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  Sep 15 2006, 09:13 AM
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Does anybody know what the outcome was of observing the lunar landing sites using the ESO VLTI in Chile ?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/24/1037697982142.html 
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Sep 15 2006, 08:17 PM
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Indeed, nor Hubble Space Telescope nor the VLTI have enough resolution capability to see the small Apollo hardware on the Moon ...
Let's settle the issue because soon some company will offer trips to the moon and we'll be able to take tourist photos at the Sea of Tranquility 
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Sep 15 2006, 09:03 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Sep 15 2006, 08:17 PM)  Indeed, nor Hubble Space Telescope nor the VLTI have enough resolution capability to see the small Apollo hardware on the Moon ... Aw.. just for once I'd like to see a tabloid with a headline like this: INCREDIBLE PROOF DISCOVERED Ancient astronauts landed on Moon! Scientists bemused Faced with undeniable proof that human beings have landed on the Moon in the distant past, Dr. Wotme Wurry, Ph.D. pronounced himself "flabbergasted". "No one could have believed," he added, "that either the technology or the will to accomplish a trip to the Moon was available in the 1960s! History books will have to be re-written to record this amazing feat." |
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QUOTE (David @ Sep 15 2006, 11:03 PM) Ancient astronauts landed on Moon! By 2018 or so, Neil Armtrong will be "only" about 90. There's a raisonable chance one or more of the now remaining original 8-9 moon walkers will still be around. Then, the moon will be enhabited nearly forever. Testimony could leave among them. -------------------- |
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Sep 16 2006, 02:51 AM
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QUOTE (climber @ Sep 15 2006, 04:13 PM) By 2018 or so, Neil Armtrong will be "only" about 90. There's a raisonable chance one or more of the now remaining original 8-9 moon walkers will still be around. Then, the moon will be enhabited nearly forever. Testimony could leave among them. Neil Armstrong was 38 years old in 1969, during Apollo 11. Aldrin and Collins were also 38 at the time. That would make them all about 87 years old in 2018. The youngest man to walk on the Moon was Charlie Duke, who was (IIRC) about 32 years old for Apollo 16 in 1972. That would make him only 78 years old when we're scheduled to return there -- practically a spring chicken! There were 12 original Moon walkers, BTW, and of those, nine are still alive. I believe Ed Mitchell, who was 40 when he walked on the Moon in 1971, might be the oldest of the remaining group (though that would still mean he was born in 1931, so Armstrong and Aldrin may still be as old as he). I fully expect to lose at least half of the remaining Moon walkers within the next five years...  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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