Devils advocate, can someone answer this question with an open mind

yet it is easier for Hollywood to make a movie about Apollo 13 which looked more authentic than the actual lunar landing?

Was Apollo 13 shot in one take? Because the actual Apollo missions were shot in one take.


Are you sure you just don't have an emotional attachment for wanting us to land on the Moon?

What is your emotional attachment to the wedding of Prince William last year?


Isn't real science based on asking questions?

Real science is about asking new questions, not about repeating the same questions over and over again. Otherwise, you'd be asking too whether it's really true that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen; sure, you do that in your highschool when you study electrolysis, but would you fund a research program to find out whether light objects fall as fast as heavy objects, or would you instead fund a science program to find out *new* stuff?

Listen, I understand that people have legitimate questions about the biological effects of radiation on the human body, or whether the crosshairs on a photo have different widths when the saturation of the film is different in shade than it is in illuminated parts of it, or that people don't notice that you don't see stars at night if you're taking photos of an illuminated nightscape and why it is so. It's a good way for them to learn some interesting bits of science, although science is more than just idle curiosity about how photographic cameras work and what is the radiation length of alluminium and how it varies with the energy of the incoming particle species and energy.