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By Emily Lakdawalla

New Flickr collection of historical NASA photos

Aug. 30, 2010 | 09:23 PDT | 16:23 UTC

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NASA announced today that they had placed several new sets of historical photos on their "NASA on the Commons" Flickr site, and invited the public to help tag and caption the photos. There are lots of cool images, such as this one of Lunar Prospector's launch:

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Lunar Prospector Launches
NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft launched successfully on its way to the Moon from Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Station on Jan 6, 1998 at 9:38 p.m. EST. Credit: NASA

...but they definitely need help with the tagging; the tags lack any specific detail about the missions or rockets involved. Tagging will help the photos show up in people's online searches. I went in and added "Lunar Propsector - The Moon - Athena II" to the Lunar Prospector photo. Go check out the cool galleries and do some tagging of your own!

All the photos on the NASA on the Commons Flickr site are copyright-free -- link to them, copy them, use them as you see fit.

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That would be great if kids could continue to safely access all those NASA images online. Too bad Flickr is actually a porn site that Yahoo refuses to label as such, so that they can bypass filtering that would keep their countless sex predators sharing millions of adult images, away from children. Shame on Yahoo for this ongoing charade just to make some money at any cost. As well on NASA for showing no forethought or common sense. It's a sure bet all the corporations Yahoo dupes into sponsoring their endless parade of pedophiles on Flickr love finding out their ads, bought through Yahoo and now MS, are on porno pages being shown to kids. Go NASA! What a bunch of clueless government workers that probably love surfing for porn at our constant expense. More tax dollars at work, supporting and participating in Yahoo's undercover hardcore porn site, Flickr that hosts the most smut on the internet now, yet is available in most grade schools and libraries. Great idea getting more kids to go there by featuring NASA images!

#1 - Fed Up 2 - 08/30/2010 - 11:34

Mince!

I've been using flickr for years. It certainly isn't a porn site. I've never encountered "accidental porn" while using it.

#2 - Stephen Mackenzie - 08/30/2010 - 11:48

Wow...

Well, "Fed Up 2", that's news to me and all my friends who host our personal (and non-porn) photo collections on Flickr.

#3 - Amy F. - 08/30/2010 - 13:26

1/4 turn please!

How about rotating that image 90° clockwise? ;D

#4 - Manu - 08/30/2010 - 14:35

Choice

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#258

You only see adult content on Flickr if you choose to -- just like Google.

#5 - Happy - 08/30/2010 - 19:43

also been using flickr for years with friends, never ran across porn and I peruse the commons quite regularly!

#6 - Lisa B - 08/30/2010 - 22:11


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