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Originally posted by spacebot
I smell a rat with BOTH NASA AND Hoagland for some reasons.
WHAT IF THESE TWO ACTUALLY WORK TOGETHER?
[edit on 18-10-2009 by spacebot]
Originally posted by john124
reply to post by jar11
Hoagland is the man who stated temperature differences between the rim and inside part of craters were due to ET, when the reduced sunlight levels is the cause. Nobody really takes him seriously who has any knowledge in Astronomy and Physics. And not everyone are govt. agents either!
So he has a proven track record of providing crap from NASA photos, and if you are someone who looks at a photo and thinks a rock is a glass dome or a bridge, then you're only falling for pareidolia I'm afraid.
[edit on 17-10-2009 by john124]
Originally posted by sum-one
reply to post by genius/idoit
The high-five refusal that 'bismarcksea' is refering to is here at - 9:00.
www.youtube.com...
This was discussed a bit in another LCROSS thread. The one that Jim Oberg started, I think.
LunarTransient Phenomena (LTP) have been reported for at least 450 years. The events range from bright flashes, to reddish or bluish glows, to obscurations. Gaseous spectra and photometric measurements of the events have been obtained. Several theories have been offered as explanations for LTP, including residual volcanic activity or outgassing, bombardment by energetic particles, and piezoelectric effects. As the first set of digital multispectral images of the entire Moon, the Clementine data offer a unique opportunity to couple inferences of compositional relationships with lunar geomorphology in the regions of LTP. We have selected 11 regions from which numerous reliable historical reports of LTP exist. Our analysis of the Clementine multispectral images shows that many events occur in regions of bright, spectrally reddish deposits, which may be characteristic of volcanic ejecta. The events may be associated with outgassing of volatiles collected in or beneath mare basalt flows. Wefind that LTP tend to occur near the edges of maria, in agreement with a suggestion originally made by Cameron (1972. Icarus 16, 339–387), and in other regions of crustal weakness. We also find that some of the reported events tend to be in craters with rims of distinctly different (bluer) composition. This compositional difference may result from recent slumping of the rim, accompanied by the appearance of fresher underlying material. In some cases, slumping may be triggered by the release of pockets of volatiles; in turn the slumping events may cause additional pockets of trapped material to be released. There are four instances in which Clementine multispectral images were acquired both before and after an event that was reported by a terrestrial team of amateur astronomers mobilized to observe the Moon during the mapping phase of Clementine. None of these four sets of images shows clear changes that could be attributed to the reported LTP.
Originally posted by depthoffield
So, the image is not a "24 bit color" if you know the term from photoshop, but only a POSTERIZED IMAGE, or if you want, a low dynamic range image.
And what happens with pixels where the temperature is just near the boundary of some two adjacent ranges? Well, deppending on the threshold, image noise and other variations, that pixel could appear on some range on in the other, so, could change it's color.
But this is only an instrument limit.
Originally posted by jar11
reply to post by spacebot
I have thought about this very thing many times. It is disheartening everytime and wolf has been cried too many times and it makes people want to give up!
Originally posted by deejayiwan
im into it................
i really feel something BIG is about to happen for sure...
look at it this way...no one expected economy failure, but it happened, no one expected swine flu, it happened....
my point is...you cant always predict how things are going to unfold....
Originally posted by depthoffield
reply to Exuberant1
About the flashes...continuing repeating that they are real, don't make them true real, you should know this.
It looks much more as image glitches, simply because entire IR image have more or less pixel variations (flashes if you want), especially on boundaries.
More, the image is artificially colored, and , as i see, there are just a few colors available representing not temperatures itself, but entire RANGES of temperatures: purple, blue, green, yellow, red and some 2..3 variations of them. I would say roughly to be some about 10..15 levels of different colors, so different RANGES of temperatures. As a matter of exemplifying the principle, let's say that the intervals are color-coded as this:
-270 degree Celsius to -200 degree -> purple color
-200 to -170 -> blue color
-170 to -130 -> green color
- 130 to -100 -> yellow color
-100 to -80 -> red color
I repeat, this values are arbitrary, just for illustrating the principle.
So, the image is not a "24 bit color" if you know the term from photoshop, but only a POSTERIZED IMAGE, or if you want, a low dynamic range image.
And what happens with pixels where the temperature is just near the boundary of some two adjacent ranges? Well, deppending on the threshold, image noise and other variations, that pixel could appear on some range on in the other, so, could change it's color.
But this is only an instrument limit.
More the image appear to be pixelated, and a anti-aliased filter it seems to be applied, but also some sharpening is there.
So, before jumping to wild speculations, you MUST understand how the image is obtained, what are the limitations and only after to look for REAL anomalies. Otherwise, you could be just another image glitch hunter.
[edit on 18/10/09 by depthoffield]
Originally posted by Boom Slice
I think hoagy's pics of towers, spires, and other structures all over the moon are pretty good evidence to at least go to those areas and look more closely...Not saying it IS evidence of ET civs past or present, but it IS reason to ask questions and explore with better resolution pics