The Moon - Part 2

More info on the moon, a bit deep but quite fascinating ....

There are 5 moon tides:

Ocean Tides - there are 2 tides everyday, corresponding roughly to when the moon is overhead and when it is on the opposite side of the planet.  As it travels around the earth the oceans move with it.

Earth Tides - The moon has a tide that pulls the crust off the earth towards itself.

Fire Tides - Lunar tides also affect the fiery molten core of the earth, causing it to surge and recede like ocean tides.  They say this is one of the contributors to earthquakes.

Air Tides - Weather is in fact what happens when the atmosphere is pulled around the planet by the moon.  So why is the moon tides not taken into account when weather forecasting?  No wonder the weather forecast is usually wrong.

Blood Tides - The effect of the moons tides on living beings.  The monthly moon-tide - the 28 day menstrual cycle.  The phases of the moon affect the cycle of growing things, the migration of birds, the breeding season of everything from deer to coral.  "Emotional moon-tides" lunacy was a legal defense, seen as an unstable mental condition brought on at full moon.

So there you have it, the moon is a very mysterious magical thing.  Which leads me to thinking if the moon has such an influence over the earth why have the Americans been the only one's to land on the moon?  The technology that we have 40 years later surely would make it easier to have gone backwards and forwards to the moon.  Wouldn't other countries, especially Russia want to see the moon for themselves.  I know there is a theory that there is nothing there and landing on the moon has already been conquered but hasn't more than one person climbed Mt Everest!  Would the Russians even believe the Americans that there was nothing on the moon? 

I want to know why has nobody been back to the moon, and in fact if man really landed on the moon at all?

After that brain drain, I am now going to get a cup of tea......