Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available 263
eric.brasseur writes "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has entered lunar orbit in perfect shape. From a height of 50 km, it will image the Moon in high resolution. The hardware left by the Apollo missions will be clearly visible. The Soviet automatic probes will also be photographed. Previous best images were made by the Japanese probe Kaguya and showed a white patch where the dust had been blown away by the blast of the LM engine."
Re:God dammit (Score:2, Funny)
The coverup will continue (Score:2, Funny)
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:5, Funny)
Preferably without suits. They won't mind, because they think they're just heading to a big warehouse in Arizona.
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:5, Funny)
Not a bad idea - dragging the conspiracy nuts to the moon...
Better: send them to the landing site for the first manned mission to the sun (but don't tell them they'll be the first ones to land there).
Re:eh (Score:5, Funny)
...freshly shaved Asian...pussy...
You haven't seen very much Asian porn, have you? You're in for a big surprise once Mommy and Daddy uninstall NetNanny.
Google moon? (Score:2, Funny)
Can I have street view?
If you look closely at the picture of the orbiter (Score:5, Funny)
You can plainly see that only a few feet of the orbiter are devoted to the camera, with the rest being a perfect-size capsule for a single astronaut with a copy of photoshop.
Explain that.
Obligatory Cheese Reference (Score:5, Funny)
tourism? (Score:2, Funny)
so....the primary focus of this mission is checking out the trash we left 40 years ago?
Lunar ruins (Score:3, Funny)
"Just reading the summery makes me worried about the slew of "Moon landing never happened!" posts that are on the way"
As for me, I think we did go to the moon. However I feel that these so called images will be doctored to remove evidence of the alleged "ruins" that are littered across its surface..
Re:If you look closely at the picture of the orbit (Score:2, Funny)
It's amazing (Score:5, Funny)
What a long way we've come since the sixties and seventies. Now we can even photograph the landing sites they used back then. :-/
Re:God dammit (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our sharks with things that are no moons on their heads who are our overlords... on the moon!
The "moon" - a ridiculous liberal myth (Score:5, Funny)
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!)
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 .. 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.
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.
Re:God dammit (Score:4, Funny)
Do they run Linux?
If so, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
Someone else will have to throw in the bad car analogy.
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:5, Funny)
Suits won't make a difference. Even in expensive cashmere suits they will still look like a bunch of nuts suffocating on the lunar surface.
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:5, Funny)
Bah. This is easily remedied by going at night.
Re:eh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:God dammit (Score:3, Funny)
sure, because nobody could edit wikipedia to cover for the fake moon landings!
Re:God dammit (Score:2, Funny)
Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score:3, Funny)
I thought we were just going to send their nuts to the moon, that way at least they can't breed.
I put on my tinfoil hat (Score:3, Funny)
> Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available
Why not visit them in person? They're in the desert just outside Los Angeles.
My personal theory is The Pirate Bay was shut down just to ban the documentary, Capricorn One.
Re:God dammit (Score:3, Funny)
So all in all, we have a Beowulf cluster of Linux-driven cars that form a moon, which explains why it's not a real moon. And it is protected by space-sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. But we do not know it, because we never were there?
And in Soviet Russia, that "moon" never was on YOU? It only was IN the Goatse guy, who at that time had a relationship with Natalie Portman, and so "poured" an insensitive clod of hot grits over her. But we, for one, would welcome them, just as Natalie welcomed the hot grits?
Bah. In Korea, only old people and CowboyNeal would believe that, you insensitive clod!
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