Curiosity Mars Mission

Well if they find water indeed, I hope they put fluoride in it...

Still don't believe it unless I see it for myself.

Probably something they shot into the moon. 'Look at the shiney thing on the surface! It's a reflector and not crash reckage. Bad luck your telescope can't make it out. Please believe us.'

What happened?

I can see them if I close my eyes

Just like those magic crop circles?

Maybe the Yanks downloaded their own photos to the Ruskies by hacking their computers to make them think that they took the pictures themselves?

Why explore space?
launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/



If I unrolled my sail on the moon it would flutter for a bit too; no atmosphere required. The flags were a lot lighter, delicate etc. Just imagein you are floating in space and you unfurl a flag. It's going to do it's wobble thing for a bit.

As for the stars, I can't see any in the sky today either. It works kinda the same way on the moon; the sun is too ****ing bright, but also the objects in the photo are too bright aswell. If you've ever been camping on a full moon you'd have noticed how bright everything is. You can just/almost read by the light of a full moon. So imagine how ****ing bright it would be standing on it! Moon dust is really, really reflective. You can read some accounts by the Apollo astronauts and they describe at very, very other-worldy, very surreal. Compared to that and the shiny space suits the camera just isn't going to pick up the stars. Any photographer can attest to this unless they're all in on the conspiracy too.

Claim to fame: Had a guest speaker at a meeting when I was a kid. My mum took me along to it and at the end she said "Go up and introduce yourself to Mr. Aldrin". I shook his hand. Still haven't washed it.

^ I don't know.

I don't get the "moon landing sceptics". SURELY you agree that there are man-made satellites orbiting the Earth. Since sputnik you can look up at night (best just after sunset) and see them passing over. The ISS is brighter than Venus; you can't miss it.

If you agree we have satellites then it's not much of a jump to get to the Moon. You just get into the right orbit and whoosh on out over to the moon. About 6 days travel time. Getting there is almost possible with amateurs these days. Staying in space for long periods is of course well known, I think even 1 year aboard the ISS(?).

Now getting people there is a bit harder, especially alive people. One has to slow down from that enormous speed and land a vehicle safely on the surface without killing its occupants. Again, this was done a few times, landing the rovers on Mars was a harder feat.

What impresses me the most was getting back. Came across this while surfing around looking for a trajectory video that might explain it all a bit better. It's amazing what's on the web these days.
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630011448.pdf
Very pretty diagrams. I don't pretend to understand the Maths.
Looks like Australia was a likely landing point at that stage.

Cost of sending Mars rover is estimated at circa 2.5 bln $ . Which means that our Gina could afford to buy be herself 20 - 30 vehicles.
That is sort of money that one person could have and still need more, since whole the biggest and richest country in the world hardly could scrap the pennies to afford any space program.
For 5 bln bucks you could build a space tram that will send everything in space at the cost $1 per kg using magnetic gun. Only problem nobody has spare few billion bucks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram

If I remember correctly, there's a stiff rod that goes inside the top of the flag to hold it's shape.

I think chimps went to the moon instead of humans I remember seeing a box of bananas in one pic

A bit like living in london then

There should be a hinge where it attaches to the pole.

All in all, I'm just pulling your chain. I'm 50/50 on the debate. Just looking at different views.

Cheers

A mate of mine is from the Stone Henge area and went and had a look at alot of them. Said they were definatly fake.