Have we really landed on the moon? If so, why can no-one see the stuff we felt behind? Look at the lunar lander pics. There should be a hole in the ground from the landing rocket, and there are other things wrong with this story.
2006-08-04 07:26:50 · 25 answers · asked by Dave R 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We *can* see things we left behind - "corner cube retroreflector arrays".
2006-08-04 07:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, as for your first question, the reason we can't see the stuff we left behind is because they're too small to be seen by even the most powerful telescopes. The stuff they took to the moon consisted of, what...a flag and a small ship? How could anyone see those tiny objects from so far away?
And now to tackle your second question: if there were a hole in the ground from the landing rocket, the astronauts would not have survived to walk on the moon. That would imply that the lander crash-landed, instead of coming in smoothly for a landing. Think about it: when you're driving a car at around sixty miles per hour, and need to stop at a stop light, do you suddenly slam on the brakes (let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that you do not actually NEED to slam on the brakes)? Of course not, that's not good for the car. The same goes for the lunar lander; you wouldn't want to land in such a way that would create "a hole in the ground," to use your expression. That would be a very sloppy and very dangerous landing.
I highly suggest you go to the badastronomy.com link that someone else posted above; it's very informative and will dispel your foolish notions.
2006-08-04 15:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by Qchan05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-one can see the stuff left on the Moon because it is too small and far away to see with the biggest telescope on Earth or in space.
There is no reason there should be a hole in the ground. Rockets have been landed on Earth in a similar way and not made a hole in the ground.
All the other things people say are wrong are actually right, and if they appeared as you think they should, THAT would be proof they were fake.
See the real information at the source below.
2006-08-04 23:57:08 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we went. We can't see the things we left behind because they're too small. There is no hole because it's a solid surface. The moon lander turned on its retrorockets before it landed, so it wasn't traveling very fast at all--it just set down softly. Some people say the flag is waving, but it was made to stand out, and the only time it moved is when the astronauts hit it. As to the rock that supposedly has a number on it, it was on the film, not the rock--there was a flaw in the film. There are no stars in the background because when there is a bright foreground, smaller bright spots don't show up. They reproduced the circumstances in the Nevada desert, where there were stars all around them, and got the same result. Some also say that the shadows look like they're coming from different light sources, since they're at different angles. Investigators used a single light source aimed at several different items, and got the same result. Finally, there are things up there we can see. There is a telescope trained on the moon (I think it's in the southwestern U.S.) which tracks three markers placed on the moon by the astronauts. They use these to triangulate the distance between the Earth and the moon at any given time. The investigators interviewed one of the astronomers, and he laughed and told them that any of the conspiracy theorists who denied the moon landing occurred should come and see him.
2006-08-04 14:41:41 · answer #4 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The effectiveness of keeping a conspiracy intact is completely dependent on the number of people involved; the more people there are, the less likely the conspiracy will hold over time. There were literally tens of thousands of people involved in the Apollo program, and it has been over thirty years since the last lunar landing; faking the landings and keeping the people silent would have been more difficult than actually performing them.
On three of the Apollo missions, laser reflection dishes were set up which scientists use to this day to accurately calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon. This equipment could only have been set up manually; no robotic missions could have performed these tasks.
The Clementine lunar satellite was able to take a picture of the Apollo 15 landing site, but the resolution was too low (100 meters) to be considered overwhelming evidence. The Indian space program plans to send a remote sensing spacecraft in 2007, called Chandrayaan I, which has a five meter resolution. Assuming the craft is successful, its images should provide definitive evidence that the moon landings were real.
No matter what evidence one provides, however, someone will always come up with an excuse to negate it. "The scientists are in on the conspiracy with the laser reflector experiment", or "The images from the satellite are fake", or "They set up the Apollo landing sites afterwards using robots". One has to set their own limits on when evidence becomes definitive, and then stand by that limit.
2006-08-04 19:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by ndcardinal3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we really went to the moon! You just can shine a telescope at the moon and find where the apollo missions landed! That would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack the size of umm lets see the moon. Anyways NASA is planning to revisit the moon be 2020 so maybe they'll stop by one of the landing sites. Also it would probally take just as much energy and effort to film a movie about going to the moive and convincing people that you actually did then to just go there!
2006-08-04 14:34:23 · answer #6 · answered by Atomlab2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol .. don't fall for it .. and we do "see" what we left there .. in fact there are a number of things on the moon that we still use regularly to conduct experiments. There is even this little thing there that we can shoot a laser at to make exact measurements of how far away the moon really is.
2006-08-04 14:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm~~~ all the people that were at cape canaveral the day the rocket took off into space--could not have imagined it!
Not even Houdini could have hypnotized them all.
Yes! they landed!
The hoax is the report claiming it's hoax!!
2006-08-04 15:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by bye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that Buzz Aldrin punched out the last guy who taunted him about this. People have more faith in religion than they do in science. How sad is that? You can believe that there's an invisible man in the sky--- something you cannot see nor touch/feel. But when it comes to believing that we went to the moon, something we can provide pictures and objects as proof-- people have doubts. *shakes head*
2006-08-04 14:34:18 · answer #9 · answered by Marilyn Monroe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the technology to get to the moon existed in the 60's. the technology to convincingly fake it and fool the whole scientific world did not. We will be back to document the relics left there very soon my friend. be patient and stop reading the moron websites trash.
2006-08-04 16:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by Brian J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How old are you?!
Santa Claus has a summer home there on the moon where he 'hide' the mistress there. Once awhile we can see her tanning herself. If you are lucky, you can see Santa tanning next to her.
Hint: Santa is the one with the ivory skin.
2006-08-04 14:43:33 · answer #11 · answered by galactic_man_of_leisure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋