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	<title>Comments on: User Friendly for today</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Arthur Maruyama</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-109360</link>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Maruyama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BearsAssaultedByBasil:

I&#039;ve worked out that the Hubble Space Telescope--despite orbiting above the Earth&#039;s atmosphere--can resolve objects on the surface of the Moon that are at least 40 feet across, which means that at best a base of one of the Lunar Module _might_ show up as a discolored pixel in a picture--certainly without enough detail to remove doubt. Since the largest ground-based telescopes using adaptive optics can now match Hubble, it would have to be a really huge scope to pull in enough detail to remove all doubt.

I think at least some hoaxer cite as part of their &quot;proof&quot; that NASA does not allow Hubble to point at the Moon because it might show that the Moon landings never happened.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BearsAssaultedByBasil:</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve worked out that the Hubble Space Telescope&#8211;despite orbiting above the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere&#8211;can resolve objects on the surface of the Moon that are at least 40 feet across, which means that at best a base of one of the Lunar Module _might_ show up as a discolored pixel in a picture&#8211;certainly without enough detail to remove doubt. Since the largest ground-based telescopes using adaptive optics can now match Hubble, it would have to be a really huge scope to pull in enough detail to remove all doubt.</p>
<p>I think at least some hoaxer cite as part of their &#8220;proof&#8221; that NASA does not allow Hubble to point at the Moon because it might show that the Moon landings never happened.</p>
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		<title>By: Don Snow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-109300</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Snow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I clicked every link on Phil&#039;s line.  All I got was a web page with a mechanical dog.  Well, that&#039;s life on the &#039;net.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I clicked every link on Phil&#8217;s line.  All I got was a web page with a mechanical dog.  Well, that&#8217;s life on the &#8216;net.</p>
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		<title>By: Don Snow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-109295</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Snow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ BABB

I picked up a steady reflection just west of Maskelyne G crater (Apollo 11) with my 60mm refractor.  I forget the eyepiece I used, but it was around 60x magnification.  The text in &quot;First on the Moon&quot; named the landing site as beside Maskelyne W.
You can&#039;t use a very big telescope, to view the moon.  I tried with my 8&quot; reflector, and durn near blinded my right eye.  Moon&#039;s just too bright.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ BABB</p>
<p>I picked up a steady reflection just west of Maskelyne G crater (Apollo 11) with my 60mm refractor.  I forget the eyepiece I used, but it was around 60x magnification.  The text in &#8220;First on the Moon&#8221; named the landing site as beside Maskelyne W.<br />
You can&#8217;t use a very big telescope, to view the moon.  I tried with my 8&#8243; reflector, and durn near blinded my right eye.  Moon&#8217;s just too bright.</p>
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		<title>By: Larian LeQuella</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-109115</link>
		<dc:creator>Larian LeQuella</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yet another comic to add to my list I suppose.  I&#039;ll bookmark it next to xkcd!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet another comic to add to my list I suppose.  I&#8217;ll bookmark it next to xkcd!</p>
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		<title>By: CR</title>
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		<dc:creator>CR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Likewise; I can&#039;t view it, either. Based upon the comments here, though, I get the gist of it, and it sounds funny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Likewise; I can&#8217;t view it, either. Based upon the comments here, though, I get the gist of it, and it sounds funny.</p>
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		<title>By: Eddie Janssen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-108980</link>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Janssen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The same here (The Netherlands)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The same here (The Netherlands)</p>
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		<title>By: earthandbeyond</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/03/user-friendly-for-today/comment-page-1/#comment-108977</link>
		<dc:creator>earthandbeyond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm, is something wrong with the website?  I can&#039;t view the cartoon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm, is something wrong with the website?  I can&#8217;t view the cartoon.</p>
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