Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens and UFOs are real.

[Natariix]

I'd have to believe he actually walked on the moon, first.

hah, agreed.

[E30Kaiser]

That actually has an interesting story behind it. See it takes about 1.5 seconds for a radio signal from earth to reach the moon. That camera was remote controlled from the earth, and the "camera man" sitting at a console, had to time the shot 1.5 seconds in advance - it was one of the last missions, and it involved a bit of luck to get that shot - all the ones before it were a locked down shot iirc.

Thats what I was thinking but I thought the lag time was longer than that which would make it harder. I would rather believe they left Bob behind though.

[george graves]

At an average distance of 240,000 miles from Earth, light travelling at 186,000 miles per second would take roughly 1.29 seconds to make the trip.

[uofom3]

I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist or anything, but I guess when it comes to this topic I think of two things:

1 - it's rediculous to think that in the vast expanse of the universe we are the only intelligent life forms out there capable of communicating, building a society, etc.

2 - based on that, it's entirely possible that something not of this world has "visited" or otherwise seen/contacted us.

It's funny someone posted this as I read an article the other day somewhere that talked about the non-linear progression of our techonology over the last hundred years or so and speculation as to why/how/etc that type of exponential increase (compared to previous centuries) was able to take place.