Space, The Final Frontier

[Mr-K]

VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS!

[Error]

The hoax guys will never believe it. They refuse to believe that humanity could achieve something like sticking people on a rocket and firing them off into space, then using math to land on the moon and bring them home.

This despite the fact that humanity had already split the atom some 25 years before hand.

Oh and the flag won't be there. They planted it too close to the launch site. It was destroyed when they took off on their way home. Later landings planted one farther away, if I recall.

[The_Meach]

[Fe 26]

Space thread, eh? Sounds like a perfect place for this question...

So, this crazy guy was in my store the other day and ranted to me for around a half-hour about the government keeping secrets, everyone dying and fuel cells. One thing he mentioned that I hadn't heard before was about the second Mars mission where we actually found water. He attributed it to ALL of the planets melting, and that we only found water this time because it had melted since last. He claims something about a second sun, paired with ours, that comes around every 60,000 years or somesuch. Any credence to this or something similar?

I used to know a guy into out of body experiences that talked a lot about that crap. About the second sun and blah blah

[Melf]

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.

National Geographic has an article debunking the myths, and they address this one.

You can tell Apollo 11 was faked because ... with instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope capable of peering into the distant recesses of the universe, surely scientists should be able to see the various objects still on the moon. But no such pictures of these objects exist.

The fact of the matter is ... no telescope on Earth or in space has that kind of resolving power. "You can calculate this," astronomer Phil Plait, author of the award-winning blog Bad Astronomy and president of the James Randi Educational Foundation, said. "Even with the biggest telescope on Earth, the smallest thing you can see on the surface of moon is something bigger than a house."

Here's the full article.

[Fe 26]

The thing that interest me though is how some old calenders (or so they have said) finished at or around 2012, that part makes me go "hmm..." but that's pretty much it assuming of course that claim is real.

I guess that is fact. Or at least the history channel says so. I've seen three shows on their saying that all the old temples, all around the world, are all aligned to the same year star chart. And I vaguely remember something about if you use the system for calculating that, by the method of the Aztecs, or whatever, time just ended around 2012.

but whatever.

[Rich]

Mythbusters had the Moon Landing episode one twice today.

I can't think of anything cooler than walking on the moon. It would be the most awesome thing a man can achieve.

[Cowutopia]

nah, but it's one of the most awesome things man has achieved.

[Rich]

I would drop everything in a heart beat if given the chance to go to the moon.

[kedawa]

A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause Whitey's on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause Whitey's on the moon?)
I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)