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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by zelphirkalt »

consumer451 wrote: post #9
tombert wrote: post #8

Hell yeah! It would be very cool if we are able to properly colonize the moon in my lifetime. Even if we don't have humans living there like in Futurama (as cool as that would be), it would be unbelievably cool if we have constant back-and-forth trips to the moon. Or we could just blow it up, which might be fun in its own right: https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA

As far as flights of fancy regarding the moon, I enjoyed Randall Munroe's "What if we put a pool on the moon" thought experiment. I would enjoy the experience of propelling myself out of the water like a dolphin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIBBj6KR-Y

Wouldn't you be cooked immediately?

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by TeMPOraL »

RangerScience wrote: post #39

Horray! Also: - Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see - ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing

> ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing

Yes. That flyby video looks almost like taken straight from KSP - the only thing that made my mind stop feeling like I'm watching a Mun landing, was the light reflecting off the metallic surfaces of the actual lander - it looked too computationally expensive for a videogame.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by ddejohn »

alfanick wrote: post #106
sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

These pictures are great - maybe it's time for me to get a new desktop background. Kinda related: some years ago NASA published all the Apollo missions pictures. I downloaded all of them (hundreds, maybe bit more), acting as a photo editor then I selected "good ones", cropped them to 16:10 format and made a background picture pack - I'm using it on all my devices since then. If someone is interested, they're publishe…

I did something similar with their lunar libration videos captures by the LRO [1], using the frames from the video with the Windows desktop background 'slideshow' functionality (desktop background changes once a minute).

[1]: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5415

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by FredPret »

porphyra wrote: post #196
FredPret wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a medium format camera; it's going to be good camera at any point. I think it had a 7x7cm film - that's a humongous, 49cm^2 sensor compared to a regular full-frame camera, which clocks in at 8.64cm^2. As far as I can tell, the iPhone's is a tiny 0.25cm^2. Combine with no-holds-barred lenses and you're bound to get fantastic pictures even six decades ago. https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/500-series/ htt…

To be fair, the optical light gathering ability of a full frame f/1.4 lens is slightly better than that of the Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8, and modern digital sensors have eclipsed 6x6 film in every respect, such as resolution, sensitivity, and indeed even dynamic range. Photo technology has in fact progressed a fair bit in the last half a century. Of course, nothing can touch the light gathering ability of that Zeiss 50mm…

I'd love to see a Phase One take some pics on the moon.

- 5cm x 4cm sensor

- 150 MP

- $60k

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by tiahura »

lstodd wrote: post #173
tiahura wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are the interiors of the craters uniformly deep?

because rock behaves like liquid at the time of impact.

it seems like craters of different side are roughly the same depth.

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Post by mlindner »

kragen wrote: post #151
BurningFrog wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's now within reach for a medium sized corporation, largely ignored by humankind. That's huge progress!

With US$100 million in taxpayer funding.

Yeah but that didn't pay for the vehicle development.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by mlindner »

pell wrote: post #143
Mountain_Skies wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rogan hasn't believed that for nearly a decade because he learned more about the physics of the Moon and the engineering of the time. Since you have an interest in truth and honesty, I'm sure now that you've been informed you won't spread this misinformation anymore and will do some reflection on how you ended up holding this view for so long past when it no longer was true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmlmxamw_…

Rogan has questioned the moon landing again just five months ago. Here is him having a conversation with Matt Walsh about it from episode 2204 of his podcast: https://youtu.be/xGoQcOIONVs?feature=shared

His wording is specifically "I think there is a less than zero chance that we did not go to the moon", i.e. he's not 100% sure but pretty sure we landed on the moon.

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Post by stubish »

LastTrain wrote: post #193
duxup wrote: post #44

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The videos are amazing https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54353240540/in/al...

There are already commenters claiming it is fake SMH

It looks fake. Turns out what looks real is shaped by experience in Earth atmosphere at Earth scale with Earth gravity. Those 70s and 80s sci-fi movies with close ups of plaster models turn out to have gotten it right. Even things like the earth panning behind the completely motionless ship looks like a bad composite job, because nothing is ever that motionless except a static image.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by anaptdemise »

Everything is politics. Remember when the US forced the Ukrainian investor of Firefly to sell?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/feds-who-forced-ukrain...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/max-polyakov-and-no...

https://noosphereventures.com/eos-to-create-its-own-radar-mi...

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by pell »

mlindner wrote: post #207
pell wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rogan has questioned the moon landing again just five months ago. Here is him having a conversation with Matt Walsh about it from episode 2204 of his podcast: https://youtu.be/xGoQcOIONVs?feature=shared

His wording is specifically "I think there is a less than zero chance that we did not go to the moon", i.e. he's not 100% sure but pretty sure we landed on the moon.

I think you are being quite generous to him here. He is not saying there is a non zero chance that it didn't happen similar to how there is a non zero chance your entire existence is the dream of a child who is about to wake up. He spends the next fourteen minutes weighing the supposed reasons for why it might have happened and why it might have not happened. Seven years ago he clearly stated that he believed in the moon landing. Here he is actually sowing doubts about the event.

Take it as you will. OP responded to another user saying maybe if there was fly-over video evidence it might convince someone like Rogan as clearly he is not entirely convinced yet. I think that's a fair assessment.

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