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NASA's LRO Captures High-Res Pics of Apollo Landing Sites
The Bad Astronomer is one of many readers who wrote to tell us about NASA's release of high-res photos showing the Apollo landing sites. The photos were taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and show the traces of earlier visits to the Moon. "The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution."
I'm sure at least once, somebody in the team asked "Now, you guys do know that this will show the landing sight. We really didn't fake the landing, right?"
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Neat shots. I'm just waiting for someone to 'CSI enhance' this so that we can see Neil's bootprints.
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Sheesh. These pics are just a few days old and they've already lost the images of the Apollo 13 landing sight.
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Honestly, I think the best argument is that the Soviets would definitely have called us out on not landing. They would have had the technology to disprove us, and don't tell me that they wouldn't have called us out.
That's easy, I have reliable evidence from the voices inside my head that we just exchanged some alien technology from the Roswell UFO crash for their silence.
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Honestly, I think the best argument is that the Soviets would definitely have called us out on not landing.
The top tiers of the Soviet machine were in on the hoax. It was excellent propaganda. It generated fear in their people, and fearful people are more easily herded.
Instead of "Iraq has WMDs" it was "America has moon rockets".
Couldn't they have faked up higher resolution images? Everyone knows that they created all the moon landings on a sound stage. I mean, rockets making it all the way to the moon? Get real! I've played with Estes rockets, and they can't can't go anywhere near that high. If my 1 foot tall rocket could go a thousand feet up, you'd need a rocket several miles high to get anywhere close to the moon. And where are you going to find a rubber band large enough to attach the parachute?
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" assure you, idiots breed in larger numbers than smart people in every country."
But america seems to be special in that it prides itself on it's ignorance, try having an intelligent discussion about ideology with many Americans to see what I mean. It often times seems even the most educated there are also as dumb as rocks in that they will never allow other points of view to penetrate their enormous ideological pride.
I mean seriously, most Americans still fail to realise the difference between it's and its even though most of us nonnative speakers are quite fluent with it. We can even tell the difference between you're and your, often even their, there and they're!
It just bugs me that there are so few Americans out there today who can actually use their native tongue. Horrible isn't it?
You must be one of those creative types...
It is not as bad as me signing a present (a book) "To inteligent sister from intelectual brother"
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The moon is lumpy and thus doesn't have a uniform gravity field.
Um NO It's not.
and I have a very uniform gravity field thank you. Plus I have lost quite a bit of weight. I have not been mistaken for a large moon since high school.
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