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Arken
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
JimOberg, Presumed Expert Of "Something", (for the future... only PEOS) please stop injuring yourself by making this kind of comments.
en.wikipedia.org...
draknoir2
It was the first test of the Lunar Module, not an actual landing.
en.wikipedia.org...
SasquatchHunter
This is a strange thread to get mixed up in. So far I've been told something I wrote wasn't true when I was agreeing with them and linked to wiki sooo...
I said hat I thought this was on pg.2 which many people have repeated, but somehow ignored where I wrote it.
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Crosshairs are all over Apollo mission photos.
en.m.wikipedia.org...
draknoir2
Arken
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
JimOberg, Presumed Expert Of "Something", (for the future... only PEOS) please stop injuring yourself by making this kind of comments.
en.wikipedia.org...
It was the first test of the Lunar Module, not an actual landing.
en.wikipedia.org...
Arken
draknoir2
Arken
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
JimOberg, Presumed Expert Of "Something", (for the future... only PEOS) please stop injuring yourself by making this kind of comments.
en.wikipedia.org...
It was the first test of the Lunar Module, not an actual landing.
en.wikipedia.org...
WHO said Landing on Moon??
WHERE you and your friend PEOS find that words in my posts?
Only the Bizarre fantasy of the PEOS!
edit on 27-10-2013 by Arken because: (no reason given)
Arken
draknoir2
Arken
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
JimOberg, Presumed Expert Of "Something", (for the future... only PEOS) please stop injuring yourself by making this kind of comments.
en.wikipedia.org...
It was the first test of the Lunar Module, not an actual landing.
en.wikipedia.org...
WHO said Landing on Moon??
WHERE you and your friend PEOS find that words in my posts?
Only the Bizarre fantasy of the PEOS!
Point is, there are millions of photos taken from Earth, even most of them a little closer to the moon than Apollo-9' view. Any of them are as good a view as this mission got, so why present it as it were a superior data source?
Soylent Green Is People
Arken
draknoir2
Arken
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
JimOberg, Presumed Expert Of "Something", (for the future... only PEOS) please stop injuring yourself by making this kind of comments.
en.wikipedia.org...
It was the first test of the Lunar Module, not an actual landing.
en.wikipedia.org...
WHO said Landing on Moon??
WHERE you and your friend PEOS find that words in my posts?
Only the Bizarre fantasy of the PEOS!
Well, I think Jim Oberg was being intentionally obtuse when he claimed that Apollo 9 was not a "Moon" mission.
It could be argued that Apollo 9 wasn't really a "Moon mission", because the entire Apollo 9 mission was done in low Earth orbit. I beleive that's what Jim's point was -- i.e., the mission never left earth orbit, so it wasn't a Moon mission. HOWEVER, it was a mission that was critical to future Apollo "Moon" missions (missions that actually went top the Moon). In that respect, it was part of the Apollo Moon program.
I think Jim was just trying to hard to trip up someone on the semantics of it
edit on 10/28/2013 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Arken
reply to post by JimOberg
Point is, there are millions of photos taken from Earth, even most of them a little closer to the moon than Apollo-9' view. Any of them are as good a view as this mission got, so why present it as it were a superior data source?
We understand well???
Which kind of comment is this? Insane....
So: I have a dog called Hugo and I shoot a photo with a flower in his mouth. Tender!
And you Mr. PEOS say: "why that photo if you have hundreds of Hugo's photos?"
For the FLOWER in his mouth! Mr. JimOberg! For the FLOWER in his mouth........
draknoir2
Arken
reply to post by JimOberg
Point is, there are millions of photos taken from Earth, even most of them a little closer to the moon than Apollo-9' view. Any of them are as good a view as this mission got, so why present it as it were a superior data source?
We understand well???
Which kind of comment is this? Insane....
So: I have a dog called Hugo and I shoot a photo with a flower in his mouth. Tender!
And you Mr. PEOS say: "why that photo if you have hundreds of Hugo's photos?"
For the FLOWER in his mouth! Mr. JimOberg! For the FLOWER in his mouth........
What's "PEOS"?
So: I have a dog called Hugo and I shoot a photo with a flower in his mouth. Tender!
And you Mr. PEOS say: "why that photo if you have hundreds of Hugo's photos?"
For the FLOWER in his mouth! Mr. JimOberg! For the FLOWER in his mouth........
JimOberg
Apollo-9's moon mission?
Arken, please stop injuring people by making them fall off their chairs laughing so hard.
Clue: There WAS no "Apollo-9 moon mission". Did you really think there had been?
gortexThat's the funniest thing I've read on here for some time Arken
Soylent Green Is People
That was important to my theory about the lines being the crosshairs of the sextant (i.e., maybe the image was take with the lens of the camera pointed against the eyepeice of the sextant). The sextant has a double-horizontal crosshair (like the double horizontal line of the OPs image) while the normal crosshairs seen on many of the Apollo images only have one horizontal per crosshair.
Soylent Green Is People
I wish I could find an actual picture of the Command Module's sextant/telescope. All I could find online was this recreation of it (this is an illustration -- NOT a real picture of the sextant). That being said, in this illustration of the sextant, you can see the crosshairs I am talking about:
I think maybe the astronaut held the camera up to the sextant eyepiece.
ExquisitExamplE
Soylent Green Is People
I wish I could find an actual picture of the Command Module's sextant/telescope. All I could find online was this recreation of it (this is an illustration -- NOT a real picture of the sextant). That being said, in this illustration of the sextant, you can see the crosshairs I am talking about:
Image Source: www.geocities.jp...
I think maybe the astronaut held the camera up to the sextant eyepiece.
edit on 10/27/2013 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
If this were the case and the lines we are seeing are part of the sextant crosshair, wouldn't the line on the left be notched at regular intervals like the left crosshair line in the illustration? All three lines seem fairly uniform; if what you're positing is correct, I'd expect to see a marked difference between the line on the left and the other two.
Personally, if I look closely, I can see lighter tones near the upper edges of the lines that would indicate to me some sort of curvature and depth, similar to what's seen in this picture-
Airplane at Night Picture
It helps if you look at the high res photo here- (Thanks for the link Soylent!)
Apollo 9 AS09-23-3500 High Resolution
That said, it is a very old picture and it does take a fair degree of imagination to visualize the curvature I'm talking about. That's not to say it's a fantasy, only that I can also definitely see the angle and point-of-view our left-brained friends. Of course, I do realize that the whole left-brain right-brain thing is a seriously flawed concept, but it makes for an easy descriptor.