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    Moonbell Creates "Beautiful" "Music" From the Lunar Surface

    NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories

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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    10/31/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    So many green checkmarks... so many red comments... oh the joy! Except all the red comments suck in this article. Bah, no happy clicking for me. #lunarreconnaissanceorbiter
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    Image of Tawnie is saving no daylight Tawnie is saving no daylight
    08/31/09

    In reply to Moonbell Creates "Beautiful" "Music" From the Lunar Surface
    Moonbell needs more cowbell!!!

    Awww Ponies just beat me to it...
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    Edited by Tawnie is saving no daylight at 08/31/09 12:26 PM Tawnie is saving no daylight was starred Tawnie is saving no daylight was unstarred
    Image of ddmeightball ddmeightball
    08/31/09

    @tawni: Nah, I would say you two were equal since the time stamps were the same. Well, your timing was equal, but lets be honest no one could actually be Ponies! equal.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    08/31/09

    @ddmeightball: Technically, since Ponies! is lower on the page, it was entered a few seconds prior to tawni.

    The superiority of Ponies! is empirical and verifiable.
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    Image of ddmeightball ddmeightball
    08/31/09

    @OCEntertainment: Wow, sounds like we are going to need to add seconds to the time stamp on the comments just so we all can compete with Ponies! greatness.

    Btw, OC, how is that alter in your closet to Ponies! coming? Get a lock of hair yet? ;-)
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    Edited by ddmeightball at 08/31/09 12:45 PM ddmeightball was starred ddmeightball was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    08/31/09

    @ddmeightball: Yeah, I made contact with his hairdresser, she gave me the hookups in exchange for setting up her wireless internet. I set an old boombox in her back room and gave her a speak-n-spell, told her it was the Facebook. She seemed happy with it.

    So, yeah, the candle light vigil in Ponies! honor is set for the 12th. You still gonna bring the purple tunics?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/31/09

    @OCEntertainment: Just what I need - people summoning me.

    Next thing you know, you guys are going to want me to go around smiting Digg and Engadget and Facebook.

    Well, just so you know - my sacrifices call for slaughtered hogs, an offering of the bounty of the ocean in the form of bushels of shellfish, and barrels of fine distilled spirits.

    Do not confuse me with other gods. I don't want any slaughtered bullocks or oxen or hinds nor do I want wine. Pork, shellfish and liquor only! Also, don't try to offer me a kid boiled in its mother's milk. It's not that I'm Kosher; it's that goat meat is nasty.

    Also - no virgins! I don't have the patience to teach some confused 16 year-old girl her way around my bedchamber.
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    Image of ddmeightball ddmeightball
    08/31/09

    @OCEntertainment: Sweet, the altar is almost finished! Make sure you upload those pics to www.OMG!Ponies!IsOurLord/Savior.com/altar so the rest of us can get in on the altar action!

    And WTF about Purple tunics? I thought we agreed at the last meeting that we were special ordering the purple snuggies with our user names stiched on the back and with hoods? That's what I ordered anyway.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/31/09

    In reply to Moonbell Creates "Beautiful" "Music" From the Lunar Surface

    Moonbell is great and all but really, what I asked for was MORE COWBELL!
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    Image of LEWD98 LEWD98
    08/31/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I got a Feeva!
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    Image of -daddy- -daddy-
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    There are much better uses of money and high res imaging than this... Like Megan Fox.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @-daddy-: And of course, a small team of digital artists to render around those mutant thumbs.


    I don't care what anyone says. Megan Fox, purdy as she may be, is just a big pair of ugly thumbs to me.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/07/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Her thumbs are not what I look at when I see her.
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    Image of UtahJ UtahJ
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    [en.wikipedia.org]


    *puts on tinfoil hat*


    :-p

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/07/09

    @UtahJ:


    that's a bunk theory - the van allen radiation belt is easily shielded against.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @UtahJ: Tin foil does not work. This commenter is a plant. If you really want to block thought control/screen, abduction hypnosis waves, you need to use a hat like my assistant is wearing, made of Velostat:



    [io9.com]
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    Personally, I hope that NASA doesn't bother trying to feed into the douchey ignoramuses that seriously believe that the moonlanding was a soundstage hoax. Maybe they should just feed them more freeze dried ice cream nibs and just pass them some shiny, colorful NASA pins and tell them to GTFO their giant obscenely perfectly mowed NASA lawn.
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    Image of cpthook cpthook
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    How do the conspiracy theorists explain the mirrors we left on the moon? Did we just launch them at the moon and hope they wouldn't break?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @cpthook: Yes. They were sent up and used remote controlled rovers/robots to plant them on the moon. They would not be constrained by a time limit, so they would have a lot of time to set these things up correctly. I don't believe that, of course, but it's what they will say.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    We should send the conspiracy theorists to the moon so they can see it up close and personal.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Never. That's like asking some 9/11 Truthers to run into a burning building and wire it for a controlled demolition. If it will prove them wrong, they stick their fingers into the empty space between their ears and go "la-la-la-la".
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    In reply to NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
    Won't work. They will claim that the landers/debris was sent up after it was exposed and planted by robots. As for footprints, it's a special wheel on a robot that lays out tracks on the regolith.


    What will also give them ammo is the flags will no longer be there, which will make them consipiri-jizz in their shorts.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: Or perhaps just that the entirety of the images that the LRO returns are all just comp gen'd.


    I mean, if we never landed on the moon in the first place, then there's no reason to assume that we could send a vehicle to it now. Right?

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    Image of unibrow4o9 unibrow4o9
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: It's actually funny that that's their argument, since sending robots into space is way more complicated than sending humans
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @unibrow4o9: Not really, if you think about it. They won't die from all the radiation. And we won't have to send Verner Von Braun to Antartica to get rocks.
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    Image of puzz puzz
    07/07/09

    @ScottRose:
    Conspiracy theorists don't say we did not send unmanned vehicles that landed there. Russians did that,too. They claim that humans never made it beyond the Earth's orbit.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: The flag will still be there, it's just the camera can't image it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @Barry99705: No, it won't. They used a standard Nylon flag you can get at any hardware store. W/no atmosphere, the photo-degradation alone would have made it disappear.
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    Image of unibrow4o9 unibrow4o9
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: True, but you have to design robots, program them, be able to program them, and control them. All things that are extremely hard from such distances and such terrain. Why do you think we sent people up first, then robots after, and no the other way around?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    07/07/09

    @unibrow4o9: We designed the lunar rovers, so automating them wouldnt be that hard. Heck, we used a remote controlled camera on one of the moon missions. As for power. Solar. Lots of sun up there. So when did we land those people on Mars, which is even farther away, and before Viking.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    07/08/09

    @puzz: Oh, how silly of me. In that case they are quite reasonable.
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