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Sep 8th, 2011 at 12:04pm

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Reply #1 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 12:19pm

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Also....a close up of the plug-hole which drained all the water from the surface of the Moon 6 billion years ago?... Shocked

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/ai_technology_could_help_find_leaks

Amazing photos of the Moon explorations, from a long way away...250,000 miles!

I notice there is a Super Nova occurring in the Constellation of the Plough to watch tonight!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14817349

Time to get the binoculars/telescope out!

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Reply #2 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 1:32pm

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I do believe, but why are the pictures such a crap quality. Satellites that Google Earth used from 150miles up show the BBQ on my deck as plain as day. These are taken from 13 miles and still don't show much more that some out of focus pixels Huh Huh

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Reply #3 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 2:38pm

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expat wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 1:32pm:
I do believe, but why are the pictures such a crap quality. Satellites that Google Earth used from 150miles up show the BBQ on my deck as plain as day. These are taken from 13 miles and still don't show much more that some out of focus pixels Huh Huh

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The close-up images on Google Earth are taken by aeroplanes that fly over and take the pictures. They're only a few thousand feet high. As far as I know, the satellite images themselves are only good enough to resolve a 1-meter-square patch of earth, on Earth, to one pixel.
 

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Reply #4 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 2:51pm

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expat wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 1:32pm:
I do believe, but why are the pictures such a crap quality. Satellites that Google Earth used from 150miles up show the BBQ on my deck as plain as day. These are taken from 13 miles and still don't show much more that some out of focus pixels Huh Huh

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...and there's silly old me thinking that the Pics were taken with a Pentax Sureshot camera plugged into the end of a powerful Earth-based telescope!

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Reply #5 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 3:41pm

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machineman9 wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 2:38pm:
expat wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 1:32pm:
I do believe, but why are the pictures such a crap quality. Satellites that Google Earth used from 150miles up show the BBQ on my deck as plain as day. These are taken from 13 miles and still don't show much more that some out of focus pixels Huh Huh

Matt

The close-up images on Google Earth are taken by aeroplanes that fly over and take the pictures. They're only a few thousand feet high. As far as I know, the satellite images themselves are only good enough to resolve a 1-meter-square patch of earth, on Earth, to one pixel.


You are correct, the higher resolution aerial images you see today, including most on Google Earth, are taken from aircraft, usually under 10,000 feet.
 
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Reply #6 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 4:29pm

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A friend of mine is an avid conspiracy theorist, you name the conspiracy, he probably believes it or at least some form of it. When I showed him these pics he finally conceded that man "probably" did land on the moon. Grin
 

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Reply #7 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 5:57pm

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Conspirers are everywhere. Moon landings could not have been faked, in my humble opinion. If you lived through the cold war era, you should understand the chest bumping between the East and West and the constant monitoring of each others activities. Just saying..
 

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Reply #8 - Sep 8th, 2011 at 6:20pm

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Steve M wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 5:57pm:
Conspirers are everywhere. Moon landings could not have been faked, in my humble opinion. If you lived through the cold war era, you should understand the chest bumping between the East and West and the constant monitoring of each others activities. Just saying..

A lot of the accusations were about the levels of technology available at the time. Sure, the rockets had as much memory as a desk calculator, but if you're using a fairly simple system (compared to modern rockets and shuttles) then it was enough.

Don't get me wrong, going to the moon was hard, but it wasn't that hard. Propulsion, aerodynamics, controls, oxygen, living quarters and a pod with reverse thrust. The difficulty was doing it for the first time, and they had enough casualties and failures to get to where they are now.
 

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machineman9 wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 6:20pm:
Steve M wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 5:57pm:
Conspirers are everywhere. Moon landings could not have been faked, in my humble opinion. If you lived through the cold war era, you should understand the chest bumping between the East and West and the constant monitoring of each others activities. Just saying..

A lot of the accusations were about the levels of technology available at the time. Sure, the rockets had as much memory as a desk calculator, but if you're using a fairly simple system (compared to modern rockets and shuttles) then it was enough.

Don't get me wrong, going to the moon was hard, but it wasn't that hard. Propulsion, aerodynamics, controls, oxygen, living quarters and a pod with reverse thrust. The difficulty was doing it for the first time, and they had enough casualties and failures to get to where they are now.



Smiley I, for one, totally agree.� Cool    Plus Nasa gave us Cheez Whiz.
 

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TacitBlue wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 4:29pm:
A friend of mine is an avid conspiracy theorist, you name the conspiracy, he probably believes it or at least some form of it. When I showed him these pics he finally conceded that man "probably" did land on the moon. Grin


I bet that hurt him to say Grin Grin

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Reply #11 - Sep 9th, 2011 at 4:50am

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Even Chavez said recently said in Public that the moon landing were fake

all this conspiracy theory are simply� people jealous and haters� of the United States ,people that want and try to damage the US some how, and it only show their ignorance

� This type of thing shows their lack of knowledge ,the lack of readings�

You will never see a Physicist or any REAL scientist claim such of stupidity

I recently have a forum ( a real one alive me and 3 astronomers and one PhD astrophysicist in local public library and many people without studies in their life hold this theory ,When I ask to one of them where are your sources of what you claim ? he didn't knew what was the word "Sources" and he change the subject by talking about how the extraterrestrials made the Pyramids in Giza� Roll Eyes

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Reply #12 - Sep 9th, 2011 at 5:43am

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alrot wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 4:50am:
all this conspiracy theory are simply� people jealous and haters� of the United States ,people that want and try to damage the US some how, and it only show their ignorance

You take all this far too seriously Alex. Tongue

I learned at a very early age to question everything the scientists & self-styled "experts" tried to tell me.
 

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Ex is a has been and spurt is a drip under pressure eh Doug? Wink
 

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Reply #14 - Sep 9th, 2011 at 6:53am

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If I firmly state here, now, and forever, on Oath, that I firmly believe in the Moon Landings...

....will you all be friends with me again?... Huh....

....Please?...Pretty-please?... Kiss...!

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We'll think about it Paul Wink Grin
 

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ozzy72 wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 6:56am:
We'll think about it Paul Wink Grin


..would a crate of Bell's Scotch Whiskey assist in your decisions?

...or, maybe, a brand new Kawasaki 750...in green...?

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It might colour my view slightly... I'm not sure how well I'd ride after a crate of whiskey mind you.... I tend not to be too steady on my feet after a few nippy sweeties let alone on 2 wheels Grin Grin Grin
 

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Fozzer wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 7:03am:
ozzy72 wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 6:56am:
We'll think about it Paul Wink Grin


..would a crate of Bell's Scotch Whiskey assist in your decisions?

...or, maybe, a brand new Kawasaki 750...in green...?

Paul... Grin...!



You can keep the Quacker, I am a BMW man, but the whisky works. When can you come out and play Grin

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expat wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 7:24am:
Fozzer wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 7:03am:
ozzy72 wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 6:56am:
We'll think about it Paul Wink Grin


..would a crate of Bell's Scotch Whiskey assist in your decisions?

...or, maybe, a brand new Kawasaki 750...in green...?

Paul... Grin...!



You can keep the Quacker, I am a BMW man, but the whisky works. When can you come out and play Grin

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..one of these delights, Matt?... Wink...

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TacitBlue wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 4:29pm:
A friend of mine is an avid conspiracy theorist, you name the conspiracy, he probably believes it or at least some form of it. When I showed him these pics he finally conceded that man "probably" did land on the moon.
alrot wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 4:50am:
When I asked one of them where are your sources of what you claim?, he 'didn't know what the word "Sources" was' and he changed the subject by talking about how the extraterrestrials made the Pyramids in Giza.
There you have it... these pxs are no proof that any of mankind have landed on the Moon -- it was extraterrestrials, disguised in human-like footware, that left fake evidence.
  Roll Eyes


Steve M wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 6:41pm:
...Nasa gave us Cheez Whiz.
I don't know if I'd discredit them with that. Although there were some scary, even deadly, events in their missions, there was much that happened throughout man's history -- the axe about to cleave your skull, the oversized predator about to chomp it, etc. -- that caused the production of cheese whiz long before the days of NASA.



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I am a firm believer....

of Jamie and Adam of MythBuster fame. And they 'proved' man landed on the moon months ago. Roll Eyes  Grin
 

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patchz wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 10:09am:
I am a firm believer....

of Jamie and Adam of MythBuster fame. And they 'proved' man landed on the moon months ago. Roll EyesGrin

That was a brilliant episode  Grin
 

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Mini-mod really liked that as well. We always watch Mythbusters together when I get in of an evening before having dinner and bedtime story Cool
Awesome show Smiley Smiley Smiley
 

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I see the mythbusters in person frequently out here, they used to always use Moffett's hangar 1 before they started renovating it,  and they always use Alameda's abandoned airstrip (remember the spare tire episode or the bus episode...etc)
 

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Steve M wrote on Sep 8th, 2011 at 5:57pm:
Conspirers are everywhere. Moon landings could not have been faked, in my humble opinion. If you lived through the cold war era, you should understand the chest bumping between the East and West and the constant monitoring of each others activities. Just saying..


The amount of money and resources it would have taken to cover that up...probably less than the money and resources it took to get men on the moon for real.


I saw a show on some tv channel about moon conspiracy theorists and the filmmakers pointed out that there's a set of mirrors at one of the landing sites that we shoot a laser at to figure out how far away the moon is.  They told a bunch of the conspiracy theorists about it and they were just like 'oh...well...it's still fake!' Grin
 

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ozzy72 wrote on Sep 9th, 2011 at 11:35am:
Mini-mod really liked that as well. We always watch Mythbusters together when I get in of an evening before having dinner and bedtime story Cool
Awesome show Smiley Smiley Smiley



New series starts tomorrow (Monday) on Discovery Cheesy

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..I was always curious to know if anyone went back to rescue the Photographer who filmed the final take-off of the Lunar Module...

..then I read about the; "Moon Rover", which filmed all the goings-on with its on-board television camera.

..so that's sorted!... Wink...!

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