I saw this in 2009 fresh, and even had the chance to check the Clementine photos myself over the years. It got passed around so much between friends groups at that time there were a few who even had copies to watch on their PSPs. Like i said in the Title, I don’t agree with the methodology he used in the beginning to judge color, i in fact think it’s kinda dumb, but once the ACTUAL Clementine photography comes into it, then it’s almost like the first part didn’t even matter, and i was WAY more interested in the content as it went on
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I haven’t heard of this one. Will check it out. Thanks
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I have no idea what this video is about and it looks pretty dodgy from the title (“quantum audio sync” what???)
But Clementine was the coolest and weirdest space mission, and a worty addition to anyone’s conspiracy theory, because it was done by the freakin Strategic Defense Initiative! The Star Wars people! And they built a probe that was about mining the moon! Well, scanning the moon, preparatory to mining.
Why were the SDI people interested in mining the moon? My weird guess is that one of their “orbital battle station” concepts (which were already being talked about pre-SDI, in the 1970s) needed armour, and the best source of mass would be the Moon. And suddenly a whole Moon colonisation infrastructure made sense: SDI battle stations (a good investment if they did indeed prevent nuclear war) providing an economic driver for moon mining (maybe just robotic), and a human presence there to service the mining. Most other Moon colony economies didn’t make any sense to me, but “defense funding paying for it all” did – as it had for the rest of space.
All of that cancelled when the Cold War ended.
But if that speculation is true, Clementine is a glimpse into just how big SDI’s ambitions were during the 1980s. One thing we do know is that SDI (part of DARPA) was big enough to make the rest of DARPA – working on a little thing called “the Internet” – really annoyed at how much money and technology SDI got, and how secretive they were with it all. (See Philip Shiman’s “Strategic Computing”).
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I saw this in 2009 fresh, and even had the chance to check the Clementine photos myself over the years. It got passed around so much between friends groups at that time there were a few who even had copies to watch on their PSPs. Like i said in the Title, I don’t agree with the methodology he used in the beginning to judge color, i in fact think it’s kinda dumb, but once the ACTUAL Clementine photography comes into it, then it’s almost like the first part didn’t even matter, and i was WAY more interested in the content as it went on
I haven’t heard of this one. Will check it out. Thanks
I have no idea what this video is about and it looks pretty dodgy from the title (“quantum audio sync” what???)
But Clementine was the coolest and weirdest space mission, and a worty addition to anyone’s conspiracy theory, because it was done by the freakin Strategic Defense Initiative! The Star Wars people! And they built a probe that was about mining the moon! Well, scanning the moon, preparatory to mining.
Why were the SDI people interested in mining the moon? My weird guess is that one of their “orbital battle station” concepts (which were already being talked about pre-SDI, in the 1970s) needed armour, and the best source of mass would be the Moon. And suddenly a whole Moon colonisation infrastructure made sense: SDI battle stations (a good investment if they did indeed prevent nuclear war) providing an economic driver for moon mining (maybe just robotic), and a human presence there to service the mining. Most other Moon colony economies didn’t make any sense to me, but “defense funding paying for it all” did – as it had for the rest of space.
All of that cancelled when the Cold War ended.
But if that speculation is true, Clementine is a glimpse into just how big SDI’s ambitions were during the 1980s. One thing we do know is that SDI (part of DARPA) was big enough to make the rest of DARPA – working on a little thing called “the Internet” – really annoyed at how much money and technology SDI got, and how secretive they were with it all. (See Philip Shiman’s “Strategic Computing”).