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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Small telescope to see a few thousand miles away
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2023, 11:59:49 PM »
Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on September 12, 2023, 04:40:34 PM

You have no argument from me on that score, the moon landings were one of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated on the world, ever. BTW: you make an excellent point about A/C and the batteries.

Yep, between the astronauts needing to have carried around full HVAC units that could deal with the extreme temperatures, there's also the problem of the unlikelihood that those suits could have withstood the vacuum of space ... and then you have a look at pictures of the LEM where that thing has loose cardboard, tape, and duct tape all over it, with various metal rods that look like thin shower curtain rods, so that it would be laughable to think such a thing could withstand the forces that it would be subjected to.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Small telescope to see a few thousand miles away
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2023, 12:06:54 AM »
Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on September 12, 2023, 04:07:18 PM
True, but it’s within nearly everyones reach to by an inexpensive telescope and at least realize that the moon is solid and not translucent.

I'm just not buying that the moon is solid.  Professional Astronomers, making official observations to the Royal Astronomical Society, have reported stars passing into the darkened portion of the moon and yet being visible somehow "through" the moon.  There was a scientist in the 1960s who insisted that he had proven that the moon is made of plasma and not rock, and that it was "more than a theory" but pretty much provable fact.

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Offline Quo vadis Domine

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Re: Small telescope to see a few thousand miles away
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2023, 04:03:54 AM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on September 13, 2023, 12:06:54 AM
I'm just not buying that the moon is solid.  Professional Astronomers, making official observations to the Royal Astronomical Society, have reported stars passing into the darkened portion of the moon and yet being visible somehow "through" the moon.  There was a scientist in the 1960s who insisted that he had proven that the moon is made of plasma and not rock, and that it was "more than a theory" but pretty much provable fact.



I think you should get a telescope and look at the moon with your own eyes. We could even meet sometime if need be.
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