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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #85 on: May 20, 2018, 11:31:53 AM »
Quote from: Smedley Butler on May 20, 2018, 09:05:58 AM
You people are incredibly stupid.

There was no television camers on the moon.

It was a film camera.
There was no wireless ANYTHING in 1969.

Film has always been PHYSICAL until the 90's

They had nothing small enough to take on the LEM that could broadcast signals through the air.
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Offline noOneImportant

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« Reply #86 on: May 20, 2018, 12:10:35 PM »
The first transatlantic television broadcast was done in 1928. The technology existed and antennas don't take up a lot of space. If you think it was impossible to leave behind a camera on the surface and have it send the video to the lander you are deluding yourself. Independent of the question of whether or not it actually happened, that piece was doable in the 30s.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #87 on: May 20, 2018, 12:29:12 PM »
Quote from: noOneImportant on May 20, 2018, 12:10:35 PM
The technology existed and antennas don't take up a lot of space.

False.  NASA claims that they contracted out to RCA and Westinghouse to build something precisely because no such technology existed before that time.
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Offline noOneImportant

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« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2018, 12:39:12 PM »
Which technology in particular are you referring to here? If you mean the capacity to send a signal all the way from the moon back to a control station on earth, I don't doubt that at all. Obviously a trip to the moon would involve a large amount of tech with very narrow use cases that no one would have bothered to develop (because there's no other reason for an antenna system capable of broadcasting over the distances involved, for example). Developing things like that and working out all the issues is hard, so I'm not surprised they had to get someone to build something specifically for the purpose.
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Offline Smedley Butler

Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #89 on: May 20, 2018, 02:34:07 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on May 20, 2018, 11:31:53 AM
They had nothing small enough to take on the LEM that could broadcast signals through the air.
This. 
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