I had an interesting "chat" about themoon landing.

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Technically the First fps ever wasn't it?

Edit nope.
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Bdw3 wrote:Hubble does not have a 115m mirrior... :icon27:

Hubble has a 94.5-inch mirror.... That 2.4m
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Freakaloin wrote:ur a moron nightshade...

"Anything left on the Moon cannot be resolved in any Hubble image," According to the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble for NASA. "It would just appear as a dot."


Nightshade wrote:
bitWISE wrote:My thoughts are that I don't really give a fuck whether or not the moon landing was staged.

However, to contradict your conclusion I have one good point. For a while now, people have been able to buy telescopes powerful enough to see the moon's surface. If there was anything shocking someone would have seen it...
This is incorrect. A telescope with enough resolution to see the things that the astronauts left would require a 115m diameter primary mirror.
They do grow you fuckers dumb in Texas, don't they?
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Nightshade wrote:
Freakaloin wrote:ur a moron nightshade...

"Anything left on the Moon cannot be resolved in any Hubble image," According to the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble for NASA. "It would just appear as a dot."


Nightshade wrote: This is incorrect. A telescope with enough resolution to see the things that the astronauts left would require a 115m diameter primary mirror.
They do grow you fuckers dumb in Texas, don't they?
Hey, don't lump the rest of us in with him.
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Oh come on. Geoof, Dubya, Jeb, and Bush, Sr. See a pattern?
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The next word in the sequence is "malcolm x". Do I win a cookie?
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Nightshade wrote:Oh come on. Geoof, Dubya, Jeb, and Bush, Sr. See a pattern?
Yeah, they keep all those guys on the eastern side.
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anways vlt is better then hubble no?
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Nightshade wrote:
bitWISE wrote:My thoughts are that I don't really give a fuck whether or not the moon landing was staged.

However, to contradict your conclusion I have one good point. For a while now, people have been able to buy telescopes powerful enough to see the moon's surface. If there was anything shocking someone would have seen it...
This is incorrect. A telescope with enough resolution to see the things that the astronauts left would require a 115m diameter primary mirror.
hmm my telescope nerd radar seems to be going off...
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The astronauts did leave objects behind that can been seen from earth. Recently, physicists used the mirrors placed on the moon to validate Einstiens theory of Reletivity.

http://physics.about.com/cs/opticsexper ... 0903_5.htm
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/ ... 2005ft.htm


"Lunar laser ranging is one of the most important tools we have for searching for flaws in Einstein's general theory of relativity," says Slava Turyshev, a research scientist at JPL who works with Jim Williams and others on the project.

Their experiment is possible because, more than 30 years ago, Apollo astronauts put mirrors on the Moon - small arrays of retro reflectors that can intercept laser beams from Earth and bounce them straight back. Using lasers and mirrors, researchers can "ping" the Moon and precisely monitor its motion around Earth.
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zeeko wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
bitWISE wrote:My thoughts are that I don't really give a fuck whether or not the moon landing was staged.

However, to contradict your conclusion I have one good point. For a while now, people have been able to buy telescopes powerful enough to see the moon's surface. If there was anything shocking someone would have seen it...
This is incorrect. A telescope with enough resolution to see the things that the astronauts left would require a 115m diameter primary mirror.
hmm my telescope nerd radar seems to be going off...
I work for an optics company.
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