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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:45 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmail com> 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.
>
I assumed they either didn't know about it or just ignored it ;)
> 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.
>
This is scary stuff =:O
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-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"
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