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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/12/11 17:4:19, v55 wrote:   
      
   [excellent text deleted]   
      
   > Kaku is correct that a manned moon shot *is* a hard problem, and an expensive   
   > endeavour, which is why it's only been a very small number of nations that   
   > have gotten *anything* on the moon (Russia, China, India, Japan, Luxembourg,   
   > UAE, Israel, EU), and even fewer that have accomplished a soft-landing (US,   
      
   1. I don't remember a Luxembourg space programme - certainly not getting   
   to the moon.   
   2. The EU is not (yet?) a nation, though the nations comprising it (plus   
   some others - I think UK still has involvement, both financial and   
   technical, though not part of the EU, in ESA) have created a fairly   
   successful association.   
      
   []   
   > So, while Professor Kaku has some understandable concerns about the extreme   
   > difficulties involved with doing a manned lunar landing...the baseline,   
   > fundamental question that Kaku *must* contend with, is that no nation, friend   
   > or foe, ever came forward to claim the lunar landing was faked. "But it was   
   > hard"...yes, but the Russians agreed it happened. "But the computers were   
   > slow!" ...yes, but the Austrailians agreed it happened. "But there was a lot   
   > of radiation!" ...yes, but the Japanese agreed it happened. The claim that it   
   > was faked must account for the tens of thousands of people who would all have   
   > to be lying to cover up America's secret, including America's enemies at the   
   > time.   
      
   Indeed. Though the film (Caprcorn One, I think it was called) was fun at   
   the time.   
      
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