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German moon mission to finally silence moon landing conspiracy theorists?

Do you think we went to the moon?


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I like to think we've visited the moon and more - it all seems very plausible. If anyone is interested about SSP they could always read "Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances".

I just finished the book and it was an interesting read. I don't know if I believe everything in the book, but some things in there seem very plausible and certainly could have happened. If you like X-Files type things and the idea of possible contact with ET or space travel, I suggest checking the book out.
 
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I am the moon.
 

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Was / is a Cult of people Called Moonies ( Yeh they are "An American Church Movment" )
 

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Was / is a Cult of people Called Moonies ( Yeh they are "An American Church Movment" )


they were named after a man Sun Myung Moon.

Our moon is a moon that is called "moon" . All the other moons have names of their own.
 

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Our moon is a moon that is called "moon" . All the other moons have names of their own.
And our earth is called "Earth". Yeah, kinda unimaginative and boring. :ohwell:
 

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Fictionally....

Theyve already been there since 1941

 

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Um, no. Our moon, while frequently called "The Moon" is officially named "Luna." In Latin. where nearly all astral bodies' names originate, our satellite's name is "Luna."

http://www.livescience.com/33373-moon-name.html

A little tidbit for those interested, our sun is actually Sol.


Nobody who speaks English calls it Luna, we all call it the moon.

The other moons have Latin or classical names through tradition not because of ancient observation. The only moon we knew about till Galileo was our own. The first that he discovered were the 4 largest moons orbitting Jupiter. All of which were Grecian names as is where i suspect the word Luna comes from as it was an older civilisation.

Io.....Greek
Europa...Greek
Gannymede....Greek
Callisto.....Greek


I was made to study Latin at school and i hated it. Incidentally the Latin for sun is.......solis. but thats just hair splitting.
 
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@CAPSLOCKSTUCK I remember XP's GUI, which I quite liked, was called Luna. :)

This is post 13131. :cool:
 

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In reply to a previous response, surely flat earth can be easily disproved by shining a powerful laser from a certain height in a straight line. Using simple 2d cartography, this laser would be able to be picked up 1/2 way 'around' the earth at the same height?

Answer from Dr P Mainwood.

Paul Mainwood, Degrees in Physics and Philosophy, Doctorate in Philosophy of Physics
Written 6 Nov 2015
Laser beams travel in straight lines. The earth is a sphere. So, assuming you're pointing the beam horizontally, the beam will continue in a straight line and head out of the atmosphere as the earth curves away beneath it, unless there other effects come into play to bend it.

I can think of only two effects that would change this straight line path: Atmospheric refraction and gravitational bending of light (as predicted by general relativity).

Let's check out and see if they're significant enough to bend the laser beam even an appreciable amount.

1) Atmospheric refraction: There will be a small amount of bending as the laser goes through thinner and thinner atmosphere and exits into space. This is the same effect that means the sun is "actually" below the horizon a good while before we see the sun set. Bennet's empirical formula for visible light gives:
R=cot&#x2061;(ha+7.31ha+4.4)" role="presentation">R=cot(ha+7.31ha+4.4)

Where h is the "apparent angle" of a distant object on the horizon, and R is given in arcminutes. Setting ha" role="presentation">ha as zero (meaning that we fire our laser beam in a horizontal line) we get a correction of around 34 arcminutes. i.e., half a degree. Not much, but it's there.

2) Gravitational bending of light: The earth's gravity will bend the light slightly. We should expect this effect to be very, very small indeed since it was not noticed until after general relativity was proposed. Let us calculate nevertheless.
Using the Schwarzchild solution for a massive body, we get:
&#x03B1;=4GMc2R" role="presentation">α=4GMc2R
For the angle in radians. For earth, M=5.97&#x00D7;1024kg" role="presentation">M=5.97×1024kg and R is the closest approach to the mass, i.e., the radius of the earth = 6371 km. Plug these in and convert to degrees and you get something stupendously small: 1.6&#x00D7;10&#x2212;7" role="presentation">1.6×10−7 degrees. This really is not much at all. We're safe discarding it, as expected.

So, the laser will continue straight out of the atmosphere, with a tiny half a degree bend by its interaction with the atmosphere, before continuing straight on in space forever.

Or we can shine a laser at the moon instead where we left shit from one of our previous visits. ffs.

I love how people make massive use of round earth technologies that encompass theories of relativity to communicate (cellular phones and gps) but handily discount that they actually work by the tested methods and instead make up their own unscientific theory instead.
 
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