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Footprints on the Moon
05/29/203
| patriotUSA
Posted on 05/29/2003 1:19:17 PM PDT by patriotUSA
Is there any telescope available that can discern the footprints left on the moon? (Parental homework assist in progress!)
TOPICS: Technical; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: science; telescope
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To: patriotUSA; RightWhale
You can see the remains of one of the landers though, I forget how to find it I bet RW here either knows or knows who knows.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:27:46 PM PDT
by
discostu
(If he really thinks we're the devil, then lets send him to hell)
To: patriotUSA
No, because we've never been there, nor will we ever be able to go there
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:27:58 PM PDT
by
Scythian
To: patriotUSA
Make the kid do his own homework...(G)
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:47 PM PDT
by
Drango
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binaries, and those that don't.)
To: humblegunner
Nice try. We can tell that's actually your cat's litterbox.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:47 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(someone kidnapped dirtboy and replaced him with an exact replica)
To: patriotUSA
Moon? What moon? Why havn't I been notified of this? Oh man, This could be hugh!
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:47 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(Perfection is my direction! *Looks at a map* I think I'm going the wrong way...)
To: patriotUSA
Is there any telescope available that can discern the footprints left on the moon? Yes, many. And binoculars.
You just have to bring the glassware close enough to the moon.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:47 PM PDT
by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
To: humblegunner
Nice try. We can tell that's actually your cat's litterbox.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:35:00 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(someone kidnapped dirtboy and replaced him with an exact replica)
To: PatrioticAmerican
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:35:09 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: patriotUSA
Moon? What moon? Why havn't I been notified of this? Oh man, This could be hugh!
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:36:07 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(Perfection is my direction! *Looks at a map* I think I'm going the wrong way...)
To: patriotUSA
No. The reason maybe, because there are no foot prints on the moon... ...unless the are alien.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:36:54 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: Tijeras_Slim
lol...
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:37:42 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
Opps
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:37:48 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(Perfection is my direction! *Looks at a map* I think I'm going the wrong way...)
To: Cachelot
That was funny!
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:38:27 PM PDT
by
dead
To: PMCarey
"No - nor can you even view any of the equipment left behind."
True, however you can bounce lasers off mirrors and some of the other equipment they left behind which we do to measure precise distances between the earth and the moon.
I seriously hope these guys are just trying to be funny and don't truly believe that we didn't go there because of a few funny looking pictures when there are mountains of evidence that we did.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:44:59 PM PDT
by
SirAllen
To: Michael Rivero; Inspector Harry Callahan
Ping
To: patriotUSA
Now...if this were a trick question... If the astronauts left behind a telescope on the moon, then this telescope could discern the footsteps a few feet away.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:47:03 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: patriotUSA
Footprints? No.
The photograph below was taken at the Hadenuf Backyard Observatory with 10" Meade Schmidt Cassegrain computerized telescope. Eyepiece projection/Tele-Extender taken in film format with an Olympus OM-1 fuji 200 1/2 second exposure.
The crater near the middle is Theopilus. The crater is approximately 61 miles in diameter and the central peak of the crater is about 13,000 feet high.
Understand, the pros can do much better then my backyard equipment, but cannot take images of object the size of footprints, yet.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:49:21 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(Forget the tin foil, get out the sheet metal.)
To: PMCarey
What equipment? Left behind by who?
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:51:36 PM PDT
by
nygoose
To: patriotUSA
In simple terms no. Even the hubble telescope would have to be circling the moon at low altitude in order to resolve items of one inch diameter and I am not sure that is even possible. Even spy satellites need to be flying at low altitude in order to be able to resolve items of five feet in diameter. They are constrained by factors such as atmospheric turbulence (they make stars shimmer) caused by temperature inversions at different altitudes.
Put simply the answer is absolutely not.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:52:36 PM PDT
by
Cacique
To: patriotUSA
No, ground based telescopes are limited by refractive turbulence.
There is a corner cube reflector on the moon that you can ping with a laser beam.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:53:23 PM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
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