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During one of the missions we actually placed mirrors on the moon to measure its distance from the Earth with a laser.
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If you had actually read my post, you would know I mentioned this (the corner reflector) and I said it could easily have been placed there by a probe.
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If the moon landings were a fake, than the whole space race was an elaborate hoax by both the American and Russian governments. If the space race was a hoax, then we wouldn't be discussing about the moon landings on our PC's, whose technology was one of many results of the declassified technologies used during the space race.
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The russian's would not have to be in on this at all. And not everyone in the government would have to know either. I'm not denying that astronauts went to space. I believe we've been in space, and sent satelites up, and space stations, all of which we WOULD need computers for, and as a result, yes, we would still have our nice technology acheived from the space program if the missions were faked.
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There was a little thing known as the "Cold War" going on at the time
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you didn't read my post either. I specificly mentioned the cold war. I know it was going on, that's the whole reason for the space missions. Becuase U.S. wanted to 1-up the soviet union, and making it seem like we had landed on the moon would be a GREAT way to do it!
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As some even more educated people may know, the Van Allen belt isn't nearly as dangerous as you make it sound, especially in a metal spaceship moving very fast.
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The Van Allen belt is dangerous. And even if the astronauts were moving fast through it, it's less than 1cm of aluminum protecting you. They would have suffered from radiation. No doubt. 1cm of aluminum just isn't enough protection, even if you're only in the belt for a short amount of time.
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The site doesn't deal with this either (in fact, it deals with lunar hoax believers who say that the lunar lander should have had a flame, but didn't...) but have you ever heard of remote control? And how do we get film from robotic cameras on Mars? Also, I didn't see a flame in that video at all.
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you don't see? When the top of the lander de-ataches from the bottom, sparks fly and a flame is emitted that sends it upword. It should NOT have had a flame. film? well, the robotic cameras on mars were about 10X more sophisticated than these cameras. The cameras on mars, sent the pictures digitally back to the earth. However, at the time, like I stated, the computers had 32kilobytes of memory. The average picture is a few THOUSAND kilobytes. There's NO way they could have digitally sent them to mission control with their primitive technology. Therefore, someone would have had to bring the film back home. And since the camera was left there, there's no way that could have happened!
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This is the single most annoying "evidence" ever. The flag is not blowing in the wind. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but there is NO air on the moon. This means no air resistance, and no friction. Notice that in the video the astronaut holding the flag is moving it around. Because there's no air, there is nothing to slow down the flag, and thus it ripples a bit longer than one would expect it too when somebody moves it. Also, the flag has a horizontal rod holding it open so that you can actually see the flag.
Also, if there was wind, why isn't the dust blowing around in it?
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okay, so it's a possibility the flag isn't waving in the wind. It sure looks like to me! Why isn't the dust moving? Becuase the wind isn't strong enough. Here's an analogy. Have you ever been on a beach and seen a sailboat go by? Well, the sailboat's sail (resembling the flag in this case) is catching the wind an moving. However, the sand your sitting on isn't blowing all over the place is it? NO, because the canvas is catching the wind, and the sand (or dust) isn't. It's that simple.
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Of course you can't see anything on the Moon. That would be like me going to the Moon and trying to see a flag I set up in my front yard (not counting the atmosphere in the way of course.) Telescopes can't see such small objects that far away, not even powerful ones.
Also, Google Moon doesn't have any images at the zoom level you'd need to see such small objects.
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true, however, I have used google earth to zoom in far enough that I could see my house. I could even see my dads car in our driveway. So, if I could see stuff on google earth, why not on google moon?