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Impact of Apollo 16's booster is spotted on the moon
Daily Mail ^ | December 1, 2015 | Cheyene MacDonald

Posted on 12/01/2015 4:26:06 PM PST by rickmichaels

It was no accident that Nasa crashed one of its Apollo 16 rocket boosters onto the moon, but the researchers never intended to lose it.

In April of 1972, the booster drifted off and was never seen again, unable to transmit tracking data and reveal its whereabouts because of a malfunction.

Now, almost 44 years later, the crash site of the Saturn V stage-three booster has finally been located.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: apollo; apollo16; moon; spaceexploration
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21 posted on 12/01/2015 4:52:32 PM PST by Prospero (Omnis caro fenum)
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To: soycd

A few religious crackpots who happened to write history were the only people who thought the earth was flat. IMO - The ancient Egyptian certainly knew the Earth was a sphere - the Phoenicians, Sumerians - all of them


22 posted on 12/01/2015 4:54:11 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: rickmichaels
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The site was identified by Jeff Plescia, a scientist from Johns Hopkins University, and expert in finding objects that have been lost in space.

23 posted on 12/01/2015 4:58:55 PM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: atc23
Even the prophet Isaiah knew that the earth was a globe, thousands of years ago.

Isaiah 40:22

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

24 posted on 12/01/2015 4:59:47 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The Dems are taking us to hell in a handbasket. The GOP establishment is the handbasket.)
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To: soycd
Science is reality.

In the beginning there was nothing, ...which exploded.

25 posted on 12/01/2015 5:20:37 PM PST by SeeSharp
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To: NativeSon

Wow, the Black Negro Space Program.......I never knew.......


26 posted on 12/01/2015 5:21:16 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: rickmichaels

NASA is lying.


27 posted on 12/01/2015 5:23:09 PM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: NativeSon

Thats a riot! My face hurts from laughing.


28 posted on 12/01/2015 5:27:01 PM PST by corkoman
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29 posted on 12/01/2015 5:27:36 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: McGruff

It looks like a boat. Does it say SS Minnow on the side?


30 posted on 12/01/2015 5:29:57 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: SeeSharp

And life magically sprang from inert matter just like it does every day!


31 posted on 12/01/2015 5:38:25 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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32 posted on 12/01/2015 5:38:30 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: rickmichaels

ping


33 posted on 12/01/2015 5:43:21 PM PST by logitech
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To: SeeSharp

>In the beginning there was nothing, ...which exploded.

Infinity has no beginning and no end.

That is reality.


34 posted on 12/01/2015 5:44:19 PM PST by soycd
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To: rawcatslyentist

>And life magically sprang from inert matter just like it does every day!

It’s just a bit more complicated than we can comprehend with just a couple thousand years of history compared to infinity.


35 posted on 12/01/2015 5:47:10 PM PST by soycd
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Infinity has no beginning and no end.

Do you remember that old joke about the Cray? It came out of an infinite loop in five minutes.

36 posted on 12/01/2015 5:49:16 PM PST by GingisK
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To: McGruff

Was that big splat the result of the explosion of the leftover fuel ..??

Who will sue who first over spilling that fuel on the moon ..??

ROTFLOL


37 posted on 12/01/2015 5:52:35 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: GingisK

>Do you remember that old joke about the Cray? It came out of an infinite loop in five minutes.

The kernel of truth to it is the one that pulled the plug.

Recursion only works with an exit plan.


38 posted on 12/01/2015 5:53:44 PM PST by soycd
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39 posted on 12/01/2015 5:56:06 PM PST by Jack Straw from Wichita
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To: wally_bert

Salvage 1. The vulture has landed.


40 posted on 12/01/2015 5:56:13 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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