There are no paved highways or race tracks on the moon, it is a barren, airless, bright and hot landscape of rough ground, rocks, boulders, craters, and dust.

The battery powered "moon buggies" had a top speed of only 8mph.
However, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan, driving the rover solo, achieved 11mph on a down hill run.

Neither.

I am saying it is absolutely crucial that we strive aggressively to make America great again, to restore our republic to its Constitutional principles and eliminate the threat of authoritarian rule. My "feeling" is based on the FACT that I swore the oath to protect and defend our Constitution and that authoritarian rule is a very real, tangible, experiential, immediate threat to our beloved nation.

Actually, the gravitational force of the moon is 16% (or 1/6th) of that of the earth.

A 180lb astronaut suited up in the 360lb Lunar EVA suit would weigh 540lbs on earth.
On the moon, he would weigh only 89lbs. Without the suit, he would weigh a mere 29lbs.

Here you can calculate How much you would weigh on the Moon

In overreacting to what you assume is an "obscene comment", you are expressing your FEELINGS.
Do you not see the hypocrisy in such foolishness?

The idea of making America great again, to restore our republic to its Constitutional principles and eliminate the threat of authoritarian rule, is in no way, shape, or form simply "sideshow comments".

When you have no honest response, your only defense is to avoid commenting on substance and instead focus on a post scripted remark that offends your tender sensibilities.

This photo of Apollo 16 Cdr. John Young was taken by LEM pilot Charlie Duke at their landing site in the Descartes Highlands. As you can see, Cdr Young saluted the flag after a leap off the surface. Pretty cool, huh?

This photo was taken by a deep space probe on its way to Jupiter and beyond. The terminators are clearly shown, the Sun is 90 degrees right.


This photo of earth and moon was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter. Distance 88 million miles.

Why Jimmy Carter Owes the Iranian People an Apology

by Lisa Daftari
Jul 18, 2023

Much of the Western world has celebrated the post presidency life of Jimmy Carter.

Whether framing homes for Habitat for Humanity, selectively crusading for human rights, or teaching Sunday school in Plains, Ga., Carter has tried for four decades to overcome the bitter setbacks that culminated in the disappointment of his one-term presidency.

Now 98, the former president announced in February that he would enter end-of-life care at home without seeking additional medical intervention. He's reportedly in good spirits, eating ice cream and visiting with friends.

It seems an enviable end to a long life. Still, there's one thing the 39th president needs to do to rectify his legacy from his time in office.

Carter owes the people of Iran an apology.

Carter's critics always point to his handling of the Iran hostage crisis as the most glaring flaw in his time in office. During the course of that 444-day nightmare, a student mob held 52 U.S. diplomats and civilians hostage, and no amount of negotiation—or attempted military action—could get them released. Thankfully, that sad chapter finally ended on Jan. 20, 1980, the day President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol.

But Carter's true transgression—the original sin that has complicated and shaped U.S. policy in the Middle East ever since—preceded that. Carter's gravest mistake was his disastrous undermining and lack of support for the legitimate ruler of Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was waging a valiant battle against leukemia as the revolution unfolded in his country.

To be fair, Carter had plenty of assistance in his geopolitical blunder. His State Department seemed to effectively encourage the growing protests against the shah's reign, which came to a head when Sec. of State Cyrus Vance announced that the shah would leave on "vacation" for an indefinite period. But the final responsibility lies with Carter, who saw fundamentalist sharks circling an ailing shah and helped engineer the rise of his disastrous successor by putting his trust in the exiled, soon-to-be leader of the Islamic Republic, Khomeini, and throwing the shah, a decades-long U.S. ally, under the bus.

When the administration announced Carter would meet with European heads of state in January 1979, the shah rightly understood that his departure from power was main item on the agenda. Eleven days later, out of options, he fled his own country. At that point, the fundamentalist takeover was all but inevitable.

Of course, now we know the rest of the story. In 2016, the BBC obtained documents detailing how the "Carter administration paved the way" for Khomeini's return to Iran from exile. Carter administration officials familiar with the BBC report have not challenged its authenticity. Supporting the toppling of shah was an historic blunder, one with reverberations that are still felt throughout Iran and the rest of the Middle East to this day.

By indulging the impulse to remove the shah and putting his confidence behind an outspoken cleric over a proven friend of the U.S., Carter consigned Iran to a brutal, fundamentalist, oppressive regime that has systematically annihilated the Persian culture, its economy, and the human dignity of its people ever since.

(And today, that brutal fundamentalist has ramped up Iran's goal of exterminating the Jews and wiping Israel off the map.)

For more than four decades, the Iranian people have attempted to tell their story to the world. It is the story of a proud civilization, successor to the great Persian Empire, that fell prey to America's partisan political machine and as a result, has fallen backward in time.

Ironically, Carter blamed the shah of Iran for not meeting the progressive standards of the West. So, instead, he threw the Iranian people into the clutches of those who execute children, rape women, and throw innocent dancers, journalists, and bloggers behind bars merely for self-expression and free speech.

Where my mother received multiple academic scholarships to attend university in the 1970s, women are now considered to have half the value of a man in Iran's Sharia courts.

Flash forward to today, and the shameful harvest of Carter's abject failure to support the shah is more evident than ever before. As has been widely reported, Iran's brutal morality police arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September for the crime of not wearing her hijab in the approved manner. Despite a police coverup that claimed she died of a heart attack, eyewitnesses reported she'd been bludgeoned and battered. Her murder triggered a wave of #WomanLifeFreedom protests that continue to this day, eclipsing the protests of 2009, 2017, and 2019. Human rights groups report at least 522 protesters have been killed, including at least 70 minors. This time around, the Iranian people are united in their endeavor, which is regime change.

Like myself, many of the protesters were born after the Revolution and never lived under the shah's reign. Now, in the colorful and often rhyming political slogans shouted out on the streets, Iranians are fondly remembering the shah and even his father, chanting "Reza Shah, bless your soul." They're also asking the son of the shah, exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, who currently lives outside Washington, D.C., to return to Iran as their potential leader.

More than two-thirds of Iran's 80-plus million people are under the age of 40. For these Iranians, as for myself, there is a second-generation nostalgia for the Iran they have learned about through their parents' stories. They know it wasn't perfect, but compared to life under the current regime, it was utopia.

With no end in sight for the malignant fundamentalist regime in Tehran, it is indeed the case that Iran and the world are owed a profound, heartfelt apology.

It should come from Jimmy Carter.

Lisa Daftari is director and founding editor of TheForeignDesk.com, an online platform offering news and analysis on stories around the globe. Fluent in Persian, Spanish, and English, her parents left Iran to flee fundamentalist persecution.

I was in the navy, ships do actually disappear over the horizon.
If you are on the deck 50 feet above the water, the horizon is 8.65 miles distant.
In the navy, I was an aircrewman, at 30,000 feet above the sea, ships still disappear over the horizon.
At that altitude the horizon is 212 miles distant.

For example, I was a radar operator on a navy patrol plane and, depending on circumstances, we flew our search missions anywhere between 500ft and 30,000ft. Since radar is a line-of-sight transmission, from 30,000 feet a surface target "blip" would disappear from the scope at 212 miles. Pretty simple concept to understand.


Mean sea level (MSL) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datum – a standardised geodetic datum – that is used, for example, as a chart datum in cartography and marine navigation, or, in aviation, as the standard sea level at which atmospheric pressure is measured to calibrate altitude and, consequently, aircraft flight levels. A common and relatively straightforward mean sea-level standard is instead a long-term average of tide gauge readings at a particular reference location.

In a nutshell, when speaking of sea levels, the word "level" does not mean flat.
Sea level, or the level of the sea, depends entirely on the volume of water in the sea,
i.e., the more water, the higher the sea level, and conversely, the less water, the lower the level of the sea.

It's not my "ball spinning earth", but I do live on it.
I would like to know exactly where the bottom of it is.
I am quite familiar with planet earth, its shape, size, mass, and stuff,
but I never knew it had a bottom, no one until you came along ever mentioned earth had a top, left and right side, and a bottom.

If you stand at either the north or south pole and look down, you see ice and snow, and if you look up you see sky;
if you look straight out you see the horizon about 3 miles away.
On the moon, the horizon would be just a mile and a half away. Weird, huh?

Why? What's the point?

BTW, where's the bottom of the earth?

I FEEL it is absolutely crucial that we strive aggressively to make America great again, to restore our republic to its Constitutional principles and eliminate the threat of authoritarian rule. My "feeling" is based on the FACT that I swore the oath to protect and defend our Constitution and that authoritarian rule is a very real, tangible, experiential, immediate threat to our beloved nation.

FJB!

The Hubble telescope was named after the great astronomer Edwin Hubble. The James Webb space telescope was designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments allow it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. Both telescopes have collected extensive imagery of what some refer to as the "Eye of God". Fans of the Lord of the Rings call it the "Eye of Sauron".


The image is a photo of the Helix Nebula (designated NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63).
Located in the constellation Aquarius at 655 light-years from earth, this object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae, and is a favorite among amateur astronomers.

This nebula was formed by an intermediate to low-mass star shedding its outer layers near the end of its evolution, IOW, it is a dying star. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, most likely before 1824. The Helix Nebula is similar in appearance to the Cat's Eye Nebula and the Ring Nebula, whose size, age, and physical characteristics are similar to the Dumbbell Nebula, varying only in its relative proximity and the appearance from the equatorial viewing angle.

There is nothing mysterious or occult about it.

What's Jimmy doing, building a coffin?

This is the freaky shit I'm talking about:

1 hollywood wrote:
The rapture is another lie as most of the entire Bible created for mass mind control by the annunaki whose planet is 12th planet in our solar system our scientists are forced not to reveal to the public. They created us to be their slaves 43,000 years ago. They keep the masses in fear and chaos for control. Yaweh is an imposter. His real name is ANU, THE LEADER of the annunaki. They wrote the for psychological warfare. They wrote all prophecies and tells us what is going to happen even in the last days which is coming soon.they are brilliant in genetic sciences and wars. They are the nephilim and mated with human women to keep their bloodline growing while they revisit their planet and keep control of us their main bloodlines remain in most royal families
The British crown queen Elizabeth was full blooded reptilian humanoid annunaki proven by PRINCESS DIANA SHE SAID THEY ARE NOT HUMAN!!!ELIZABWTH ALWAYS CARRIED HUMAN BLOOD WITH HER WHEN SHE WENT ON TRIPS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DRINK IT TO KEEP THE HUMAN FORM. GEORGE BUAH SR. WAS ALSO REPTILIAN AND SHAPESHIFTED FROM HUMAN TO REPTILIAN IN FRONT OF CATHY OBRIAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE. SHE WAS A MIND CONTROLLED SEX SLAVE USED FOR POLITICAL VENUES AND FOREIGN DIGNITARIES AND USED FOR APPEASING LEADERS OF THE DRUG TRADE WHICH BUSH AND REAGAN WERE DEEPLY INVOLVED. THEY USE ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES ON THE MASSES TO KEEP US DOCILE, STUPID, COMPLACANT, AND EASILY CONTROLLED.WE HAVE ALL BEEN BRAINWASHED AND LIED TO SINCE THE BEGINNING AND THE OUTCOME IS TOTAL GENOCIDE. THEY ONLY WANT 51 MILLION HUMANS LEFT AT THE END TO BECOME ROBOTIC SLAVES TO DO THEIR BIDDING.U WONT BELIEVE A WORD OF THIS CAUSE HOW DO U UNDO YOUR LIFE LONG BELIEFS NOW? YOU HAVE TO STUDY THE TRUTH. GOOGLE ANNUNAKI. HUMANS WORSHIPPED THEM CAUSE OF THEIR WISDOM AND HOW THEY TAUGHT OUR PRIMITIVE ANCESTORS ABOUT AGRICULTURE, MEDICINES, WRITING, MONEY,AND ALSO THEIR SPACEAHIPS,THE BIBLE CALLED FIERY CHARIOTS ON AND ON. PLEASE DONT BE DECIEVED FROM THIS REPLY ONWARDS, ITS YOUR ONLY HOPE TO FREEDOM. LOVE AND CHANGING ATRITUDES FEOM HATE, RAGE, UN FORGIVENESS (WHICH IS VERY HARD TO LOVE WILL SAVE US) THIS IS NOT A JOKE. STUDY STUDY STUDY!! YOUR FRIEND...

Am I intimidated by this mythological bullshit? Not in the least.
Am I frightened by your extraordinarily twisted belief that queen Elizabeth was a "full blooded reptilian humanoid annunaki"? No, not in the least. However, I am astonished at how far into the Twilight Zone some people will go.

The Anunaki were the gods and goddesses of the ancient Mesopotamian and Sumerian pagans.
The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia — present-day Iraq and Iran — between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.

For centuries the Mesopotamian tablets were studied and researched - at the focus is the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest written stories in human history.

Much of what we know about the Sumerian civilization comes from clues that they left behind in thousands of clay tablets. To this day, these tablets are still being researched.

The incredible theory that the Anunaki were "ancient aliens" was introduced in 1976 by a "scholar" named Zecharia Sitchin who wrote a book titled The 12th Planet, claiming the Sumerians believed that the Anunaki came from a far-off planet called Nibiru.

The solar system has eight planets. Moving outward from the Sun, the planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system. In order of distance from the Sun they are: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.
By this reckoning, the dwarf Makemake would be the 12th planet.

There is no planet Niburu, there are no aliens, nor have there ever been aliens living on any planet in our solar system, especially on a dwarf that could not retain an atmosphere and therefore could not support life.

The notion that GHW Bush WAS ALSO REPTILIAN AND SHAPESHIFTED FROM HUMAN TO REPTILIAN IN FRONT OF CATHY OBRIAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE is the most outrageous fantasy I've ever heard, and right behind it is the idea that Reagan and Bush used "electromagnet frequencies" to control the masses.

No worries there Hollyweird 1, you are certainly free to believe whatever rings your bells.
You and Ri-tard just stay in your bubble and celebrate your wonderful life under the rule of the Anunaki.