Dammit, is this where we're putting
science stuff? Seems to me we have some other threads around about
science, or conspiracies, or space, or what have you. Fuck it, time to use the old
#science and
#space tags. Remember people, we can use hash tags now!
So I thought of this the night I watched a SLOW SLOW SLOW harvest eclipse almost new moon. I just forgot to look it up until this evening. As a backstory, maybe 15 years ago I watched a special on, I believe, discovery. In it, they had many hard-working
science types, and some Russian cosmonauts from the 1960s, explaining the facts that show we never went to the moon. That the entire thing was done on a sound stage. Not going to say if that documentary made me a believer or not, but it definitely made me question. I mean, COME ON!!! They accuse NASA of faking the photos because of the little crosshairs on the lens not being in the foreground of the pictures, and NASA admits they doctored the photos for magazine covers and TV. They get legal documentation forcing NASA to release the originals and suddenly "Whoops! We haven't looked at those originals in a really long time, and apparently the storage closet had a flood. Oh yeah, the negatives are ruined too. But hey! We'll try to get them professionally restored and get back to you when we do!" Ahem...anyway...
So this dude at work likes to get me ranting about deep thought stuff and one day I was slamming him with these 'facts' and he's not buying it. He's got an answer for everything cuz he's heard this argument before. Suddenly, in a pinch, I come up with my own point. 50-ish years plus one big internet, how come I NEVER see amateur astronomers with mondo backyard telescopes bragging and posting pictures of their telescopic images of the moon landing zone and the damn flag? I mean, you hear all the time about these people who are just really into that stuff getting those telescopes that are like 5 feet long and 2 feet wide, with a tripod and a motor to turn them... hell, some of them can be plugged into a computer and they have software for searching coordinates in space! Not a one can show me the flag? I mean, I can make out some mountains and craters with a decent pair of binoculars! I'm calling bullshit. AND...my coworker? Maybe the landing happened too close to the edge of the dark side, and we can't see it from here! Convenient...
So this evening, I google imaged 'telescope images of moon landing site' and set the search size to LARGE. Go ahead, try it. I'll wait. Know what? Here's a
LINK See the black dot that is supposed to be the LRV resting spot? Yep, pretty obvious that's exactly what it is. Ooh, dark lines! Must be tracks, cuz there's no way those lines are natural. HEY! There's the lander! You know, that big bright... ROCK looking thing! NOPE, not a rock. That's definitely the lander! Sorry, but those images are not the proof I'm looking for. Seriously, that's all the closer we can see?
Something is horseshit on the moon, and I don't know what it is. Did we land there? Are the Russians wrong? Would our government pay shitloads of tax dollars to fake beat the Russians during a high point of the cold war? There's GOT to be some
science that can prove this one way or the other!
How about this? While thinking about this moon thing and looking at pictures, I ask myself what about amateur telescope images of the International Space Station? Granted, from a stationary location here, that's gotta be flying pretty fast, but can we get a quick snapshot to prove we actually have people up there? What if the ISS is just a big movie set in a hangar somewhere? What if we've never actually sent anyone into space? Why did we suddenly stop hearing about those Virgin Galactic space planes?
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