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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 11, 2010 23:52:13 GMT -4
Alright, watched the 30 minutes. All I can say is that he can be beaten with wiki. Being myself an engineer with some knowledge of image compression I can affirm that this guy is, either a complete moron or nutter. His imbecility, as mentioned above ('jumbling') is such that he takes a lossy compressed image with the very know artifacts coming from ringing and such and says that it is added to the raw image. More to come, he dares to go even deeper, he (oh dear God) takes the images intended to be used in a web page with the text and arrows and zooms into the edge of the arrow and asks (oh god, again) "Why do the borders of the arrow look like stairs and are all pixelated?" And to go even further in his ignorance establishes the 'jumbling' effect as added to the raw image. I think that he is no longer funny but arrogant and stupid, every time more arrogant and stupid (duh!).
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 11, 2010 10:48:53 GMT -4
Anyways, what about the 300 kg? Have they been studied by third parties inside the facility (maybe by the preliminary examination teams), or are they still mostly unseen? As far as I know they are still in the vault. All have been visually examined when they arrived, but the remaining tests are destructive. Since the samples are currently irreplacable they are let out in very controlled and minimal fashion (a chip off a rock here, a few grams of soil there). The chemical testing of rocks doesn't require much more than a few grams anyway, so there is no reason to go spreading them around the place. Pristine Pristine Pris"tine, a. [L. pristinus, akin to prior: cf. F. pristin. See Prior, a.] Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor. [1913 Webster] Your explanation fits with the "pristine condition" explanation given by NASA, as well as being a good way of preserving material for future analysis.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 10, 2010 18:57:00 GMT -4
I read that about 300 kg of samples are still in "pristine condition", which would mean that about 80 kg got out the facility for study or exposition. Anyways, what about the 300 kg? Have they been studied by third parties inside the facility (maybe by the preliminary examination teams), or are they still mostly unseen? Maybe the always-present Wikipedia can help you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rockPS: I liked this: [...] The seller of this moon rock offered it to the undercover Agents for 5 million dollars, a huge amount for something that weighed only 1.142 grams. That makes around 5 billion dolars per kilo, aproximately. Err... anyone remembers how much each kilo of Cameron's Unobtainium was worth? ;D
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 9, 2010 13:01:52 GMT -4
Most of scientists study the samples inside the containment facility, right? No, most of them study samples in their own laboratories. Interesting point, but what kind of silly argument would a HB argue of lunar samples sent around the world?
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 9, 2010 12:32:13 GMT -4
Yes, lots of holes in this story, wonder what Aldrin would say should he read it.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 7, 2010 0:12:45 GMT -4
This headline appeared today in a national (and one with a long tradition in credibility) newspaper in my country: Autor boliviano dice que ovni acompañó al hombre a la LunaBolivian writer says UFO accompanied man to the Moon www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/06-01-10/noticias.php?nota=06_01_10_cult2.phpRelevant parts: "It's the best kept secret by NASA in 50 years of space race" says the author of the to-be-released historical novel "El salar de maravilla" (The saltflats of wonders), bolivian journalist and writer Eduardo Ascarrunz, which contains the narration of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin concerning an alleged encounter with an UFO. In an interview with Reuters, the author says that he got Aldrin's revelations ten years ago, but he decided to publish it only with the authorization of the astronaut, when the world's public opinion was ready for such a revelation. According to the book, which refers to the UFO as well as a number of visits of Aldrin to the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia, the astronauts reported to the mission control in Houston that a semi spherical spacecraft was escorting them in the arrival to the moon's surface. "Here we are, the three of us... they are here, below our ship... we have found some visitors" Armstrong is quoted telling to Houston. Houston asks Armstrong to be more specific, Aldrin said. Then, the next dialog took place, according to Aldrin's testimony: "Aldrin > I'm telling you, there is another space ship out there. They are on the other side of the crater. Houston > Have you recorded it? Aldrin > No records for the moment. The cameras are photographing other objetives. They are down there, watching us. Houston > Are they watching you? Aldrin > Yes, we are not alone." The autor says he got the story from Aldrin when he located the astronaut to confirm that a gleam he watched from the moon was the Uyuni salt flats. "Once the whole paraphernalia of the Moon heroes was gone, Aldrin confirmed that a gleam resulted to be the Uyuni salt flats, which he visited later and where he met a wise quechua-aymara man" says the author and adds: "He confessed me that he visited many times the salt flats just to talk with that man". Well, I sincerely don't know what to say, at least until I read the book, I'll regard this as a simple novel.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Aug 31, 2009 23:44:49 GMT -4
Having a review to the news and found this:
[...] The termination of the Moon mission will, however, not affect India's plans in space.
The country is already planning a second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, with Russian collaboration in 2011-12; a mission to an asteroid; an unmanned mission to Mars in 2013 and a human space flight in 2015.
Upbeat Isro scientists are saying "Chandrayaan-1 is dead, long live Chandrayaan". The jury will be out - until the scientific papers come in.
Aw, so much preparation to end so quick! However, this seems to have been a joyful (and highly rewarded, in therms of science) experience for India's first unmanned mission to our natural satellite. Hopefully LRO will continue to work smoothly (despite that weird fuel issue).
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jul 19, 2009 13:19:09 GMT -4
This comment SirMildredPierce
;D ;D ;D
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jul 18, 2009 12:48:45 GMT -4
Any reactions from the HBs?
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jul 18, 2009 12:15:50 GMT -4
They are magnificent!, beautiful, just beautiful...
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jul 6, 2009 21:17:30 GMT -4
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jun 27, 2009 10:53:31 GMT -4
Probably we would be facing either a new ice age or surviving in an enormous desert. I'm already surviving in an enormous desert. It's called Utah. Then that gives us hope about future...
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jun 26, 2009 19:40:39 GMT -4
Probably we would be facing either a new ice age or surviving in an enormous desert.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jun 19, 2009 20:55:10 GMT -4
I wonder if some theorist will make some sort of protest or something annoying.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 18, 2009 15:22:04 GMT -4
I believe that this guy "thinks" that someone left those easter eggs "to reveal the truth". Obviously he will reject any third party observations that effectively show that the video signal came from the moon...
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