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Conspiracy Theory

Be kinda hard to fake flags and left behind equipment up there that can be seen with a powerful enough telescope.
 
They could have put it there on a later mission now. Keep yourself open here. I'm not saying they did or anything but this is pretty interesting.
 
One of my crazy old uncles used to swear up and down that the moon landing was a hoax. He was also a drunk, and thought people were following him wherever he went.
 


<< Be kinda hard to fake flags and left behind equipment up there that can be seen with a powerful enough telescope. >>

Wrong. There isn't a telescope in the world, or orbit, that can see anything that small (relatively) on the moon.
 
You're telling me that Hubble can't? Wrong!! I remember seeing pics somewhere of a pic it took of the Apollo 11 landing site.
 


<< You're telling me that Hubble can't? Wrong!! I remember seeing pics somewhere of a pic it took of the Apollo 11 landing site >>



They just said at the end that NO, there is no telescope capable of doing that.
 
The Hubble telescope's sensors are much too sensitive to survive the damage they'd suffer if pointed at the moon.

Many hundreds of pounds of lunar soil and rock, portions even today being subjected tovery critical laboratory analysis world-wide, are ample evidence that this conpiracy theory is just that.

The procedures of their analysis are not unlike those which might have to be used to prove that your parents are really the very same people in whose house you grew up.

Prove to everyone's satisfaction that you were not left on your &quot;parent's&quot; doorstep by some roving band of alien gypsies.

 
Actually UG,

In 1999, NASA made modifications to the Hubble that allowed it to take photos of the moon. I just found this out, but apparently it still would not be able to see the remnants from Apollo. Strange...but I'm still not satisfied by the conspiracy theorist arguments. Here's the link to Hubble's moon pictures

-GL
 
GL;

Whoa. Thanks for the heads up.

When first launched, the Hubble Space Telescope was programmed not to point anywhere in the sky within 45 angular degrees of either the sun or the moon to spare its sensors from both direct exposure or from internal reflections off the inside surfaces of the telescope tube.

The upgraded sensors must have filters the originals were without.

'Learn something relatively new every day. 😉

 
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