Russia Demands Probe into US Moon Landing over FIFA

Status
Not open for further replies.
P

Poodlestrike

Banned
Saw this, almost couldn't believe it.

Russia's investigative committee spokesman has demanded that an international investigation be launched into the U.S. 1969 moon landings, after a US-led investigation into the world governing body FIFA, cast doubt over the fairness of choosing Russia to host the next World Cup.
Click to expand...

According to Marking the U.S. crossed a line when its "prosecutors decided to declare themselves the supreme arbiters of international football," by investigating Fifa.

The Russian official remarks that "there is only one thing that is even worse [than corruption] - when corrupt officials decide to 'fight against corruption' with their corrupt aims," before accusing the U.S. of neglecting to see its own problems with corruption
Click to expand...

Now, apparently they're "not arguing that they (US) did not fly [to the moon] and only shot a film." This is apparently over some missing footage from the original landing (NASA says they deleted it for budgetary reasons), but... they also want to test the rocks they brought back.

Also, Ukraine:

Markin alleges that Washington has been responsible for installing corrupt officials in post-Soviet Ukraine for 25 years, leading to the conflict in the east now, and he also suggests that US prosecutors should investigate potential corruption in the US 1994 World Cup. He does not indicate on what grounds he believes the tournament merits a corruption probe.
Click to expand...

Sauce: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...to-us-moon-landing/ar-AAbNWHp?ocid=spartanntp

Question whether or not I am an elaborate hoax if old.
 
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.
 
DrSlek said:
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.
Click to expand...

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
 
The most hilarious thing about all this is that the Russian games really aren't at threat at all, yet they keep beating this drum making everyone take a closer and closer look at it.
 
Man God said:
The most hilarious thing about all this is that the Russian games really aren't at threat at all, yet they keep beating this drum making everyone take a closer and closer look at it.
Click to expand...

Well, "not dangerous" is a relative term. They're pretty dangerous to their non-NATO neighbors. Like, I'm pretty sure Ukraine finds them fairly threatening.
 
King Cobra said:
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
Click to expand...
Also, it's been bleached white by the sun.

A fitting color for giving up on serious manned space exploration since Apollo!
 
King Cobra said:
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
Click to expand...

The Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter was put up in 2009 actually has taken pretty nice photos of the Apollo landing site.

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/
 
DrSlek said:
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.
Click to expand...

The Japanese provided these.

NASA-MOON.jpg


Anyway, the Russians aren't questioning it. Whatever they're up to.
 
Bizarre. Just let it go.

Why the moon landings and not something more recent that has nothing to do with space? It just seems so random. Is Markin not aware of the joint projects between Roscosmos and NASA?
 
I got an idea. Lets all agree on the grounds they accept the EU Investigation and results into the Russian Murder of Flight 17 and the loss of 283 people.
 
Russia's trying to get back in the power politics game. Too bad everyone thinks of them like North Korea. Kinda kooky and sad at the same time.
 
Poodlestrike said:
The phrasing in the article is less "make sure we have it all," more "make sure it's all real."
Click to expand...

That's a fault of the article. I suspect they're working from a poor translation. He's asking for NASA to account for the 400 kg in moon soil and rocks that the Apollo missions brought back in total. From the Moscow Times:

An international investigation could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969, or explain where the nearly 400 kilograms of lunar rock reportedly obtained during several such missions between 1969 and 1972 have been spirited away to, Markin suggested.

"We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened," Markin wrote.
Click to expand...
 
People who deny the moon landing happened makes me nostalgic for the 90s. Such a popular conspiracy theory going around back then.
 
A number of the moon rocks were given away to other states as well as some taken home by astronauts as souvenirs.

And you know what? Let them.

Buzz Aldrin has more of a claim to a moon rock than Russia does. It's not like the US stole those rocks from another country.
 
Oozer3993 said:
That's a fault of the article. I suspect they're working from a poor translation. He's asking for NASA to account for the 400 kg in moon soil and rocks that the Apollo missions brought back in total. From the Moscow Times:
Click to expand...

This is actually a good request, I've been wondering how the heck does NASA lose this important stuff as if it were nothing.

The original article sounds way more ridiculous.
 
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.
 
I remember reading somewhere that majority of Russians do believe that US moon landings were faked.

Government starting to believe it's own propaganda?
 
Obviously the 400 KG of moon rock that went "missing" was a piece of alien spacecraft. Where do you think America got its modern technology from?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

landing this piece here
4
758
Ainem Enamas replied
Jeju Air Flight 2216 attempts to land without landing gear deployed
2 3
126
7K
kruis replied
American YouTuber Sabbatical falsely imprisoned in Russia
30
2K
Mr Reasonable replied
Delta 4819 rolls upside down landing at Toronto Pearson, no casualities, Feb17.
14
901
Richard Packer replied
Russia fines Google $20.5 decillion dollars
Business 
40
3K
Soodanim replied
Top Bottom