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Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon
cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."
... it was on the moon the whole time.
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In Soviet Russia...
Nah, too obvious.
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is this an imperial unit or what?
factor 966971: 966971
My god, your logic is impeccable!
I believe that this story is very informative and that we all will get very insightful comments from everyone involved, and some of the posts will be funny, while others may be somewhat redundant, however there always will be a few underrated and overrated commentators, but it is all good as long as it does not lead to any flamebait here. Of-course Trolls are welcome to join the conversation, just as per usual arrangement.
Oh, and the Anonymous Cowards... I see you, I see you and your reflections in the Moon.
You can't handle the truth.
...reflector dish spots YOU!!!
The moon landing was a fake, but it was filmed on the moon. They didn't want you to know that we've had a moon base since 1964.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
No you dummy, it was a soundstage on mars.
Well, of course, with only 1/6 gravity, using an off the shelf standard velodrome construction, the banking on the track would be totally out of whack.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
It's all true:
http://www.vgg.com/tr/tr_102201_moon.html
They find it, and what do they do first? Zap it with a laser. No wonder it was hiding!
Thank God they were there too. If not for the film crew that day the nuclear waste dump on the far side of the moon would have gone supercritical and possibly launched the moon and all that was on it deep into space.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
To expand upon this a bit I can say that Pi = 5.981734819456272. As you can see I am very precise however, I am not at all accurate.
That's because we game them Nikola Tesla and the location of Atlantis in exchange for their silence on the matter. I'm not sure what we gave them to keep quiet about 9/11; perhaps the location of Tesla's base on Mars after he escaped from Earth.
I'm going to ask my boss for a purchase order. The only item on that purchase order will be for a sufficient quantity of whatever this guy's smoking to get the rest of the office to stop asking me why Verizon blew up our office phone service again.
That is all.
Nazis always say that..