and NASA says that the really did land on the moon!...if so, why dont they just zoom onto the moon with their 'big time' telescope and show them the flag that they left on the moon?....i'm sure they have such telescope since they can discover other galaxy around us which is very far away?.....
2006-11-16 20:44:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, some people say that, and some people are retarded. They don't do that because A) Why even warrant such stupid accusations with a response or action? B) These people claim it was all staged in a studio and they would just say the same thing about any footage of the flag on the moon.
2006-11-16 20:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As some of the answers above point out, the biggest telescopes can only see objects as big as a football stadium on the moon.
The Apollo astronauts did leave "retroreflector panels" on the Moon. These are special mirrors that send a beam of light back the way it came, instead of bouncing off at an angle. These retroreflectors are used every day in experiments where a laser is shot at the Moon, and then the reflected pulse is observed several seconds later. It doesn't require a very big laser, or a very big telescope to do these experiments---any country in the world could do them if they wanted.
Because the retroreflector panels are clearly not natural, the existence of these retroreflector panels indicates, at minimum, that there was a soft landing on the moon.
2006-11-17 10:17:49 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No telescope, not even the Hubble Space Telescope, can see something as small as a flag at the distance of the Moon. It can see something as big as a galaxy a billion light years away, and it could see a flag on the Earth from orbit, but the smallest thing it could see on the Moon would be 300 feet wide.
2006-11-17 08:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this is actually.. a fairly common belief. Some photos from the first moon landing indicate odd phenomenon which seem like they shouldn't be there. The people who analyze these photos, however, are usually only adept at analyzing photos taken on Earth, not those exposed on the moon. We find that things like shadows and light shining at odd angles and they create elongated shadows because of the lack of atmosphere. This was just one of their concerns, but apparently nonapplicable.
This myth is all but gone since the additional few space flights to the moon, and the sheer passing of time.
It is unlikely that even with our most advanced technology that we could simulate a moon landing. Such a film would most likely require more time, money, and effort than actually landing on the moon for the time.
So for all intensive purposes, the myth is false...but one can never know.
2006-11-17 05:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by tehanswer-er 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lets say the flag is 0.5 m across. That means your telescope has to have a resolving power of about 1.3 x 10^-9 Radians. If the telescope is perfect then it must have a lens of diameter around 450 m to achieve this. The largest telescope ever constructed have a lens aperture of about 12 m.
So you have no prospect of seeing such detail on the moon from Earth.
(This calculation is based on the physical limits on resolving power - there is no way to technological circumvent these).
2006-11-17 05:05:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well they could see the flag, and by now they have for sure landed on the moon. But the critics say that the first landing was a fake for a number of reason. You can find the details on the site below. Its up to you what u choose to believe or not :)
2006-11-17 04:57:05 · answer #6 · answered by rooney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, scientists can see the flag which has been planted on the moon.
The reason some people say they didn't is because the movie industry is so well developed that they can fake nearly any real thing, including the moon landing. It is very true that the moon landing can be faked, but it is also true that there was a real moon landing.
The movie industry can also film fake earthquakes, and fake forest fires, but that does not mean that real earthquakes and real forest fires don't happen.
2006-11-17 04:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is NOTHING you could do to convince conspiracy theorists that we have landed on the moon. Even if you showed them the flag, they wouldn't be convinced. If they didn't see through the telescope themselves, they would claim people are lying about seeing the flag. If they were allowed to look for themselves, they would claim it's a visual trick perpatrated by NASA. If they used the same criteria for evaluating reality in their everday life as they do in their conspiracy theories, they actually couldn't function.
2006-11-17 18:50:59 · answer #8 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really, it is obvious that persons have be send on the moon.
If it were a joke, it would be known.
You remember me my father when I told him in1969 the landing on moon, he said to me/
I ask myself why you have studied and what did you learn to believe such a silly thing
2006-11-17 04:54:53 · answer #9 · answered by maussy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't listen to the foolish conspiracys out there.
As with many other issues, officials and scientists refuse to debate the issue as it is simply not worthy of time or discussion. If people are content to ignore the wealth of evidence against the theory they will similarly dismiss anything else as well.
2006-11-17 04:56:00 · answer #10 · answered by Vanguard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋