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Who did this and how?!
This looks like a “cut and paste”. With the moon illuminated as much as it is, the stars would not be visible.
I recall seeing the man in the moon when I was a child but I don’t remember him wearing a hat, having a big smile or walking. Keep on truckin Mr. Man in the moon.
Based on the bogus pictures on the site it came, from this photo is probably ‘photoshopped’ which makes it worthless except for minor interest as pseudo art.
Here is the original photo on APOD if anyone is interested in the details behind it.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html
I could hardly make up my mind which picture to use for my desktop. This or the Guliani photo. Damn decisions….
Sure makes you think how impressive nature is and here we are on this tiny little speck thinking it is great if we see an amazing sunset while fishing for walleye
I don’w know what these astromers are finding fault with the photo
Not long ago that we were on 14.4 k modems
Come up to Northern Canada and see our Northern Lights
here is a link to an even larger version
http://tinyurl.com/2lxn2h
preview
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2lxn2h
How did a computer that could operate a landing on the Moon in 1969 fit inside a small capsule including three astronots and a land rover when on Earth computers were taking up the space of complete buildings? The Japanese sent a Moon orbiter less than two weeks ago and are accumalating data as they plan to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon by 2025. It took America only eight years with 1960s technology but it’s taking Japan twenty years with 21st Century technology.
What gives?
woot! nice pic!
9. Neil.
The best computers today still take up complete rooms. John Glenn’s flight had no computers yet was completely automated if need be. The specific mathematical formulas required to follow a tragectory, etc. are not necessarily very big but are very specific, not requiring a lot of computational power.
http://www.clavius.org/techcomp.html
Going to the moon is not the problem, the political and public will to pay for it is. That’s why the US hasn’t yet returned.
RBG
I think the cost to go to the moon was $80 billion. Some say been there, got the T-shirt.
Oh, tragectory = trajectory
RBG
#9
Sup Neil.
so it’s not made of cheese?
There is more of Noel’s fabulous work here – http://www.dslreports.com/pics/dimaging/868867
#11,
“One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind.”
“Man” in this context is abstract. What would have made it concrete is “a man” (One small step for *a* man, one giant leap for Mankind”). The truth is there. “A man” did NOT step on the Moon– an abstraction of man DID: “Man”. In other words, a man landing on the Moon was FALSE therefore the USA could not go on the record of claiming it. BUT, the illusion (belief different from reality) of a man (Man) did land simply because it is believed.
Neil Armstrong in interviews has claimed to having said his line correctly. The U.S. government edited out “a” to protect the itself from perjury. The U.S. made no claim to landing “A man” on Moon for the record. But, again, “man” (like you) believed it and consequently America grew power of the world’s psyches to their side.
They had to for our own survival.