Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res 93
Boing Boing reports that NASA has uploaded to its Flickr account 8400 photographs from the agency's Apollo days -- "just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions." The astronauts were shooting with some very nice cameras, and the results are worth seeing at 1800dpi.
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There were automated cameras: for example, on the rockets to record behaviour for post-launch analysis, and. I believe, on the LEM to record the landing. But the ones I looked at from this set would all have been taken by astronauts.
Actual proper Silly question but.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Actual proper Silly question but.... (Score:5, Informative)
They've always been available; as printed books. I have NASA Gemini mission books that are nothing but plates.
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Most of them have already been available for a couple years on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/fr... [nasa.gov]
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No, they were taken by Stanley Kubrick.
http://news.discovery.com/spac... [discovery.com]
How about that (Score:3, Funny)
We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.
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Umm... Unless I am missing something, it appears that they did not misspell anything. They failed to include a word but they didn't misspell anything that I can see. My spelling isn't that good but those are pretty simple words and I think I'm spelling them properly. So, if spelling is the greatest accomplishment you've done then...
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I get where you were going with it now. I suppose that would, indeed, be a misspelling.
Re:How about that (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, both are correct. "Learnt" is the outside-the-US variant spelling (ie, the Oxford spelling). "Learned" is the American (Webster) spelling.
Citation [oxforddictionaries.com], you don't have to take the word of an English teacher and the son of an English teacher.
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History is fuck all to do with the discussion. Current spellings are. Wind your neck in.
Re:How about that (Score:4, Informative)
The etymology of words is interesting, but has limited application in deciding correct modern forms and usage. As anyone who knows a little German would recognize, the word "learn" is Germanic in origin, explaining the original past tense of "learnt". The trend is towards using regular English endings in words with Germanic roots. Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.
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The trend is towards using regular English endings in words with Germanic roots.
It makes good sense, too. English has so many rules specifically because it hasn't done that in the past, so we have words constructed with rules for latin, greek, german, english, etc., as you clearly know. It's infuriating.
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Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.
Says some guy on the Internet...
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Go with the presidential form: "Lernified", or "Lernifaad" with a southern tinge.
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As my grandfather always said, if you can't beat 'em, and you can't join 'em, then joke about 'em.
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> "Just about every image..."
Oh, so they haven't posted the ones where you can see the behind-the-scenes rigging of the TV studio they filmed the whole thing in? And they cut out the ones where the aliens are visible, too.
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I wouldn't mind a high quality picture of Buzz decking that moon-landing hoax dude who was harassing him.
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why don't you post them, if you're that certain they exist you must surely have a copy already?
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We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.
One small jiggle for a man, one giant blur for humanity!
Actually, some of the side shots of craters are a great example of shadows seemingly "going the wrong way" do to topology. And the curvature of the moon is so apparent on shots featuring a horizon, very nice. Thanks NASA.
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They are not PC which is why they need to die.
Republicans are Mac?
why should I sign up for public domain pix. (Score:3)
They have always been public domain, nothing has changed, don't need any fancy interface t show up 1000 photos of the surface.
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I haven't seen these on the JPL Public Image Archive, they seem to be very selective about what goes up there. What I would like is list access to the images like I have with the PIA so I can add them to my video wall slideshow.
Re:why should I sign up for public domain pix. (Score:5, Informative)
asked then answered: the full resolution images are accesible in list view here [nasa.gov] arranged by mission and referenced by film cassette and frame number. Tidy. :)
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I'd like to add that the link in TFA should be replaced with the Album-based view, which is more informative and logically separated:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/... [flickr.com]
But... (Score:2)
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Earthrise (Score:3)
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If I remember correctly, those photos weren't planned, they just saw the Earth rising outside the window and grabbed a camera.
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Yeah, that was pretty amazing:
http://www.npr.org/sections/th... [npr.org]
Accomplishments (Score:5, Funny)
Chill out. It's a joke.
Can you see Mars to the right of Earth? (Score:1)
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Unlikely, given that you can't see any stars, and it's not in any of the surrounding similar photos.
It's not just me (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry this is a scam! (Score:3)
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Laughable. Even the headline of the article isn't convinced by its own content: "10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax." Have some conviction!
Their number 1 is even completely wrong. The backgrounds don't match exactly. Parallax is evident, proving that the shots were taken from different locations relative to the mountains.
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They aren't fooling me (Score:2)
NOT NASA's flicker account (Score:2)
This is not NASA's flicker account. It is an individual reposting NASA's public domain photos.