Talk:Moon/Archive 2

message: There is a large group who do not believe man landed on the moon.  They have several anecdotes and some facts.  How should this be included in the article.  At least a blurb needs to be added.  What do you all think?
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24.225.54.44 05:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is linked to under "See also," which looks good enough to me. Awolf002 14:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conspiracy Theories 

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24.225.54.44 05:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is linked to under "See also," which looks good enough to me. Awolf002 14:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Links: 

message: There are several good arguments in favor of considering the Earth-Moon system to be a double planet, even if this is not the majority opinion currently, so I put in a paragraph that points to the Double planet article so that people interested in the alternative views can look them up.
Agateller 04:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double-planet hypotheses 

message: I've been bought a plot of land on the moon as a birthday present. A certain Mr Dennis M Hope claims to own the moon, and his pal Francis P Williams (Lunar Ambassador to the united Kingdom)from MoonEstates.com claim to be the only authorised reseller of lunar land. They also claim they own the other planets too. Is this worth the paper its written on? Can someone really own an astronomical object just because the law on earth about ownership pretty much allows anything? Has my friend been conned?Soloist 14:07, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See Outer Space Treaty. — Monedula 14:20, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Hopefully not terribly much so.  These guys end up on the news every now and again for the laugh effect.  For now, the moon and other celestial bodies remain under the common property of all mankind, like the oceans.  In historical practice land ownership has come from incumbency of some kind on the land in question.  If you're ready to stake your claim and put up a homestead on the moon, then by all means, go for it.  Otherwise, enjoy the worthless piece of paper.  --Alexwcovington (talk) 17:16, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  buying land on the moon? 

message: Are there any other online moon map and photo resources that support direct links with URLs indicating latitude and longitude? If there is, then I thought it would be cool to extend the concept of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates to also including the moon, and perhaps also planets and starmaps. For your enjoyment,  I have made some experiments on Amundsen (crater) and Aristoteles (crater) sattelite craters. The map sources currently know about the Clementine images, the LPI moon atlas plus NASA World Wind with the moon add-on.
-- Egil 10:42, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The reaction was one of skepticism. Ive been told there is little value in the online images, and that the perspective one might reach by navigation of this kind on the moon is probably without value (I personally found travelling, starting from one of the craters, exploring the neighborhood using NASA World Wind moon overlay quite fascinating. But then I am only a total novice on this subject.) I have thus reverted the changes to navigatable coordinates, and left them as pure unstructured text. If someone wants to pursue at a later date, that is of course possible. Just use the ideas from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates, adding the attribute globe:Moon. -- Egil 08:02, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, my reaction at least was that it was a very interesting idea that worked very poorly in practice, because of the marginal quality of the available online image sources.  As I mentioned on your talk page, lookup by latitude/longitude (as opposed to lookup by feature name) works very poorly with the Orbiter images website (a limitation or bug of that site's lookup feature), and the online Clementine images website also leave a lot to be desired (mediocre resolution and detail, no labels, not really useful except for the largest craters).  As for World Wind, I haven't tried it but it requires installing special software on each user's PC, requires a high-speed Internet connection, really needs a 3D accelerator graphics card (ie, user's PC must be less than two years old), so it won't be available to most users. If someone ever implements an online map of the Moon that works something like Mapquest.com, this idea could definitely be revived. -- Curps 13:28, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The moon images of World Wind are in fact part of the installation, so an Internet connection is not required for the Moon layer. Except for initial downloading of the layer, of course (the hi-res is 40 megabytes of compressed data, the low-res 3-something). That said, I've been told an Internet connection is required to enjoy Wikipedia properly, also. -- Egil 15:53, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Online moon maps and photo resources