Meanwhile, back in reality, there's an asteroid flying by today, at a distance which is nothing in astronomical terms (nearest approach about 300,000 miles - a little more than the distance to the moon) and so presents a good chance for earth based astronomers to make some observations. Don't worry though, we are all safe - even flat earthers - as the path of the now so-nickamed "Great Pumpkin" asteroid is very well understood.

The estimated size of the "Great Pumpkin" is around 400m. Loads of info and even video here:
www.space.com/30954-halloween-as ... tb145.html

Meanwhile, back in reality, there's an asteroid flying by today, at a distance which is nothing in astronomical terms (nearest approach about 300,000 miles - a little more than the distance to the moon) and so presents a good chance for earth based astronomers to make some observations. Don't worry though, we are all safe - even flat earthers - as the path of the now so-nickamed "Great Pumpkin" asteroid is very well understood.

The estimated size of the "Great Pumpkin" is around 400m. Loads of info and even video here:
www.space.com/30954-halloween-as ... tb145.html

Yes you can. Look, there it is, however much you THINK you can't tolerate it, it ain't gonna move. Best don't look if you can't be doing with it.


The video is not offered as "proof" of anything. It is what it is, a video of the asteroid. If you don't believe it - GREAT! Nobody cares! But, it is.

However, the fact is that the existence of this asteroid was only discovered On 10th October, not by NASA, but by observers at the University of Hawaii's Panoramic Survey Telescope. Or are they in on the conspiracy too?


You have no idea what telescope I have. However, I wouldn't need a telescope - just a clear dark sky and a reasonable pair of binoculars. The reason it can be seen that way - (yes! even by YOU, with your own eyes, but it might upset your theory that everything's a conspiracy) is simply because of the contrast between the dark background, and the sunlight reflecting from the asteroid.

Watch it live here: live.slooh.com/
between 9 pm ET and midnight


The issue you have here is that you can't be bothered to assess propositions calmly and rationally, or you have no grasp of basic optics or maths, or probably both.

You need to get a simple understanding of the maximum resolution that any given set of optics can theoretically achieve. No telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo-related. In fact, not even the Hubble Space Telescope (not that you believe in it) can see them. The laws of optics prevent this. Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 metres) at the Moon's distance. In visible light, it's 0.05″, or closer to 300 feet. Given that the largest piece of kit left on the Moon after each mission was the 17.9-foot-high by 14-foot-wide Lunar Module, you can see the problem. Or could, if you were prepared to consider it.

Of course, if those pesky NASA bluffers wanted to, they could easily have produced fake shots of the kit, to "prove" it was there. Oddly, they haven't. Why is that, do you suppose? Or maybe it's a cunning double bluff.

Odd that such a ruthless demander of evidence such as yourself doesn't actually know that the "evidence " you complain is absent, is in fact impossible to get from Earth. Maybe you were just tired, eh?

Yes you can. Look, there it is, however much you THINK you can't tolerate it, it ain't gonna move. Best don't look if you can't be doing with it.


The video is not offered as "proof" of anything. It is what it is, a video of the asteroid. If you don't believe it - GREAT! Nobody cares! But, it is.

However, the fact is that the existence of this asteroid was only discovered On 10th October, not by NASA, but by observers at the University of Hawaii's Panoramic Survey Telescope. Or are they in on the conspiracy too?


You have no idea what telescope I have. However, I wouldn't need a telescope - just a clear dark sky and a reasonable pair of binoculars. The reason it can be seen that way - (yes! even by YOU, with your own eyes, but it might upset your theory that everything's a conspiracy) is simply because of the contrast between the dark background, and the sunlight reflecting from the asteroid.

Watch it live here: live.slooh.com/
between 9 pm ET and midnight


The issue you have here is that you can't be bothered to assess propositions calmly and rationally, or you have no grasp of basic optics or maths, or probably both.

You need to get a simple understanding of the maximum resolution that any given set of optics can theoretically achieve. No telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo-related. In fact, not even the Hubble Space Telescope (not that you believe in it) can see them. The laws of optics prevent this. Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 metres) at the Moon's distance. In visible light, it's 0.05″, or closer to 300 feet. Given that the largest piece of kit left on the Moon after each mission was the 17.9-foot-high by 14-foot-wide Lunar Module, you can see the problem. Or could, if you were prepared to consider it.

Of course, if those pesky NASA bluffers wanted to, they could easily have produced fake shots of the kit, to "prove" it was there. Oddly, they haven't. Why is that, do you suppose? Or maybe it's a cunning double bluff.

Odd that such a ruthless demander of evidence such as yourself doesn't actually know that the "evidence " you complain is absent, is in fact impossible to get from Earth. Maybe you were just tired, eh?

TRULY pathetic
www.snopes.com/politics/conspira ... lenger.asp
but can you please not stick to your own fscking thread? You have no business hijacking this one

TRULY pathetic
www.snopes.com/politics/conspira ... lenger.asp
but can you please not stick to your own fscking thread? You have no business hijacking this one

Superb radar images of the Halloween asteroid, and detailed explanation of the ingenious way they did it, here:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-341

Superb radar images of the Halloween asteroid, and detailed explanation of the ingenious way they did it, here:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-341

Friday 6 November - LIVE NOW coverage, including live video when available, of a 6+ hour spacewalk on the ISS by astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren. The spacewalk is due to end maybe 6-7pm depending how it goes.

www.space.com/17933-nasa-televis ... ce-tv.html

Friday 6 November - LIVE NOW coverage, including live video when available, of a 6+ hour spacewalk on the ISS by astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren. The spacewalk is due to end maybe 6-7pm depending how it goes.

www.space.com/17933-nasa-televis ... ce-tv.html

Chill. Grab a beer. Click view on full screen. Sit back. And watch this absolutely stunning 30 mins of ultra-HD video of the Sun as you have absolutely never seen it before.
anonhq.com/nasa-captures-suns-da ... -ultra-hd/

Chill. Grab a beer. Click view on full screen. Sit back. And watch this absolutely stunning 30 mins of ultra-HD video of the Sun as you have absolutely never seen it before.
anonhq.com/nasa-captures-suns-da ... -ultra-hd/