1st Purchase - Speedy

Dsloan

I second just hanging out on the forum. Lots of speedies of all types, condition, and vintage pop up here at reasonable prices.

And, also I think many of us would advise you not to pinch pennies. If you're willing to drop $2-3K on a luxury watch... Why not spend ~$4K+ getting the model you actually want in good condition?

Flyguy

The only reason I like a Speedy is due to the connection with the Apollo missions, never thought I would see a moon landing denier interested in one. Glad you like them though.

Just because you have an opinion does not mean it is the same value as other opinions. Especially when there is zero evidence that there was a hoax, and thousands of photos, hours of video, and independent photos from various nations and amateur astronomers of landing sites on the moon. You could easily verify yourself by looking up counter arguments to each of your "proofs", but you don't want to. That is why people will be rude to you.

Not that you care, but a nice summary:

"From the Apollo Moon missions, there are 8,400 publicly available photos, thousands of hours of video footage, a mountain of scientific data, and full transcripts and audio recordings of all air-to-ground conversations. We even have 382 kilograms of Moon rock that Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth. These rocks have been independently verified as lunar by laboratories around the world, ruling out a US conspiracy.

If this is not enough to convince the most-hardened sceptic, Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) might sway them. Today, LRO takes high resolution pictures of the lunar surface from a low orbit. During its mission, it has captured the landing sites and the abandoned descent modules and rovers from the Apollo missions. And its resolution is so good it has picked up the dark squiggly paths that the astronaut’s footprints made. Spacecraft from China, India and Japan have also spotted these landing sites, providing further independent verification of the landings.

A final nail in the coffin of the Moon hoax theories is a simple instrument installed 50 years ago by Apollo 11. During their day on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin planted a lunar laser ranging retroreflector array on the surface. It’s still operational today, and allows us to reflect lasers off of it and measure the distance to the Moon down to the centimetre. We simply couldn’t do this if we hadn’t visited the Moon."

D DJ72

Thank you Dan that's very generous of you, and the others that patted you on the back for your mordant comment. For the enthusiastic Omega neophyte, substantive character aspersions based on a difference of opinion are always highly valued and constructive.

P pusslicker

This is kind of a disturbing thing that has been growing in society where people now equate facts with opinions and back it up with a ridiculous Youtube video. It's not really fair to equate your opinion with an obvious fact. It's one thing to fantasize about the moon landing being fake after watching Capricorn One, but the real problem is when people like you start to deny elections that were free and fair.

Archer

The real kicker is that there were some 400,000 people involved, and yet no one has spilled the beans on this massive undertaking, that is was all a sham according to the OP.

Try to get 4 people to keep a secret, and you realize how nonsensical this particular conspiracy theory is...

RI Omega Fan

Asimov once wrote that there was a "false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Thank you,@ErichPryde. I like this quote a lot.

dsio

It’s not even just Americans you’d have to have “in on it” either. Several family friends including Neville Eyre, mentioned here were involved from Honeysuckle and Parkes in Australia. It’s odd that the fake moon landing garbage seems to be almost a uniquely American thing even though they’re the ones that actually achieved it. Even the Chinese and Russians recognise it happened.

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/A16HSK-OnlySuper8.html