In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the south. Near the center, bright planet Jupiter outshines the city lights below and the stars of the constellation Sagittarius. Above the mountain peaks, an arcing cloud bank seems to lead to the Milky Way's own cloudy apparition plunging into the distant horizon. In Turkish, Uludag means Great Mountain. Uludag was known in ancient times as the Mysian Olympus.
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This is taken above New Zealand. The land mass on the left is the top of the South Island with Banks Peninsula bottom left, near Christchurch. The land mass at the top right is the bottom of the North Island, with the capital Wellington (where I live!) pretty much obscured by that thing protruding above the space station. What an awesome photo !
Yes. Beautiful New Zealand it is. The picture is breathtaking...
Are those foot prints in the soil ??
never looked at that carefully. u are right they do look like footprints. maybe they are the rollers on roover.
Check out one of the people who lived there at: http://homelessheidi.blogspot.com/ (scroll way down as now she is in Fiji)
Or perhaps you can explain how the Apollo crews survived the Van Allen Radiation belts, going and coming:
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/vanallen.htm
17July1962 - Nuclear Blasts to Clear Inner Radiation Belts for Apollo?
http://www.conspiracyworld.com/index0035.htm
Bart Sibrel responds to Michael Medved's *USA Today* article.
Despite my original childhood wonder at the *idea* of what NASA purported to be doing, I never overcame my pre-NASA education about such annoying facts as the Van Allen Radiation Belts and how they effected the Apollo program. As an Explorer Scout sponsored by the FAA, I had an opportunity to discuss some of my reservations about Apollo with a senior Rockwell Engineer/Executive. When asked if I had any questions, I went into Van Allen, doubts about how the Rover was stowed aboard & how the load was balanced, yet the Rover appeared fully assembled and functional "on the moon(?)" in very short order, and my doubts about the Apollo life support systems, particularly with regard to heat exchange in a continuously sunlit vacuum. He laughed and said "You're getting ahead of yourself... the real question you should ask *first* is how the Saturn V lifted the Lunar Mission Payload when the flight-certified Beta-series engines couldn't produce enough thrust to lift the payload and the Alpha-series engines weren't flight certified because they kept exploding..."! He wouldn't go into it any further than that and said he would deny everything, if quoted, but told me it was nice speaking to someone so young (in 1971) WHO WAS CAPABLE OF CRITICAL THINKING! Everyone is entitled to *BELIEVE* whatever they like, but, Belief is based on FAITH and I prefer what can be proved. Believing in NASA and Apollo has no effect whatsoever on the facts, evidence, and *reality*.
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and unoriginal people I've ever known. It's really quite sad.
Why do they keep repeating the same old ludicrous assertions about the
lack of stars in the daytime sky and simple perspective producing
non-parallel shadows? I mean, they're so easy to refute with simple
reasoning that they're downright dull. Can't they come up with some
good ones all by themselves? Or do these guys really have to hang on
each new book and film from the boorish and dishonest Bart Sibrel to
start hawking some fresh howlers?
Hoax believers apparently assume that just because they're incapable
of independent, critical thought then the rest of us must be as well.
How else could they accuse us basing our acceptance of the fact of
Apollo on blind faith in NASA? Faith applies to questions with no
objective facts or evidence to help answer them, questions like "does
God exist?" Faith certainly isn't relevant to major historical events
involving hundreds of thousands of participants and witnesses and an
amazingly detailed record of documents, recordings, photographs and
artifacts.
Now I can certainly understand how the hoax believers might need
"faith" to believe that NASA went to the moon in the late 1960s. With
their near-total lack of general scientific understanding and of basic
reasoning abilities, they can't make heads or tails of the historical
record. They're unable to distinguish between the reality of Apollo
and the fantasy of, say, "2001: A Space Odyssey". They seriously argue
that the Apollo TV coverage was directed by Stanley Kubrick, the
director of "2001"!
As someone very interested in science education, I actually see a
missed opportunity in many of the Apollo hoax claims. Many contain
kernels of interesting scientific questions. If the hoax believers
weren't so intellectually dishonest and unable to listen, they could
actually learn something!
For example, the answer to the question of why stars aren't visible in
lunar surface photographs can provide a good insight into the scale of
the universe. If distant stars are just like our sun (and some are far
brighter), then the fact that they don't register on photographs of
the sunlit lunar surface says something about how incredibly distant
those stars must be!
The question of why shadows often appear nonparallel can be explained
with geometry. It is also easily demonstrated on earth, showing there
is nothing special about the lunar surface.
The question of why the lunar module engine plumes are invisible and
don't produce craters can lead to a discussion of how rockets work,
the relationship between force, mass and acceleration, the chemical
reactions in these particular rockets, and how gases behave in a
vacuum differently than in the earth's atmosphere.
And so on. But learning is impossible unless one is interested in
learning, and there is no surer way to not learn than to assume that
you can't and therefore to assume that everything everyone tells you
is a lie because you haven't learned to tell the difference.
A lot of people criticized Apollo when we had so many problems on the ground: the Vietnam War, race riots, poverty, assassinations and so forth. But those things are actually why we NEEDED Apollo at that time; it showed us that we can occasionally transcend those things and fulfill, at least briefly, a dream that's probably older than the human species.
At least another breath-taking history was made by our NASA people...
Do you have other information wherein when did it exactly happened and who are those people behind this successful voyage??? Thanks and keep on posting cool reports like this...=b