I'm going to win the Lunar X Prize. I brought my car to the Moon to use as the robot rover and am about to go get some samples. I'm surprised -- Wi-Fi works just fine up here for my laptop. Be back soon!!
Photo of my moon rover
Mike
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I'm going to win the Lunar X Prize. I brought my car to the Moon to use as the robot rover and am about to go get some samples. I'm surprised -- Wi-Fi works just fine up here for my laptop. Be back soon!!
Photo of my moon rover
Mike
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Bring me back some cheese if you would be so kind. I like cheese.
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It's green. I hope that's ok.
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That's fine, so am I.Originally Posted by Luckmeister
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Put some moon air in those tires for better mileage.
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That is the biggest car I've ever seen. Those footprints along must be several kilometres across.
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Uh oh, looks like I've been caught in my hoax.
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Are you barefoot? Watch out for snakes.
ETA: o, nevermind, I guess I don't have to be worried about you after all
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Still, it's an interesting example of the fractal look of the Lunar surface. At kilometre scale, the surface doesn't look that much different from at metre scale.Uh oh, looks like I've been caught in my hoax.
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I shouldn't have admitted I faked the Moon landing so quickly. I was hoping for a chance to punch Sibrel in the face.
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The only reason it was obvious is because the photo is of course the Earth rise photo from Apollo 11.I shouldn't have admitted I faked the Moon landing so quickly. I was hoping for a chance to punch Sibrel in the face.
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Yeah, my favorite Moon photo. I used that one to help verify that I was on the Moon.
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Now I'm off to bed so I can dream about real Moon landings.
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So whose rocket are you launching that on? (We should be able to get a good argument going on that, at least.)
I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?
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I think you are just saying that to cover up the fact that you really went to the moon. You are faking a hoax. I might have to move this entire thread to CT.Uh oh, looks like I've been caught in my hoax.
Can you prove that you didn't go to the moon?
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I'd accept a picture of Luckmeister on the grassy knoll as sufficient.
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I don't see any evidence of multi-directional stage-shadows, which further supports the claim that this is a real lunar mission being passed off as a hoax. I think you got 'em, Swift!
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Oh yeah? Well yes, I can prove I never went to the moon. Just buy my book where I reference many other books that show no one ever went to the Moon because it's too difficult, even today.
But look at the footprints. The sun is obviously at the wrong angle for the shadows in them. I know you're all NASA disinfo agents trying to discredit my self-discrediting and I will not be intimidated.
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Are you sure that photo's from Apollo 11? It looks like the Apollo 8 one to me.
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I think it's from magazine 44.
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Can we move the later discussions to the CT forum, where they obviously belong? It is intuitively obvious to the most casual of observers that Luckmeister is trying to make his magnificent feat seem like a joke so he doesn't have to deal with papparazzi.
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And now, if I may, a serious moment about Moon landings in this thread of levity:
On July 15, 2009, Boston.com's Big Picture blog featured a 40-image post observing the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. I missed it then but just discovered it. The photos are wonderful and many are ones I hadn't previously seen. I especially like the one of the darkened Mission Operations Control Room with the live image of the EVA showing on the console screens and large wall display.
Link to Big Picture blog
42 years later and something like this can still get me all misty-eyed.
Mike
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You're welcome. What an adventure!! The look on Armstrong's face in photo #24 says it all -- very happy, very tired and still about 240,000 miles from home.
Those photos are all a perfect size for my desktop wallpaper. I think I'll cycle them through at about one per week.
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That is a superb link! It makes the whole thing look like a family vacation, sort of. (On a much larger scale of course)
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Regarding Photo #35 of the Big Picture blog, Collins said, "I realized that for the first time, in one frame, appeared three billion earthlings, two explorers, and one moon. The photographer, of course, was discreetly out of view."
How unique it was to take a photo with every human being in existence located somewhere within it except one -- himself. I'm wondering if that's ever happened in another photo anywhere. Offhand, I can't think of one.
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Yep.
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Who isn't in that picture?
ETA added quote to clarity question.
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