Well- that’s your opinion and I respect it…. But it is a fact that we don’t have 1 complete image of earth from space.
What we do have are artist renderings, CGI, and “composites” which are then rearranged into a sphere.
If I’m wrong, fact check me.
If I’m right, then it’s not my overwhelming ignorance that is the problem, but your gullibility and naïveté.
Here’s the thing…. I’m ok with the heliocentric globe model. I just want more than composite, renderings, and mathematical models. Can you supply that?
I’ve never posted this site in my recollection. If I have it was coincidental.
I post liberal sites as well.
As I’ve said, a billion times? I’m agnostic about source because I always ask myself who they are and what their agenda is before accepting the info.
Does GWP share my worldview? To an extent. That doesn’t invalidate them.
False. But, you don’t believe in reality. So…you’re essentially the kid from Big Daddy
You are wrong, but you’re lazy. Go do your own work
Nobody cares if you decide to be ignorant. Go back to college if you want to be taught. The curious thing is the level of narcissism one must have to take the worldview you have
These are whole-Earth images. The three composites are the RGB channels, red, green, and blue. Do we need to go over how electronic light representation works, because you’ve been looking at RGB channels your entire life.
Consider that if you want to see a whole-Earth image on traditional film, the second image in the article is what you’re looking for.
Consider also that there are links to Japanese whole-Earth images as well.
We absolutely can. These images are taken from outside low-Earth orbit.
Because maintaining human flesh bags is probably the most difficult aspect of space flight. You need an atmosphere (air, cabin pressure, temperature controls), food storage, waste management, cabin space, additional power for all of the above. You also need to be able to come back, which is something DSCOVR and the Mars Rover aren’t doing.
Why don’t you just answer the question and spare everyone the feminine outrage?
How were we able to get past lower earth orbit and travel to the moon in 1969 but we can’t duplicate it today?
How come we can’t go further than lower earth orbit?
Also, why can we send satellites (presumably) past low earth orbits but we can’t put people on these vessels with them?
305 says because their flesh will be damaged. But that didn’t happen in 69…. So our technology got worse with 50+ years of know how and 100x more funding?
Well slow down there, because you’re talking about rovers and telescopes and comparing that with manned space flight. When we’re talking about DSCVR or the Mars Rover, yes, we don’t have that technology yet to go that far with a human.
When you are talking about to the moon, yes, we had the equipment then but we do not currently have the equipment now. This is like if you dig up your old VHS tape of the Goonies and want to play it but you no longer have a VCR. Do you ask “So I could play this movie in the 1980s but I can’t play it now? Technology got worse?” No, technology just moved on.
Saturn V was built to go to the moon. It was a huge rocket, or multiple rockets, with a MASSIVE fuel store. It was decommissioned after the Apollo missions.
The Space Shuttle was built for ISS. The Space Shuttle does not have the capacity for lunar flight, not because we don’t have the technology, but because it wasn’t built for that.
Technology didn’t get worse, it obviously got better, but that’s irrelevant. My car doesn’t fly like a plane, but it’s not because we don’t have the technology, it’s because my car wasn’t built for flying like a plane, get it?
? There are multiple private enterprises that are offering space flights today. It’s has ZERO to do with political will.
So strike 1 (whiff)
And expense? Hmmmmmm….
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said his space company can be ready to go to the moon in the next three years.
Musk said in a Saturday Twitter post responding to a question about the timeline that SpaceX’s lunar lander would be ready for its moon mission “probably sooner” than 2024.
SpaceX won NASA’s lunar lander contract in April, beating Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Originand Leidos (ticker: LDOS) unit Dynetics for the job.
The NASA program, dubbed Artemis, is slated to take astronauts, including women, to the moon in 2024. SpaceX will make a reusable lander it calls Starship that will eventually carry people to Mars if Musk’s ultimate ambitions are realized.
As you can see above- the goal is to go to the moon and to Mars…. It’s not about expense lol. It’s about technology smart guy.
And it begs the question again…. If we’ve already done it, why would there be a technology gap?
Can anyone else explain to the shelter the last time we created a technology only to regress in that field over the next 60 years?
Now- we’ll see if Elon or others can actually achieve this. I say no. But even if they did- it would be an obvious tell that we never made it there in the first place.
Wish I could find the famous quote from the person who stated the graph above, but that is what he referenced.
You can see the peak of spend as an outlay in the guardian article (table)
As for political will.
Lol at you confusing political will with privatization, sometimes I really wonder:
WASHINGTON — Call it opportunity. Call it cold reality. The nation’s space program is increasingly reliant on private partners to send astronauts into space as its slice of the federal budget diminishes.
Irrelevant. We created the technology (the rocket, the propulsion system, the lander, etc…)
In every technology scenario ever, the process should become cheaper and easily reproduceable.
Today’s cost to produce Saturn V would be $2.3 billion if we assumed ZERO efficiency or material improvements. That’s not a lot of money to return to the moon. We spend more on a billion other things.
The guy who has been hidden under a rock for 30 years, says it is irrelevant that NASA has been continuously underfunded since the 1960s and asks why we have not left LEO since.
The benefits of colonizing the moon militarily would have paid back 1,000,000,000 fold to any upfront Saturn V reproduction costs.
You know why they stopped funding?
Because it was all a rouse to create a media campaign to embarrass the Russians and claim superiority.
Unless you think that we live streamed this event and broadcast it in 1969 with no delays or interruptions lol. And that someone actually filmed it. Lmao.
