Skashion said:
Show the scientific evidence which conclusively proves that man landed on the moon on July 21st 1969, not that it was scientifically possible to do so, please. Don't just say it, let's see it.
Would the fact that we have retroreflector arrays, that broadcast a signal back to the Earth, which could only have been installed by humans, and started broadcasting on July 21st 1969 be evidence enough?
Oh, and they are conveniently placed in the Sea of Tranquility.
-- Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:02 pm --
mcmanus said:
They supposedly landed on the moon then blasted off the surface, docked with the third man going around the moon at over 4000 miles per hour, and made it 240,000 miles back to Earth. They re-entered Earth’s atmosphere going 25,000 mph, but parachutes assured a safe landing in the ocean. (not my words)
And all this in 1969 when computers were as powerful as a pocket calculator. Nah not for me.
That's wrong and misleading, depending on how you are terming powerful.
They might have had the same amount of RAM as a current pocket calcuator, but they processors worked just as well (though a several milliseconds slower). Astronavigation is all number crunching, which computers have been very good at since World War Two. In fact, the first ever computer usage was for predicting the accuracy of missile paths IIRC, which isn't too far away from astronavigation.
-- Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:05 pm --
Oh yeah, and the fact that numerous HAM radio operators, satellite dishes, etc all picked up the chatter between the astronauts because they pointed themselves at the Moon. They made a quality film about this with Sam O'Neill in it, about the telescope in Australia that nearly missed the Moon Landing, can't recall it's name now.
EDIT: The Dish, and the observatory was Parkes.
