Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I found this while researching my Abandoned Spaceship and Moon Buggies post – this is a must read site, if only for the ‘Why a Conspiracy’ page.
Moon Base Clavius is an organization of amateurs and professionals devoted to the Apollo program and its manned exploration of the moon. Our special mission is to debunk the so-called conspiracy theories that state such a landing may never have occurred.
Clavius Moon Base – debunking the moon hoax
Good. High time that the moon landing hoax nuts are put in their place. But wait, as they are ‘true believers‘ they will cry out about the obvious conspiracy that has taken place. The images will have been doctored, robotic dummy landers will have been landed (true, some people think that men did not go to the moon but the hardware did), or something even wilder will be the reason that the Apollo hardware is seen in the images. I’m hoping that they will get some high resolution images of the poles and prehaps find some nice places for future landings. We need a base up there.
(BTW, I’m putting this in the ‘paranormal’ catagory just because I don’t have much in there.)
The spacecraft’s high-resolution camera, called “LROC,” short for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, has a resolution of about half a meter. That means that a half-meter square on the Moon’s surface would fill a single pixel in its digital images.
Apollo moon buggies are about 2 meters wide and 3 meters long. So in the LROC images, those abandoned vehicles will fill about 4 by 6 pixels.
NASA – Abandoned Spaceships and Moon Buggies
I can’t wait to try this out. the idea is simple, expose for the highlights (VERY important with digital cameras), turn the image to gray scale, and …. Well I’ll let you read the rest of the story to find out how to do this technique. Lets just say that it involves adding film grain to the image to that extra bit of ‘pop’.
HOW TO make Digital Black and White photos…
4 inch resolution at 6 miles in a 25 pound package attached to a small unmanned aircraft is pretty impressive. Synthetic aperture radar isn’t effected by weather or lack of light so this could watch over ground activity dar and night.
If your wondering what synthetic aperture radar is you can read up on it from the Wikipedia, or read how a synthetic aperture is used in a telescope to get amazing images of a moving star. SAR is an amazing achievement of optical technology, I wonder if a home hobbyist could build one…
Synthetic aperture radar may soon be used for reconnaissance on small UAVs
(Thank you agent Greg for these links)
I want a magazine sized sheet of this that will display PDF files, simple text files, and the Zino file format so I can read the electronic versions of magazines. Plus a compact flash slot and USB interface for easy loading of files. Could this be the beginning of on demand newspapers? Just get the ePaper and load it from newspaper sellers or off the Internet.
world’s first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper.
Fujitsu Color ePaper Press Release
“This lipstick size device has an RCA Video Male Plug. Plug this Video Bulb to your Video Input and it will play endless animation of BITMAN on your TV screen. Another creative media art by Ryota Kuwakubo.”
I remember seeing this a long time ago somewhere but there has been an update in the form of an input device that will allow users to create their own 8×8 animations. Pretty cool.
