Mythbusters Moon Hoax Retroreflectors

When astronomers from around the world want a precise measurement, they bounce lasers off of 1 of 3 retroreflectors left on the moon by Apollos 11, 14 and 15. They're exactly where NASA says they should be. Mythbusters demonstrates this before your very eyes. How did they get there? If weren't placed there by Apollo astronauts, then hoax theorists have some explaining to do.

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Science & Technology

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• moon
• Apollo
• Mythbusters
• hoax
• lasers
• retroreflectors
• conspiracy
• lunar
• NASA

[LunarTuner]

@mujaku, have you ever talked to anyone who has bounced a laser off of anything?I'm not saying laser work wasn't done before the retros...but it sucked! Even now, the photon returns are virtually none, the suddenly when the retro is detected, the readings spike off the chart. THEY'RE THERE!

[mujaku]

@LunarTuner It is the same with a microwave oven aimed at our kitchen wall - yet we can bounce radar off the moon. And what about LIDAR?

[LunarTuner]

@mujaku, I never said that it's impossible to bounce a laser off the moon. But it IS impossible to get the same number of photon returns. Besides, a retroreflector has a unique quality that does not exist in nature--a laser sent to it will return EXACTLY 180 degrees from wherever it begins. This means a laser shot from Australia to the location of the retro will return to Australia and a laser shot from Ukraine to the same spot will return to Ukraine.

The lunar surface will not do that.

[LunarTuner]

@mujaku, It was MIT and the Crimean Observatory who went to their respective Space agencies and requested the retroreflectors, because their earlier laser ranging was so terribly ineffective, inaccurate and slow. I've spoken with several laser ranging astronomers. They laugh at four ideas. Don't believe me? Fine. Talk with one and see for yourself.

[LunarTuner]

@playmannn, perhaps they didn't think it conceivable than anyone would ignore the massive evidence that Apollos 11,12 & 15 carried 9 people & there is absolutely no evidence of any spacecraft the US designed, made or launched that could remotely deploy a retro.

[ubijak]

LOL who belives in that shit?

[PuertoRicanVideo]

@penandpike1 They are as bad as your spelling. Bastarrds!

[penandpike1]

You Mithbusters are just pathetic!!!!

[loperspest]

@mujaku

If you did some research. you would find that there is quite significant differences in the results of bouncing off a reflector as from the bare lunar surface.

w w w*k3pgp*org/Notebook/Mlrs/mlrs­_targets*htm

There is also large differences in the methods of collecting the data.

/watch?v=fuZiU70OcnY

[mujaku]

@LunarTuner A laser was bounced off the moon's natural surface sans a retroreflector. End of NASA bullshit and the Retro-Tards.

[mujaku]

These tards are government stooges. Anyone with half a freaking brain knows you don't need a retro-reflector to bounce a laser beam off the moon. MIT & the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, long before Apollo 11, were able to bounce lasers off the moon and back to earth without need of a retro-reflector. Duh...