Apollo 16 landing site clearly seen on moon by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ~ I wish they would show color images of the moon's far-side. [video]

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[–]iamonlyoneman 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's cool and all but these 12 pixels could be literally anything haha

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

these 12 pixels could be literally anything haha

I can think of a few things that they can't be.

At 0:54 "Geophone cable".
The greyed area of these cables is literally the same diameter as some of the smaller craters on the same photo..

[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

What gets me is that NASA claims that the reason they can't go back to the moon is because the technology they had was lost. That is plainely bullshit. Why are they lying?

[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right! And hours of archival footage just happened to become unusable in a warehouse fire. Those pesky warehouse fires, whenever there's a dead body, evidence, or a major leap in things humans can do off planet--they inconveniently show up.
And those horrid van allen belt radiation waves, we can get a flag to wave on the moon but not ride those waves like a surfer in a tsunami. It's enough to make a silver surfer retire.

[–]brimshae 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the modern diversity hires.

[–]Erasmus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Saturn V rockets that took the Apollo missions to the Moon 6 times were made of of lots of different pieces, including old Minuteman I missile parts made in factories that haven't existed in half a century. It's old tech. So it's not as simple as saying, "Let's go build the Saturn V rocket all over again," because we can't build that particular rocket again -- not without rebuilding the manufacturing base of the 1960s that the parts for that rocket came from. And we wouldn't want to do that even if we could.

Of course, we can build other rockets using today's tech, and we have. Which is why we sent Artemis I to orbit the Moon last year, and why we're already scheduled to send up humans on a mission to orbit the Moon in 2024, and land on it again in 2025.

So at least some of your doubts should be assuaged in the next few years.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's old tech. So it's not as simple as saying, "Let's go build the Saturn V rocket all over again,"

This is a nonsensical path of logic. Even factories that require special tooling for certain projects don't just destroy that tooling when they are done with the project. Not only is it as simple as "build the same rocket" it is even simpler because we have better manufacuting, smaller and lighter computers, better information and technology.

You are blindly repeating their plainly untrue claims.

Of course, we can build other rockets using today's tech, and we have.

Rlease the blueprints and bid out the contract and you will have a dozen factories able and willing to build the exact same thing.

Which is why we sent Artemis I to orbit the Moon last year, and why we're already scheduled to send up humans on a mission to orbit the Moon in 2024, and land on it again in 2025.

One way missions, orbits, and small payload rovers are miles away from what the moon mission claims to have been. For every ounce you send out to space the required fuel gets multiplied logarithmically because more fuel means more weight which requires more fuel and stronger parts etc. For every ounce you need xdistance more power. Until you escape gravity, but that is a moot point as tha majority of the treck is dominated by earths gravity.

Even if we eventually recreate the mission with new tech, the fact that NASA made the claim that the only reason we haven't gone back is because they lost the tech will forever be evidence that they are liars and are hiding something.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are you just referring to something one man said? ~ NASA's website says they are sending people to the moon again.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. There was a documentary I watched a long time ago where some NASA guy goes into detailes about how every part was hand made and the experts who made them didn't take notes about it yada yada. They made quite an effort to sell that bullshit, it was not an off hand comment by some guy.

[–]dissidentrhetoric 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"cleary seen" hahah

[–]scornedandsedated 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"I wish they would show color..."

Doesn't ask themselves why they won't show color. Believes everything else NASA says.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No worries - I've got you covered with this moon photo the government doesn't want you to see.