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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the Apollo landing sites. A truly beautiful artefact of human achievement..

And before anyone starts up with the idiotic "it was all faked" nonsense. No, it wasn't. So there.

Seriously, some people still think it was faked? Must be the same people who go around wearing tin foil hats.

i wish , truly wish, i still had my scrap book from the moon landing.

it came from Bunces.. it had a blue grey cover, with stylised white horses galloping through the surf.

and it was full to busting point with every clipping, photo, moon map, ect this five year old ( at the time) could lay his hands on.

i remember my mum sending me to bed early.. so i could get up and watch the moon landing as it happened, on our small black and white telly.

James Burke enthusing about everything, the flickering pictures, and the crackling sound as Armstrong announced " tranquility base here.. the eagle has landed".

I pitty those who are not old enough to experience this first hand. I truly do....

Those are some amazing shots and it looks like we can expect even more detailed photos in the near future. It kinda makes you proud to be a human.

I've been reading about the landings recently and I feel really disappointed that they were before my time. It must have been an unreal feeling to hear for the first time that someone from Earth had travelled further than anyone had before and had actually walked on the surface of that big white rock hanging in our sky.

Replicant wrote:Seriously, some people still think it was faked? Must be the same people who go around wearing tin foil hats.

Indeed. The litmus test for a conspiracy theory is that rather than step back and question whether they've got it wrong, the more it's revealed to be inaccurate, the more complex and fantastic the theory's authors make it to explain things away.

Wow, brilliant images! It will be interesting to see more detail as the LRO gets closer. Cheers for the linky Tomo.

Tomo wrote:Indeed. The litmus test for a conspiracy theory is that rather than step back and question whether they've got it wrong, the more it's revealed to be inaccurate, the more complex and fantastic the theory's authors make it to explain things away.

A bit like religion, then.

(I won't start on religion because I never discuss religion or politics. If I did, I'd only end up offending lots of people).

Replicant wrote:I'd only end up offending lots of people

Why break the habit of a lifetime??

Word is Buzz Aldrin didn't really punch the moon landing denialist. It was all done on a Hollywood sound stage.

Mr_Grue wrote:Word is Buzz Aldrin didn't really punch the moon landing denialist. It was all done on a Hollywood sound stage.

Now, that I like!

Word is Buzz Aldrin didn't really punch the moon landing denialist. It was all done on a Hollywood sound stage.

You can tell it was fake because on the video when the guy gets punched his blood and teeth go out in all different directions like if there was a giant fan in the studio to simulate the wind that you would get in that part of America and the shadows don't line up and you can't see any stars in the sky even though it's during the day and the guy filming it died at some point and somehow the Nazis were involved and this guy on the internet says it was just to cover up how the government is spying on us using rainbows and this kid at school knows all about it and he said that a black helicopter was following him and tried to kill him by putting extra artificial sweetner in his soft drink.

I appreciate I should have put that in block capitals with extra exclamation marks but I didn't want to appear as a total nutter.

Here's the punch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4

It's a corker and, even though I don't like fighting, very well-deserved if you ask me!

Nice punch! I had always heard he punches people who say he didn't go to the moon, never thought it was on video though!

3 blokes at work were talking about it today and they seemed to believe so whole-heartedly that they were fake, giving all this evidence like the shadows and blast craters and what-not.

I let them get on, didn't want to bore them with my Lunar Landing Research

One word, retroreflector

I was 8 and a committed science nut. Still am.

Was searching last night for my "Man in Space" books from the time, since it would be a fitting bedtime read for the anniversary. Couldn't find them, though. They must be farther under the bed than I'd thought.