Off Topic Dark side of the moon.

No, nothing to do with Pink Floyd

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31297370

NASA has released a view of the Moon that cannot be seen from Earth.
Using nearly five-years of mapping data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the space agency has created footage showing what it is like on the far side.
The far side of the Moon is home to a scarred area known as the South Pole-Aitken, one of the largest and oldest 'impacts' in the solar system.

 

so it looks, pretty much exactly the same

 

there was a theory that aliens inhabitted the far side

 

Pretty dull and monotonous - so it does have something in common with Pink Floyd, then.

 

I may need correcting here but I think you will find that those pictures are computer generated from data received. The Chinese put their versions up and they too were computer generated and not a true picture of the 'dark side' of the moon.
There were some anomalies from the NASA pictures which were removed/photo-shopped. Portions of the Moon Landing tapes were deleted, re-shot on Earth (reportedly in Stanley Kubriks "2001 a Space Odyssey" Studio where Kubrik himself took over some of the shooting) and then inserted into the 'official' tapes.
There are "2001" (I couldn't help myself) theories as to what was removed and why but it is doubtful that we will ever know the truth.

 

Nonsense. And it is a mosaic comprising of actual shots from the LRO. And the moon doesn't have a permanent dark side as it rotates once a month.

 

Maybe it was Elvis riding Shergar around?

 

Don't let things like facts get in the way of swivel eyed loony conspiracy theories.

 

Sorry, Des, I saw the Chinese orbiter pictures and it was those that were computer generated. The do show some very interesting contours however not in keeping with the crater pocked surface we see on the NASA tapes.

 

I love the way that nature works; Earth influencing the moon's rate of rotation so that we only see one side of it, the moon being 1/400 of the Sun's distance from Earth as well as 1/400 of its size, leading to amazing coronal glow during solar eclipse.

Yet sometimes it throws out anomalies (e.g. Venus having a retrograde rotation).

 

Indeed. And as the moon travels out from the Earth by about 3cm per year, in a thousand years or so there'll be no such thing as a total solar eclipse. Uranus also has a retrograde rotation.

 

There's nowt wrong with Myanus!

 

Dark side is one of the finest albums ever made. Maybe 'THE' finest A true masterpiece. Do not **** with me on this. Thank you...

 

Or, alternatively, a turgid, pretentious pile of crap.

 

You obviously didn't take enough drugs when you listened

 

Good job NASA, now I can sleep tonight

 

Ok forum followers.

Where'd da moon come from?

Preexisting space lump captured in our gravitational influence or lump of earth smashed out by meteor collision?

There is a moon in the sky called the moon.


Heavy.

 

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