Timeline for How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real?
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| Aug 24, 2023 at 4:26 | comment | added | ATL_DEV | @AnthonyX, The question should be "Should we trust the US, especially after the embarrassment of Sputnik." | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:54 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 17, 2018 at 0:39 | comment | added | Anthony X | re: "should we trust science?"... Computers, smart phones, the internet, cars, airliners, MRI machines, and countless items of modern technology only exist and work because of a huge legacy of science. Physics, chemistry, materials science, quantum mechanics and more all informed the ideas which produced the inventions which now make our modern world what it is. Geology, astronomy, biology, anthropology, paleontology and all other sciences follow the same methods, so can be equally trusted to produce the conclusions that help us understand our world. | |
| Aug 20, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | Baldrickk | It's worth noting that aside from those CG images being used to showcase the graphics technology used, they also used them to demonstrate how the model used the correct lighting conditions for the moonwalk and show the same features as the photos, using the model to validate the photos. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:34 | history | edited | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | David Hammen | I followed by own advice and added the above to comments to this answer. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:22 | history | edited | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added discussion on retroreflectors and section that says moon landings couldn't have been faked
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:40 | comment | added | David Hammen | I would add a fifth category, the technology needed to fake the Moon landings did not exist at that time. That technology does exist now. The photographs the astronauts took on the Moon could not have been taken in a studio. The lighting is wrong for studio lights, but is correct for light from the Sun. Those photographs could have been created by CGI, but that would require computational power that did not exist in the 1990s, let alone the 1960s. There was a recent TED talk on this very subject, where they recreated one of the iconic photographs from Apollo 11. It wasn't easy. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:34 | comment | added | David Hammen | Regarding third party evidence, here's an image: ilrs.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov/images/… . These are the sites that have pinged the retroreflectors left on the Moon by two of the Apollo missions and by one unmanned Soviet mission. | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 16:47 | comment | added | uhoh | @DarkDust you've piqued my interest, so I've asked In what ways did the Soviet Union “observe the Apollo Moon landings closely”? | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 21:16 | comment | added | kim holder | @Edlothiad the answer was worked on in Meta, and that part i believe is the handiwork of called2voyage, but my take is that China is singled out because they are the only nation with a program to land someone on the Moon. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 13:39 | history | edited | user20636 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2018 at 7:06 | comment | added | DarkDust | If the USSR had had just a tiny amount of doubt whether the landings were faked, they would have used that for propaganda. Loudly! They observed the landings closely and even had a spacecraft in orbit during Apollo 11's landing. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 6:38 | comment | added | Edlothiad |
and they would love to one day have the opportunity to claim that they were truly the first; yet even China. I'm unsure why this has been limited to China, I feel like I can state with almost clear certainty that everyone would like to claim that they were truly the first, not only China. (Although I may be misunderstanding your intentions here)
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| Jun 29, 2018 at 0:15 | history | edited | Jack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 20:07 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by called2voyage♦ | ||
| Jun 28, 2018 at 20:07 | history | answered | kim holder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
