Reply #264: Okay. First off, The moon landings were NOT faked. The Mir is not in "low earth orbit" ANYMORE.

[Warren DeMontague]

...the idea that man can't survive beyond LEO is a lie.

no astronauts were 'permanently crippled' from being on MIR, they were weak because they weren't used to Earth's gravity. We have this new thing now, maybe you've heard of it, (maybe you think it's all a set in Area 51) but it's called the "International Space Station"-



---we regularly return astronauts and cosmonauts from extended stays up there, in relatively good physical shape, because we have gotten much better at keeping the muscles of the body conditioned in weightlessness.

and meanwhile, you're confusing me- you're saying space exploration is boring, space exploration is impossible, AND space exploration also threatens continued 'violence' on the rest of the solar system.

...Funny, if manned spaceflight beyond LEO is impossible, then there's really not much threat of us oppressing the moon people with our patriarchal colonialism, is there?

You're weighing in on a subject about which you have very little "information", and that information is wrong. You would do well to educate yourself on the realities of science and space exploration as it stands today. Just a suggestion.