Space Hoax: Coast to Coast

I guess all those launches I have seen and been presesnt at with my own 2 eyes (not behind a TV tube)were large holographic projections with a series of large subwoofers for effect. I have been hoaxed for 32 years. Damn. Seriously, I don't know where you live but I will extend an open invitation to view a Shuttle launch. It should be happening in a few days. I can even call and get passes to sit in the viewing sections accross the Banana river right next to the main launch pad. I'm being serious and not facecious. We can even monitor Nasa live feeds in stands.

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This is an easy one to prove. Get yourself a really good telescope, or find one you can use. Focus in on the Sea of Tranquility on a clear night. What will you see? The landing site for Apollo 11 and the decent module which still sits on the surface of the moon. When I was a kid, my uncle had a telescope and we could see the Command Module in orbit around the moon during every Apollo Mission. I especially remember the Apollo 13 mission due to the fear that they would be stuck in lunar orbit.

For the life of me, I do not understand why people still insist on the 'lunar hoax', especially since we have since been to Mars, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, a comet (can't remember the name of it). etc. etc. etc.

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Actually no telescope on earth has the resolution needed to see the descent modules. It's true though that many amateurs were able to observe the apollo flights while they were in space; you don't need to actually resolve something in order to see it against the black backdrop of space - that's why stars are point light sources. I've seen pictures taken by amateurs of the day similar to your uncle.

That is true. There has never been a satellite or telescope ever made that has the resoluition to pick up anything at any of the landing sites to date. Not even the HUBBLE could do it. Not even radar can pick up anything.

Then I guess it was just my lying eyes! Not even the Hubble??? Come on, that thing can give high resolution images of galaxies that are not even visible to the naked eye!!! The moon is only a quarter million miles away! The Hubble could give you a high resolution photo of one of Armstrong's footprints, for crying out loud!

Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
Then I guess it was just my lying eyes! Not even the Hubble??? Come on, that thing can give high resolution images of galaxies that are not even visible to the naked eye!!!

But Galaxies can be hundreds of thousands of lightyears in size.

The moon is only a quarter million miles away! The Hubble could give you a high resolution photo of one of Armstrong's footprints, for crying out loud!

No it could not. You'd need a mirror at about 200m in diameter to resolve just the decent module.

But this April NASA will launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, it will send back high resolution images of the surface (~0.5m per pixel).

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We have sent probes every where in the solar system. From the Voyager probe to the Venera 9 Russian probe that landed on Venus and was able to send back black and white photos before it subcumbed to the hostile atmosphere. So space travel is crude but possible.

Now as for manned missions I have a bit of skeptism. The Van Halen radiation belt always made me think that manned missions would not be possible without some very advanced radiation sheilding. Alot of research says that the astronaughts could not have survived the trip to the moon because of the Van Halen radiation belt. I havent made up my mind yet but there is evidence to support this.

Originally posted by TheKnave
The Van Halen radiation belt always made me think that manned missions would not be possible without some very advanced radiation sheilding.

The Van Halen belt? That's the Van Allen belts. And here's the expected dose for an apollo spacecraft with an areal density of 7-8gm/cm^2 passing through the Van Allen belts on the exact trajectory taken by Apollo:
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Originally posted by ngchunter

Originally posted by TheKnave
The Van Halen radiation belt always made me think that manned missions would not be possible without some very advanced radiation sheilding.

The Van Halen belt?

Nice.

The Van Halen Belt...

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Rockon Broskis.

LOL Van Halen... sorry I am tired. I am on my 22nd hour of being awake. But ya you guys knew what I meant to say and thats what counts.