Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:55:00
Super cool Japanese space stuff
This is mighty cool. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have sent a hi-res camera to the moon, and images are coming back.
Kayuga (nicknamed Selene) is actually three satellites working together to take the best data we;ve ever had on the moon. I assume this is simply the first stage toward applying this kind of data collection to a target further away. Say, Mars?
One of these weeks soon one of the elements of Selene will pass over the lunar landing site and put to rest the conspiracy regarding the moon landing. I’ll admit it, I bought into one of those conspiracy movies when I saw it. Lots of weird, unexplainable things until you delve into deep technical issues and actually understand the science. All science aside, you know what makes up the ultimate proof that we went to the moon? The U.S. government would have blown this Japanese satellite out of the sky if we hadn’t. They’d never let that thing take pictures of an empty landing site.
Anyway, the Kaguya site is cool if you dig space stuff. Can’t wait to see more images.
Posted by JimK at 03:55 PM on November 16, 2007
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#2 Posted by Rann Aridorn 
on 11/16 at 06:20 PM -
Suupaa kewlu Yapanese supaisu stahff!!
I fixed your subject line. XD
#3 Posted by Drumwaster on 11/16 at 07:42 PM -
Lots of weird, unexplainable things until you delve into deep technical issues and actually understand the science.
As Bill Whittle says, it is a tougher engineering challenge to make an area the size of a movie set into a perfect vacuum than it is to actually go to the moon.
#4 Posted by chrisbg99 on 11/16 at 07:46 PM -
Yeah take some pictures of the landing site and watch the conspiracy nuts’ heads explode.
#5 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 11/16 at 08:24 PM -
Yeah take some pictures of the landing site and watch the conspiracy nuts’ heads explode.
Well, problem with getting conspiracy nuts to see reason is that they’re conspiracy nuts.
I guarantee you that what they’ll say when the pictures do get taken is something like this:
“The US knew we were onto them, so they created this Japanese program, supposedly launching satellites, when in fact they’re just using superrealistic CG to make all of these images. Y’know, like Beowulf. That’s not a real picture of the ‘moon landing’, it’s just highly-rendered computer imagery!”
#6 Posted by chrisbg99 on 11/16 at 08:43 PM -
Oh come on, don’t you think their heads would explode a little?
Even a teensy, weensy bit?
#7 Posted by Orpheus 
on 11/17 at 04:31 AM -
Please. You could fly them to the moon and throw them out over the lunar buggy and they’d be protesting to the last molecule of oxygen in their lungs that it was all a fake.
#8 Posted by Toastrider on 11/17 at 02:31 PM -
Yeah, it’s kind of like global warming. It doesn’t matter how much logic you bludgeon them with, they’ll still insist we never went to the moon.
Phil Plait of badastronomy.com pointed out correctly that a fraud would have required a conspiracy of silence unprecedented in history, as well as being good enough to fool both the U.S. media AND the Soviets (who were watching us rather closely at the time).
--TR
#9 Posted by Buzzion on 11/17 at 07:10 PM -
Yeah it would take a conspiracy of thousands, with a massive amount of “pointless” work and wasted money. Probably the effort it would take to fake 6 moonlandings would require an effort even greater than say landing on the moon.
#10 Posted by mgnmfrc1 on 11/20 at 01:50 PM -
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#11 Posted by mgnmfrc1 on 11/20 at 02:57 PM -
Mohinder, no Lil’ Bitch, no, Fight Club, yeah, what a douchebag. His blood doesn’t work so he is now expendable.
Jessiki-ina is now the perfect trifecta of a woman, One to clean, one to cook and one to fuck.
Mitch!!!!!
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#1 Posted by ErikTheRed
on 11/16 at 05:35 PM -
Having a family member that developed the pictures taken on the Apollo missions doesn’t hurt.