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Conspiracy Theorists, Meet The Moon

Posted by Hemos on from the doubting-thomas-poke-in dept.

Spock the Baptist writes "You can read about an article entitled: "Telescope to challenge moon doubters" in the online edition of Sydney Morning Herald. The SMH reports that, "European scientists are to use the world's newest and largest telescope to see whether the spacecraft are still on the lunar surface." Does anyone really think that this will change the alleged minds of doubters?"

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  1. Re:Who cares? by zmooc · · Score: 4, Informative
    New projects will be financed

    Projects are financed by the state which is financed by it's people. Now some of those people don't believe their money is really spent right with NASA. That might hurt financing in the long run or may already do so; getting people enthousiastic is very important. And to get that done, they first have to believe.

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  2. Taking care of various conspiracy arguments by weird+mehgny · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe someone posted this before me, I could've missed it, anyway:

    http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.htm l

    It's pretty thorough.

  3. Re:What if... by GospelHead821 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately, I've seen disturbing evidence that some of the citizenry values the greed of corporations over the needs of the people. The other day, after reading the /. article about Nissan vs. Nissan, I told my parents about it, and they agreed that Nissan has more right to defend its name than Uzi Nissan does, because it's bigger, and that it would most appropriate for Uzi Nissan to change the name of his site or give up the URL entirely.

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  4. Re:Conspiracy Theorists... by Tzoq · · Score: 5, Informative

    No mystery there. You'll notice that all of the "disappearing" crosshairs go behind bright white objects. As it happens, when film is exposed the bright areas tend to "bloom" and bleed into neighbouring dark areas. So what happens when a thin black line goes through a bright white area? The bloom washes over the black line entirely and it disappears.

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  5. we already have proofs.. by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    As far as I remember, the crew that landed on the moon had for mission to place some highly reflective mirrors on the moon surface.

    Those mirrors are used to calculate the exact distance bertween earth and the moon by using a large laser and getting a few photons back to make the calculations.

    Now, except if the doubters find a way to slingshot a miror on the moon, THIS is a quite valuable poof, as they DO exist and are used everyday.

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  6. radiation by Dexter's+Laboratory · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ofcourse the conspiracy believers will not accept any proof. They will just counter it with a stupid explanation. This is one of the characteristics of pseudoscience; they refuse to listen to anything that might spoil their own beliefs. Right now it seems to be the radiation. While I'm certainly not an expert in that field, here is a link that explains more on the topic:
    http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html# radiation