walk on the moon, extremely fake
2007-07-20 07:36:37 · 11 answers · asked by lalo_leemx 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Your lame question is (actually just an argument and) undeserving of an answer
2007-07-20 07:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by RationalThinker 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It almost takes an act of God for any scientific group to be allowed to use a space telescope. It takes a lot of money and the research, to be approved, has to be very important. Also the team I imagine would have to be legitimate scientists. So why the hell would any of these people take time away from their exciting studys of deep space to aim the telescope at the moon just to prove something to a nincompoop like you? And besides, then you would just say those photos were fake too. PS Are all of our satelites and the space station fakes too? Then how do you explain those photos of earth that come back?
2007-07-20 08:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by saturdays child 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have powerful telescopes, but not a one has the resolving power to see the stuff we left behind on the moon.
The best telescope we have, the Hubble Space Telescope, uses CCD cameras to capture images. The size of each pixel in the CCD cameras is only 0.01 arc-second. At the distance to the moon, that means each pixel covers a spot about 10 meters in diameter. Since the largest object we left behind, the base of the LEM, is less than 5 meters in diameter, there is no possible way to resolve any man-made object on the moon. About the smallest thing the Hubble can "see" is a football field!
Moon landings -- very real! No matter how much BS pseudo-scientific claptrap you throw at us, the moon landings happened. Go to:
www.badastronomy.com
www.clavius.org
for a debunking of the trash that the naysayers claim "proves" we never landed.
2007-07-20 07:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We just don't have a telescope that good yet, but we're close! It would have to be in space, and a little more powerful than the Hubble (which wasn't designed for something as close as the moon). I don't know about footprints, but resolution within a few meters would show the landing sites. We're sending various probes to reassess landing data for a return. I would expect to see those kind of pictures soon, although they would be taken for a shorter distance.
2007-07-20 07:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have powerful telescopes, but not powerful ENOUGH. No telescope, not even the Hubble Space Telescope (which by the way is not the most powerful in the world) is powerful enough to see anything as small as rover tracks or discarded hardware on the Moon. Yes, it can see a galaxy billions of light years away, but a galaxy is juuuuust a little bigger than a flag.
2007-07-20 07:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The landings on the Moon were extremely real. Do a little research (check out my link) and you'll find out why the conspiracy theory is nothing more than lies, bad science, and anti-government bias.
I'm getting tired of people questioning the Moon landings. Conspiracy allegations have surfaced hundreds of times in this forum and have been soundly refuted each time.
2007-07-20 09:45:50 · answer #6 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we had those telescopes in orbit around the moon, we could. From here, we can't.
NASA doesn't feel the need to put a telescope so close just to prove to people that we actually went there.
And if you DID see such a picture... would you believe it? Seriously.....? What would be the point?
2007-07-20 07:41:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Astronomers did watch the Apollo space ships approch the moon and circle it. The Russians also watched and you can bet if it was fake, they would have exposed it to the world during the Cold War.
If you had been alive when it happend as I was, you would have no doubts.
2007-07-20 08:27:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dude, there is a mirror array that they left up there in order to bounce lasers off of in order to get highly accurate measurements of the distance between the earth and moon. This mirror array is still there and can be used today.
If the moon walks were fake, who put the mirrors up there?
2007-07-20 07:41:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because all intelligent people already know that we've walked on the moon. Period.
2007-07-20 08:11:30 · answer #10 · answered by Gary H 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cannot a day pass without some blockhead posting this kind of crap?
Please...double the wrapping of aluminum foil on your head.
2007-07-20 07:50:03 · answer #11 · answered by Ethan 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋