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Panoramic Photos From The Apollo Missions
Ant writes "This link lets you experience the moon just as the Apollo missions' astronauts did -- almost as you were there -- with QuickTime panorama views. Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with todays computer technics can be stitched together into 360-degree interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there. Many of these panoramas have been published before, but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes. During the last year the original films have been rescanned in large resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary."
But we never really did make it to the moon! As we all know it was all in hollywood!
How they got panoramic shots of the fake moon set without getting any of the lights or equipment in the shots... ;)
;)
Let the conspiracy theorists loose... this should be fun...
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By the time I reboot into XP or start my Mac that site will be toast.
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
I've got a beer in my hand and three slices of pizza on a plate in front of me. I can also breathe without a helmet and can't bounce around.
So unless my version of Quicktime is missing a few extra plugins.....
I thought these were screenshots of Myst VII.
"Any man who says he can see through women is missing a lot" Groucho Marx
Well there is more intellegent life on the moon than in Hollywood.
(Doing my best Scotty voice)
"It's dead already!"
Plus if you do manage to open the website you'll flood the whole compartment.
With what? Hell if I know but it killed that server!
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By the time I reboot into XP or start my Mac that site will be toast.
I believe the future tense is uncalled for in this situation.
Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
Ahhh ... watching the moon while listening to some Pink Floyd. How trippy! :D
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
"That's one small click for a man, and a giant slashdotting for a completely unprepared webserver."
"Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgement." Job 32:9
This link lets you experience the moon just as the Apollo missions' astronauts did -- almost as you were there
The moon blows. Who wants to see crosshairs everywhere?
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
Is there a big CHA on it?
SPOOOOOOOONNNN!!!!!!!!
Amazing! How did they make them in that warehouse?
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MOooooooooON
When I was in high school, Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. In my youthful ignorance, I thought the delay between Houston asking him a question and his response was due to the moon being so far away. Now 35 years later, as I experience the delays again, I realize it's just that the link to the moon had been slashdotted.
Oh, quicktime VR.
Never mind
(crawls back under rock)
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Congradulations Slashdot. You've destroyed the moon.
Did someone mention "linking to space panoramas on slashdot" under the "Most Common Ways to Kill a PC" story?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Exposure. You can't have really bright objects and really dim objects show up on the same photo.
...Unless you're taking a photo of Bush shaking hands with Stephen Hawking :-)
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Because it is close to us.
and vast improvements in CG technology
since the 1970's has made these "flybys"
a "reality".
I, for one, welcome our new Pixar masters!