Comments on: Moon hoax: why not use telescopes to look at the landers? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/ 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. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jimmy B http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-221398 Jimmy B Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-221398 Any person that looks at the evidence and makes an intelligent conclusion would say this has been faked. You DO NOT got to the moon after just 10 years since your president declared it happen. And then try to go back after 35+ years. If you did it once with 1969 technology you could do it again and again with technology that is more than 1000 times more advanced. You also DO NOT go to the moon when the Russians (who even by U.S astronauts said had a FAR more advanced space program) said it cannot be done. If it could be done the Russians would have done it first. This was all a PR campaign by the government to show the world that we were better than everyone else. We never went plain and simple. Any person that looks at the evidence and makes an intelligent conclusion would say this has been faked. You DO NOT got to the moon after just 10 years since your president declared it happen. And then try to go back after 35+ years. If you did it once with 1969 technology you could do it again and again with technology that is more than 1000 times more advanced. You also DO NOT go to the moon when the Russians (who even by U.S astronauts said had a FAR more advanced space program) said it cannot be done. If it could be done the Russians would have done it first. This was all a PR campaign by the government to show the world that we were better than everyone else. We never went plain and simple.

]]> By: LCROSS plume detected, but not from Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-220922 LCROSS plume detected, but not from Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:46:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-220922 [...] 30 meters across. That’s far too small to be seen from Earth (our limit, even with Hubble, is more than 100 meters in size), but the orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter should be able to see it easily, and in fact did [...] [...] 30 meters across. That’s far too small to be seen from Earth (our limit, even with Hubble, is more than 100 meters in size), but the orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter should be able to see it easily, and in fact did [...]

]]> By: zsfdsf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-220652 zsfdsf Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:29:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-220652 It was faked, pretty obvious. And when the US actually goes to the moon legitimately, they will plant all the evidence needed to make sure everyone believes the Apollo missions actually occurred. It was faked, pretty obvious. And when the US actually goes to the moon legitimately, they will plant all the evidence needed to make sure everyone believes the Apollo missions actually occurred.

]]> By: muriem http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-208672 muriem Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:07:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-208672 About the long shadows theory. I'm not an expert to hubble, but I do own a small amateur telescope (aprox. 6 inc). There are extra filters to equip before observing the moon (or a much heavier one for the sun), otherwise the intense radiation it would damage your eyes (even for the moon). I don't know how the hubble electronic is equipped, but since its not designed to look at the moon (or the sun), I suppose looking at a moon other than at new moon is likely the last thing it would do anyway. @John, the earth was just not in possition very low at the horizont. Think about it, how many Photos you got with you AND the moon on the same photo? And note, no they weren't able to stand on top of a mountain or a tower for this. Aren't there enough "earthrise" pictures taken from the moon? (Just google "earthrise") About the long shadows theory. I’m not an expert to hubble, but I do own a small amateur telescope (aprox. 6 inc). There are extra filters to equip before observing the moon (or a much heavier one for the sun), otherwise the intense radiation it would damage your eyes (even for the moon). I don’t know how the hubble electronic is equipped, but since its not designed to look at the moon (or the sun), I suppose looking at a moon other than at new moon is likely the last thing it would do anyway.

@John, the earth was just not in possition very low at the horizont. Think about it, how many Photos you got with you AND the moon on the same photo? And note, no they weren’t able to stand on top of a mountain or a tower for this. Aren’t there enough “earthrise” pictures taken from the moon? (Just google “earthrise”)

]]> By: Jont http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-207538 Jont Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-207538 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8op08e5KpqY Answered alot of my questions :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8op08e5KpqY
Answered alot of my questions :)

]]> By: Jont http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-207476 Jont Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:05:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-207476 Possibilities? Other countrys followed the moonlanding. Only thru radio transmitions right? So lets just say i send a bouncer to the moon? A unmanned ship that i use as an relay... Everyone would think id be at the moon :) nice... The laser they put on the moon... could have been placed with a robot, or could just be the lander itself. nice... Its funny to see how close mythbusters came to actually faking it xD alltough they did not have a budget of 30billions? http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00554/ST_Books_554832a.jpg He is in the shadow... and sure... light from the ground bounces up... but why is the top of him bright as day then? From the stars? From earth? nope :( http://martianchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/moon-walk-49807-lw.jpg Why is the terrain getting darker furhter away from him? its supposed to be as bright everywhere... Another question i have: Is there any picture of an astronaut with earth behind them? Taken from the moon... Or werent they able to see the Earth either? Possibilities?
Other countrys followed the moonlanding. Only thru radio transmitions right? So lets just say i send a bouncer to the moon? A unmanned ship that i use as an relay… Everyone would think id be at the moon :) nice…
The laser they put on the moon… could have been placed with a robot, or could just be the lander itself. nice…
Its funny to see how close mythbusters came to actually faking it xD alltough they did not have a budget of 30billions?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00554/ST_Books_554832a.jpg
He is in the shadow… and sure… light from the ground bounces up… but why is the top of him bright as day then? From the stars? From earth? nope :(

http://martianchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/moon-walk-49807-lw.jpg
Why is the terrain getting darker furhter away from him? its supposed to be as bright everywhere…

Another question i have: Is there any picture of an astronaut with earth behind them? Taken from the moon… Or werent they able to see the Earth either?

]]> By: matt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/comment-page-4/#comment-202557 matt Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:35:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers/#comment-202557 you guys will all have red faces in the future when it is common knowledge that the landing was a hoax. you guys will all have red faces in the future when it is common knowledge that the landing was a hoax.

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