Finally...Unequivocal Proof That the Apollo Moon Landings Were Staged on Earth

Footprints and DNA could have been planted by a robotic moon probe.

what if the Apollo astronauts were actually robots?

Do you think humans will ever leave earth?

No. Not possible.

Ever see the movie Idiocracy? Like that, but with way more cancer.

Do you consider space shuttle/space station, about 375 miles from the Earth surface leaving Earth? So far, that's as good as it gets.

So you're not super optimistic about the future of humanity I guess? Do you think there's any way to avoid that fate?

So the ISS is already at the maximum livable distance above the earth? do you think we'll ever expand the livable bubble a little?

They did not escape Earth. They all were dragged back down, and the station will be too. Earth is relentless.

We would have to get rid of plastic.

Doesn't seem likely.

Will the moon ever get dragged down too? Then we could walk on it really easily

I'm sure an organism that can digest plastic will evolve to take advantage of all the high-energy-density plastic polymers we've dumped into the environment. Maybe future humans will be able to do that

Yes but while we wait for that to possibly happen, Idiocracy and tons and tons of cancer.

At the same time as famines from phosphate crises.

Strip mining the planet to produce "green" phone/EV batteries and massive "green" lithium pools are probably going to save us though, somehow.

On the plus side - if we can never leave earth, that means that we'll eventually have to get really good at recycling!

Hmm since humans can't expand outwards, we'll have to go inwards and will eventually build giant underground cities

on some level exactly simulating a moon lander is equivalent to landing on the moon.
makes you think

The International Fake Station.

Fake moon rock.

OneGiantLie

I'm not one of your intended respondents (people who don't think we went to the moon). But I will address your question nonetheless.

1) Regardless of whether we are stuck on Earth "forever", the human species' ultimate fate is extinction.

2) Traveling to the Moon is nice. Traveling to Mars, much more difficult. Seriously colonizing either (with a self-sustaining, growing, thriving society) may or may not be possible. It actually seems unlikely.

3) Such colonization would be much, MUCH harder than sustaining human civilization on Earth. Earth was made for our species and our species was made for Earth (evolutionarily speaking)

4) Exploring the solar system and beyond is a natural and noble endeavor. I don't think it should be seen as a way to extend the ultimate timeline of humanity.

I believe that it is gradually getting farther away. Some speculate that it is trying to escape annoying human landers (which the moon refers to as micro-mosquitoes).

Official U.S. government story:

The risk to humans to go more than about (350 to 375) miles from surface of the Earth has been too great and is too great except those six times Tricky Dick sent humans 238,0000 or 239,000 miles from surface of the Earth.

More likely than not:

From 1950-something to today, it was too risky and is too risky to send humans more than 375 miles from surface of the Earth. Will that change? From millions of years of evolution, we adapted to live here on Earth. It's difficult enough to adapt to living a mile or two above sea level for sea level humans. Obese sea level dwellers over age 40 often cannot live more than a mile above sea level without additional medical attention.

What makes it risky for humans to live so far from the earth? Could those risks be mitigated if the payoff were high enough to make doing so profitable? And if we can never leave earth, do you think that we should be emphasizing the development of sustainable sources of energy and industrial raw materials?

When the moon comes crashing down, and the dust finally settles, gravity will be about 1/6 stronger than usual. It will be like walking with a weight vest on.

This is the way of the universe. Gravity is sort of like the devil trying to drag everything into hell. The creator has to constantly make more universe to prevent that from happening.