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Measuring The Distance From Earth To Moon
lewiz writes: "Tom Murphy at UW is attempting to measure the distance between the Earth and The Moon to the nearest millimetre according to this BBC News article. 'His tape measure will be a giant telescope at Apache Point in New Mexico. Retroreflectors left on the surface of the Moon by various space missions, including the Apollo 11 lunar landing, will also come in handy.'"
Isn't this better than moving closer to Earth?
shhh!!!! don't tell the organization that's funding their research that!!!!
...Check the Odometer on the Apollo 11 capsule.
They that would sacrifice their
My old encylopedia says it's precisely 300,000 km and it also says that "someday we hope to go there."
All that and the Kaiser Wilhelm still doesn't know what to do with his country.
Wheeeee
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists will come up with something... they always do, regardless of how ridiculous their theories are. See: FOX.
My thoughts exactly!
So is he trying to get a precise estimate?
ID is supposed to be AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken, darn text size restrictions!
...his wife [sobbing]: "Dammit Tom! You could measure how far it was to the moon! But you couldn't see the distance between... between US!
Why can't he do something more useful? Like measure the cheese composition of the moon...?
Current estimates predict that all known gorgonzola deposits on Earth will be depleted by 2016. We need to think about cheese-mines on the moon now, before it's too late...
... according to Bart Sibrel :D
To sum up: "we never went to the moon, hence there are no reflectors on the moon."
Moderators: Put down the crack pipe and the mouse. Step away from the keyboard. Take a DEEP BREATH and READ. This is not a troll. I repeat. This is not a troll.
No, I don't believe the "moon hoax" loonies. Anyone with an above-kindergarten education can easily refute the "moon hoax" loonies claims.
For your amusement, this is the gallery of the 'barking mad'...
Some anonymous kook
Bill Kaysing
Ken Overstreet
"mpeeters"
The parallel article contains this ghastly analogy:
Murphy's real motivation is to test Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which is
based on an assumption that gravity affects a feather and a bowling ball in the same
manner. You cannot test this in your home, because air keeps the feather aloft.
I forget -- was Einstein the guy who dropped the balls off the tower or the one who was hit in the head with an apple?
I have a theory that FOX doesn't really exist and it's only a conpiracy to make us think we are dumber than we really are.
sic transit gloria mundi
ok, so McDonald's has an Observatory Laser Ranging Station, but they still can't manage to give me fries that aren't cold.
(humor, folks... or at least a poor attempt at it, i'm not really THAT dumb)
The Moon. For several years she has fascinated Mankind
And the Monty Burns classic:
For centuries, man has wanted to destroy the Sun
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
$ ping moon
PING moon (212.58.226.40): 56 octets data
64 octets from 212.58.226.40: icmp_seq=0 ttl=2000 time=1.283 s
1.283 x 300000000 = 385000000
So the moon is 385000 km from earth. Easy!
No matter what it looks like, there isn't a
If all of the articles published on this topic were stacked one on top of the other, they would reach the moon and back 3.42 times.
Or should that be 3.46?