We have high quality telescopes which can see my bicycle from space but not a SUV or its tracks on the moon...
2007-06-28 02:48:33 · 7 answers · asked by CEMENTHEAD 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, we don't. We can't see what we left behind because we didn't leave a football field behind, and that would be the smallest thing our best telescope (HST) could see on the surface of the Moon.
Just because we have satellites orbiting the Earth taking pictures doesn't mean we have them orbiting the Moon. We don't.
2007-06-28 04:14:48 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When your talking about seeing your bicycle from space, you are really talking about satelites in the upper atmosphere.
The distance to the moon is much further.
Dont expect people to be spending billions trying to prove some crackpot theory that astronauts didnt travel to the moon.
Any telescope you have in your possession is most like far from adequate for finding such things.
2007-06-28 02:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The telescope through which your bicycle was photographed was less than 200 miles away. The moon is about 240,000 miles away. That is much more than 1000 times as far. It is worth a smile that you referred to the lunar rover as a SUV. :) Maybe it is.
2007-06-28 03:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gee... another posting from the flat earth crowd.
Actually, there IS physical proof... and it's used on a daily basis. When the first men landed on the moon, they left a LASAR REFLECTOR on the moon and NASA (or anyone else with a decent lasar and the co-ordinants, can PING THE REFLECTOR.. at Tranquility Base.
If the reflector, which had to be PRECISION ALIGNED is there and used on a daily basis for such scientific measurements, HOW DID IT GET THERE if it was not PLACED there?
Now... go watch something else on TV because your conspiracy theory stinks.
2007-06-28 02:56:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The moon has no atmosphere- hence that flag probably disconnected from the moon or was covered over in intergalactic mess. Because the moon has no atmosphere, no weathering occurs, but comets and such do occasionally hit it, so theres a very small probability anything is there.
2007-06-28 02:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has it occurred to you that astronomers have better things to do with multi-billion dollar telescopes like the Hubble than take pictures of tire tracks?
BTW--it wasn't a "SUV"--it was a solar-powered all-terrain vehicle. There wern't any SUV's then.
2007-06-28 03:19:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
DIstance, it's all about distance. A satellite that can see your bicycle is a couple of hundred miles up at most. The Moon is a couple of hundred THOUSAND miles away. It's like complaining because you can read the registration plate of a car twenty yards away using binoculars but can't see a car twenty miles away.
2007-06-28 03:34:21 · answer #7 · answered by Jason T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋