Ha, I knew it! Not only did NASA fake the moon landing in 1969, but they are now making preparations for a fake Mars landing. This time the footage will be completely computer generated, meaning no pesky actors with secrets to spill.
Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that NASA has chosen SGI® Altix® as the foundation of Project Columbia, an extensive collaboration with SGI and Intel Corporation that is expected to fuel scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, global warming research, and aerospace engineering. With Project Columbia, NASA plans to integrate a total of twenty 512-processor SGI® Altix® systems with a 500-terabyte SGI® InfiniteStorage solution to create the Space Exploration Simulator, which will be among the world’s largest Linux® OS-based supercomputers. Powered by a total of 10,240 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, the Space Exploration Simulator will equip NASA scientists with one of the most sophisticated and capable supercomputers in history.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:20
God sees all!!!
January 24th, 2008 at 23:19
Yes, because making CG movies of a mars landing is the ONLY use for a super computer with no high end graphics rendering capability at all. It’s not like they could use these computers for modeling various aspects of the universe. Definitely not.
They probably are going this route because the lease ran out on that studio they used in the sixties and seventies.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:33
Oh wow! Dude! you are totally on to something here! I mean, to think that a cosmic version of google earth could be confused for a conspiracy to fake the mars landing? Seriously now, time to move out of your parents’ basement.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:47
You are mistaken Z. Google Earth was made by satellites taking photos of earth. Why would NASA not just take those same satellites and point them out? The answer to that is obvious! They cannot let people zoom in on Mars and see that there is no rover there, so they have to employ this graphics company to paint the universe instead.
Stop being such sheep people. The truth is here, uncovered on a blog on the internet. This has opened my eyes!
Also Z, why are you posting a day ahead of when it actually is? Is it because you are NASA and have hacked the internet to disguise your plot?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:49
Okay. So apparently Google Earth is a huge conspiracy. Nevermind that Area 51 is replaced by a ball of blinding light or that the tops of most of the government agencies were blacked out for a long while for a time. No, let’s talk about frickin’ MARS. Let’s let the conspiracy theories worthy of some drunkard ranting on a street corner be thrust into the very, very dim light emanating from your brain (or lack thereof.) There is nothing to fear from Mars. Google cannot simply “point” its giant camera satellites at Mars to get a full picture of it. Not even close, Jimmy. You would get the vast expanses of space and a tiny red dot. That’s it. These things aren’t the freakin’ Hubble Telescope or anything. By the way, that press release was about a simulated space walk or something.
By the way, about the supposedly “faked” moon landing in 1969, pretty much any bit of lunatic conspiracy “information” you could scrounge up can be completely disproved.
Here’s a page full of proof.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html
Say what you will about it, but it’s the truth.
Teach yourself about reality sometime.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:55
Oh, and about the whole “day ahead” conspiracy theory posed by the “Truther” (I picture you flying around in a little cape laughing at people who believe in the moon landing), it’s because the website’s on a different time zone.
Godspeed, Truther. May you ramble on forever.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:16
Well, it might surprise you to learn that nearly all the top CGI programmers from the late 70s and early 80s did a 10 year stint at JPL. Their job might you ask? Faking terrain in 3D renderings. This went on for years, and is still going. I’ve met many of them, and they aren’t aware of how aware we are. JPL is locked down like a prison. Guess they can’t afford to have folks walking around the campus like any other major corporation. Secret rocket info! More like secret planet simulations. Sorry guys, I’ve talked to 15 year vets of NASA’s Mars program who’ve told me flat out, we’ve never been to the Moon, and we can’t even get into high orbit without killing the passengers.
June 9th, 2008 at 13:37
Man never walked on the moon, and he never will. As OJ, he was in the movie “Capricorn One.”
The Mars landing craft makes me laugh. U.S. Marine pilots fear flying the Harrier on earth.
To land a craft bottoms up with retro-rockets is good fiction.
Radiation between earth and moon is too dense for any living earthling to survive a moon trip.
Ask: Why has no other earthling state put men on the moon?
NASA is a cash cow for Black-Ops/Gov. Money Laundering.
That’s the way it is.