sherpa

do you think the japanese will be allowed
to show us what's up there?

Isn't that the question on all our minds ?

Possible scenarios:

Revelation Japanese Moon satellite reveals structures on Moon !

Japanese Moon satellite takes great hi-def pictures of Moon rocks.

Japanese satellite technical failure mission over.

Japanese satellite explodes, (nah).

Japanese satellite technical failure only limited images gained.

Same old same old pictures taken a handfull of low resolution images will be available after carefull selection on website.

Heck I know which one I would prefer but think of the repercussions, nope I can't see it happening, however Japan please prove me wrong.

What's your spin ?

sherpa,

well based on my other research area (ancient texts),
i'm skeptical that any government on earth will be allowed
to show us what's really going on out there. at least,
well, until they change their minds. lol

Originally posted by sherpa
What's your spin ?

Gonna go with


Japanese satellite explodes, (nah).

Japanese satellite technical failure only limited images gained.

"Same old same old pictures taken a handfull of low resolution images will be available after carefull selection on website."

OR

It follows Smart 1's path and gives us a new dust cloud to study

HEY I say we hurry up and make a good list and then draw numbers LOL

Those that guess right get a prize of some sort

BTW I love those fuzzy purple pictures you posted from Japan... the second one almost looks like the Lick Observatory on one page 23

Smart 1 The End




[edit on 11-10-2007 by zorgon]

Originally posted by zorgon


HEY I say we hurry up and make a good list

wonder if they'll look like the color moon pics from clementine...
at least, if it makes it, we'll have comparative examples for the color ones (these are supposed to be color images, yes?)

Originally posted by ArMaP
The problem is that if they take great pictures of the Moon surface but without any "anomaly" then people will dismiss them saying that they could not show the real photos or something like that.

Well the problem with that is they TOOK real good images of the moon... from several missions... If there is nothing to hide, then there is no reason to keep those photos from the public...

So far every mission has failed to let us see the full res images. Perhaps Japan will give us Mars quality images of the moon... a fact skeptics will work hard at to overlook

I am patient... I can wait

The reason why those single frame images are so "fuzzy" is because this is an HD video camera (NOT STILL) being sent up - to take video. Not still images. They're simply cropping out these images for the public, while, they have full length videos - real time - of all the operations going on. I think we need to wait a week or two before they actually start releasing lunar videos from close up. That'll be really fun to watch, and, it's promised.

If for some reason they mysteriously decide to not release videos, well, I don't know. A lot of folks here may take that as confirmation of what they "know" to be on the moon already. We'll see though.

This can go 3 ways as far as I'm concerned.

Originally posted by zorgon
Well the problem with that is they TOOK real good images of the moon... from several missions... If there is nothing to hide, then there is no reason to keep those photos from the public...

You're right, that's why no images have been kept from the public.

Originally posted by zorgon

So far every mission has failed to let us see the full res images.

What evidence do you have to support that assertion? 200 pages and 4,000 posts later I still don't see any here.

Originally posted by Access Denied

Originally posted by zorgon

So far every mission has failed to let us see the full res images.

What evidence do you have to support that assertion? 200 pages and 4,000 posts later I still don't see any here.

There are many, many photos that are not available in a high resolution (tiff, best example) format on the Internet. The evidence for that is everywhere. There are also many photos that ARE available in a high resolution format. Same mission, same camera... why are some photos scanned for high res distribution and others in.jpg fomat

Storage is cheap these days. And I'd bet NASA could get an intern or two to work a weekend and scan 'em all in for a few hundred bucks.

Originally posted by Access Denied
What evidence do you have to support that assertion? 200 pages and 4,000 posts later I still don't see any here.

Good grief here we go again..

You obviously missed this in the thread when we went through this with JRA... I am not going to waste time going over this again...

Show me where the full res images of Lunar Orbiter 1, 2 and 3 may be found... the entire set please not a few hand picked ones. The ones taken from 22 miles above the surface

Also please link me to the high res .tiff files of all the Apollo images that are displayed in jpg version at LPI

Several people have already ordered copies in tiff from JPL, only to find the file sent is merely an enlargement of the jpg

You also obviously missed the part where a directory that DID have some 50 - 60 meg tiff versions of the Apollo series were REMOVED while people here in this thread were downloading them... I still regret I did not save them all before posting the source...

Funny thing is the directory was at the same location that Gary McKinnon was caught snooping at JSC.

You know the old saying ..."Put up or......"

[edit on 12-10-2007 by zorgon]