I am okay with Ares I dying, because it's a piece of crap. I'd rather use Delta IV to launch the capsule, but because of the folks who run NASA, if we cancel Ares I, we'll have paralysis, when we can least afford it.
Good. Piece of shit recycled 60's tech was an embarrassment to the space program anyways. What is the point of going back if they were just going to do it the exact same way they did 40 years ago?
I love the ridiculous image posted. Obvious use of fill light. This is the shadow side of the LM (as evidenced by the PITCH BLACK shadow beneath the ladder), yet this side, which naturally should be in total darkness is wonderfully filled with light to illuminate our brave Astro-Not. FAKED IMAGE.
There are NUMEROUS impossibilities & anomalies in the photos presented by NASA (N)ever (A) (S)traight (A)nswer as taken on the "Moon" to make one wonder if certain people did not intentionally create them to silently "Whistle Blow".
@winexprt: You do realize that each and every one of those "impossibilities & anomalies" are only tricks of light and/or perspective, with explanations that are known to even amateur photographers, right?
@winexprt: Oh, and if anyone was to "whistle blow" wouldn't it have been our enemies, who had near equal technology and would be tracking our efforts and receiving the same signals as our dishes?
@winexprt: Sooo, if NASA faked the landings, what the hell do you think is reflected back to earth, when a laser beam is shown on each of the NASA landing sites?
There is a HD camera in orbit around the moon around right now, and it's now returning images of the Apollo landing sites. What do you think made those footprints?
The number of people who can point out how wrong you are, are legion.
Here's what bothers me. NASA always gets a bad rap for spending huge amounts of money. But when you look at the Death & Taxes chart, NASA is a tiny little bubble compared to most of the other spending. "Classified military programs" get almost the same funding as the entirety of NASA.
Obviously there are agencies that clearly deserve more funding than NASA, but I don't get why NASA is always picked on as a money hog.
With story's like this I will never believe man has landed on the moon, until they actually land somebody on the moon in today's world
Do people honestly believe NASA have landed man on moon with space ships that have computers as powerful as standard digital watches in the 1969 !!!
and yet in todays 2009 technology obsessed world, we cant land a man on the moon !!!
The moon landing were obviously faked on a desert, I wont believe it until I see clear pictures and Hi Def Footage of man on moon, with foot prints, flag and spaceship without the fake low res black and white grainy footage from 1969, with spot lights, moving flag, and desert !!!
@Andre Ondre: "I wont believe it until I see clear pictures and Hi Def Footage of man on moon, with foot prints, flag and spaceship without the fake low res black and white grainy footage from 1969, with spot lights, moving flag, and desert !!!"
@Andre Ondre: Because that dose not look anything like movement transferred from the astronaut adjusting the flags position.
I mean, come on man, do you think the goverment would forget that there is no wind on the moon and then let out fake footage of the moon landing with a flag blowing in the wind?
@Drunkenlobster: @Andre Ondre: Hope you all know that in a vacuum... AKA space there is very little of anything to apply drag on the flag.. and back to basic physics An object that is moving will not change its velocity until a net force acts upon it. This is what makes it possible to even fly!
@JackMatt: Absolutely awesome. That's what someone should get for questioning the integrity and courage of those brave astronauts.
I'm all for letting people have their opinions on things, but denying we landed on the moon disrespects all the men and women that worked so hard to make it happen.
@ploopsy: Yeah, luckily, every time a mission went up, the US extended it's cone of silence over the rest of the world, so any other country couldn't use THEIR tracking systems and dishes to ALSO receive information. Just like we only know about Sputnik because of what Russia told us.
Oh wait, we DON'T have a cone of silence, and we were tracking Sputnik and receiving signals from it? You mean rather than embarrass us, our enemies ALSO joined your conspiracy?
And no one denies the Holocaust? That statement alone makes me think QUITE less of your opinion. There are a lot more idiots who believe there was no Holocaust than believe we didn't land on the moon.
Besides, people around the world believe they see the Moon, and it doesn't even exist! [www.revisionism.nl]
@GitEmSteveDave_IsTheStig: "quack quack quack quack" thats all I hear atm. I only made one point and you give me a rant. Like I said before, NASA is the only source of evidence for the moon landing which makes it hard to believe everything they say. Not being able to reproduce something they did 40 years ago makes me more suspicious.
@Andre Ondre: Andre- People like you scare the crap out of me. We landed on the moon 40 years ago because NASA was run by folks who could make decisions and live by them. You have a group of people running the place for the last 20 year that can no longer do that.
We could land again with equipment off the shelf, if we could only agree to do it. We look like we're trying land now with a mission that is all things to all people. Because no one wants to be a person making a bad decision, no one wants to make any decisions.
Go out to the NASA web site and pull down the images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Let us know why you think ithese images are faked.
@ReconToaster.: Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
@necromango: Just... re... member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving an 900 miles an hour. that's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day...
In an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour, of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Thanks mate. Recalling that tune cheered me up a bit.
The Orion abort system seems a bit more logical when you need to get your astronauts the hell away from the burning exploding carcass of the rocket body. That said, the parachute sequence was fascinating to watch. Very exciting for improving other varieties of launches.
Can not cause thermal curtain failure and send Max to space!
JINX and Max, friends forever!
But seriously, was anyone else a little weirded out by the people going "Slow down, slow down"? They honestly sounded like the people I used to hear at model rocket launches.
@Nick: To be honest it seems a bit silly to take a reliable and proven platform, toss it out, and built something completely new in hopes that it will be more efficient or better.
Oh, wait, that's how we ended up with the Shuttle project that actually costs more, carries less weight, and cannot break orbit.
Oops.
No point in not dusting off the old tech, and running it through optimizations and redesigns with new available technology.
With greater precision machining capability available today, the hardware should be even more reliable than previously.
i can't even make heads or tails of this article cause i am so distraught over the michael news. i guess i will come back and read it later. i'm sure it was a good jesus, but i just can't focus
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Or blogging about it.
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Maybe one day, as a nation, we will grow some balls again.
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There are NUMEROUS impossibilities & anomalies in the photos presented by NASA (N)ever (A) (S)traight (A)nswer as taken on the "Moon" to make one wonder if certain people did not intentionally create them to silently "Whistle Blow".
[www.aulis.com]
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There is a HD camera in orbit around the moon around right now, and it's now returning images of the Apollo landing sites. What do you think made those footprints?
The number of people who can point out how wrong you are, are legion.
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Obviously there are agencies that clearly deserve more funding than NASA, but I don't get why NASA is always picked on as a money hog.
[www.wallstats.com]
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I mean, NASA not being the ONLY money hog still doesn't change the fact that it is one, right?
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Do people honestly believe NASA have landed man on moon with space ships that have computers as powerful as standard digital watches in the 1969 !!!
and yet in todays 2009 technology obsessed world, we cant land a man on the moon !!!
The moon landing were obviously faked on a desert, I wont believe it until I see clear pictures and Hi Def Footage of man on moon, with foot prints, flag and spaceship without the fake low res black and white grainy footage from 1969, with spot lights, moving flag, and desert !!!
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and you'd claim that was faked as well.
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I mean, come on man, do you think the goverment would forget that there is no wind on the moon and then let out fake footage of the moon landing with a flag blowing in the wind?
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@JackMatt: yeah like this,
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I'm all for letting people have their opinions on things, but denying we landed on the moon disrespects all the men and women that worked so hard to make it happen.
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With the moon landing we only know what NASA tells and shows us.
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Oh wait, we DON'T have a cone of silence, and we were tracking Sputnik and receiving signals from it? You mean rather than embarrass us, our enemies ALSO joined your conspiracy?
And no one denies the Holocaust? That statement alone makes me think QUITE less of your opinion. There are a lot more idiots who believe there was no Holocaust than believe we didn't land on the moon.
Besides, people around the world believe they see the Moon, and it doesn't even exist! [www.revisionism.nl]
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@Andre Ondre: Andre- People like you scare the crap out of me. We landed on the moon 40 years ago because NASA was run by folks who could make decisions and live by them. You have a group of people running the place for the last 20 year that can no longer do that.
We could land again with equipment off the shelf, if we could only agree to do it. We look like we're trying land now with a mission that is all things to all people. Because no one wants to be a person making a bad decision, no one wants to make any decisions.
Go out to the NASA web site and pull down the images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Let us know why you think ithese images are faked.
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We'll never get out of the god damn solar system at this rate.
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And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
08/15/09
In an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour, of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Thanks mate. Recalling that tune cheered me up a bit.
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Tech 1: Racing Stripes!
Chief: NO! Next.
Tech 2: Umm... lasers. Pew Pew!
Chief: We'd blind all the rescue pilots! Next.
Tech 3: Exactly 15 stages consisting of 342 different designs of parachute?
Chief Genius!
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Can not cause thermal curtain failure and send Max to space!
JINX and Max, friends forever!
But seriously, was anyone else a little weirded out by the people going "Slow down, slow down"? They honestly sounded like the people I used to hear at model rocket launches.
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Oh, wait, that's how we ended up with the Shuttle project that actually costs more, carries less weight, and cannot break orbit.
Oops.
No point in not dusting off the old tech, and running it through optimizations and redesigns with new available technology.
With greater precision machining capability available today, the hardware should be even more reliable than previously.
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