The LROC was launched in June of 2009, and had been orbiting and photographing the Moon with its Narrow and Wide Angle Cameras ever since. Although it has usually held a near-circular orbit at an average altitude of 50km above the lunar surface, on August 10th NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center temporarily altered its orbit to a more oval configuration, that brought it as low as 21km. The result were the photos…that show the Apollo landing sites in greater detail than ever before.
Just for the nutballs who think we never went to the moon.
We all know this is just a diorama in someones garage.
I wonder how much Adobe overcharged them for a Photoshop license?
Just like John Dvorak can put blue eye shadow and clown makeup on Al Gore’s pictures, or doctor a polar bear perched on an iceberg picture, changing it to a polar bear perched on Hillary Clinton’s smirking head; who to say NASA didn’t Photoshopped these images?
Really, how do we know, really know for sure, the moon is not a government nighttime sky-laser projection to cover the fact that Apollo didn’t land on the moon, instead NASA nuked and destroyed the moon all those many years ago to keep the Russians from landing?
With my redesigned tin-foil hat, I can ascertain that the moon was indeed destroyed by a nuke built in Area 51 and designed by top Martian scientists.
Here is why we could not have landed a man on the moon in 1969.
My main evidence is that even with all of the technical advances that have been made in the past four decades, we could not land a man on the moon today. Preposterous you say? No and here are the reasons why.
#1 We could not afford it. The Apollo moon landing program cost hundreds of billions of dollars in today’s dollars. While we do not mind spending far more than that kind of money on pointless wars, we would not have the stomach to spend that kind of dough on science stuff.
#2 The American public would never have the patience, let alone attention span, to wait for the results of this kind of endeavor. Heck many Americans can barely wait for the next episode of American Idol to be shown let alone wait years for a moon landing.
#3 We no longer have the technical expertise to build such a program. Maybe we could far the task out to China. They seem to make everything else we buy these days anyways.
#4 There is no way using today’s technology that we could build a machine to land a man on the moon and bring him safely back to earth without exceeding the risks that we are willing to take nowadays. The Apollo Command Moducom and Lunar Module both had single points of failures that would strand them on or around the moon. Today’s lawyers would have a field day with that risky proposition.
Although this is presented in a tongue-and-cheek manner, all of it is really true. Sadly we have lost our way as explorers and are now content to eat, watch TV and simply exist.
we got a bite. Haul em in boys.
Oh this is months old. Why didn’t you pull on the line?
Did they get a better pic of C3PO’s head?
http://www.enterprisemission.com/datashead.htm
These and all the rest goofy theories could not be fostered without the Internet. What more proof do we need than social media and global warming.
The Internet brought the global moron to rule. We now have the socialists who are now bringing the financial system down.
Correction it is greedy entitled morons.
The problem with conspiracy theorists is that if you provide more evidence to prove that they are wrong, then they will just use it as evidence for an even bigger and more elaborate conspiracy. It is literally trying to reason with unreasonable people. In 20 years, idiots will claim that the Space Shuttle never flew.