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Nov 11
SA Rocks and ZA Sucks on 702: The podcast
Almost unbelievable, fascinating stuff. There are some seriously twisted minds out there - if ever there was a reason to *not* be proudly South African, they must be it. I'm also happy they are a minority,
Thanks for posting this Nic.
I'm all for free speech, but the ZASucks site crosses several nasty lines - I'm glad it is finally closing down. The (current, final?) entry pretty much says it all.
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Nov 4
Putting paid to the moon landing conspiracy theorists
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_20091104_apollo12.html
Apollo 12 landing site images taken from the LRO – you can see astronaut footpaths, lunar module descent stage and experiments they left behind.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_20091028_apollo.html
Apollo 17:
The descent stage of the lunar module Challenger is now clearly visible, at 50 cm per pixel (angular resolution) the descent stage deck is 8 pixels across (4 meters), also note that the legs are also now distinguishable. The descent stage served as the launch pad for the ascent stage as it blasted off for a rendezvous with the command module America on 14 December 1972.
Tracks are clearly visible and can be followed to the east, where astronauts Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan set up the Surface Electrical Properties experiment (SEP). Cernan drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) in an intersecting north-south and east-west course to mark positions for laying out the SEP 35-meter antennas (circle labeled "SEP" marks the area of the SEP transmitter). The dark area just below the SEP experiment is where the astronauts left the rover, in a prime spot for monitoring the liftoff.
(except this won't convince the nutters - they'll just say the photos themselves are faked)
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