Re: Planet X conspiracy
You guys are off your meds, right?
Of course we went to the Moon. It would be the same sort of program today if we went again. The Moon hasn't gotten any closer, you know.
We'd have to use a huge lift vehicle, not the shuttle. The shuttle can't get up enough speed - it's only designed for low Earth orbit. If you don't go fast enough, you never get there (the Earth
is pulling back on you all the way, you know.)
It would take about a decade to design and develop such a vehicle - we're designing one now, in fact.
Of course, given the current attitude, it would never get done anyway - Congress would end up postponing the program to death by limiting the funds until it died the death of a thousand cuts.
Computers have little to nothing to do with it. You can't ride a computer to the Moon for God's sake!
Anyone here care to figure out exactly what kind of resolution would be required to see the moon landing sites from Earth or even from a telescope orbiting Earth like the Hubble scope?
Why on Earth would anyone controlling any optical instrument with that sort of resolution want to waste time looking where people have already walked, photographed and taken soil and rock samples?
Does anyone here think that there is even one second of spare time available on any such telescope anywhere on (or above) Earth?
There are waiting lists - prepaid - that are weeks, months - even years - long, to use these telescopes for only one or two nights.
Cough up the dough and maybe they'll let you waste it looking for Neil Armstrong's footprints.
In the meantime,
take a look at how the sites look using a camera that was in orbit around the Moon.
See anything? And that's from a Moon orbit.
Think before you rant.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html
Harte