Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414152133.htm

> I guess that blows the conspiracy theory that man was never on the moon!

  You make it sound like this was something new. Of course the reflectors
have been being measured for 40 years, so there's nothing new about that.

  A few conspiracy theorists try to claim that there are no reflectors,
and that all the observatories around the world which are measuring the
reflectors are in a big conspiracy together to lie about it, which of course
is ludicrous.

  Most conspiracy theorists are not as fool as trying to claim there are no
reflectors. Instead, they claim that they were sent there by unmanned probes.

  Of course what they *don't* explain is how they were sent there, when,
who designed the landing systems (so that the reflectors could land safely
rather than crashing) and the deploying systems, all this in complete
secrecy, of course, and how they were able to sneak this unmanned probe
there without the soviets noticing. (Sending a rocket to space is not
something you can really do very furtively, especially when the Soviet
Union is very interested in your space activities because it's the height
of the cold war and nuclear proliferation.)

  Some conspiracy theorists may claim that the Moon mission which allegedly
took the reflectors to the Moon was actually staying on low Earth orbit and
simply sent an unmanned probe from there to the Moon. Again, it would be
hard to keep such a huge unmanned probe embedded inside the lunar module
without hundreds of engineers (many of which were not direct NASA employees)
noticing that something is not summing up.

  Since the lunar module was already in orbit, wouldn't it have been much
simpler to send *it* to the Moon in order to take the reflector there? No
need to hide heavy unmanned probes with automatic landing equipment. Just
send the whole thing there.

  Of course you still don't have the automatic landing mechanism. Well,
the easy solution to that problem is to use the lunar lander itself. And
while you are at it, put the astronauts inside. Easy.

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