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[duckroll]

I think there's a simple way to resolve this really. If Russia wants to prove once and for all whether there is indeed a US flag on the moon, they just need to fund an international space mission with astronauts from major countries participating. This way humanity can finally go back to the moon again, and we can put this stuff behind us for good!

Let's do this Putin! Be a man!

 

[B-Dubs]

Why doesn't Russia test its own moon rocks? The US handed those things out like candy to almost every country on earth including the Soviet Union.

For real, it's not like NASA kept them all for themselves. Everyone got moon rocks and dust and whatever the hell else they found.

 

[wenis]

they still mad about that?

 

[temp]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

 

[KimiNewt]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

This makes much more sense.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Pretty boring response from Russia by now. Their official policy is to constantly distract people with nonsense so their shittyness gets lost in a sea of confusion.

Haha we might of bribed FIFA but look at all those purple bananas in Indonesia and didn't Churchill build a Nazi petting zoo on Mars?

 

[Chariot]

They really want to keep that World Cup, don't they?

It would be shitty and funny at the same time if the final drop in the bucket for next cold war or world war would be the Fifa Worldcup.

 

[RustedPieces]

Show me the moon rocks.

 

[UnPatriot]

I can understand where they're coming from. The US being ones to arrest the FIFA officials in Europe can easily be seen as an act of affirming global power.

 

[Kevtones]

Russia could always buy Nintendo and start a Three-Way Super Cold Console War for us gamers

 

[brian577]

I can understand where they're coming from. The US being ones to arrest the FIFA officials in Europe can easily be seen as an act of affirming global power.

If anything the fact that America has no real stake in soccer/football makes them the most qualified to investigate FIFA. You couldn't ask for a more unbiased country.

 

[UnPatriot]

]If anything the fact that America has no real stake in soccer/football[/B] makes them the most qualified to investigate FIFA. You couldn't ask for a more unbiased country.

Is that really true? The US was also trying to host 2018(2022?) WC IRC.

I don't think it's unreasonable to see the actions of the FBI as a form of American hegemony.

 

[Tesseract]

i knew it, the moon is fake

 

[Savitar]

i knew it, the moon is fake

Actually it's a giant egg.

Don't worry, once it hatches the creature will lay a new egg and everything will be as it was before.

 

[Frozenprince]

Actually it's a giant egg.

Don't worry, once it hatches the creature will lay a new egg and everything will be as it was before.

*insert Dead Space joke here*

 

[mclem]

Why can't we just point a high powered telescope at the moon or something? Surely we'd be able to see the lander and flag with the tech of today.

It's even easier than that; there are reflectors up there designed to be seen and bounced off by groups on the ground.

 

[Log4Girlz]

We didn't land a moon over FIFA.

 

[CTLance]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

Well, then this thread just got a bit embarrassing.

Anyway, I am all for duckroll's thought experiment. Let's send men to the moon to find out whether we really sent men to the moon. Seems reasonable.

 

[KHlover]

There it is again, Russia's deflection strategy. Whenever something they don't like being discussed is discussed they bring up some completely unrelated shit and everyone wastes their time discussing that. Once everyone is done with that barely anyone goes back to the original discussion. Can't believe Russia's still using that strategy and that it still works so well

 

[GoldenEye 007]

I can understand where they're coming from. The US being ones to arrest the FIFA officials in Europe can easily be seen as an act of affirming global power.

FIFA used US banks.

 

[slit]

Yeah believe me, at the time the Soviets would have been able to tell and the propaganda coup would have been massive for them. They were monitoring the whole thing. So NOW they finally confirm it's fake. Wow, that's one slow investigative process. What a giant fuck up for them.

 

[StayDead]

The flag on the moon is 125cm (4 feet) long. You would require a telescope around 200 meters in diameter to see it. The largest telescope now is the Keck Telescope in Hawaii at 10 meters in diameter. Even the Hubble Space telescope is only 2.4 meters in diameter

That's seems awfully convinient that we don't have telescope technology powerful enough to prove the moon landings existed.

It's almost as if it was all planned from the very beggining. Dammn truthers.

/**I'm not being serious.**/

 

[funkypie]

russian needs to grow up. Always moaning, always tit for tat and always some nonsense to deflect from their ridiculous bullshit.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

A book I abandoned started out with astronauts in the 70s bringing back rocks and a very specific one going missing over the years.

It then cuts to geologists and paleontologists and treasure hunters and murder mystery over a notebook that leads to a Trex skeleton in modern times.

Tyrannosaur Canyon, it's called.

I should get back to it and see if they're going to get at the astronauts finding fossils on the moon.

Edit: apparently, that's a not completely out of the question.

 

[ArjanN]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

Uh, well, of course it's just a passive aggressive jab. I assumed we all realized that.

I figured people were mocking it because the comparison makes no sense and comes off as petty.

 

[Orbis]

Just making a terrible comparison really, as it says they aren't arguing that they landed on the Moon (they did), they're just clearly frustrated at the possibility of losing the 2018 World Cup hosting.

Anyway, Russia has very likely had lunar rock samples in their possession at some point in the last 40 years and will know they are genuine.

 

[hEist]

just ignore russia.
it's always the same. denying, ignoring, changing subjects.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Haha, oh man, that's good stuff.

 

[DiscoJer]

A book I abandoned started out with astronauts in the 70s bringing back rocks and a very specific one going missing over the years.

It then cuts to geologists and paleontologists and treasure hunters and murder mystery over a notebook that leads to a Trex skeleton in modern times.

Tyrannosaur Canyon, it's called.

I should get back to it and see if they're going to get at the astronauts finding fossils on the moon.

Edit: apparently, that's a not completely out of the question.

There was actually a fairly popular novel (or series) in the 1980s based on that premise. Only not a fossil, they found a millennial old human skeleton on the Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_series

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

That's how i read it too. It still comes across as a bit childish though but hey, diplomatic spats between countries come across as childish and sabre-rattley every now and then.

 

[Whitman's Ghost]

I think there's a simple way to resolve this really. If Russia wants to prove once and for all whether there is indeed a US flag on the moon, they just need to fund an international space mission with astronauts from major countries participating. This way humanity can finally go back to the moon again, and we can put this stuff behind us for good!

Let's do this Putin! Be a man!

Honestly, let's get this started. I would love to see people compete in this lol. Better than the NBA finals possibly.

 

[glaurung]

Russia is intent on rewriting history on a laughable scale.

They recently also stipulated that since their own broken-down government that recognized the independence of the Baltic trio had no legal right to do so. And that by this logic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all still part of the Soviet Union.

Talk about a government buying into its own propaganda.

Honestly, let's get this started.

Russia is more likely to produce their own fakes of the moon landing. Like they recently did with forging Ukraine's satellite imagery to support their bullshit theories about the civilian aircraft being shot down.

If Russia fakes their own moon landing shots, using a cracked Photoshop CS5 once again, they'll probably show Putin on the moon without a space suit. Because fuck it, that KGB dude can breathe space air!

 

[zorlaczerohero]

I think there's a simple way to resolve this really. If Russia wants to prove once and for all whether there is indeed a US flag on the moon, they just need to fund an international space mission with astronauts from major countries participating. This way humanity can finally go back to the moon again, and we can put this stuff behind us for good!

Let's do this Putin! Be a man!

But didn't the USA "claim" the moon by the very act of putting a flag in it? Can Russia and participating nations even land there without permission? Not being a smart arse, just wondering to be honest because I don't know.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

I had to read the blurb several times as their reasoning just didn't make sense to me.

Turns out it wasn't supposed to make any sense.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Perfect post is perfect.

 

[Dilly]

But didn't the USA "claim" the moon by the very act of putting a flag in it? Can Russia and participating nations even land there without permission? Not being a smart arse, just wondering to be honest because I don't know.

No one can claim the moon.

Yet.

 

[kamorra]

go up there and get your own rocks ya commie bastards

typical russkis

not even brave enough to send a man

eh... I also like to joke about Putin but isn't that a tiny bit too much?

 

[Purkake4]

Wow, Russia really had to reach to the bottom of the barrel there, props for creativity though.

 

[Syriel]

But didn't the USA "claim" the moon by the very act of putting a flag in it? Can Russia and participating nations even land there without permission? Not being a smart arse, just wondering to be honest because I don't know.

Nope. No one has any rights to moon land at this point.

Any country that can build a rocket and send people up there can take as many rocks and selfies as they like.

Hell, they can even use the rovers that the US left up there. FREE RENTAL CAR!

 

[Silver Arrows]

Oh come the fuck on. Keeping taking that L Russia.

 

[Gr1mLock]

 

[Dega]

No one can claim the moon.

Yet.

I called dibs on that shit when I was in kindergarten.

 

[M1ch04c4n0]

Washington has been responsible for installing corrupt officials in post-Soviet Ukraine for 25 years,

Well, duh, that part is well know, except, they have done that all over Latin America, Africa and Asia, and maybe even, yes, in Europe, for years. And the moment the population of the country gets feed up and overthrows the puppet government, the country is declare a "thread to the freedom" (of the fuckers controlling the US to get more profits).

 

[Abounder]

I have a diplomatic solution for everyone: FIFA matches can now only be held on the moon! Let's get that space race going again

 

[thesuperfunk]

WTF Russia?

 

[Purkake4]

I have a diplomatic solution for everyone: FIFA matches can now only be held on the moon! Let's get that space race going again

It rates just under Qatar in most categories and the promise of air-conditioned stadiums might actually materialize this time.

 

[Crisco]

Russia is a joke country, who cares.

 

[Ganzlinger]

It's interesting to me how many people in this thread are misinterpreting his comments and jumping into mocking him and Russia. Kind of shows you how caught up people can get in jingoistic nationalism.

It sounds like he's making a left-field comparison to the U.S. sticking its nose into international affairs with the hypothetical equivalent being as if Russia has authority to make inquiries into stuff in the US.

It says right in the article he's not claiming the U.S. never went to the moon.

Agreed.

There is no reason to mock an entire country because of this. We also have Russian GAF members here.

 

[jwhit28]

Why hasn't any country been back to the moon?

 

[ArjanN]

Agreed.

There is no reason to mock an entire country because of this. We also have Russian GAF members here.

Nothing wrong with mocking a specific person who says something stupid though.