Moon landing conspiracy?

[growbag]

One thing that really baffles me is why NASA doesn't simply release pictures of the moon landing site on the moon.

That would immediately stop all the theories about it never having happened.

Last month they released a picture of the supposed Apollo landing site, but quite frankly it was totally fuzzy and non-descript.

Sorry, I should have copied that pic when it was released and made a nice link here, but I didn't .

How come in this day and age when we can see many many light years into the past, see planets and galaxies far further than we can even imagine, we can see people sunbathing on beaches through Google Earth, but we can't see an old lunar rocket and a moon buggy on a small planetoid just "on the corner" in the galactic scale of things?

I mean, we should at least be able to have a webcam there shouldn't we?

Maybe the conspiracy mob can get together and sponsor an "Apollo moon landing webcam" project, think of the advertising dollars!! .

[microchip8]

When Apollo landed, they placed small mirrors on the moon which now are used by observatories to extremely precisely measure how fast a laser pulse light goes from here to the moon and back again.

> "growbag" <growbag@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote in
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> but we can't see an old lunar rocket and a moon buggy


http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=0.65...471812&zoom=18


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[Knurpht]

Originally Posted by Andrew Z Carpenter

> Google Moon

Cheers. My kids lost that thing three years ago. Now I wonder how it got there.

[etch]

The folks that don't believe man walked the moon would say the pictures were fakes anyway. I for one, would like to see it though.

However, the landing site is small and far away, and the Hubble isn't designed for that kind of observation is it?

[hendersj]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:01 +0000, microchip8 wrote:

> When Apollo landed, they placed small mirrors on the moon which now are
> used by observatories to extremely precisely measure how fast a laser
> pulse light goes from here to the moon and back again.

Those mirrors are a very interesting device, too - because the angle in
and the angle out guarantee the pulse is reflected back at the sender no
matter what angle the pulse enters the device.

Somewhere in my basement, I've got copies of the maps of the landing
sites, I may have to see if I can dig them up.

Jim

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[Jonathan_R]

Originally Posted by etch

The folks that don't believe man walked the moon would say the pictures were fakes anyway. I for one, would like to see it though.

However, the landing site is small and far away, and the Hubble isn't designed for that kind of observation is it?

Just like their are folks that don't believe in the concentration camps and the nearly 7 million Jews that were murdered. There are now quite a lot of people that say that that's all conspiracy and that it didn't happen. Some schools even teach it.

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> Some schools even teach it.



There's some schools that teach creationism, too. But I think we're
straying into the 'politics and religion' danger zone here, so I'm invoking
Godwin's Law and declaring this line of thought abandoned.

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[Jonathan_R]

Originally Posted by Andrew Z Carpenter

> "Jonathan R" <Jonathan_R@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote in
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> Some schools even teach it.



There's some schools that teach creationism, too. But I think we're
straying into the 'politics and religion' danger zone here, so I'm invoking
Godwin's Law and declaring this line of thought abandoned.

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With out getting into religion or politics, the schools that teach creationism are religious schools. That makes sense. The public schools, that you may be referring to, teach "intelligent design". Different. I'll let you google it.

What doesn't make sense are for schools and text books to rewrite history and pretend the Holocaust never occurred, or that the landing on the moon never occurred. We're talking things that happened only about 60 years ago, and people are trying to rewrite history. To me, that's nuts.

[growbag]

lol, the "Google Moon" thing is quite funny, but again, how come we can't see the moon buggy if they can take such a clear image of the moon's surface?

All they have is little tabs and links to the "official" pics. It says the scale is 1:250, and gives a little scale ruler on that pic, so by that information I should be able to see the moon buggy because it should be 2x3mm in size (assuming it's approximately 2m x 3m).

I really have no interest in the conspiracy theory, all I want to do is see the moon buggy or the left-behind launcher thingy, and don't understand why we can't see a picture of it .