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To the moon, troll, to the moon!
Posted on 11/19/2008 1:26:03 PM PST by CHR
Edited on 11/30/2008 5:15:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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During the cold war, JFK claimed to have gone to the moon. He got congress to spend billions on his moon landing and pretended america landed there, convincing congress to give him billions, the fakeness of the landing is well documented.
It seems to me that this liberal moneybags, that he took these billions for personal use, or maybe gave them to the USSR (we all know he was soft on communism)
Perhaps his death was similarly staged in order to keep his billions or keep congress of his case.
I wonder if under an obama administration we will see more moon landings.
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To: GOPJ; Monkey Face
Gonna be a moot argument pretty quick here. There are landbased telescopes that are being built that will resolve the lunar surface to 4". Other scopes don't work as the moons albedo would fry their sensors.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread322117/pg1
However, if we do get photos, will the conspiracy nuts then claim they are just Photoshop?
It never ends...
881
posted on
12/08/2008 2:31:48 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
To: Dead Corpse
I think they’d get more mileage out of claiming that the Mars lander surveyed Saudi Arabia.
882
posted on
12/08/2008 3:15:39 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: Dead Corpse
Interesting bit about the equipment covering less than a pixel in the Hubble.
883
posted on
12/08/2008 3:17:45 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: ThomasThomas; Monkey Face
884
posted on
12/08/2008 3:24:16 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: sionnsar
885
posted on
12/08/2008 3:41:51 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: Tax-chick
Saturday is closer than that, and the weekend forecast is snow.
886
posted on
12/08/2008 5:20:56 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: GOPJ; brytlea; sionnsar; Dead Corpse; Monkey Face; Tax-chick
One of the things the lunar astronauts did while they were on the surface of the moon, was to deploy a retro-reflector.
It’s a high-tech version of a reflecting taillight lens. Got those little triangle shapes inside that make it a “corner reflector”.
It’s still up there, still reflecting Earthlight back to us.
Many high-school and junior college astronomy clubs have arranged to send a pulsed laser beam to the lunar retro-reflector and have it come back to them after three seconds, much attenuated and detectable only by sensitive equipment. So many photons get lost along the way, you know.
It’s a reliable, and repeatable experiment. You can do it yourself without a very sizable investment.
Now, if this does not constitute reliable evidence for you that men walked on the moon, it should at least demonstrate that we were able to soft-land “something” on the moon.
And if we could land something, what would prevent us from sending a can full of men?
Yes, it was audacious. Perhaps even more audacious than your world view will permit you to see. But we had men back then who were willing to dare.
And willing to try, and do, and die if need be.
But they were daring men. Perhaps you have met too few.
887
posted on
12/08/2008 5:34:52 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(When in the course of human events, if you can't swim, at least dog-paddle.)
To: NicknamedBob
My dad knew Alan Shepard. Cdr. Shepard really went to the moon.
888
posted on
12/08/2008 5:52:52 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: Tax-chick
I had forgotten that. I still remember him as the first astronaut into space.
Got 8s?
889
posted on
12/08/2008 5:55:30 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: sionnsar
Go fish! The first golfer on the moon had to be a Navy man :-).
890
posted on
12/08/2008 5:57:18 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: Tax-chick
But no pipers...?
891
posted on
12/08/2008 5:58:58 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: sionnsar
That’s more of an Army thing.
892
posted on
12/08/2008 6:04:17 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: Tax-chick
My last teacher played the pipes in the Army.
893
posted on
12/08/2008 6:08:28 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: sionnsar
894
posted on
12/08/2008 6:11:50 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: sionnsar
I have seen it snow here, I have seen snow on the ground more than a day twice. I think it was 1988 that the I10 was closed between Banning and Palm Springs. I made through just before they closed. I drove my Ford Escort with any problems with out chains. I am live next to Riverside where cold snap can cause sever crop damage.
895
posted on
12/08/2008 6:19:49 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(Those who live by the sword get shot.)
To: Tax-chick; sionnsar
This is Mt San Jancino from where I live.
896
posted on
12/08/2008 6:41:32 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(Those who live by the sword get shot.)
To: ThomasThomas
Very scenic! And you live in a plane? Cool! Although the bathroom facilities seem a little lacking, so I can see why you’re looking for a house.
897
posted on
12/08/2008 6:43:16 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All I want for Christmas is the giant plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com.)
To: ThomasThomas; sionnsar; Tax-chick
"I am live next to Riverside where cold snap can cause sever crop damage." *snarl* What are ya? Some kinda Global Warming Denier?*/snarl*
898
posted on
12/08/2008 6:45:00 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(When in the course of human events, if you can't swim, at least dog-paddle.)
To: Tax-chick; fanfan
LOL -- one case doesn't establish a rule. Insofar as I know he played pipes WHILE IN the Army, but not FOR the Army. At least the photos he had all suggested that.
A pity for the Army, because he was an excellent piper, a winner of the state Silver Chanter competition at least once.
His teaching worked heavily on expression through timing, just about the only way to expression in the pipes. The Gaels say they can hear the difference between a Gael-taught piper and the rest -- the latter have an almost slavish attention to rigid timing, the former almost an aversion to same. I think my teacher was midway between the two schools (the Gaelic school is VERY small), but what he taught helped me win a lot of competitions, despite lacking the mechanical (though sometimes downright incredible) perfect meter of Canadian piping that judges usually prize.
899
posted on
12/08/2008 6:46:49 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: sionnsar
This is Mt San Jacinto from Palm Springs. They might have better golf courses but we have better air shows.
900
posted on
12/08/2008 6:46:59 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(Those who live by the sword get shot.)
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