Are There Images of the Lunar Landers from Orbit? 88
banditski asks: "We have pictures of Mars rovers from taken from orbit, like this photo of Opportunity, but I could not find any of the lunar landers from 60's and 70's? If they do exist, where are they?" More interesting photos from the MRO can be found in an October entry of the Bad Astronomer weblog, and interestingly enough this sentiment was repeated by a couple of posters, there. It won't be until 2008 until we get a fresh pair of 'eyes' on the Moon, but that doesn't mean that there aren't earlier, and just as interesting images buried somewhere on the net. Where can you find interesting orbital photos of the Moon, particularly ones that contain the LEMs, or other photogenic aspects of Tranquility Base?
Nice troll! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Tin foil hat... (Score:5, Insightful)
Convenient to whom? It's very convenient for the conspiracy theorists as it means they can on thinking that everything is a lie.
Re:So you trust the Guvmint??? (Score:3, Insightful)
Hell no!
Nobody should.
Personally, I don't trust any organization with three or more people in it.
As much as I would like to believe in all the national history of US Space flight I'm really not a "believer" in anything except my ability to waste my own time.
Despite all the advances in technology if we had a serious space program we'd stop throwing away money on on orbital trailer parks and create genuine spacefaring technologies and exo-orbital structures which would make hull-building a seamless process outside any gravity well. We have the tech to start this based on the automated extrusion/molding/manufacturing processes which take place everyday in creating commodity and specialized products in factories.
All it would take is 30 years of the United States not being a rotten player in international politics, namely false-flag ops, economic arm-twisting, and military aggression for resources. These things have made us the enemy of every poor country on the planet, the buddy of corporate and fascist bullies, and our own worst enemy when it comes to any serious exo-orbital industry.
The Chinese are going to spank us in space, and rightly so.
They even hold our future in the form of trillions in promisary notes and loans.
The sleeping Dragon of the East is waking up and our short-lived glory as a superpower is already eaten from within.
Sucks to national pride. There's nothing to be proud of any longer. The US is a sham democracy, the robber barons have returned.