"RING OF POWER"

[NoHachi]

Quote:The officiall explanation was that the carpets, furnutire and paper documents fueled the fire. Just how hot do they burn? To me its a sign of terrrrrrrriiible fire proofing, or it just didnt happen that way.

But what about the several tons of kerosine that someone had misplaced inside the towers.. Also (and this is from conspiracy theorists) the buildings contained some archives.

Quote:Its just rediculus why wouldnt we go back there to do reaserch or maybe even start developing some structures there etc.

Maybe costs and practicality. You need to have a definate "need" to be there to be able to sustain a 100billion space campaign. Back then Russia and the US were in a war of ideologies. Both claiming technological and scientific supremacy. Russia was first to space, first manned space flight. First womaned space flight :-) etc. Only thing left that the US could win was the race to the moon. Russia had already landed a probe there, so that prize was also given. Russia had its own lunar program so the race was on.
If the whole thing was a fake, and there were easy ways of proving it. Wouldn't you think that the USSR would have had every reason to make the whole thing public? Offcourse, a couple of smelly dudes behind their laptops with to much spare time are way better at that kind of thing ;-)

just kidding.