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I think the moon landing skeptics are missing the obvious engineering proof
Honestly, I used to just ignore the whole moon landing debate because it felt pointless. But last week my buddy who's a civil engineer showed me this breakdown of the retroreflectors left on the moon. You can actually bounce lasers off them from observatories on Earth and measure the distance to the moon within a couple centimeters. That's been done since the 1970s. If those reflectors weren't really there, the laser measurements wouldn't match up with the moon's orbit. So to me, that physical proof outweighs all the shadow angle arguments. Has anyone else looked into the laser ranging data and still doubted it?
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lewis.troy19d ago
Yeah but have they checked the laser's battery life though...
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Know that the retroreflectors aren't battery powered at all, they are just mirrors set up in a special way. They don't need any electricity, they just sit there and bounce the laser light back to where it came from. It is a totally passive setup, like a road reflector you see at night. So the whole joke about checking battery life is funny but it misses the basic science of how those things work. The fact that we can still measure the distance to the moon so precisely after all these years is pretty solid evidence they are really up there.
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