Comments on: The Moon, up close and personal http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:34:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thanny http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51132 Thanny Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:41:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51132 The direction of the light in the image has never mattered for me. Rotating does nothing to change whether I see craters or domes preferentially. Looking straight down, the concept of up and down don't apply, so I don't really buy that explanation. When we look straight down at the ground, we could have the sun in front of us or behind us. We use other clues to determine where it is, which aren't available in a static photograph. The direction of the light in the image has never mattered for me. Rotating does nothing to change whether I see craters or domes preferentially.

Looking straight down, the concept of up and down don’t apply, so I don’t really buy that explanation. When we look straight down at the ground, we could have the sun in front of us or behind us. We use other clues to determine where it is, which aren’t available in a static photograph.

]]> By: sirjonsnow http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51131 sirjonsnow Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51131 We're whalers of the moon. We carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. We’re whalers of the moon.
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain’t no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.

]]> By: A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51130 A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:43:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51130 [...] The Moon, up close and personal no Bad Astronomy [...] [...] The Moon, up close and personal no Bad Astronomy [...]

]]> By: TheDoLittle http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51129 TheDoLittle Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:02:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51129 What we really need is find a way to get Behrokh Khoshnevis's huge robotic 3D printer on the moon to start building Moonbase Alpha. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=57 Sending tons of material to the moon to build shelters would be ridiculously overpriced. The moon has a great deal of building material just lying around on the surface. We could send one of these robots up there, feed in the 3D CAD file and material in to build the shelter, and send in other robots and astronauts to put in the finishing touches. ...the Eagle Transporters I'll leave up to Boeing! What we really need is find a way to get Behrokh Khoshnevis’s huge robotic 3D printer on the moon to start building Moonbase Alpha.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=57

Sending tons of material to the moon to build shelters would be ridiculously overpriced. The moon has a great deal of building material just lying around on the surface. We could send one of these robots up there, feed in the 3D CAD file and material in to build the shelter, and send in other robots and astronauts to put in the finishing touches.

…the Eagle Transporters I’ll leave up to Boeing!

]]> By: OtherRob http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51128 OtherRob Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:18:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51128 Outside the Mission: Space ride at Epcot is a large (8 feet tall?) moon globe with all of the landing sites marked on it. Very cool. Outside the Mission: Space ride at Epcot is a large (8 feet tall?) moon globe with all of the landing sites marked on it. Very cool.

]]> By: BigBadSis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51125 BigBadSis Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:15:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51125 I visited the site and clicked on Lunar samples, having long desired to see what we got. I've never been fortunate to see with my own eyes any other samples outside of the Air and Space Museum in DC. So I randomly selected one of the samples collected on the Apollo 15 mission. "Green Glass Clods" was a 20-page report filled with data, pictures, and geological composition information. How can anyone think after looking at this site that all this is "made up?????" Who on earth would go to these lengths? The information we gathered was astounding. Thanks for the link, Phil. I visited the site and clicked on Lunar samples, having long desired to see what we got. I’ve never been fortunate to see with my own eyes any other samples outside of the Air and Space Museum in DC. So I randomly selected one of the samples collected on the Apollo 15 mission. “Green Glass Clods” was a 20-page report filled with data, pictures, and geological composition information. How can anyone think after looking at this site that all this is “made up?????” Who on earth would go to these lengths? The information we gathered was astounding. Thanks for the link, Phil.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-51127 Tom Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:05:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/07/the-moon-up-close-and-personal/#comment-51127 Very cool site! I've bookmarked that and I'll put it on my club's astronomy stie (click my name to see the site) Tom :-) Very cool site! I’ve bookmarked that and I’ll put it on my club’s astronomy stie (click my name to see the site)

Tom :-)

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