@divegeester
Are you denying the existence of those copies Buzz referred to? Yes or no?
How many times must I ask you this question only for you to evade it?
If you are going to evade my questions expect me to evade yours.
-Removed-No. I think it is likely, but there is the question of the radiation exposure that few people address. If you can explain how much radiation exposure there was and how it was overcome with shielding I will be convinced, but the radiation amount seems to be a big secret. Maybe NASA simply does not want to share it with other nations for free, but as long as it remains a big secret I maintain that I don't know and that is the most honest answer I can give.
Isn't "I don't know" the answer you gave to my question too?
@Metal-Brain
Why don't YOU tell me how that retroreflector got on the moon pointed in a direction that happens to allow laser beams from Earth to count a few photons back and get the distance to the moon within centimeters or inches if you prefer?
Do you deny it exists or some such?
Why do we know the distance to the moon within inches AND now can measure very well how fast it is receding from Earth and before Apollo we could MAYBE get the distance to a few kilometers but now magically with nobody ever landing on the moon we can get it within an inch.
Can you point to robots being able to do that in 69 or 70?
Try reading this piece on how it works:
https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/apollo/basics.html#:~:text=How%20do%20we%20measure%20the,a%20billionth%20of%20a%20second!
There are 5 such reflectors on the moon, three by American astronauts and 2 by Russians on their rovers. They are used together to be able to show the moon receding by around 4 cm per year, in other words it's orbit gets further and further from Earth and in a few hundred million years or so there will be no such thing as total eclipses because the moon will be too small as seen from Earth to totally hide the sun.
We could not have made such discoveries without those reflectors.
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@metal-brain saidThe level of radiation exposure has been addressed and explained many times in great detail.
No. I think it is likely, but there is the question of the radiation exposure that few people address. If you can explain how much radiation exposure there was and how it was overcome with shielding I will be convinced, but the radiation amount seems to be a big secret. Maybe NASA simply does not want to share it with other nations for free, but as long as it remains a bi ...[text shortened]... s the most honest answer I can give.
Isn't "I don't know" the answer you gave to my question too?
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-368/s2ch3.htm