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27th February 2013, 03:09 AM | #241 |
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27th February 2013, 10:11 AM | #243 |
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And risk them shooting a hole in the spacecraft? There was the running joke, I think involving Pete Conrad, saying that upon arriving on the lunar surface he should scream and cut his mike.
Conversely the Soviet cosmonauts were armed, not because of what they might encounter in space but because of what they might encounter upon landing in a possibly remote area of the Soviet Union. Bears, wolves, etc. |
27th February 2013, 10:25 AM | #244 |
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Just to prove to those that the human race is capable of things:
voyager 1 and 2 mission status: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/...orts/index.htm |
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27th February 2013, 02:32 PM | #248 |
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It is called math, science, physics. Do moon landing deniers take math, science and physics?
Sun angle. The missions on the moon were planned so the life support systems could keep the astronauts alive. The temperature on the moon can be predicted, using math and science. Simple stuff, guess moon landing deniers can't do the science part. Apollo 11, cold, Apollo 15 hot; you can take the sun angle and calculate the temperature. Can you compared the design of the life support systems? I feel cool now, I estimate the temperature at 60F; I am correct. A human thermometer. What does temperature have to do with moon landing deniers failed claims? |
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27th February 2013, 05:03 PM | #252 |
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27th February 2013, 07:18 PM | #253 |
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Can't be.
Unless he was really Polish-Ed up for the photo. |
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28th February 2013, 07:05 AM | #256 |
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Does a bear poop in a space capsule in the woods?
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How did they get the bears into the ejection seats/supersonic jets? Notice how I don't ask why they were ejecting the bears? After cramming a bear into one of those seats, launching the massive pissed-off critter out of the plane seems perfectly sensible. Landing with it would be insane. |
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So was the plan to fill up the Russian steppes with angry ejected bears thereby halting the Soviet space program by making landings too dangerous for their astronauts?
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28th February 2013, 02:59 PM | #266 |
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Russia sent the Bears back, the RAF used to intercept them over the North Sea.
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A Facebook friend and I have been trying to understand if this video is an elaborate joke or not as it seems to be 40 minutes of a guy highlighting jpeg artefacts with Photoshop filters and saying "OMG Alienz!". Is this usual behaviour for Moonbats?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH9aP-MNwbg Quick tip of the hat to JayUtah and co for teaching me so much about the Apollo program. Cheers guys! |
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Unfortunately, it seems to be all too frequent (and not just in space images). The CTers don't understand image compression, image artefacts (either in general or JPEG in particular), or any sort of photogrammetry. The most notorious example of this was the late Jack White, who:
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The Jack White "photogrammetry" incident reliably gets a facepalm from me. Not only did he fail to recognize one term for the field he was claiming expertise in...in a Congressional hearing...he couldn't even infer the meaning of the term from its parts.
Of course, his virtually nonexistent spatial and visual reasoning skills reliably produced similar reactions... |
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On the other hand, it's nice to know that if you draw a crocodile on the moon, it looks like a crocodile.
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Further, there are a couple of later parts of his testimony that show up why White made so many false assumptions as regards shadow, parallax and perspective effects the Apollo photographic record, and why HB's continue to call that record into question.
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This is a simplified explanation of how this works http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/photog.htm Here is a photo of an ordinary car park. You know that the white lines are all the same length and are parallel to each other, but that is not how it appears in the photo. This is due to perspective, and without any information about the camera and lens, or its distance and elevation from any given point in the scene, you cannot determine how long the lines are, or whether or not they are actually parallel This aspect of 3D to 2D representation will be familiar to most sports fans. Grass advertising signage in stadiums is deliberately distorted remove the perspective. The actual logo (left) is painted on the grass in a distorted fashion as viewed from directly overhead (centre) so that from the point of view of the main stadium TV camera (right) it appears in the same proportions as the actual logo. This graphically illustrates how easily the eye and brain are fooled with regard to perspective. You cannot analyse a photograph by simply laying a ruler on it and taking measurements, as Jack White did so often. . |
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Jack White also did the "use random photoshop filters on an already compressed jpeg and think you've found something" trick. One of his "studies" had him "finding" a tow truck in the background of an Apollo photo.
There are a few on GLP that do this quite often as well. For a while there was a regular that claimed the Moon had to be far closer than "NASA" said (even though it was pointed out that ANYONE can figure out the distance with geometry) because they had take pictures with a dinky telescope and "saw" people walking on the surface. A few years back there was a regular (that also claimed to be a grade school teacher ) that ran pictures of people through various filters and claimed they were reptiles. |
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I think I caught an episode of CSI or somesuch in which it looked like a man suspected his neighbor of being one of the sekret reptilian overlord shape-changers and shot her.
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Season 7 Episiode 22 "Leapin' Lizards" The suicide of a farmer whose farm was raided by SWAT and a woman who was murdered and her head stuffed and mounted on a wall leads the crime lab to a form of conspiracy theorism that some people are actually reptiles in disguise. I think it was one of those "pisstake" episodes |
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Apollo F-1 Engines found/recovered from ocean floor
"About a year ago, billionaire Jeff Bezos went to NASA with plans to recover some of the F-1 engines that helped power Apollo astronauts beyond Earth orbit in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
http://www.edn.com/electrical-engine...om-ocean-floor -LF |
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