It's been forty frikkin' years!

They decided machines would be more effective. The machines agreed.

pisses me off

My computer disagrees.

but i heard on Coast to Coast AM that the Americans never went to the moon, went regularly for the last 40+ years, ancient civilizations went there many centuries or millenniums ago

geez, the moon is a busy place

Oh yeah, I know. It was all filmed in the Nevada desert. Well, I wish to hell they'd go back there anyway.

The human touch cannot be duplicated, as yet. I would love to see people out there in my lifetime.

no on december 11 1972 2 astronauts PRETENDED to land on the moon.

Welcome to the real world, hater. Grope around. Try and find your own ass. It's around here somewhere.

do you just believe everything the government tells you? if so you're the one who needs help

do you just believe every dumb conspiracy theory that comes down the pike? The government's propensity for lying to the public has nothing whatever to do with it. You're going to tell me that three major television networks and who knows how many print journalists were all in on a hoax of this magnitude? Or that every one of them was so gullible as to be fooled by the government's "fakery"? I don't know why I bother talking to people like you. Your galloping paranoia is so sad it's pathetic. Go see a shrink, take some meds, do something to get your head on straight.

you're one to talk mr space cadet. star trek is NOT REAL. grow the ******* hell up old man

Don't rely on politicians for long term thinking. All they want is to be re-elected. They want to praise NASA while cutting its budget.

You just don't know how it is done, mate!
It can be indeed be done and is very very simple.
All those 'journalists' ( there aren't any really) don't have to be 'in on a hoax"
Not neccesary at all!

Don't argue with them Lustig. It ain't worth it.

The turn that this thread has taken was as predictable as the sunset. You know, if the sun actually existed

If star trek isn't real, put down the ipads, the phones, etc. "Science fiction today ~ Science fact tomorrow" - Isaac Asimov

Machines are simply better at space travel then humans.

There is nothing that humans can do in space that machines can't do better. Machines are cheaper than humans. Machines don't get hungry, or tired, or lonely, or sick. Machines can withstand harsher environments and they don't need a costly life support system.

And machines don't need a round trip ticket.

This trend isn't new. Machines have been taking over human activities for hundreds of years. When is the last time that a book was written by hand (rather than printed by machine)? I don't suppose anyone here is worried about this.

This isn't even a difficult question. Machines are superior to humans in space. There is really no reason to send humans at this point... and there won't be until the time we are ready to colonize.

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Machines cannot come back and write us poems about deep space.


If you think I am being cavalier I am not. You dont seem to understand what humans care about.

The ultimate goal is to make the human race a spacefaring species. We need to put people into space to get good at it so that we can put more people into space later. Machines can't effect the human colonization of the Moon and Mars.