If The Mars Photos Aren't Faked

What “things”?

Can you post a link?

You just have to search for them. Not hard to locate. Aliens. Ships. Everything.

[link to www.nasa.gov (secure)]

I want to believe it, truly. In my 60's grew up on Heinlein, worked at Loral Space on real launched-into-space satellites. I am a real engineer, with patents for space based power systems. I have been in huge design groups with literal rocket engineers. And power guys, guidance guys, battery guys (who are the real geniuses). And many more. I worked on Space qualified microwave transmitters and the complicated battery charging systems.

No one I worked with ever doubted we were launching real satellites.

Then I worked with Nasa for 3 months on Space Station equipment. What a difference! A bigger group of idiots you never saw. Nothing worked, all simulations. No one ever talked about Apollo or moon anything. Last day, the whole building was closed, everyone laid off.

I can promise you as an actual space equipment engineer, the whole Apollo thing is impossible. The impossible Delta V to get all that heavy junk to the moon, the Van Allen belt issues. The non existent nav computer. The impossible retro rocket lunar landing with no pad, no radar, no guidance, seat of the pants out the window piloting? No way. The impossible jumping around in non tested "space" suits in a hard vac? With full range of motion? I don't think we have those suits even now!

The impossible plastic film cameras in hard vac in direct sunlight, full rad exposure. No way. the impossible battery power and oxygen use. the utterly ridiculous lunar blast off, the impossible docking in lunar orbit by visual guidance?

So it is not a hard stretch to doubt any Mars events.

I can tell you that surface Mars "air" is nearly all CO2 at .009 atm, or equiv to 120,000 feet here. Mostly below freezing, nearly cryo temps year round at any altitude. That means CLEAR skies. Sharp horizon, and bright stars visible even in mid day.

I would love to hear from any other space engineers here.