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- Malchus89, on 03/06/2008, -20/+396It's fake, it was a sound stage on mars...
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -8/+139pictures of the moon never get old...
- TEHxINTERWEBS, on 03/06/2008, -22/+113Old picture is oooooold...
- danielce, on 03/06/2008, -6/+83I like the "I just Shat myself with excitement" pose he's pulling off...
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -14/+90So whats the point of this article/photo being on digg? It seems that any photo gets on the front page these days.
- peregrine, on 03/06/2008, -4/+79You know this pisses me off. 30 years ago these guys where walking on the moon. Now we are talking of going back in what 20 years from now? WHat the ***** dust off a few of the old suits and put our boys back there.
hell if the space race had kept up its speed we could be ***** vacationing there by now. - bsdboy, on 03/06/2008, -6/+73I'm on ur moon, makin feetprints
- 10goto10, on 03/06/2008, -4/+61Look ma, no atmosphere!
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -3/+52if you look very closely in the reflection of his visor you can see bush planting explosives in the WTC towers.
- Owned1Up, on 03/06/2008, -10/+50ok, why the hell is this on the front page. did that time machine I built finally work?
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+40"That´s no moon..."
- sgtbutterscotch, on 03/06/2008, -2/+37Just like how at least one person always says something like "'shopped /sarcasm" or "but the earth is only 6000 years old!" And it makes me sad when I see those comments getting dugg up. It's like "that's what she said," except saying "'shopped" was never funny to begin with and may be only funny 1% of the time. But in this case, it's kind of funny because I wasn't expecting the Mars bit.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+33This video probably explains why he's all dirty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZTcEx9UVM
- doctechnical, on 03/06/2008, -12/+44a) The primary motivator for going to the moon in the 60s was as a propaganda win over the Soviet Union, We won the space race bigtime, and any nation that can accomplish such a feat, largely for ***** and giggles, is not a nation to be screwed with.
b) There's nothing particularly interesting up there. Been there, done that, got the moon rocks, drank the Tang.
c) Given the massive amounts of regulations that have been passed since the 60s the cost would be unbelievably high - crap, any idea how much an Environmental Impact study would cost? Even back in the day there was a lot of grumbling about spending money on the moon instead of welfare, with today's entitlement society there'd be pitchforks and torches marching on NASA.
d) Although technology has advanced quite a bit the braintrust has receded terribly. Most of the scientists and engineers who figured out how to do the all-but-impossible are now either dead or drooling on themselves in an old-age home. We'd have to re-learn a crapload just to get started.
So that, in a nutshell, is why we won't be going back to the moon any time soon. Pity, that. - davidwasman, on 03/06/2008, -2/+31obvious 4-channer is obvious
- CJM32, on 03/06/2008, -1/+26Does not appear to have any captain in him
- catachip, on 03/06/2008, -3/+27Every point you make is utter *****. Your eyes are different than a camera. Have you ever tried to take a picture of the stars? It's nearly impossible unless you let it expose for a long time. The moon's surface is highly reflective, meaning a very short exposure time, otherwise all the ground and astronauts would be pure white. There are not any shots from the shuttle or apollo missions with stars in them. Period. As for the rest of your "ideas" they have all been refuted hundreds of times by, you know, scientists who know what they are talking about. Start at Wikipedia if you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_h ...
Sincerely,
A NASA Scientist who is pissed off at ***** like you. - SHv2, on 03/06/2008, -9/+33There's only one thing missing from that shot to make it whole, beer.
- pdensborn, on 03/06/2008, -3/+26It has been a slow news week.
- vofuse, on 03/06/2008, -0/+22I need to upload my vacation photos to get them on the front page of Digg.
- lostarchitect, on 03/06/2008, -3/+25people who believe the moon landing is fake are really, really dumb.
- LFAB, on 03/06/2008, -0/+21In 1/6 G with no wind, the dust you kick up is going to rise up farther, and end up all over you.
- RogerStrong, on 03/06/2008, -6/+27Because not everyone gives a damn about Ubuntu Incontinent Iguana or the latest iFad. This is real people on the real moon - history that'll be remembered hundreds of years from now - not some video game or Anime of people on the moon that'll be forgotten next year.
- antibastard, on 03/06/2008, -2/+22the "mars" part was funny
- Koppie, on 03/06/2008, -5/+24"because I don't actually have a clue."
Yeah, we know. - michaeldillon, on 03/06/2008, -1/+20"When he was a kid, Neil Armstrong (the guy who took that pic of Allan Shepard on the moon) "
That's not Allan Shepard. Note the Lunar Rover in the picture. That is Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17. - web2pointYo, on 03/06/2008, -2/+20NNNNNNOOOOOO ONE EXPECTS THE MARS BIT!
Now have a seat in the comfy lunar rover. - inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+20Notice that the top of the flag has a horizontal cross bar to hold the flag out... since there is no wind to blow it.
- tpawloski, on 03/06/2008, -6/+23I wonder why we don't go back to the moon. I am sure with the technology today it would be much easier. We could also prove that we were there before.
- Acolyte357, on 03/06/2008, -0/+16and you just failed the test......again
- HelloNavi, on 03/06/2008, -1/+17I take up issue with that last point of yours. Do you honestly think all the geniuses in the world are dead? There are plenty of people out there every bit as smart as your Hawkings or your Einstein (not that hawkings is DEAD but you get the drift.) working every day. The only thing is that you aren't reading a history book about our day and age so you aren't hearing about any of it. People in there here and now, unfortunitely, don't care about scientists as much as they did in the past. The history of our time will be just as full of brilliant minds as our recent past, but you'll not find any of that information today unless you're looking.
There are plenty of rapes and murders the news would rather show you. - technomom, on 03/06/2008, -1/+17It's not moving in my picture. Nothing is moving. It's a still photo.
- barc0de, on 03/06/2008, -0/+15Moondust isnt like earth dust. Earth dust gets weathed down by wind and waves to make it all nice and smooth and round. Moon dust gets blasted out by massive collisions which makes it all jaggy. Hence moondust sticks to things easier than earthdust. Including the astronauts lungs, which is a bad thing if they track it into the lander.
- RustyJ, on 03/06/2008, -1/+15Yeah, he conveys it really well, by the way he's just standing there.
- covertbadger, on 03/06/2008, -3/+17How old were you when your brain was surgically removed?
- garfonzo, on 03/06/2008, -12/+26I've never understood why the uniform is so dirty. Did he roll around for a while on the moon? I mean, ya, kneeling down and stuff, but there's dirt up to his shoulders. What the flippin crud?!
- matt510, on 03/06/2008, -0/+14They got filthy up there. They were collecting samples, riding around in a rover that kicked up lots of dust, getting in and out of their lander that was covered in dust, etc.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/06/2008, -0/+13And a BBQ grill, and a apron that says "Kiss my Astronaut"
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+15There should be a retardation test before some people are let on Digg...
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+13That must've been an awkward trip back.
- qwkredfox, on 03/06/2008, -5/+18***** Yea!
- Scrappy1850, on 03/06/2008, -2/+14what's wrong with some US pride? who paid for the trip, anyway?
- metalkills, on 03/06/2008, -2/+14theres always one paranoid douche bag.....
- maybeishould, on 03/06/2008, -0/+12We will be going back to the moon. NASA is hoping to return to the Moon by 2017 and establish a permanent base there by 2020. If we're lucky, the next President won't delay the space program for 5 years: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/obama-p ...
We also need to consider the private space industry, which is rapidly gaining momentum. Google and the X Prize foundation have already established a new prize for a team that can land a robot on the Moon by 2012. Virgin Galactic will be offering rides into space for paying tourists next year- this may eventually evolve into lunar flybys, or even landings.
Oh, and if fusion reactors ever become feasible, there is plenty of fusion fuel (He3) just sitting on the Moon, not to mention plentiful silicon, aluminum, iron, and magnesium deposits. These resources will provide impetus for companies to travel to the Moon and start mining. - inactive, on 03/06/2008, -3/+15Much better than the "Hey Dad I'm Circling Uranus" picture.
- catachip, on 03/06/2008, -1/+13Congratulations on managing to be an even bigger prick than the original poster. Kudos.
- spudnic, on 03/06/2008, -1/+13Wait...movement in a photo?
- schlef, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11So... we can smash a probe into a moving comet, land an automated device on mars, and shoot down a satellite with a missile... and you think we are going to have problems with landing on the moon?
- Koppie, on 03/06/2008, -1/+12I'm on ur moon photographing ur doodz
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