon landing gave us is the knowledge that every other planet close to use just plain sucks for spending holidays on them.
All they did was killing the man on the moon.