I'm not convinced either way of weather we landed on the moon or not. I've not seen the episode, but bouncing a lazer off the moon doesn't need a reflector (man made) at the other end to achieve. In fact bouncing a lazer off a reflector placed on the moon by man would be even more difficult to achieve as the reflector would have to be positioned exactly right (to the thousandth of a millimeter) to bounce the lazer back to it's originating position. One thousandth of a milimiter off and the lazer would miss it's rebound mark by hundreds of miles. However, bouncing a lazer off the ground is very easy to achieve. They do it all the time in surveying and even with some satelite systems. I have on the other hand seen indisputable proof that NASA doctored MANY of the photographs which came back from the moon. One comes to mind where the lander is parked in front of a cross which is supposely etched directly onto the cameras lense. Phisically impossible unless the picture had been doctored/faked. I'll be convinced it happened when I see independent images of the lander base sat on the moon. It should still be there, along with a rover and other assorted junk.
The laser "footprint" when it reaches the moon is actually 6 square kilometers, it is NOT just a dot there.
Although you need to have finely tuned instruments, its not that hard.
Furthermore, it is not a "mirror", it is hundreds of mirrors constructed so that it will reflect the beam regardless of incoming angle, this to is not hard science, or engineering.
What I would have liked to see in this episode though would have been some real hard science tests to finally end this debate.
Quite easily, when the rover runs around it kicks up dirt, now take as many points as you are able in this footage, measure its trajectory, compare it to the speed of the rover, the size of its wheels and so on.
Now if you can find particles, dust, stones or whatever that does NOT comply to the trajectory these would have in a moon gravity then they are bust, the pictures are fake.
However if you do NOT, then they are real because there just was not computers advanced enough to do that kind of computing in 1969.
The entire computer power of NASA back then is similar to one mobile phone today.
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The laser "footprint" when it reaches the moon is actually 6 square kilometers, it is NOT just a dot there.
Although you need to have finely tuned instruments, its not that hard.
Furthermore, it is not a "mirror", it is hundreds of mirrors constructed so that it will reflect the beam regardless of incoming angle, this to is not hard science, or engineering.
What I would have liked to see in this episode though would have been some real hard science tests to finally end this debate.
Quite easily, when the rover runs around it kicks up dirt, now take as many points as you are able in this footage, measure its trajectory, compare it to the speed of the rover, the size of its wheels and so on.
Now if you can find particles, dust, stones or whatever that does NOT comply to the trajectory these would have in a moon gravity then they are bust, the pictures are fake.
However if you do NOT, then they are real because there just was not computers advanced enough to do that kind of computing in 1969.
The entire computer power of NASA back then is similar to one mobile phone today.
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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