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Originally posted by zorgon
Welcome Back Undo
Nice comeback with that video...
You get my Star
Starting in 1963, the Astrogeology Research Program played an important role in training astronauts destined to explore the lunar surface and in supporting the testing of equipment for both manned and unmanned missions.
As part of the astronauts' training, USGS and NASA geoscientists gave lectures and field trips during the 1960's and early 1970's to teach astronauts the basics of terrestrial and lunar geology. Field trips included excursions into the Grand Canyon to demonstrate the development of geologic structure over time; Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff) and Kitt Peak National Observatory (Tucson); Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff ; and Sunset Crater cinder cone and nearby lava flows in the Flagstaff area. This training was essential to giving astronauts the skills and understanding to make observations about what they would see on the lunar surface and to collect samples for later study back on Earth.
The volcanic fields around Flagstaff have proven particularly useful in testing equipment and training astronauts. Cameras planned for use in the Surveyor project were tested on the Bonito Flow in Sunset Crater National Park because the lava flow appeared to be similar to flows on the lunar surface. A field of artificial impact craters were created in the Cinder Lakes volcanic field near Flagstaff to create a surface similar to the proposed first manned American landing site on the Moon.
It would be nice to get a comment on my 'analysis' from the Endymion crater.
I atleast hoped for a comment of why i'm right or wrong.
We should not forget that pictures here, that show proof of life or past life on the moon should have been tested to the fullest to rule out any other solution of why something looks like it does.
I showed the town and tower/dish on the LPOD like it is on Mike's picture,
but it is not a town/tower /dish.
Originally posted by squiz
The video reminded me of this story.
In western Australia during the live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing, several people saw a very unusual occurrence. One viewer, Una Ronald watched the telecast and was astonished with what she saw.
The residents of Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, actually saw a different broadcast to the rest of the World. Just shortly before Armstrong stepped onto the Moons surface, a change could be seen where the picture goes from a stark black to a brighter picture. Honeysuckle Creek stayed with the picture and although the voice transmissions were broadcast from Goldstone, the actual film footage was broadcast from Australia. As Una watched Armstrong walking on the surface of the Moon she spotted a Coke bottle that was kicked in the right hand side of the picture. This was in the early hours of the morning and she phoned her friends to see if they had seen the same thing, unfortunately they had missed it but were going to watch the rebroadcast the next day. Needless to say, the footage had been edited and the offending Coke bottle had been cut out of the film. But several other viewers had seen the bottle and many articles appeared in The West Australian newspaper.
Western Australia received their coverage in a different way to the rest of the World. They were the only Country where there wasn't a delay to the 'live' transmission. Bill Kaysing says 'NASA and other connected agencies couldn't get to the Moon and back and so went to ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in Massachusetts and asked them how they could simulate the actual landing and space walks. We have to remember that all communications with Apollo were run and monitored by NASA, and therefore journalists who thought they were hearing men on the Moon could have easily been misled. All NASA footage was actually filmed off TV screens at Houston Mission Control for the TV coverage... No one in the media were given the raw footage.'
www.ufos-aliens.co.uk...
Originally posted by observe50in 2 years Japan was going
to be sending something up there and then they would know by the
pictures if what we left up there is there.
Did this ever happen, not that I know of. Japan is supposedly our
friend did we have to buy them so to say.
Japan May Cancel Moon Mission Due to Crippling Delays
TOKYO — Japan's space agency has recommended scrapping its first moon
mission after more than a decade of delays, a spokeswoman said Monday,
in the latest blow to the country's beleaguered space program.
www.foxnews.com...
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2007
Japan's space agency said Monday it had recommended cancelling a
much-delayed unmanned mission to the moon in the latest setback to the
nation's ambitions to explore the final frontier. The Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) planned to call off its Lunar-A mission,
which was intended to shed light on the moon's origin and evolution
using a module to land on its surface, a spokesman said.
"The mother ship was built 10 years ago and over the years it has been
deteriorating, and it has come to a point where it can no longer be
used," project manager Takashi Nakajima told AFP.
"Instead of refurbishing the mission's mother ship or building a new
one, we made a recommendation that we would like to pursue other
possibilities. We do not want to build another similar space craft," he
added.
www.moondaily.com...
_Mission_999.html
A Reuters article published Monday jumped to the headline, "China
Cancels Moon Plans to Focus on Space Station." Despite this and several
other false reports by English and American news organizations, China
Moon plans are the same as they were a month ago. The three-stage
Chang'e Project will see a lunar orbiter, Chang'e-1, launched in
December of 2006, a lander on the Moon by 2010 and a robotic sample
return mission by 2020. There have never been any solid plans for a
China human Moon mission, so such plans, much less all Moon plans,
cannot be "cancelled," as was reported by Reuters. At the International
Lunar Conference 2003, which took place on Hawai‘i Island six months
ago, China Chief Lunar Scientist Ouyang Ziyuan said by teleconference
from Beijing, "At present we don't have any plans to land a person on
the Moon." He, however, expressed his personal desire for the mission
and gave at least 15-20 years after the completion of the current
Chang'e Program as a probable timeframe for a taikonaut lunar landing.
www.spaceagepub.com...
Originally posted by yfxxx
=> Congratulations, Zorgon. You have just discovered a second sun in our solar system !
Originally posted by yfxxx
This thread needs a song ...
Sing to the tune of "Wonderful World":
Don't know much of astronomy
Don't know much selenology
Don't know much about Newton's laws
But that cannot stop me of course
(*Chorus*)
'Cause I do know that science lies
And I can ignore the skeptics' cries
What a fantasy world I live in!
Don't know much about photography
But every pixel's an "anomaly"
And in my very own reality
Our moon has much more gravity
(*Chorus*)
Yes, I do know that NASA lies
And I can ignore the skeptics' cries
What a fantasy world I live in!
(*Chorus*)
Yes, I do know that NASA lies
...
Regards
yf
The rules of a science-fair typically require that students follow THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, or in other words, hypothesis-experiment-conclusion. The students must propose a hypothesis and test it by experiment. This supposedly is the "Scientific Method" used by all scientists. Supposedly, if you don't follow the rigidly defined "Scientific Method" listed in K-6 textbooks, then you're not doing science. (Some science fairs even ban astronomy and paleontology projects. After all, where's the "experiment" in these?)
Unfortunately this is wrong, and there is no single "Scientific Method" as such. Scientists don't follow a rigid procedure-list called "The Scientific Method" in their daily work. The procedure-list is a myth spread by K-6 texts. It is an extremely widespread myth, and even some scientists have been taken in by it, but this doesn't make it any more real. "The Scientific Method" is part of school and school books, and is not how science in general is done. Real scientists use a large variety of methods (perhaps call them methods of science rather than "The Scientific Method.") Hypothesis / experiment / conclusion is one of these, and it's very important in experimental science such as physics and chemistry, but it's certainly not the only method. It would be a mistake to elevate it above all others. We shouldn't force children to memorize any such procedure list. And we shouldn't use it to exclude certain types of projects from science fairs! If "The Scientific Method" listed in a grade school textbook proves that Astronomy is not a science, then it's the textbook which is wrong, not Astronomy.
"Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he adopts an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare." - Sir Peter Medawar
There are many parts of science that cannot easily be forced into the mold of "hypothesis-experiment-conclusion." Astronomy is not an experimental science, and Paleontologists don't perform Paleontology experiments... so is it not proper Science if you study stars or classify extinct creatures?
Or, if a scientist has a good idea for designing a brand new kind of measurement instrument (e.g. Newton and the reflecting telescope) ...that certainly is "doing science." Humphrey Davy says "Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument." But where is The Hypothesis? Where is The Experiment? The Atomic Force Microscope (STM/AFM) revolutionized science. Yet if a student invented the very first reflector telescope or the very first AFM, wouldn't such a device be rejected from many school science fairs? After all, it's not an experiment, and the lists called "Scientific Method" say nothing about exploratory observation. Some science teachers would reject the STM as science; calling it 'mere engineering,' yet like the Newtonian reflector, the tunneling microscope is a revolution that opened up an entire new branch of science. Since it's instrument-inventing, not hypothesis-testing, should we exclude it as science? Were the creators of the STM not doing science when they came up with that device? In defining Science, the Nobel prize committee disagrees with the science teachers and science fair judges. The researchers who created the STM won the 1986 Nobel prize in physics. I'd say that if someone wins a Nobel prize in physics, it's a good bet that their work qualifies as "science."
Forcing kids to follow a caricature of scientific research distorts science, and it really isn't necessary in the first place.
Another example: great discoveries often come about when scientists notice anomalies. They see something inexplicable during older research, and that triggers some new research. Or sometimes they notice something weird out in Nature; something not covered by modern theory. Isaac Asimov said it well:
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' "
This suggests that lots of important science comes NOT from proposing hypotheses or even from performing experiments, but instead comes from unguided observation and curiosity-driven exploration: from sniffing about while learning to see what nobody else can see. Scientific discovery comes from something resembling "informed messing around," or unguided play. Yet the "Scientific Method" listed in textbooks says nothing about this, their lists start out with "form a hypothesis." As a result, educators treat science as deadly serious business, and "messing around" is sometimes dealt with harshly.
Originally posted by johnlear
Jim: “Don’t think there’s any atmosphere. I’m going to write me a joke. ‘Astronauts come back from moon; say it’s great, but has no atmosphere’.”
So I am asking myself here, what exactly is the joke? Is the joke that “It’s great but has no atmosphere?” Or is the joke it has no atmosphere?