Desideratum":1c0nzlh8 said:
Ok I am new to this so excuse me if this has already been asked. Can anyone explain with any knowledge why there are no new pictures of the moons surface reflecting the moon landing and eqiupment left on the moon? The only photos we have of the landing, the surface or equipment left on the surface are 40 years old and was provided by the government. Why has no third party or foriegn government been able to photograph the flags or equipment NASA claims to have left of the moon? I find this incredible that we can take pictures of galaxies far far away but we cannot take pictures of the moons surface. A new picture of the equipment, if it is there, would be a front page photo around the world. This makes no sense.
The Russians had every reason to want to prove we never landed on the moon, but even they don't dispute the fact that we landed there seven times. After all, they, too, can bounce laser beams off the instruments we left there. It makes perfect sense that no one can photograph the flags or equipment if you have even a rudimentary understanding of optics. The angular size of these objects, as seen from Earth, are almost inconceivably tiny. No Earth-based telescope, even the largest ones, can resolve them, especially through our planet's turbulent atmosphere. The Hubble Space Telescope isn't large enough, either, although the James Webb Space Telescope might be able to when it becomes operational.
Desideratum":1c0nzlh8 said:
If NASA was able to recon the moons surface, 40 years ago with antiquated technology, how come no one can now with assets we have now? Japan sent two satellites to the moon to take HD pictures...but no evidence of the landing has been published. If you think I am a loon, try an internet search and you will find nothing new, only photos from 4 decades ago.
That's not quite true. Here's a photograph taken of the Apollo 15 landing site at Hadley Rille, taken by an orbiting satellite:
About one-eighth of the way down from the top of the photo in the center of the image, notice how all the light-colored craters have dark depressions in their center.....except for one. That's the dust kicked up by the Lunar Lander's exhaust.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking something like, "Oh, well, these could be retouched photographs!", and if you are, then it's clear nothing will convince you, short of taking a trip to the moon yourself....and even then you might still not believe it, because I suppose you could always argue that the equipment was left there by robotic landers and machinery that left footprints in the dust. If you've already made up your mind because you have some emotional reason for wanting to believe in the most complex, expensive hoax of all time, one that involved millions of Americans that were employed by NASA and their subcontractors, well then there's no point in discussing this with you.
Desideratum":1c0nzlh8 said:
Also, the actual film of the landing has somehow been lost at the National Archives. I know there are many who do not believe the it occured, I am one of them. I know there are many who believe what ever the government tells them. But would you not agree that all it takes is a simple picture taken by a third party to settle the matter once and for all? After all, if you assert a fact, like the moon landing, but have no way to prove it in 2009 with all our technology, then the joke is really on you, not those who did not believe it in the first place.
No, I would not agree that "all it takes is a simple picture", because my experience tells me that people like you are wedded to your conspiracy theories, and you are more interested in believing what you want to believe than you are interested in knowing the truth. Your response to this post will tell me whether or not I'm correct in my assessment.