Space, The Final Frontier

[youandwhosearmy]

This is one smart negro, yo.

Actually I LOVE this dude, you should check him out.

It's bullshit he didn't get the head of NASA job. Easily the most qualified and focused person they could have possibly picked.

[youandwhosearmy]

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just send back it's first images of the Apollo landing sites. You can apparently make out more than just the old LEM's sitting on the surface of the moon, apparently you can see places where we disturbed the top soil.

Personally I can't, (I have no idea what to look for in images like this beyond elongated shadows) but apparently the Orbiter is capable of pictures of more than twice the current resolution so I think in a few months we'll be looking at these things more clearly.

Enough talk here is the Apollo 11 landing site (one low res with a tag and one high res without one) followed by a link to more pictures...




Rest of Pictures - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...ollosites.html

Bad Astronomy Article - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...imaged-by-lro/

[YellerDog]

I'm waiting for some idiot to start shouting about shadow inconsistencies.

[Shin Johnpv]

I'm looking forward to higher res images, is that the flag we're supposed to be seeing?

[youandwhosearmy]

That's the LEM I think. The flag is not visible at that resolution.

[YellerDog]

I think that's correct. LEM doesn't come back, just the capsule, yes?

[Type Ryan]

WE DIDN'T LAND ON THE MOON...IT'S ALL A LIE!!!!

I still love this video...



...and Ali G's interview with Buzz Lightyear.

[Mr-K]

My girlfriend's brother is a rather staunch moon landing denier, and he had this to say:

yeah, that doesn't look fake at all
we can freaking photograph galxies 100 million miles away
but can't show up an up close picture of the landers
FUCK THIS MAN
nd you can see where the lunar surface was disturbed by the astronauts bootprints!
yeah, im sure

lol

*edit - To be fair, he is... 30% kidding.

At least I think he is.

Why did this double post when I edited?

[Doc Holliday]

You know who landed on the Moon? The Nazis.

[youandwhosearmy]

Those denials are such bullshit. A galaxy 30 million light years away is likely 100 million light years across. In galaxy scale photos of deep space, the things that look like stars, aren't. They are other galaxies. That's the scale we are dealing with.

When you are talking about photographing the moon's surface, you get into an issue of lighting, speed, orbit, atmospheric distortion (if you are doing it from Earth) and resolution. Until we put a rover on the moon you won't be getting many images of quality from it of that scale.

So for his sake, I hope he's 100% joking.

The photos however clearly show something artificial, about 10 feet tall, giving off an unnaturally straight shadow, at all the sites where we claimed we landed. God I hate moon hoax believers.