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९४ टिप्पण्या:
Just back from a trip to NYC and a two week cruise to the Western Caribbean. It was fun but I came back with a significant case of pneumonia. Something always happens to me on a cruise, but maybe it was NYC.
Can you tell the difference
‘Actual Democrat Political Operation’: Ex-CBS Reporter Scott MacFarlane Joins MeidasTouch https://share.google/MCcgwjlVAqBMXAfRS
https://x.com/tabletmag/status/2035870745776078943
The garbage that is wikipedia
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1V37osfx4Q/
A corrective
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X: "The Globe and Mail discovers the NORAD treaty. That was signed in 1957." / X https://share.google/3AlHyOrnT8nFMk5dp
Local crime story they said
Kermit Gosnell, convicted in Philadelphia abortion and pill mill cases, dies | FOX 29 Philadelphia https://share.google/k9I8iE5mTEqzrkHU2
They will cancel stark trek academys next season
Use the kirsten wig gif
On the other hand the count of montecristo revamp looks projising
It had more than just a revenge theme
Another golf story…
A lifelong friend of mine (RIP) was an outstanding amateur golfer and won our state amateur championship, beating future (British) Open Champion Stewart Cink in that tournament. He never turned pro, but he kept his game at a very high level.
He would qualify for two US Opens in his career, the first being at the Olympic Club in San Francisco in ‘98. He was seriously excited, but also nervous as crap about the competition, a course he had never played, and the prospect of being on television.
So a little inside golf info to set up the story: when you hit an iron - especially a forged iron - in the dead center of the club face the resonance is almost a ‘click’. Good golfers may get one in five ‘clicks’; pros most of the time, but not close to always.
Before the first practice round he sets up at the range - which is packed - and starts hitting balls. After a few minutes the guy behind him leaves and a new guy starts practicing. Pretty soon all my buddy can hear is click, click, click - every single time. Unpossible. And now it’s distracting him, which is the last thing he needs.
Finally he can’t stand it anymore and steps back to see who in the heck could be that precise every single time. The awesome thing is I don’t even have to tell you who it was, because it was him. My buddy never regained his composure that year and, obviously, missed the cut.
The greatest game ever. And Tiger ruined it for him…. ;)
Sorry to hear that, Maynard. Cruise ships are floating cess pools breeding norovirus which can cause pneumonia. Alcohol and shitty high carb restaurant food kills your immunity. If you got TB, then maybe blame NYC.
I got to see Tiger, peak John Daly and the greatest golfers in the world at the AmEx WGC, Harding Park in San Francisco back in '05. One of the all-time greatest tournaments.
That was the tournament that tiger commented that if he had as much talent as John Daly, he wouldn't have to practice so hard.
In an effort to reach across the aisle *cough*, President Trump had a statue of Christopher Columbus erected on the White House grounds.
From Power Line: “The 13-foot, one-ton replica of a Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore in 2020 – then dumped into the city’s inner harbor – was commissioned by the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations and is part of the White House’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
Artists retrieved shards of marble belonging to the wrecked statue from the harbor that were used in the recreation – and reached out to the White House after officials in Baltimore refused to put the new monument up, according to the organization.”
Made my day. Notice that lefties never build anything, they destroy.
YouTube: "It is difficult to point out what I is"
All this sounds true. But I have no idea why.
@Sillyclippy69 said...
"I just learned that in order to spiritually connect with the source. I have to not be seeking it. It will just appear in ways I cannot explain or conceive. But I can sense it."
I worked the Farmers open in San Diego and Genesis open in LA for about 5 years. Which means I got to sit on the 9th hole in the Genesis booth and watch all the pros, which was fun. Plus I got out of Detroit and into California and warm weather for January and February. I walked into work at 6:00 a.m. one morning and Tiger was practic putting. Pretty cool. But the biggest draw was Phil Mickelson. That dude had a big crowd of people following him like a rockstar.
Good Times! Got to see Tiger a couple times at the old Crosby Clam Bake at Pebble Beach. On one round he was playing with Tony Romo and all they were talking about were the video games they were playing. Followed Bill Murray for a couple holes. That guy is a real card and not a bad golfer.
Fits the mold of this administration,perfect
Christopher Columbus is widely regarded today not as a good person, but as a controversial historical figure whose actions caused immense suffering, despite his reputation as an explorer. While historically celebrated for connecting the Old and New Worlds, he is now recognized for enslaving Indigenous people, practicing extreme brutality, and initiating a period of, in some views, unintentional genocide through disease and forced labor. Father of immigration and ICE candidates :)
I got norovirus on a cruise out of LA, Howard. The first day and a half is rough, but it’s over quickly. Pneumonia is wearing me out because I left it untreated for over a week. Luckily, I had the pneumonia vaccine shot a few years ago or I would be hospitalized right now.
Quadruple amputee shoots and kills a man. Video of his shooting expertise further down in the link:
https://thebaynet.com/la-plata-man-found-in-virginia-faces-murder-charges-after-passenger-shot-dumped/
Reminds me of this Callahan cartoon (scroll down to see it:
https://newmobility.com/dont-worry-he-wont-get-far-on-foot-film/
Not only that, the quad amp is a professional corn-hole competitor, yes, you read that right.
I wonder what they did with the handcuffs when they took him into custody. Duct tape?
I don't believe that any human has ever walked on the Moon. One of the main reasons I don't believe that, is that I believe that passing through the Van Allen Belts would subject a human to devastating levels of radiation. I am not the only person who believes that.
NASA is now saying that they are going to "return" to the Moon. Apparently, that is a much more complicated operation than it was in 1969, for reasons that are not clear, but give them another basket of billions and they are good to go for it. Except. They keep postponing. Like, "Yeah, of course, we're going back. With bells on! Only, we need to .... check some shit. Don't hassle me, Man!"
So. I believe that there are people in charge, at NASA, who realize, that sending the current batch of "astronauts" through the Van Allen Belts will kill them or hideously cripple them. But not sending them will kill or hideously cripple NASA. What to do?
Stall! Stall! Stall!
Of course, technology has advanced considerably since 1969. The methods for faking images have greatly improved. But so have the methods for discovering what is actually going on. What to do?
Stall! Stall! Stall!
Dinky dau— “ Christopher Columbus is widely regarded today not as a good person,” — so because the hive mind has declared him anaethema, it must be so. What intellectually lazy claptrap. Do a little deep dive into history, and you may find the truth is a lot more complicated than that. Christopher Columbus was none of the vile things you allege.
BTW, Kubrick was up to his hips in this hoax. You could look it up.
"The garbage that is wikipedia"
They're very good on math and physics. And things like the population of Dayton, OH, over the last 120 years. Where the Tennessee River is. I trust them, as long as I can see their hands.
Kubrick was, in very concrete terms, a Deep State Tool. But that does not mean -- that is very far from meaning -- that he was merely a Deep State Tool. A man's got to be funded ....
Re: Fake moon landing:
Mike Dinn, of Canberra, Australia, wrote in to say:
Yours is the first I've seen which mentions that telemetry would have to have been faked in some complicated way, or alternatively radio telescopes would have picked up no signal, or one coming from earth orbit (somehow).
But there is an even stronger and more pertinent argument involving "telemetry". There was a world-wide tracking network providing communications to and from the various Apollo mission elements and although the people involved in doing this were indirectly paid by the project, they were not all US government employees or even citizens. So they would have had to have been part of the conspiracy or taken in by it.
And as I was the Australian citizen employed by the Australian government responsible for running the operations at the prime Australian tracking site here near Canberra I can vouch for the scientific/engineering fact that we pointed our antenna at the trajectory to, at and from the moon and transmitted and received radio signals containing commands, telemetry, television together with navigation info from antenna angles, Doppler frequencies and two way range delays. Impossible to fake. (quoted with permission)
https://stevedutch.net/pseudosc/conspiracytheorydidwegotothemoon.htm
I don't believe that any human has ever walked on the Moon.
Buzz Aldrin's fist has entered the chat ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gewWwwFSbRE
Las Tres Carabelas
Columbus was the leading edge of the "European Explosion", that has been the main driver of world history since, well, 1492. Some people have been whining about it since, well, 1492. But this made all of all our worlds, wherever we are. The whining is and was always useless. We are all the children of Columbus. If you dont like it you can I suppose do away with yourself.
My first US career was as a consultant in the aerospace industry - up to the "peace dividend". I met many people who had been involved in various aspects of Apollo, from the Saturn 5 engines to the LEM and the Moon buggy. There were 100,000's of thousands who worked on all this.
Many are still alive. Certain persons well known to me have recently worked with some of these in re aspects of Artemis and related projects.
The idea that the landings were faked is ridiculous.
Jupiter said..."I don't believe that any human has ever walked on the Moon."
Incredible. I'd keep that to myself, if I were you.
"One of the main reasons I don't believe that, is that I believe that passing through the Van Allen Belts would subject a human to devastating levels of radiation."
So, you can tell us what dose the Apollo astronauts would have received if they had traveled to the moon?
"So, you can tell us what dose the Apollo astronauts would have received if they had traveled to the moon?"
From my above link:
Assuming, then, that we shoot the Apollo capsule straight through the belts at escape velocity (40,000 km/hour), we're talking 0.05 hours in the inner belt,0.225 hours in the gap and 0.175 hours in the outer belt. That means a total dose of (20 x 0.05) + (.225 x 1) + (20 x 0.175) = 4.7 roentgens, or about 1% of the fatal radiation dose. Double this figure for the round trip. Once beyond the belts the radiation hazard becomes small.
Although ten roentgens is far below the lethal dose, it poses significant long-term health hazards and nowadays is considered a wholly unacceptable dosage. There are two ways to reduce the risk. First, since the inner belt is largely confined to within 30 degrees of the equator, launch into an orbit inclined at least 30 degrees to the equator and then launch into a lunar trajectory above or below the inner belt.
Second, the energy distribution of the particles in the inner and outer belt is quite different. Changing our 4 mm of aluminum to lead would have only marginal effects in reducing dosage in the inner belt, but it cuts the dosage in the outer belt by a factor of 500. Also, the outer belt is still most intense at low latitudes and the spacecraft trajectory can be aimed to minimize radiation exposure in the outer belt.
According to NASA, none of the Apollo missions exceeded one roentgen of total dosage.
"The crew for the Apollo moon landing's radiation dosimeters measured "their total dosage for the entire trip to the moon and return was not more than 2 Rads over 6 days."
For you to be right, Jupiter, NASA would have to be lying through their teeth, because 2 rads whole body isn't going to kill anybody (professional medical physicist, here).
BTW, Kubrick was up to his hips in this hoax. You could look it up.
Yes, and since he's also very exacting, he insisted on shooting it on location.
Dinky? Spend less time on hate and devote more time to your other hobby:
Masturbation.
Kubrick was up to his hips in this hoax. You could look it up.
What the hell happened to Kubrick? His cinematography is awful, his focus is shit, and he can't hold his camera still.
Shoot it again! Get it right!
Progressives are in mourning....
Soquel by the Creek
@SoquelCreek
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Jun 15, 2022
Of course, Philadelphia abortion activists do like their babies dead. After all, the notorious Kermit Gosnell, convicted of murdering three infants who were born alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell
Of course, Philadelphia officials looked the other way while this went on.
https://x.com/SoquelCreek/status/1537243478677020672?s=20
"There is a cognitive bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect, which -- in my opinion -- would be better called the Obama-Mamdani effect today. Dunning-Kruger describes a delusional mindset where “People with low knowledge or skill in an area tend to overestimate how competent they are.” "
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/the_dunning_kruger_problem_in_modern_governance.html
"Just today, we killed two more Iranian nuclear. scientists." - Netanyahu
"These evil Iranians are killing civilians!" - Netanyahu while touring a fortified compound where nuclear scientists lived, of course after we hit Iran's nuclear reactor site first.
"Iran has been a threat for 2,000 years!" - Lindsay Graham
Which side is the theocracy, again? That goes way before the 7th Century.
Aggie: "the quad amp is a professional corn-hole competitor"
Is that like the old joke about the neighborhood kids wanting poor little Billy for second base? CC, JSM
The reason for Artemis delay is quite plain and ordinary. NASA has a supply chain that touches nearly every state and as many congressional districts as possible. Maintenance of that supply chain is its number 1 mission. Everybody at NASA gets paid the exact same whether Artemis flies or not, but if they lose a supplier, others will lose their job.
Its a curious fact of history that, up to the beginning of the 7th century, Persia, in the form of the Sassanian Empire,
was the single greatest antagonist of the ultimate predecessor polity of all of our modern Euro states, the Roman empire. Yes, we all, including Euro colonial successors like the US, are a politico/social/cultural continuity from Rome.
The last war against Persia, the Byzantine-Sassanian war of 602-628, was extremely destructive to both polities, leaving both sides fatally damaged and vulnerable to the Muslim conquests. The Muslims of course became the new principal antagonists of European Christendom, from which all of us also derive.
These are ancient empires, ancient wars and ancient enemies, and it will stay this way because people never change.
The Persians/Sassanians were a civilized, honorable and tolerant bunch, however hard they fought. Certainly they were miles better than the muslims.
Jupiter Johnson is right! Here is a clip from the documentary exposing the faked landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OezKgnDmrUU
You can’t change my hypothetical
And fire can't melt steel. C'mon, Jupiter. You're smarter than that.
So the five day pause was a lie too.
Just finished reading "Wuthering" Heights by Emily Bronte, another literary classic I somehow missed in all of my higher education. Highly recommended. As one reviewer wrote: "Brilliant and brutal, a dark and vivid dream, Wuthering Heights presents us with nothing less than a map of the soul." Hard to believe that Bronte was only 29 when the book was published. She died the following year from tuberculosis.
Wikipedia is terrible...except when compared to what came before. We used to have speciality magazines and niche "experts" or gurus on random topics. This material was incomplete and strewn across a bunch of dated books. As with old school maps that used fake streets and places to catch thieves, the authors routinely plagiarized mistakes from one another.
Wikipedia similarly copies weak sources, but it rolls up a bunch of random pop culture and boilerplate facts in one place for the first time ever.
Wikipedia is often wrong and political or corrupted, but its "truthy" distortions are much like AI. The main difference is that AI puts Wikipedia into an interactive interface -- and adds overconfident proclamations and hallucinations. Both sources are far, far, far more reliable than human water cooler, cracker barrel, or bar talk about random "facts."
By design, we never truly know what the hell is going on in a war. We never truly know after it ends, either. Best not to judge the details til a little more sunlight shows up in spots. By not judge, I mean not twist our britches.
I believe the moon conspiracy!
Here’s what’s hard to explain:
1. The Apollo crews placed laser retroreflectors on the Moon. Scientists (including non-U.S. teams) still use them.
2. Besides NASA, Japan, China, and South Korea have photographed the landing sites and confirmed the hardware is exactly where Apollo left it.
3. The Russkies tracked the missions in real time. Never called them fake.
Every time I read that Christopher Columbus was an evil European, I think of my visit to Mayan ruins in Belize where child sacrifices were performed.
Speaking of child sacrifices, we’ve apparently come full circle (re: Kermit Gosnell).
Trump uses ICE to reduce lines at airports, Dems lose it. It’s a sight to behold. Roadrunner vs. the coyote.
Barack Obama
@BarackObama
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
2:16 PM · Mar 23, 2026
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
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Barack Hussein Obama is now openly admitting the unAffordable Care Act was a “first step” towards socialized medici e.
Cloward Piven strategy.
It was designed to fail.
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2036174188424081543?s=20
Part of the black legend
There were many unscrupulous persons thar came after him
See conrad stark for the kind of problem we faced with the reuch
Im shocked what some people people
Believe
Fascinating buwaya
Although conrad starks influence (read in search of kiingsor)
I find it most difficult to accept that the Soviet Union after enormous expense and loss of life in the effort would allow us to fake one of their greatest embarrassments - losing the race to the moon. And I guess Putin continues to lie for us to this day.
Lileks:
The shutdown of CBS news radio is one of those Oh No / Anyway moments, even for us late Boomers. A tinge of sadness over another old thing going away, but we’re used to that. Minimal impact. A six on the Nostalgia Scale. It is difficult to tell the Young People of Today what it was like when access to the news was spaced out, timed, arranged.
So, they were like trying to keep the truth from you?
No, they just didn’t point a firehouse of flaming napalm at our heads 24/7, like you have today. It was generally agreed upon that people should check in with the news at regular intervals, if so inclined, then go about their life.
I thought we were in an affordability crisis. Who are all these people lined up in the airports? CC, JSM
Okay, so now I get it. Kubrick was a Deep State tool whom exposed the Deep State nuclear incompetence in Strangelove, faked the moon landings, then was murdered by the Deep State for exposing the Deep State sponsorship of Jeffrey Epstein in his last film Eyes Wide Shut.
“I find it most difficult to accept that the Soviet Union after enormous expense and loss of life in the effort would allow us to fake one of their greatest embarrassments - losing the race to the moon.”
It’s not difficult to believe. It’s impossible to believe that.
I still say we should start referring to Columbus as Cristobal Colon and push his holiday as an Hispanic celebration, with some preventive healthcare thrown in. Proctologists nationwide will have special Dia de Colon specials! CC, JSM
…my friends I’ve never felt more distance between us…
After korolev unlike with von braun, the soviet bench was weak
I feel the need to say this, even though it will probably not be read this late in the open thread. I do not believe the news about long TSA lines. I flew out of Cleveland last Friday, and for the first time ever, there was no TSA line. My daughter flew out of New Orleans on the same day, also had no line. My son's girlfriend flew out of JFK the same day. She expected an impossibly long line, but had a line shorter than usual. Has anyone actually experienced an unusually long security line wait like the news is reporting?
The blow up on the energia booster in 1967 stopped their program
"But the biggest draw was Phil Mickelson. That dude had a big crowd of people following him like a rockstar."
Those were his bookies.
I’ve been assuming the airport slowdown was the left’s mid cycle election stunt this go around. The misery was only in the early stages with expectation of thousands/millions of headlines explaining how awful it was Trump is shutting down travel. SNL UK was planning skits about it…
…those effing wankers won’t leave my YT feed despite my efforts with the ‘not interested’ toggle…
I flew out of Orlando a week ago tomorrow. No problem whatsoever. At the time, the only places I heard news about with definite problems were Houston and New Orleans.
"Sydney said...
She expected an impossibly long line, but had a line shorter than usual. Has anyone actually experienced an unusually long security line wait like the news is reporting?"
My son flew from Milwaukee to Denver and back over the weekend. 3 minutes in Milwaukee, 5-10 in Denver.
OK, that does it. I used to be skeptical of the news, but now I have absolutely no confidence. If they can't verify something as basic and easily verifiable as airport security lines before reporting it, then they can't be trusted with anything.
More suspected pipe bombs found in Fort Washington Park, park remains closed (Prince George's County, Maryland)
"More explosive devices were found at a Prince George's County, Maryland, park roughly a day after crews found five other similar devices.
Prince George's County Fire and EMS Department crews returned to Fort Washington Park after finding several more suspected pipe bombs in a remote section of the park. Officials did not provide an exact number.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) said the devices will be taken to its laboratory in the Beltsville, Md., area.
On Sunday, US Park Police officers found five suspected pipe bomb devices, which were all "rendered safe."
I saw photos of the devices on the Prince George's County FB page and they looked like they'd been there for a long time. They were equipped with green fuses and looked homemade. False flag? Or amateur crazy person? I'm not holding my breath for any followup from the local news.
Enigma--as we used to say at work, "Five or six hours on the Internet can save you five or six minutes with a reference librarian."
Seems like Kubrick was one of the key figures in 20th C American history. I just thought he was a great director.
I think Jupiter the Credulous is still smarting from when Kubrick ruined his sex life with Clockwork Orange. (That was a classic post.)
Yeah that was a creepy film (i dont think burgess intended it to be gratuitous
Which liar is winning the "liar of the week award"
Missile attacks, Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel, hitting Tel Aviv and other areas, while Israel retaliated with airstrikes on Tehran targeting IRGC facilities and missile sites.
Despite Trump's claims of "productive talks," Iran denies negotiations, with intermediaries in Pakistan, Egypt, and Gulf states relaying messages.
The conflict disrupted energy markets, pushing Brent crude above $100/barrel, and heightened fears of further escalation in the Gulf and Lebanon, including potential occupation of southern Lebanon by Israel.When Iran is serious, they signal it , even subtly , through state media or the Foreign Ministry.
Iran is loudly denying any negotiations, even while the U.S. claims progress.
That contradiction is classic “we’re not ready yet” behavior. Which liar is winning the day? Hey got a 1 day stop to the bleeding but the wound is still wide open. Whose got the cards? 92,000,000 people in Iran that have been involved in fights since the 7th Century. And who is the only one WHO EVER dropped a NUKE? Lord your up,YOUR will be done.
Our ancestors (yours too, you pseudo Romanized Anglo-Saxons) fought the Persians for 681 years, since Crassus tried to invade Parthia. Thats the longest continuous Euro-rivals confrontation other than the Muslim wars (629-today, 1397 years), or the wars of the German marches, 57 or 55 BC, depending on whether the Belgae are considered Germanic, certainly when Caesar crushed the Tencteri, to the collapse of the frontiers in the 5th century (@500 years)
Herodotus would like a word,
Colonel morans father was minister to persia (,a doyle note)
The problem with faking a crisis is that it's really easy to fix if you want it fixed.
Few today appreciate how influential and pervasive pre-Islam Persian culture was in that area. Even after Islam's triumph Persian (or forms thereof) continued to be used in high culture and government in Persia and Persian dependencies. IIRC even the (Seljuk and/or Ottoman) Turks took it on. A parallel in part to Rome and Latin.
The Arabs of course had no culture or history worth bragging about at the time.
The first of Tom Holland's books I read was "Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West."
Highly recommended. Probably available at a portal in your neighborhood.
Humperdink said...
Every time I read that Christopher Columbus was an evil European, I think of my visit to Mayan ruins in Belize where child sacrifices were performed.
Speaking of child sacrifices, we’ve apparently come full circle (re: Kermit Gosnell).
And then they would roast and eat the remains.
The Aztecs, in the Spaniards, met a foe equally as vicious and ruthless as they were.
From Instapundit:
“Don’t miss this editorial that the Washington Post dedicates to Pablo Iglesias and his comrades on their tourism-committed trip to the miseries that torment Cuba.”
Late to the moon landing party, but ‘Operation Avalanche’ is a solid movie about the topic. Pure fiction and very entertaining
The fact is that the Apollo landings videos from the moon's surface could not have been filmed (“faked”) any place but:
a) on a low-gravity (1/6th-g) world, like the moon,
b) possessing wide-area vacuum, like the moon.
As a result of this crucial lunar alienness, every step the astronauts took, spin they took in their rover, kicked up lunar dust—every particle of which thereupon followed an individually unique, parabolic ballistic trajectory—impossible to duplicate en masse, even today, on a high-gravity planet incorporating a heavy, dust-lofting atmosphere like earth.
Nor could (manual) animation—all that was available during the 20th century—have done the job. Nowadays we could computer animate such details, but those techniques were not available really until the 21st century.
Nor were the Van Allen belts an important issue. As noted up-thread the astronauts traversed the belts quickly, but also avoided a great deal of them by launching in a northerly trajectory; the Van Allen belts are donut shaped with big holes over the poles.
As far as Stanley Kubrick and his 2001: A Space Odyssey are concerned, the 1968 film that he directed shows that Kubrick's (and many other peoples') idea at the time of what the moon ought to look like was very different from what we now know to be the case.
Specifically, mountains and crater walls on the moon before Apollo were thought to be pristinely jagged—unchanged from their violent, meteoritic formation—due to the lack of atmosphere thus wind and other kinds of earthly erosion (e.g., rain and flowing water, not to speak of glaciers) on the moon.
But now we know that a steady rain of micrometeoroid impacts over the ages has eroded and greatly softened the appearance of mountains and craters all over the moon, so that 2001's portrait does not reveal lunar mountains' true appearance.
Somewhat similarly, Kubrick's presentation of what earth looks like from space is also quite unlike what we now recognize our planet really looks like. All the clouds patterns, for instance, are very different from what he anticipated in that film.
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