Moon Landings..
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- detritus
..probably actually happened.
There's something quite wistful in seeing these stark images of far-flung outposts left to time.
- Stugoo0
shopped :)
- Corvo20
That's a big cheese, a pin and a blur.
- probably yes - but why did they bring that stuff to the moon?invisiblechamber
- ahah.Corvo2
- drgss0
Many people don't know that, but NASA did several moon landings
Its is only the first one that is in question, the other ones were less known/interesting- and the russian moon landings are overwhelming uninteresting.invisiblechamber
- everyone knows that LOLckentish
- well russians were first to do unmanned moon landingsdrgss
- Bender0
So why didn't they go back?
- ckentish0
too expensive and it was all a massive PR stunt during the cold war because they beat the americans twice (first man in space and first satellite). The US public pushed the government to do it due to fear of the soivet union... once they did it there was no need to go back.
- welded0
There's a great episode of MythBusters where they destroy all the most common hoax theories.
- going to find thatStugoo
- Episode S6E10 http://www.tv.com/my…welded
- invisiblechamber0
this is great:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344…
(i think it's fully tubed)
- GeorgesII0
- have you ever looked at the moon?ephix
- I don't get your question? if you mean looking at it and it appears grey from earth, you lost meGeorgesII
- well colours as we know them are relative to not only our eyes but how light reflects on our atmosphere, so it's...Corvo2
- impossible to know what colour is the moon unless you go up there with your terrestrial eyes.Corvo2
- I'm not a sciencist obviously, but there must be a reason why they never use cameras with composite colour.Corvo2
- But if you have a known (on earth) colored object attached to the lander and include it in the photo you have a reference?ribit
- ..reference?ribit
- I think that's how they calibrated the cameras aboard the Phoenix (Mars), but still ...Corvo2
- it's a terrestrial colour profile. What guarantees do we have that we would see those colours if we were on Mars?Corvo2
- NASA only gives the astronauts a pinhole camera. Tight budget.rylamar
- ghandolf0
Streaming Real-time, rebroadcast, of the Moon Landing is being streamed here.
(takes a bit to load up, but it will be cool to listen to again on Monday when they land again - albeit previously recorded)
Landing on the moon is now in 55 hours, and counting. They are currently 160,000 miles from Earth, and traveling at 3, 544 feet per second.
- thats 2,416.3636 miles an hourimnotadesigner
- falsefreeskihp
- Corvo20
I bet they went back to feed Elvis. And are returning for the funeral.
- Corvo20
Interesting read on the dangers of exposure to cosmic rays - apparently, going to Mars is extremely dangerous for the astronauts, since they will be exposed for a prolonged period to cosmic rays (when compared to the relatively safer moon explorations).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hea…
Makes you think how unlikely it is that humans will ever leave our neighbourhood unless someone can find a way to avoid cosmic rays exposure.
- I heard the rays make very small holes in yr brainlukus_W
- Like this, perhaps..
http://www.ynetnews.…detritus - Very interesting link, Nairn. Wow.Corvo2
- Aye, it's kind of big news if it all works out - the implications for cancer treatment alone are profound.detritus
- That alone would already be amazing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one.Corvo2
- Not the biggest problem to solve.. biggest is getting some commitment to ongoing exploration and colonisation of space..ribit
- .. space.ribit
- Well there's a lot of problems here on Earth that also need lots of money. Some people just don't see Space as aCorvo2
- priority (nor one likely to wield big results). I can't say I blame them, although I'm sure there's a reasonable mid-term.Corvo2
- I, for one, would like to see more "commitment" from other countries, but hey - who am I to say.Corvo2
- GeorgesII0
some info about the colors, google "mars colors" too, its pretty nice
http://www.universetoday.com/gui…