Why are there no live video cameras on the moon?

Because the Earth rotates and the Moon orbits.

Last Edited by Iamaka on 12/17/2014 11:34 PM

How is that relevant to the question? Please elaborate


Thx for the 1 star whoever that was :P

I Never even thought of that lets all email nasa RIGHT NOW

fucking liers.

What would the incentive be?
How would such a mission return on the required high cost investment(s)?

What is the incentive for witnessing anything for ourselves?

Are you saying that NASA can't afford it? Or that it would be less economically 'interesting' (ROI) as say 'going to Mars'? OR crashing a satellite on the moon?

Answering questions with questions, leads to more questions :)

So, why do you think there are no cams Iamaka?

I must apologize, I wasn't intending to infer that ROI was the primary issue. More specifically however, I have to question WHY a live video camera on the moon would be beneficial or serve a purpose in anyway?

With all other scientific projects that are invested in, why does the Moon need a live video camera?

There are no video cameras because then we would see all the birds flying there

There could be many purposes :
Historical
Scientific
Educational
Recreational
etc..

IMO there are more reasons to explore the moon in any way we can rather than say Antarctica or even Mars...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

'The Moon (Latin: Luna) is Earth's only natural satellite'


That should be reason enough to monitor it closely...

Why do you think the Orion platform was just recently announced all over in the media.

It's been 42 years since Dec. 7th 1972.

Apollo is officially retired.

Moon = Nibiru itself

:truestory:

Please. You must be a real retard to fail to see the importance several live views of our closest neighbor would be. NASA doesn't want to fess up about the alien presence on our moon and the conspiratorial cover up perpetrated on the world.

The true question is how do we know NASA doesn't have one already. I believe they don't want us to see too much. Don't know what it is aliens, colonies, or whatever, but it's not for public eyes. I guess we just couldn't handle the truth, lol

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Nasa 2014 budget : +/- 17 billion $

(17,000 x 1million$)

Yeah, they are just scraping by, no cams for you!

Politicians, not NASA decides the budget and much of how its spent in NASA.

Politicians NOT NASA killed the Apollo Program. Politicians, NOT NASA killed every new 'back to the moon' program since then.

There are a couple of egg-heads currently fighting with politicians to come up with a budget for the Direct Mars program, they have only been working on that for about 20 years....

Each payload into space has to 'do something'. The Shuttle Program only survived as long as it did because public outcry at the mere mention of 'cancelling' the shuttle program kept it going. the last time the Shuttle Program Question came up there was insufficient public outcry to that idea, so the shuttle program was shut down. Again, politicians decided this based on their 'Can I get a vote' stance.

If We the People said 'We will vote for those politicians who put men on Mars in ten years time, Suddenly the funds would appear and politicians would be stamping their approval on that program.

I fear that the same applies to cameras on the moon, there is insufficient votes to be had by putting a camera on the moon, thus the politicians won't budget for it.

They don't get handed a chunk of money and get to do anything they want. They apply for a budget with every bit of money specified to a particular purpose or program. That is then chopped by Congress so they get less than they asked for but it STILL is specified for specific programs.

Agreed, i have seen the budget details and conditions.

However, we're not talking about a big undertaking relative to the total budget and the benefits would be numerous, surely more so than some of their current projects IMO.


Edit
2015 :
Lunar Quest Program budget : 0.00$
Mars Exploration : 279,000,000$

[link to www.nasa.gov]

Last Edited by We Are Slaves on 12/19/2014 07:27 AM

So the giant leper colony is not exposed.

Nasa doesn't have the budget to live stream video cameras from the moon just so people can occasionally glance at it.

Not even from the ISS.

This is a fantastic question, one I never thought of.

Let's build a probe and send it up there. How expensive could it be?

Do you really think if you cant see a pic of sandy kids being rescued, that u qualify to see mooncam1 or any other mooncam? Please.

Do you know how much it would cost to run a fiber optic line to the moon just for a live video feed?? ain't no way!!

Shirley you are joking? A video feed doesn't come close to requiring bandwidth in the terabytes/sec range...We're talking 'wireless' here Einstein

Last Edited by We Are Slaves on 12/19/2014 04:32 PM

Interesting...

The last time we were there, the technology wasn't.

I'll donate my old webcam to NASA if it's about the money.