uh huh
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lseybold-2 — 17 years ago(October 16, 2008 07:21 PM)
Maybe you could start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_land ings
A Japanese spacecraft saw evidence of the Apollo 15 landing. How's that?
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/05/20080520_kaguya_e.html
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Judger — 17 years ago(November 15, 2008 06:25 PM)
Yes, the moon landing was fake.
Not only that .
The Tri-lateral Commission rules the world.
Lyndon Johnson had Kennedy killed.
9/11 was an inside job.
Saddam Hussein was completely misunderstood.
Lincoln was a transvestite.
Seward had Lincoln killed because he found out.
The Jews killed Christ because they found out he was on the Tri-lateral Commission.
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ObscureAuteur — 17 years ago(November 23, 2008 11:06 AM)
Nothing that complex with so many living participants can stay secret. All in all, I agree with the summation that it would be so hard to fake the moon landing and get away with it, that it was simply much easier to land on the moon.
CB
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richt76 — 17 years ago(November 28, 2008 07:50 AM)
The Moon landings are so far one of our most incredible achievements.
Today, anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system may bounce laser beams off of these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo moon landing sites. -
Doom — 17 years ago(February 24, 2009 02:23 PM)
Today, anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system may bounce laser beams off of these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo moon landing sites.
Is this true? Very interesting. I never knew that. What sort of equipment would be needed? Could someone do this as a 'hobby' or are you referring to 'high end' equipment (government facilities, etc.)? I'm seriously asking.
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ta_naemhni — 16 years ago(June 09, 2009 03:26 PM)
Yes, it's true, and you're right, it is quite interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_laser_ranging_experiment
Here's one such facility that actually does it:
http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html
Actually performing the experiment is a lot more involved than just shining a laser pointer at a mirror and looking at the reflection, as the site explains. Notice, for example, that they talk about getting only 2400 photons back from the moon every half hour (i.e., slightly more than one photon per second), which means you need very sensitive photon detection equipment. In theory, though, with enough money, you could set up such an experiment yourself. (APOLLO is not a federal government entity, it's a collaboration between various universities and scientific laboratories.)
They do provide a list of all the equipment that's necessary for the experiment to run I'm curious as to the total cost, but I'm not in the mood to do that much Googling right now, especially since this electrical storm is currently making my DSL connection flaky. grumble -
NebLWeffah — 16 years ago(July 21, 2009 11:50 PM)
Astronaut Charlie Duke said it best. He was the LM pilot on Apollo 16 with John Young as the Commander (yes, they really did go to the moon..)
Charlie said, "We went to the moon nine times. If we wanted to fake it, why would we fake in nine times?" -
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lseybold-2 — 16 years ago(October 01, 2009 10:21 PM)
The belts surrond [sic] the earth at so many miles up the space station is in orbit below where the belts start
Nope. The ISS regularly passes through a region of the belts called the South Atlantic Anomaly.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
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ta_naemhni — 15 years ago(October 30, 2010 03:01 PM)
"When a reporter called Buzz Aldrin a liar he punched the reporter in the mouth."
I don't blame him.
By way of comparison: I'm an IT professional, and as such, I hold a number of industry certifications from CompTIA, Microsoft, Dell, and Apple. Getting those certifications required hundreds of hours of study and thousands of dollars for study materials and exam fees. I remember one guy asking me once, "Do you really have those certifications, or is it all bulls?" I am not a violent person myself, but when he said that, literally the first thing that went thru my head was an image of myself punching him in the mouth. I was highly offended. I can only imagine how Aldrin must have felt about being accused of lying about an accomplishment that was obviously far, far more challenging than anything I've ever done.
Also left out of the story, by the way, is that when the reporter, Bart Sibrel, first accused Aldrin of lying, Aldrin simply got up and walked out of the interview. Sibrel then followed him and continued to harass him again, Aldrin tried to withdraw. Sibrel finally cornered him and left him with no avenue of escape, then initiated the assault. Aldrin punched him in self-defense. Frankly, I think his response was pretty restrained, and apparently the State Attorney's office agreed, since Aldrin was never charged with a crime.