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Re: Not good enough

We _will_ be able to see Curiosity from Earth with binoculars. Have patience and remember Armstrong could only do it because the scope was aimed 6 years back in time.

Re: Not good enough

"For pity's sake. Given Neil Armstrong managed to see JFK through a sniper scope from the moon well enough to shoot him dead, I think we should be able to easily see Curiosity from Earth using a simple pair of binocular. Yet we can't. Explain that!!"

That must have been one heck of a shot! Not only over the 240,000 miles from Moon to Earth but also six years back in time. Truly, Armstrong was a hero!

Colin

Re: Simple

You Fools!

Clearly these are images of the rover reflected in the shiny hull of the flying saucer it is currently investigating.

That explains the distorted image, AND the announcement NASA were going to make and then pretended was just about clay or whatever.

Re: Simple

i think that it is about 2 metres long, so plenty long enough to take some good shots at arms length.

There is a video of the movements here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=156880341

it looks like quite a few of the shots were originally taken upside down and then composited together. but i think that you can see from the animation how the arm could articulate to keep itself out of the shots.

Re: Why are they pandering to morons?

Yes, they were born with nothing and still have most of it.

> an explanation of the floating lady with no legs

She was going to blow the whistle on the whole sound-stage "Mars Trip" so they used Curiosity's laser to zap her, from the bottom up like a good old-time witch burning (it's actually the only part of the lander that works, since rayguns are all that the DoD puppetmasters ever bothered testing). They decided to release this photo as a ghastly warning to all others who oppose the Illuminati.

Now if you want a load of ghostly aberrations try doing a photo montage of a room with a couple of small bored children waiting for Daddy to quit pfaffing around - end result was like Ghostbusters played by midgets, fragments of kids fading in and out all over the show. Stitching software needed a few nudges but luckily it's mostly relying on edge detection & I took generous overlaps.

Re: Out of curiosity ...

Sir Runcible, you really don't want to know. Really you don't. They have a site. With a lengthy list of forum posts. Can't be arsed to check it out again so you'll have to giggle it. But be warned; you will lose your mind and the will to live if you actually go and check it out. They have many, many answers to anything you could care to throw at them, and skeptical posters are treated with amused tolerance. I'm still trying to spoon my brains back in from my last visit.

Re: a waste of NASAs time

I suspect NASA know that there are a hard-core who will never be convinced even if you rubbed their faces in Martian dust whilst giving them a spacesuit wedgie.

The point is that potential converts (who might otherwise be convinced by a 'no way this could have been taken on Mars' argument) have an alternative - and correct - explanation.

I guess they've learned from all the nonsense that sprung up around the moon landings with regard to shadows and fluttering flags, and so on.*

* what I love about conspiracy theories is how they require the conspirators to be both superhuman geniuses and complete cretins - they build a convincing moon set, but then decide that a gentle breeze and some extra lighting would improve the ambience?

> a spacesuit wedgie

Pure poetry, thank you kindly! Now once I am crowned Mongo, Emperor of All Barsoom this will certainly be my favoured method of execution

Re: trolling

Looking forward to a shot of a few plastic figurines of Dzeta Reticulians that Curiosity set up from the contents of a secret backpack.