moon landing conspiracy theories
You know, in all the discussions I've seen of conspiracy in the moon landing, I'd never heard of the mirror that we left there. It pretty much destroys all the conspiracies, yet it's not talked about much. Neil and Buzz left a mirror there, pointed back at earth, in 1969.
I've been watching a documentary about gravity here, and it turns out that astronomers are able to bounce a laser off the mirror that we left there, and use it to measure quite accurately the distance between the earth and the moon.
Now, if you hit the surface with a laser, the photons don't make it back. It takes an incredibly accurate telescope and a lot of patience to hit that little mirror. If there wasn't a mirror there, the experiment wouldn't work.
What's awesome about this is that it's repeatable! You can go to an observatory with a telescope mounted laser, just like this documenter did, and test the theory. Boom, there's the mirror, we landed on the moon. Shut the hell up, wackos.
posted by Tobin @ 1:37:00 AM
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Really that only implies that we landed a mirror on the moon.
-Andrew
If you can find it, check out Joe Rogan on Penn and Teller's old radio show they used to do. He's really done his homework on why he thinks the moon landing wasn't real. I still think we did land, but he can defend himself pretty fuckin well, all things considered.
But there's a GODDAMN MIRROR!
The conspiracy theorists claim that we never went to the moon, mainly because the pictures they brought back are too good. I've seen the argument, and honestly, I agree. The pictures are too good.
You could watch the moon landing on a good enough observatory telescope, and the mirror is there, among other pieces of evidence. No one doubts the Saturn V worked.
Applying Occam's Razor... we went to the moon, but faked the pictures, as we figured phenomenal pictures would make a lot better marketing and public relations piece than fuzzy, irradiated film shot my amateur photographers with chest-mounted cameras two hundred thousand miles away from home.
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