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Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by impaired
I see a couple of pics and John madden scribbles, what I do not see is proof.
Why don't we turn one of those powerful telescopes that get good images of mars toward the moon and get some real photos of some flags??
mmmmhm...
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by impaired
Just what is not rediculous about getting clear pics from mars but not the moon?
We can get some real good pics of Earth through an atmosphere, but not of the atmosphere free moon?
Now that is rediculous.
Originally posted by impaired
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by impaired
Just what is not rediculous about getting clear pics from mars but not the moon?
We can get some real good pics of Earth through an atmosphere, but not of the atmosphere free moon?
Now that is rediculous.
Friend. Are you messing with me? This is SCIENCE. This is math.
Distance from the Moon: 238,900 miles (384,400 km). Do you believe that?
Distance from Mars: Between 128,600,000 miles (128.6 MILLION) and 160 million miles (160,000,000).
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by impaired
I agree, mars is much farther away, yet we can get good pics, why can we get no good pics of our own moon that is much closer?
I am not arguing math, in fact I'm agreeing.
Do you see what I'm asking?
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Off topic, Stewie rocks.edit on 19-8-2012 by g146541 because: Stewie
The answer is basically "not a chance". No Earthbound telescope can see the flag on the Moon. Why not? For openers, the Earth's atmosphere is never steady enough to allow resolution below about one arc second for most locations. Beyond that, the telescope required to "see" the flag would need to be absolutely huge! Here is some basic analysis to show what would be needed:
Method 1 will use simple proportions to show what would be needed. The Moon's diameter is approximately 2160 miles. The Moon is nominally about 239,000 miles from Earth, and at this distance it subtends a diameter of about 30 arc minutes in the sky as seen from Earth. There are 60 arc seconds per arc minute, so the Moon is about 1800 arc seconds across. Let's figure out how many arc seconds represent one mile. The calculation is straightforward: if 1800 seconds = 2160 miles, then 1 mile = .83 arc seconds (basically just divide 1800 by 2160).
So, now we know that 1 mile is about .83 arc seconds. How big is the flag? I do not know for sure but let's assume it is 3 feet long on the long side. How many arc seconds is this? We know that 1 mile = .83 arc seconds; the flag is 3/5280 miles wide (or about 5.682e-4 miles). To find out the arc seconds, we simply multiply this value by .83 to get 4.716e-4 arc seconds. A long time ago someone named Dawes determined that the resolution of an optical telescope is basically 4.56 divided by the telescope's diameter (in inches). So, from that we can rearrange the equation to say that the diameter of the telescope needed (in inches) is 4.56 divided by the resolution required (arc seconds). Dividing 4.56 by4.716e-4 comes out to be 9669 inches. Converting this to feet yields about 805 FEET! And this would be the required telescope diameter to JUST BARELY see the flag at all! And, it would only be just visible as a small dot, it would not "look" like a flag at all.
Let's say we really want to see the flag and have it look like a flag. We'll have to make some assumptions again. Let's assume that the stripes on the flag are 1.5 inches wide and we want to just be able to see them. Using the same method as above we can come up with an answer. In this case we need to be able to see something that is 1.5/12/5280 miles wide, or 2.367e-5 miles. We multiply this by .83 to get the resolution (1.965e-5). Dividing 4.56 by this number yields 232065 inches, or about 19388 FEET! This value is also about 3.6 miles. Clearly it is not possible to build an optical telescope of this size. So, basically the Flag on the Moon remains "invisible" to us here on Earth.
Originally posted by rottenrascals
reply to post by g146541
If you are complaining that all photos of the moon are in black and white then I have some bad news for you.
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by impaired
I agree, mars is much farther away, yet we can get good pics, why can we get no good pics of our own moon that is much closer?
I am not arguing math, in fact I'm agreeing.
Do you see what I'm asking?
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Off topic, Stewie rocks.edit on 19-8-2012 by g146541 because: Stewie
Originally posted by Ryanssuperman
Originally posted by impaired
Originally posted by Ryanssuperman
Originally posted by rottenrascals
reply to post by Ryanssuperman
but I'm pretty sure all these things happened.
Exactly. "Pretty sure" is what I'm saying. You're not %100 certain, you can't be.
There we go. It's all semantics, but yeah - I'm "pretty sure", but of course I can't be 100% certain because I wasn't there...
Regardless - the evidence is enough for ME.
Exactly
Originally posted by Lone12
reply to post by impaired
..i think thats the whole point OP -
there would néver be "enough proof" for someone, who doesnt believe it landed
Besides - no single soul of all earths population actually sáw it happen
( exept for whatever was ' presented'...true ?)
so - millions upon millions " had to belíeve " that it happened
That is THE required aspect for a Ritual: that souls believe
Because that generates the power, to whatever the subject of the Ritual was about.
and that is, millions of souls have " curiosity for Mars " - that is the message implanted.
And what man believes, *will* happen.
Annunaki are , basically, invited by this Ritual.
...see.
- i dont even consider it to be so relevant whether it perhaps indéed 'landed ' or not.
It was all about the Ritual
bless
Originally posted by Lone12
reply to post by impaired
right.
*grin* ....and the 'curiosity' descended in exact the same angle as *cough* googleMars..?
What an amázing 'coincidence'.
- im not against you OP... but this whole curiosity thing is 1st a question of belief.
Only after that, proof is searched to support the belief - whether it landed or didnt land.
its all 1 occult Ritual, this entire mars thing
....planet of Nergal, chief of the Annunaki
Originally posted by zilebeliveunknown
reply to post by Anthony1138
Well you wont mistake if you say that skies are black(night), red(sunset) or green(aurora), it's not always blue
On the OP: they did land on Mars, but IMO they are going over there with reason, knowing there is something interesting, besides 2.5 billion is a large sum to spend just from human desire to explore the unknown.
Originally posted by zilebeliveunknown
reply to post by Anthony1138
On the OP: they did land on Mars, but IMO they are going over there with reason, knowing there is something interesting, besides 2.5 billion is a large sum to spend just from human desire to explore the unknown.