h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just quickly back to that moon landing things- to the point that theres a letter on the rock, its actually jsut due to an image process to enhance the image. www.badastronomy.com has a good section on this.

James Dyson invented the ball wheelbarrow. Was that a Dyson sphere as well?

The.. "t"."h"..then the "e". It does not seem that you fail to proofread your entries, merely that you intentionally spell "the" and other "th" words incorrectly.

The Dyson who invented the Dyson Sphere is Freeman Dyson, who also invented a lot of other things. However, the inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner (the non-specific name for a hoover) is James Dyson. As far as I can tell, they are not related. James Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947 in what he describes as a "middle class and not particularly wealthy background" (apologies to the BBC News website for plagarising this snippet).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1802155.stm

one question about the moon landings that i don't get, is how was the american flag flying in a vacuum, the solar wind maybe?

one question about the moon landings that i don't get, is how was the american flag flying in a vacuum, the solar wind maybe?

one question about the moon landings that i don't get, is how was the american flag flying in a vacuum, the solar wind maybe?

why do i keep getting duplicate messages?

It was hold by a horizonal bar probably.

tar-plantir, the flag had a bar along the top seam, and your multiple messages are probably caused by refreshing the page after you've clicked "Post Message"; every refresh sends a new copy...

thanks I didn't know that

You just forgot the sun is held in the middle of a Dyson sphere by strings of invisible material, so it can't go bumping into the walls of the sphere. Moreover, you can stand on the inside of the sphere because it is turning and so produces gravity.

But all these stories about faked photographs on the moon must be true otherwise they are not faked and must be true and that is difficult to accept.

Yes, they were "faked", to a degree, but it was all perfectly innocent...

Most of these "researchers" are just too damn mean to pay for copies of the pics straight off the original negatives, so they go and study books, posters and prints which were distributed around US schools in the late 1960s/early 1970s. These were intended as "inspirational" materials to get children interested in the space programme, and not for scientific scrutiny. Blemishes on the images were airbrushed out, and shadows and highlights were airbrushed in, just like any other advertising / promotional images! A documentary on UK Channel 4 a couple of years back confronted a "conspiracy theorist" with one of the airbrush artists who had actually been doing this work for NASA. The conspiracy theorist "theorised", when shown prints from the original negatives which didn't contain any of the flaws his whole theory was based on, that the artist had been hired to correct *those* prints instead! Loonie...

Ah, never underestimate the ability of a conspiracy theorist to discount any and all rational explanations in their dogged adherence to an irrational one

I am afraid I have to agree with you there.

I'm very afraid; could you clarify what/who you're agreeing with, please...?

Sorry, I am new to this. I replied to a message from a few days ago , or months even and it put my reply at the end, all out of sink.
I will be careful not to confuse conversations in the future.

Amanda

Not a problem.

Even in the wrong place it made a lot more sense than many of the postings here...

About the whole "stuck in the buffer" thing, I thought that even after a few minutes patterns degrade. Isn't over 60 years a wee bit too long. But after all Star Trek is more of a fantasy than its fantasy counterpart, Star Wars.

I have to disagree. This belongs in another forum, BUT, Star Trek is better than Star Wars by miles.
Amanda