http://moon.google.com/
Apparently the guys over at Google made a little Google moon site (Yes I realize this is an old site) with images provided to them by NASA. This has always been an interesting subject to me. I'm still not quite sure who to believe so I turn to you bloggers out there for insight.
What's funny to me is that even if you zoom in I still don't see a flag. Yeah I know "Gio the flag is way too small to be seen from earth" Sure but why hasn't some telescope from space picked it up, at the very least to debunk all the conspiracy theorists.
What do you guys think? These guys seem pretty convinced it happened.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
WTF Google Moon?
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http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html
Can we see Apollo hardware on the Moon?
This question comes up frequently. It's clearly impossible for an optical telescope on the Earth to resolve any of the Apollo hardware on the Moon, since the best systems, using adaptive optics in the near-infrared, can resolve details of maybe 0.02 arcsec. A lunar lander of width 5 meters, at a distance of 382,000 km, subtends an angle of 0.003 arcsec. The Hubble Space Telescope isn't appreciably closer the Moon, and its best resolution is about 0.03 arcsec in the near-UV. Not good enough.
Wow lighting reply dale, and losts of facts too. So okay we can't see the stuff, but do you think it was possible for someone to go to the moon and back in 1969?
It would have been a whole lot easier to go to the moon than to fake it. Consider:
The plans for the various spacecraft are available for modern engineers to check. Many are even on the web in PDF format. It’s been verified by many engineers from many countries that the designs would work.
Tens of thousands of people from many companies - and several countries (like Canada) - worked on construction of the spacecraft. You couldn’t keep ALL of them quiet if it was a hoax. So, there’s no doubt the spacecraft were built. So, why not simply fly them? At this point it’s easier than a executing a hoax.
A whole lot of people witnessed the launches - there's no question that they happenned.
Radio telescopes in different countries tracked the spacecraft to, from and on the moon. You'd need technicians from *several* governments involved to fake this.
Look at the lunar dust kicked up from the feet and wheels of astronauts walking and driving on the moon. It’s quickly obvious that they’re not only in lower gravity, but the lack of "billowing" of the dust shows that there’s no atmosphere. This wasn’t possible to reproduce convincingly with CGI in 1999, and the very idea was pure science fiction in 1969.
The moon landings were possible. Faking it was not.
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