... :smile:Babombeez said:and how about you tell us these facts! dude!
Beez
With lasers that are shot at the moon, it is very important that the minimum beam divergence possible be achieved. This is because only a very, very small percentage of this laser light actually hits the small retro-reflector and is returned to the earth. Telescopes are used to collimate these laser beams so that the smallest possible beam of light (and thus the most intense beam of light on the moon's surface) hits the moon. Even though telescopes make the beam very wide at the time the beam is shot, the collimation more than makes up for this wide beam when the beam hits the moon.
Shooting through a telescope also provides another benefit. Telescopes have tracking mechanisms that are very, very accurate. Thus by shooting a laser through a telescope, the pointing of the laser is very accurate. When the beam gets to the moon it is about 7 km in diameter and when it returns from the moon it is about 20 km in diameter.[28] Only a very, very small percentage of the 7 km diameter laser beam actually hits the retro-reflector, thus only a minuscule amount of light actually returns to the earth. Furthermore, only a minuscule amount of the 20 km wide returning light actually hits the sending telescope. Needless to say, extremely sensitive detection equipment is needed to detect the returning light.
mate we export that shit for a reason :smile:Pheno, you have to realize that most of these folks are ****ed out of their head on all that lousy Foster's that you Ozzies ship over here. The only reason that you are smarter than us is because you guys won't drink the shit.
Babombeez said:The former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program, Ken Johnston, has released quite a number of sensational statements recently in the USA. The specialist said that U.S. astronauts found ancient ruins of artificial origin and a previously unknown technology to control gravitation when then landed on the Moon. Astronauts took pictures of the objects that they found, but NASA ordered Johnston to destroy the images. Johnston did not follow the order. He said that the U.S. government had been keeping this information a secret for 40 years.
newbgrow said:S2D, why? Money. The cold war ended. We don't have to prove ourselves anymore. The American public doesn't give two shits about NASA.
I find all this conspiracy theory bullshit rather repetitive now. Yes, S2D, nothing exists. The government and everyone else is lying to you. Hell, you don't even exist. You had no parents, you were born in a test tube, spawned off by the Matrix. The world is really a giant computer simulation done by "God" (a Martian). The US Government knew about this so they hid the evidence.
Happy now??