Astronaut Michael Collins Saw a Building on the Moon, page 2
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reply posted on 11-8-2009 @ 07:57 AM by Astyanax
reply to post by Phage


The true answer is probably even easier than that.

Readers of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey will discover that Michael Collins wasn't the bland, technoautomatic character that usually gets selected for astronaut training. He had an anarchic, antiauthoritarian sense of humour. He probably did say he saw a seven-storey building on the moon.

Poor fellow, he wasn't to know that in half a century's time, civilization would have declined so far from the peak attained by him and his colleagues that mediaeval-minded, half-educated, humourless conspiracy theorists would actually believe it was possible to see a building from that distance, and believe him.


reply posted on 11-8-2009 @ 04:23 PM by groingrinder
reply to post by Anonymous ATS



That is what the satellites are for. They orbit both sides.

Here is an animation that shows the orbit of the moon.

[edit on 8-11-2009 by groingrinder]


reply posted on 11-8-2009 @ 09:36 PM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by mrixxx
Why is it these threads gets Hijacked, does this happen a lot on these forums.

cheers
mrix

Yes -- sorry if I went a bit OT with my reply earlier, but I feel like I must 'deny Ignorance" when someone repeats the myth that the U.S. will be "bombing" the Moon.

They are impacting the moon with a probe, just like has been done many times before by the U.S., Russia, India, China, and Japan.

back on topic....

Even though Jonathan Gray said that millions of people heard Michael Collins taking about buildings on the Moon, it's funny how none of those millions of people seem to be backing up Gray's assertion. You would think that if millions of people DID here that, they would remember.

I was only 4 years old during Apollo 11 (although I DO remember it watching it with my family), but my father was very, very into the Apollo missions. Even if my father didn't hear that broadcast himself, if millions other of people would have heard Collins say that, my father would have remembered. There is no way that would just be "shrugged off".

As I said in an earlier post, I think Collins could have just as easily have used the benign word "structure" (which is a term for natural geologic formations often used by other Apollo astronauts), and some of the people listening (such as Mr. Gray) could have been confused, mistakenly associating "structure" with something man-made.

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