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Title: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: DaveDRFC on July 17, 2014, 05:04:02 pm
Very bad news, guess it could have happened to anyone but even more bad press for Malaysia Airlines. Can't even comprehend something like this happening, shot down at 33,000 feet??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856
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Post by: glosterred on July 17, 2014, 06:21:05 pm
Question - why are airlines flying over what is essentially a war zone?

Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: DaveDRFC on July 17, 2014, 06:24:46 pm
Question - why are airlines flying over what is essentially a war zone?

I've been thinking the same thing. I notice all the big airlines are now saying they won't be flying there. It shouldn't have taken something like this to happen to make them do that, they should have been avoiding it anyway!
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Post by: afro goal machine on July 17, 2014, 08:08:05 pm
Pretty sure you emirates fly over Iraq but at an higher altitude
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Post by: RedJ on July 17, 2014, 08:12:07 pm
Apparently they were flying over airspace that was restricted from civilian use anyway, so it makes you wonder what they were playing at.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 17, 2014, 08:16:49 pm
Pretty sure you emirates fly over Iraq but at an higher altitude

I've flown Emirates several time on the Uk-Dubai route. A few years now since I did it, but the flights very carefully stayed out of Iraq airspace. It was quite an eerie experience at night. You could see a row of red lights 30-40 miles in the distance, denoting the Iran-Iraq border and acting as a warning to planes not to veer into that area.
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Post by: RTID75 on July 17, 2014, 08:23:23 pm
I flew Emirates back from Singapore to Dubai in 2011 and looking on the flight status map on the screen on the back of the seat we were definitely over Iraq. An unnerving experience and the whole time I was thinking about that DHL cargo plane that was hit (but miraculously landed safely) by a missile fired by a bloke the ground.
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Post by: glosterred on July 17, 2014, 08:58:27 pm
Flew on a Kuwaiti airways 747 in early 91 to Saudi and on their in flight map when we approached the Middle East, Israel did not exist, wonder why!

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Post by: jucyberry on July 17, 2014, 09:03:53 pm
I can see this all ending terribly. Ironically given the thread below about the Cuban missile crisis.. We are  inexorably being pulled somewhere terrifying.  America and Russia have never been best buddies let alone friends, now we have top republican John McCain claiming hell to pay if it is Russia to blame, whilst the Guardian is reporting that Putin  has denied he is reopening the spy base in Cuba.

Anything that happens we will be stuck in the middle of, god help us all.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 17, 2014, 10:19:39 pm
I flew Emirates back from Singapore to Dubai in 2011 and looking on the flight status map on the screen on the back of the seat we were definitely over Iraq. An unnerving experience and the whole time I was thinking about that DHL cargo plane that was hit (but miraculously landed safely) by a missile fired by a bloke the ground.

Singapore to Dubai and you flew over Iraq? f**king hell, was the pilot taking you sightseeing? Iraq's about 500miles the wrong side of Dubai.
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Post by: RTID75 on July 17, 2014, 10:22:33 pm
Well, I'm not Middle East expert, but it certainly looked like it from the screen, hence my slight anxiety. Mind you, the scale of the screen could make 500 miles seem like 5mm, so...
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: afro goal machine on July 18, 2014, 12:14:45 am
Pretty sure you emirates fly over Iraq but at an higher altitude

I've flown Emirates several time on the Uk-Dubai route. A few years now since I did it, but the flights very carefully stayed out of Iraq airspace. It was quite an eerie experience at night. You could see a row of red lights 30-40 miles in the distance, denoting the Iran-Iraq border and acting as a warning to planes not to veer into that area.

a quick google search says the Dubai route goes over Baghdad
done that route a few times i remember the first time as it was my first flight. While watching the map on the telly the arse fell out when i saw the route going over Iraq
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 18, 2014, 12:17:41 am
Pretty sure you emirates fly over Iraq but at an higher altitude

I've flown Emirates several time on the Uk-Dubai route. A few years now since I did it, but the flights very carefully stayed out of Iraq airspace. It was quite an eerie experience at night. You could see a row of red lights 30-40 miles in the distance, denoting the Iran-Iraq border and acting as a warning to planes not to veer into that area.

a quick google search says the Dubai route goes over Baghdad
done that route a few times i remember the first time as it was my first flight. While watching the map on the telly the arse fell out when i saw the route going over Iraq

Afro

Might well have changed. It was 2008, last time I did it.
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Post by: not on facebook on July 18, 2014, 09:44:03 am
now been reported that two Newcastle utd fans were on the flight as they was
planning to take the teams pre season tour somewhere in asia
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Post by: bigbadjack on July 18, 2014, 05:31:43 pm
Makes you think was the plane literally blown apart in the sky or was it partly damaged and everyone on board was alive before it crashed
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Post by: Iberian Red on July 19, 2014, 12:19:10 am
Was it the KM2?
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Post by: Filo on July 19, 2014, 09:26:27 am
Russia has a history of shooting down civilian aircraft, remember the Korean airline in the 80's?
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: IDM on July 19, 2014, 09:32:11 am
UK-Dubai routes have been flying over eastern europe, including Ukraine, then over the Black Sea and Turkey, Iraq and down the gulf itself.

I am fairly certain that the international aviation transport community will take security and threat assessments into account when authorising routes.

This incident is probably a result of pro-Russian rebels shooting down the plane thinking it was Ukrainian.  I doubt Russia's government itself would have authorised this.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: Filo on July 19, 2014, 09:39:41 am
UK-Dubai routes have been flying over eastern europe, including Ukraine, then over the Black Sea and Turkey, Iraq and down the gulf itself.

I am fairly certain that the international aviation transport community will take security and threat assessments into account when authorising routes.

This incident is probably a result of pro-Russian rebels shooting down the plane thinking it was Ukrainian.  I doubt Russia's government itself would have authorised this.


They're guilty by association, they are obviously arming the rebels and as such they should reign them in
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 19, 2014, 09:55:19 am
Filo

Several countries have previous on shooting down airliners. Including the USA and, ironically, Ukraine, which mistakenly shot down a Russian airliner 13 years ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/history-of-airlines-shot-down-malaysia-airlines-mh17
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: Filo on July 19, 2014, 10:07:50 am
Filo

Several countries have previous on shooting down airliners. Including the USA and, ironically, Ukraine, which mistakenly shot down a Russian airliner 13 years ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/history-of-airlines-shot-down-malaysia-airlines-mh17


I'll concede on that point, although I still stand by my point that Russia are guilty by association if it is found that the rebels have shot the aircraft down. Putin is in a bit of a corner now, if he stops supplying arms to the rebels and distances himself from them, it'll be seen as a climb down by him, if he carries on arming them he'll be seen as a sponsor of terrorism by the rest of the world, whatdoes he do, stick or twist?
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 19, 2014, 10:14:22 am
Filo

I agree that Putin carries a lot of the responsibility. It'll be interesting to see if he holds his hands up or if he blusters through it.

My post was meant to point out the muddy moral waters. The USA, as usual, plays the moral crusader. But it has NEVER apologised for one of it's warships killing 290 innocent Iranian civilians when a gung-ho Captain decided to fire a missile at it.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: Filo on July 19, 2014, 10:22:34 am
Filo

I agree that Putin carries a lot of the responsibility. It'll be interesting to see if he holds his hands up or if he blusters through it.

My post was meant to point out the muddy moral waters. The USA, as usual, plays the moral crusader. But it has NEVER apologised for one of it's warships killing 290 innocent Iranian civilians when a gung-ho Captain decided to fire a missile at it.


Putin is old school KGB, there is no way he'll hold his hands up
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: IDM on July 19, 2014, 12:07:44 pm
UK-Dubai routes have been flying over eastern europe, including Ukraine, then over the Black Sea and Turkey, Iraq and down the gulf itself.

I am fairly certain that the international aviation transport community will take security and threat assessments into account when authorising routes.

This incident is probably a result of pro-Russian rebels shooting down the plane thinking it was Ukrainian.  I doubt Russia's government itself would have authorised this.


They're guilty by association, they are obviously arming the rebels and as such they should reign them in

Rightly or wrongly, the Russians may be supporting the rebels in their conflict with Ukraine.  It may be that the use of anti-aircraft weapons was supposed to be against military targets.  But perhaps due to lack of intelligence material, real time aircraft identification etc, they took down almost  300 innocent people.  I am in no way justifying that, just offering a potential explanation.

Why this flight?  What was special about Malaysian Airlines or Holland (most victims were Dutch) to the conflict in Ukraine?  To me, this shows that the shooting down was random (in terms of this "target") and could have been any flight over that region, which is horrific to think of.

If it was a deliberate act, of terrorism for publicity, then they have succeeded.  You would hope that in this case there wouldn't be any repeat.

Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: dknward2 on July 19, 2014, 01:03:06 pm
Maybe it was practice unfortuatley they took 300 peoples lives
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 19, 2014, 01:48:22 pm
I suspect that they are trigger-happy retards who thought they were targeting a Ukranian military transport plane.

This is serious shit for Putin. He's supporting these cretins as a viable militia fighting a just war for independence. If they are proven to be a bunch of missile-toting head jobs who can't be trusted to check that an innocent civilian flight is in the sky before firing off a SAM, their credibility is zero.
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Post by: not on facebook on July 19, 2014, 02:27:07 pm
I suspect that they are trigger-happy retards who thought they were targeting a Ukranian military transport plane.

This is serious shit for Putin. He's supporting these cretins as a viable militia fighting a just war for independence. If they are proven to be a bunch of missile-toting head jobs who can't be trusted to check that an innocent civilian flight is in the sky before firing off a SAM, their credibility is zero.

just maybe the divs that brought the plane Down had been drinking and
 was as pissed as newts



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Post by: The Red Baron on July 19, 2014, 10:12:25 pm
I suspect that they are trigger-happy retards who thought they were targeting a Ukranian military transport plane.

This is serious shit for Putin. He's supporting these cretins as a viable militia fighting a just war for independence. If they are proven to be a bunch of missile-toting head jobs who can't be trusted to check that an innocent civilian flight is in the sky before firing off a SAM, their credibility is zero.

Putin is fortunate that the USA is "lead" by the worst President in living memory. Then again, I don't believe he would have tried to do what he has in Ukraine if the US had a half-decent leader.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 20, 2014, 12:16:40 am
TRB

Worse than Dubya? Really? I mean...REALLY? A president who led the country into one illegal war, one unwinnable war and who pissed away the biggest fiscal surplus in a century on tax cuts for the richest few percent, leading directly to the second worst economic collapse since the 1870s.

You reckon Obama has a worse rap sheet than that?
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: Iberian Red on July 20, 2014, 12:18:36 am
I suspect that they are trigger-happy retards who thought they were targeting a Ukranian military transport plane.

This is serious shit for Putin. He's supporting these cretins as a viable militia fighting a just war for independence. If they are proven to be a bunch of missile-toting head jobs who can't be trusted to check that an innocent civilian flight is in the sky before firing off a SAM, their credibility is zero.

Putin is fortunate that the USA is "lead" by the worst President in living memory. Then again, I don't believe he would have tried to do what he has in Ukraine if the US had a half-decent leader.
Have you been at the sherry?
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Post by: The Red Baron on July 20, 2014, 08:22:30 am
TRB

Worse than Dubya? Really? I mean...REALLY? A president who led the country into one illegal war, one unwinnable war and who pissed away the biggest fiscal surplus in a century on tax cuts for the richest few percent, leading directly to the second worst economic collapse since the 1870s.

You reckon Obama has a worse rap sheet than that?

I was wrong to say "worst." I should have said "weakest." Putin is emboldened by the fact that he knows Obama is unwilling to back up his windy rhetoric with anything stronger. For Putin also read the Islamists who have caused havoc in Iraq, Nigeria and many other places.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 20, 2014, 10:11:01 am
What would a "strong" US leader have done about Ukraine?
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Post by: Sprotyrover on July 20, 2014, 10:25:18 am
What would a "strong" US leader have done about Ukraine?

What do you think a strong Us President would have done.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: The Red Baron on July 20, 2014, 10:51:00 am
What would a "strong" US leader have done about Ukraine?

Well, I don't think it necessarily involves sending troops in, but he could have offered a lot more logistical support to the Ukranian government. However, the problem is more one of perception. Putin believes that the US has become isolationist on Obama's watch and is probably right.

Having said all that, a lot of the problems in Ukraine were caused by meddling from the EU, for which we must take a share of the responsibility.

A strong President would not have left the Iraqui Government (which the US supposedly supports) without the means to defend itself, either.
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Post by: Sprotyrover on July 20, 2014, 11:05:45 am
Two good points,there is a lot of sh*t on you tube today concerning the two Malay airliners, some of it quite disturbing.
The stuff about Diego Garcia is interestng.
Sproty did say the Yanks shot that plane down remember!
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 20, 2014, 11:42:37 am
TRB

A hypothesis. The USA threw away both it's moral high ground and it's domestic stomach for playing the world's policeman in the backstreets of Sadr City and the roadsides of Kandahar.

Obama is the heir to a disastrous few years in madcap foreign intervention and America is a different country as a result.

http://www.people-press.org/2013/12/03/public-sees-u-s-power-declining-as-support-for-global-engagement-slips/
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Post by: Sprotyrover on July 20, 2014, 12:17:15 pm
Christine Lagarde talking about the global currency reset. Is slightly alarming,especially the one when she talks about the significance of the the number 7!
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Post by: Sandy Lane on July 20, 2014, 02:55:31 pm
This situation is very alarming with reports of the rebels' looting, bodies being left in the heat or stolen, now,finally, they are giving limited access.  Even so the black boxes were taken away by who knows whom.  Tbh, my first thought when hearing this and the US' very quick finger pointing at Putin and Russia, was that we had shot it down to get world backing for the Ukraine, against Russia.  I'm the first to admit I read too many spy novels these days, and I'm relieved to see that that does not appear to be the case.

Anyway, my thoughts to the victims and their families, and if Dutch Uncle has any friends or associates among the victims, my condolences.


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Post by: Dutch Uncle on July 20, 2014, 09:16:24 pm
Many thanks for the kind thoughts Sandy. Although we moved back to Bangor, County Down about a year ago after 36 years in NL, obviously I still have many friends still there, and my eldest daughter still lives there. As far as I know I don't know anyone involved. However my daughter's husband is half Malaysian and they have flown that exact flight several times before. Scary.

I just hope all sides handle the crisis sensibily (that does not mean weakly) and it does not unnecessarily cause far greater tragedies and suffering.
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Post by: hoolahoop on July 20, 2014, 10:11:59 pm
TRB

Worse than Dubya? Really? I mean...REALLY? A president who led the country into one illegal war, one unwinnable war and who pissed away the biggest fiscal surplus in a century on tax cuts for the richest few percent, leading directly to the second worst economic collapse since the 1870s.

You reckon O FCCbama has a worse rap sheet than that?

Nah Dubya was a complete the tool. Both the Bush ' s were.......Obama will have to work hard to ever reach their level of all - round incompetence.
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Post by: hoolahoop on July 20, 2014, 10:19:00 pm
Strangely I thought there would be far more interest in this subject.
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Post by: RobTheRover on July 21, 2014, 12:42:54 am
TBH, Hoola, there seems to be innocent's being murdered all over the world at the moment, and it is beginning to lose its horror.

Ukraine
Gaza
The poor little 5 year old in the USA killed in the crossfire between her abductor and the police.

It seems the rights of the innocent to be safe in their everyday lives have been eroded away.
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Post by: not on facebook on July 21, 2014, 12:54:30 am
TBH, Hoola, there seems to be innocent's being murdered all over the world at the moment, and it is beginning to lose its horror.

Ukraine
Gaza
The poor little 5 year old in the USA killed in the crossfire between her abductor and the police.

It seems the rights of the innocent to be safe in their everyday lives have been eroded away.

eye for an eye and time to bring back Death penalty ,as society has gone far too soft and laid back for certian crimes

it seems today the world over, that the culprits have far better human rights
than the right to live of the victims and their Familys.

dont give two fcuks what any left wing fcuk says at peodofiles,but they should put to Death aswell instead of trying to understand them and study their so called fcuking sickness

 

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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 21, 2014, 09:04:12 am
Oslo

You'd be at home in Saudi Arabia and Iran mate. They have a very similar outlook to you.
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Post by: not on facebook on July 21, 2014, 10:24:43 am
Oslo

You'd be at home in Saudi Arabia and Iran mate. They have a very similar outlook to you.

why not BST ,as way society is going the prisons will be rammed full With over crowding and fcukwits on the outside
moaning about the prisoners human rights

read in the paper yesterday about a women from home counties.she had conned 100s thousands out of benafit system,and it would take her 178 years to pay it back at the rate deemed actable by the judge.WTF.ok its not the deatrh penalty but shows how out of grasp Our society is.

why should the Death sentence be not given out to anyone
that murders a person once found guilty as charged





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Post by: RedJ on July 21, 2014, 10:57:17 am
Because you can't un-execute them if it turns out you've got the wrong bloke.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 21, 2014, 11:46:11 am
Oslo

I think the gist of what you're saying is that you reckon Sharia Law has a better take on this than liberal Western democracies do.
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Post by: RobTheRover on July 21, 2014, 12:46:58 pm
I'm a Rosso lad.  I used to love a good stoning in the early 80s.
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Post by: keyser_soze on July 21, 2014, 12:50:44 pm
Oslo

I think the gist of what you're saying is that you reckon Sharia Law has a better take on this than liberal Western democracies do.

Irony is a cruel mistress.
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Post by: Filo on July 21, 2014, 12:56:21 pm
I'm a Rosso lad.  I used to love a good stoning in the early 80s.

Most people in Rosso these days are stoned :)
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Post by: Sprotyrover on July 21, 2014, 08:25:01 pm
Some interesting stuff on PPrune today including this:

Shttp://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-u-s-satellite-images-show-ukrainian-troops-shooting-down-mh17/

in addition details of a Russian military press conference where they point out that the US had an experimental Satellite over the scene and invite them to release the data they have.
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Post by: Dare to dream! on July 21, 2014, 09:34:08 pm
Some interesting stuff on PPrune today including this:

Shttp://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-u-s-satellite-images-show-ukrainian-troops-shooting-down-mh17/

in addition details of a Russian military press conference where they point out that the US had an experimental Satellite over the scene and invite them to release the data they have.

That is interesting, if true
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Post by: Yargo on July 22, 2014, 09:31:51 am
Some interesting stuff on PPrune today including this:

Shttp://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-u-s-satellite-images-show-ukrainian-troops-shooting-down-mh17/

in addition details of a Russian military press conference where they point out that the US had an experimental Satellite over the scene and invite them to release the data they have.
Well that can all be cleared up by those pro- Russians that were claiming to have downed a Ukrainian military jet on the same time and date as the passenger plane was hit explaining where the one they hit went!
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on July 22, 2014, 09:55:37 am
Yargo

That's assuming those released tapes were kosher.
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Post by: Snods Shinpad 2 on July 22, 2014, 10:13:34 am
in addition details of a Russian military press conference where they point out that the US had an experimental Satellite over the scene and invite them to release the data they have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNPInuSqfs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNPInuSqfs)

It's a bit long winded but here it is.

Amazing how quickly and with such certainty our media and politicians seem to have come to conclusions with little evidence being offered.

Anyone seen the pictures doing the rounds which supposedly show a Russian seperatist stealing a ring from the crash site? What's to say he wasn't recovering valuables for safe keeping? Is it even a ring anyway? It could be a bloody Ukrainian hoola-hoop for all the picture shows.

It smacks of black propaganda. I imagine Pravda are running pictures of that Sky reporter rummaging through suitcases with the tagline 'Agent of the west caught stealing/ tampering with evidence'.

Who knows what to believe. I certainly don't trust our politicians and security services, or Russia's.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down In Ukraine??
Post by: Yargo on July 22, 2014, 10:46:14 am
Those nasty USA  didn't land on the moon it was all filmed in the Nevada desert,strange how Russian scientists now use mirrors placed there in the 70's by astronauts to measure the rate the moon is moving away from us? So says Brian Cox anyway,perhaps the floppy haired Manc is in on it eh?http://www.newrepublic.com/node/118782 (http://www.newrepublic.com/node/118782)
Anyway im off to Cleggy